Zoho Community Weekend Maintenance: 13–15 Sep 2025
Hi everyone, We wanted to give you a heads-up that Zoho Community will undergo scheduled maintenance this weekend. During this period, some community features will be temporarily unavailable, while others will be in read-only mode. Maintenance Window:
Zoho MVP Batch of 2023
Image: Zoho MVP Batch of 2023 Presenting the Zoho MVPs for 2023: Michael Trow Damien Cregan Kevin Flynn Donald Love Gordon Mankelow Abhishek Sharma Nik Khairul Bryan Pape Hugh Marshall Bhoomi Joshi Mikhail Koval Ken Florian Sven Rösser Our MVPs are passionate
Sector Spotlight - October 2023: Newsletter on the Industry-based ZUGs
Hello, folks! At the heart of the Zoho Community, we're dedicated to making your Zoho applications work their best for you. To achieve this, we've introduced something special—industry-based groups, also known as Zoho User Groups or ZUGs. These groups
Sector Spotlight July 2023: Connect, Learn, and Thrive!
Hello folks! You might be aware of the several Zoho User Groups (ZUGs) created in the community as per the industry segmentation. We have currently eight such interest-based ZUGs active. In this post, I would like to update the community on the happenings
Thanksgiving 2022 - Celebrating Zoho Community SuperBuds
One of the things we love most about our Zoho User Community is how readily our users help each other out, and share their Zoho and business knowledge. Be it the community forums, the virtual and in-person meetups, or Zoholics, it's been heart-warming
Zoho MVP Batch of 2022
Image: Zoho MVP Batch of 2022 Zoho MVPs are passionate customers and partners who go out of their way in helping the community members. With their significant contributions in the community forums, they help cut short the learning curve of the members,
Update on the recent Apache Log4j vulnerability
Dear Users, A high severity vulnerability, (CVE- 2021-44228), impacting multiple versions of Apache Log4j utility, was disclosed publicly on December 9, 2021. The vulnerability impacts Apache Log4j 2 versions- 2.0 to 2.14.1. Find the details of this vulnerability
Planned Annual Maintenance US Data Center, 25th December 2021 and 1st January, 2022
Dear customers, Our annual infrastructure maintenance for our US Data Center is scheduled for 25th December, 2021, between 06.30PM and 09.30PM PST, and on 01st January, 2022, between 06.30PM and 09.30PM PST. This maintenance has been planned during non-business
Planned Annual Maintenance EU Data Center, 15th and 22nd August, 2021
Dear customers, Our annual infrastructure maintenance for our Europe Data Center is scheduled for 15th August, 2021, between 03.30AM and 06.30AM CEST, and on 22nd August, 2021, between 03.30AM and 06.30AM CEST. This maintenance has been planned during
Planned Annual Maintenance AU Data Center, 15th and 22nd August, 2021
Dear customers, Our annual infrastructure maintenance for our Australia Data Center is scheduled for 15th August, 2021, between 08.30PM and 11.30PM AEST, and on 22nd August, 2021, between 08.30PM and 11.30PM AEST. This maintenance has been planned during
Trick or Treat, Post a Pic, Grab your Goodies!
