Ease to start a chat with your co-workers

The latest version 5.4.13 of Bopup Messenger comes with a new function that overrides how to reply to incoming group message. Now you can set up an option to reply directly to messaging group, not to send a personal message to the sender. This option offers to start a chat session with all users in the group instead of sending personal answer to the sender of group message. You can find the newly added option on the Messaging tab in the Options dialog box.

Version 5.4.13 also contains many other improvements. It marks incoming group messages that have been sent by us as read messages. This hides system tray notifications, sound alerts, etc.

Among the updates mentioned above the latest versions of Bopup Messenger and Bopup Observer fixes receiving new versions and brand image logo from Bopup Communication Server. Sometimes downloading an update of new version in the messenger might hang up and never compete.

Download new versions of the IM clients at Download Center.

Meet new versions of the IM clients

Today, 23rd June 2010, new versions of Bopup Messenger 5.4.12 and Bopup Observer 4.3.11 have been released. These versions bring a new functionality to copy selected text from the Message History into clipboard. This is a very useful function because previous versions of the IM clients do not copy selected text even the text has been selected.

The new version of Bopup Messenger also fixes error with a very small size of text font in the sending dialog box. That font might occasionally appear even user's settings have a proper size.

German installation package of Bopup Messenger has been also updated. Now it includes correct Away and Quick Answer messages in German.

Download new versions from Download Center and update your existing software.

Setup package of the communication server has been improved

We have just updated the setup package of Bopup Communication Server that ships with a built-in MSDE 2000 (Microsoft SQL Desktop Engine) software. Since the MSDE 2000 is not supported by Windows Vista and later versions then it cannot be installed on these operational systems. And to avoid unsupported issues the Setup Wizard of the IM server shows a special dialog box if a user chooses to install MSDE 2000 under Windows Vista/2008/7.

That page of the wizard contains a button that opens the Step-by-Step Guide to Install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition as a Host Database Server for Bopup Communication Server if a user have no existing Microsoft SQL Server on his environment to host the program database.

How to migrate and move database to a new SQL server

New article is available on our website at Step-by-Step Guide to Migrate and Move Bopup Communication Server Database to a New Microsoft SQL Server. This article contains a detailed guide on how to backup an existing SQL database of Bopup Communication Server and restore it on the same or new Microsoft SQL Server.

We understand how important to save all users data, message and transfer archive on the IM server if you are going to reinstall your communication server software. This guide will be also useful if you want to move your existing SQL database of Bopup Communication Server to a new SQL server.

How to install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition as a host database server

We glad to inform that new article is available on our website at http://www.blabsoft.com/products/install_sql_server_2005_as_database_server.html. This article describes a step-by-step information how to install and configure Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition as a host database server for Bopup Communication Server.

Since MSDE 2000 (Microsoft SQL Desktop Engine) is not supported by Windows Vista and later versions of Windows then you cannot install a built-in SQL server that ships with our communication server package. The new article contains detailed step-by-step instruction on downloading, installing and configuring Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition prior installation of Bopup Communication Server. Screens are also included! Hope this article will be useful for many users and customers.

Step-by-Step Guide to Install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition as a Host Database Server for Bopup Communication Server

New version 3.3.14 of Bopup Communication Server

Today, May 30, 2010, new update of Bopup Communication Server has been released. Since the latest release of the IM server, that was released on March 2010, we did a lot of work on the server and it includes many bug fixes and improvements.

The latest version of the communication server brings the fixed Active Directory Import Wizard which might hang up on importing user accounts using the Groups criteria. The wizard also contains an improvement which now supports and finds more than 1,000 user objects in the same AD Group/Organizational Unit (OU).

The most important bug fix relates to a deletion of a user account from a messaging group when the group suddenly disappears on other users from it.

Bopup Messenger 5.4.11 is available!

Minor update of Bopup Messenger has been released, it's version 5.4.11 is now available for download. This version fixes and improves support of organization of user's contacts from the messenger. If this ability is prevented on the communication server then Bopup Messenger does not open the "Organize My Contacts" wizard and displays no notifications regarding changes in user's Contact List.

This update also fixes "Transfer files..." item in the pop up menu that is shown in German language (applies only to English package).

New versions fix playback of a sound file on receiving new messages

Minor updates of the IM clients have been released. Bopup Messenger version 5.4.10 and Bopup Observer 4.3.10 are now available. These non-critical updates fix a playback of a sound file when a new message arrives. This error occurred only in non-english versions of the client software, i.e. in German, Spanish, French and Russian versions.

By the way, the new versions improve a user's usability and it is easy to show or hide the application to a System Tray area by clicking program's icon near the clock. Click once to show the messenger, click again to hide it.

As always you can download the software at www.blabsoft.com/downloads

German versions of the messaging clients have been released

We would like to inform that new versions of Bopup Messenger 5.4.9 and Bopup Observer 4.3.9 are now available. These versions are minor versions and they include some non-critical bugfixes and improvements. Among changes the new versions fix error in the Message History module which did not properly save and display messages with a single quote sign (').

German versions are also available for download at www.blabsoft.com/deu

Bopup.de website has been launched

We glad to announce that German version of our website is now ready. Now you can access www.bopup.de domain name and read about our services and software products in German language. German versions of Bopup Messenger and Bopup Observer software are coming soon within the next few days.

As you may already know we also have www.bopup.es and www.bopup.ru domain names that point to Spanish and Russian versions of our website correspondingly.

Version 3.3.13 adds support of Windows 2008/7 and fixes searching functionality

New version 3.3.13 of Bopup Communication Server has been released. Now the server properly supports Windows 2008 Server and Windows 7 systems and registers the service on these OS. The new version also fixes minor error on searching instant messages and file transfers in Management Console. This bug brings no results on searching and this cause was a result of comparing dates in a SQL query.

Started working on German versions of the instant messenger software

We've just started working on German versions of Bopup Messenger and Bopup Observer software products. We believe that German market is a very important and huge, and this is confirmed by our two largest customers that are from Germany.

Currently our IM client software is localized into Russian, Spanish and French languages, and stand-alone setup packages are provided for these languages.