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• Added an "Event Invitation Wizard" that gives creators of events (that are associated with a group) a tool to build -- and email -- HMTL invitations to members of their groups.
• Fixed "Email Group Members" functionality to allow group admins to reach out, via email, to members of their groups.
• Performance: Moved the loading of screencast help into ajax to lighten each page load.
• Added a global footer menu to help users quickly find support and product resources.
• Added global block to the top of the right column that includes links to popular Symantec.com resources.
• Added bridge pages to offerings in Symantec's Small Business store.
• Resolved an issue with the calendars in various parts of the site not rendering.
• Fixed the rendering of the tool used to attach files to comments.
• Updated Omniture tracking code.
• Changed awarding of user points on profile completion to legacy users only.
• Fixed...

General Enhancements:

• Refactored image upload process to make including uploaded images in posts more intuitive.
• Added functionality that will send an email to the appropriate Symantec Technical Support Engineer (TSE) when a forum post is flagged (by a Community Manager or a Trusted Advisor as being "escalated to support". In the past, these posts were simply posted to a list of issues that the TSEs could check at their leisure.
• Fixed an issue with the image browser that was keeping it from displaying thumbnail images in the tool that helps users include images in their posts.
• Fixed a database issue with some public posts that were displaying the private flag. Added code to prevent future occurrences.
• Fixed an issue with the Screencast help files not having titles that users could click on to view the help video in question.
• Removed the link to the deprecated group notifications screen on the user profile...

• Resolved a problem with forum teaser text missing from the tool tips on forum listing pages.
• Added "Filed under" section to group pages that are associated with a product.
• Fixed an issue with abnormal dates (31 Dec 1969) on group home page activity feeds.
• Updated code that renders dynamic page titles on "E-mail Members" and "Faces of " pages to be more intuitive. (Titles for both pages used to be "List".)
• Made event registration a little easier by auto-filling the "phone number" field with the number stored in the user's profile.
• Applied security update to Devel module.
• Fixed a Javascript issue that was throwing errors on group listing pages and group pages without a group image.
• Fixed a problem with the path to the Rewards CSS file.
• Applied a patch to the notifications module to improve database query performance.
• Fixed mis-categorized topics on the create and edit forms.

Summertime! That means sunshine, travel…and additional data threats to your smartphone. What’s that? You don’t consider mobile security risks and summertime as going hand in hand? Well, consider this: As you and your employees take some well-deserved time off, will you be taking smartphones with you? Of course you will. And chances are you will be accessing corporate data. In fact, a recent Symantec survey on security habits of mobile device users revealed that 62 percent of corporate smartphone users access sensitive corporate information while on vacation, and 81 percent will at least be checking their business email accounts.

With a variety of looming threats, from unsecured networks to malicious apps, corporate smartphone users should carefully consider what they can do to make sure a vacation from the office doesn’t turn into a vacation from security. The following best practices will help you keep mobile devices secure.

• Use the...