Ghouls, ghosts, and creatures of the night, Get ready for the Halloween fright! This haunted Halloween, we are inviting you to the Virtual Halloween Costume Contest. To participate, take a selfie/picture in your Halloween costume and post as a comment
Update on the upcoming Zoho User Group meetups - Q1
Hey Zoho Community! How're you all doing? We have an important announcement about the Zoho User Group meetups this quarter - Owing to the looming threat of COVID - 19, we're recalling several of our ZUG meetups that can't be run locally and are pulling back our Zoho teams who have traveled for these events. We have also suspended Zoho meetups run by our local partners and user group leaders as we do not want any of our users to come in harm's way. For those of you who have not seen the email about
Issues with Forum posts approval in Zoho Community
Hi All, Issue: Some of you have reported that the posts/comments made today are going for moderation. The issue started few hours ago, and the behaviour was reported in CRM and Creator Forums by a few customers/partners. We were able to see the same problem in a few other product forums too. How it impacts you: Don't worry if you find that your posts and comments are stuck in moderation. Your posts/comments are safe. Please don't duplicate them. We're keeping a tab on the development and approving
Twelfth day of Christmas - Zoho One
Check out the eleventh day of Christmas post. The twelfth day of the 12 days of Christmas relates to Zoho One. "On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me: twelve drummers drumming, eleven pipers piping, ten lords a leaping, nine ladies dancing, eight maids a milking, seven swans a swimming, six geese a laying, five golden rings, four calling birds, three french hens, two turtle-doves, and a partridge in a pear tree. " The twelve drummers drumming with Zoho product logos on their
Planned Maintenance of our US Data Center on December 21,2019
Dear Customers, As a part of our annual infrastructure maintenance at our US Data Center, we will be switching our apps from the Primary to Secondary data center on Dec 21st, 2019 and back to the Primary data center on Dec. 28th, 2019. We will switch apps between data centers during non-business hours. While we carry out this switching, all Zoho services will continue to be operational from our secondary data center. We do not expect any major interruption and you should be able to continue using
The halloween CRM admin and sales fails contest
This Halloween, we're trading scary sales stories. Keeping with the good ol' Halloween theme, let's discuss the biggest fails we've come across in sales. We're talking the lowest of the lows, the horror of horrors you've come across, or those that you somehow managed to brave and make it to the other side. For trick or treat, we're ditching the candy this season and offering five gift cards instead. The top five most interesting answers will get the following gift cards. $100 BestBuy Gift Card $50
Sweet32: Birthday attack on 64-bit block cipher - Withdrawal of 3DES cipher support for all Zoho services - 31/01/2017
Zoho always tries to provide utmost security and privacy to our users and here is one such instance. This is about removing weak and insecure ways to access our platform and strengthening it based on industry standard recommendations from time to time. 3DES, a 64-bit block cipher, is one of the algorithms used for encryption. These block ciphers, with short block size, are vulnerable to a type of cryptographic attack, known as the Birthday Attack. Due to this vulnerability, all Zoho services will
Severity high! Please change the URL of published forms.
We are facing some issues with our domain zohopublic.com, as it has been blocked by our registrar. We are diligently working with them to resolve the issue. As an interim measure, we request you to use zohopublic1.com, instead. If you are using Zoho Creator or Zoho Forms, please edit the embed code and change the domain to creator.zohopublic1.com for Zoho Creator and forms.zohopublic1.com for Zoho Forms. If you are using Zoho Survey, you will have to re-send the survey link to the participants. We
Attention Zoho users : Withdrawing RC4 support for all Zoho services from 30th June, 2015.
RC4 is an encryption cipher used in protocols such as SSL / TLS . RC4 ciphers have long been considered problematic because of their vulnerability to a number of cryptographic weaknesses that can be exploited. To know more about RC4 vulnerabilities, have a look at the current IETF draft . We wish to bring to your attention that due to these security vulnerabilities , we will be phasing out support for the RC4 encryption algorithm from 30th
Scheduled maintenance on 31 Dec, 2014
UPDATE: The maintenance is over, as of Jan 1, 3:30 am PDT. We are upgrading our datacenter infrastructure. This will happen from 31 Dec 2014, 17:00 PDT to 1 Jan 2015, 01:00 PDT. (check for your corresponding time zone here). While we expect no downtime during this maintenance period, there may be a few intermittent connection issues. We will keep you updated of this planned maintenance window in this forum thread, as well as from our social channel accounts in Facebook and Twitter .
Join us for Zoholics Developers 2015!
Hello everyone, Save the dates for Zoholics Developers conference. Yes, we are happy to announce this year's developers conference to be held on February 25 - 26, 2015 at Pleasanton, CA. Zoholics Developers is an exclusive event for Zoho Creator users, developers and partners to come together and share their experiences of Zoho Creator. Come join us for the event and get a chance to meet the Zoho Creator team and the experts from our developer community. Also, we have plans to host a dedicated
POODLE attack: Withdrawing SSL 3.0 support for all Zoho services from Dec 8, 2014
You might have come across this news over the past couple of weeks - the Version 3 of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL 3.0) has vulnerabilities at the protocol level. The vulnerability allows a man-in-the-middle attack, i.e., an attacker can extract data from secure HTTP connections. Although difficult to exploit, to further protect our customers, all Zoho services will stop extending support to SSL 3.0 from December 8, 2014 . After Zoho disables SSL 3.0 encryption, any communication with a Zoho service
Scheduled Maintenance on 29 Aug, 2014
UPDATE (Sep 2, 2014) : The upgrade on August 29 went on well, as planned. We now plan to have the second part of the upgrade on Sep 6, 2014, between 6:30 pm and 8:30 pm, PDT . There may be intermittent connection issues during this maintenance period. UPDATE, Aug 29, 2014, 7:35 pm, PDT: The upgrade's been completed successfully. We are upgrading our primary datacenter infrastructure. This will happen on 29 Aug, 2014 from 18:30 to 20:30, PDT. (check for your corresponding time zone here ). During
Join us at our first ever Zoholics: Productivity and Collaboration event
Zoholics: Productivity and Collaboration is a two-day user conference that primarily focuses on productivity suite of applications—Zoho Mail, Zoho Projects, Zoho Docs, Zoho Sites and Zoho Connect. This event will be hosted at our US headquarters in Pleasanton, California on Aug 25- 26, 2014. What to expect at the event? Interesting keynote sessions 20+ Product focused sessions 1:1 sessions with the Product teams to get all your questions answered Networking with Zoho's Management team, Zoho partners,
Scheduled maintenance on Saturday, 22 March 2014, 20:00 to 21:00 PDT
We have planned to do some infrastructure tests in our datacenter at the aforesaid time. We expect connections to be intermittent during this period, and accessing Zoho services may be slow. We will update this thread once the testing starts/ends. We will post updates in our social channels too: http://www.twitter.com/zohocares http://www.facebook.com/zoho http://blogs.zoho.com You can check your local time for this scheduled maintenance window here - http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140322T20&p1=224&ah=1.
Zoho and Heartbleed Vulnerability
Quick note: All Zoho servers are patched, and your data is safe. The details: Soon after the information about this vulnerability became known, we started patching all our servers using the newer, protected versions of OpenSSL. This operation was completed in a few hours after the news broke out. We renewed our SSL certificates too. So, we are no longer vulnerable. As of now, we have no indication that the vulnerability has been exploited against any of the Zoho applications. However, we would like
Scheduled Maintenance on 24 December 2013, 18:00 to 23:45 PST
This post is only for customers who have configured Zoho IPs in their firewall. We are planning an infrastructure level maintenance on 24 December 2013, from 18:00 hrs to 23:45 hrs PST. During this maintenance period, all traffic from our datacenter is to be served from a reserve ISP. Due to the switching of ISPs, the IP addresses of zoho.com services will temporarily change. So we request all customers who have configured zoho.com IP addresses for various reasons, to configure this additional IP
Two Factor Authentication (TFA) - an extra layer of security for your Zoho Account !
TFA - Stronger security for your Zoho Account At Zoho, we take account security very seriously. Here is how to make it hard for your Zoho account to fall into wrong hands. Two Factor Authentication (TFA) is an additional level of security that can be applied to your Zoho account. With TFA enabled on your account, anyone attempting to login to your Zoho account from an unrecognized computer must provide additional authorization. You can activate TFA to send you a uniquely generated verification code
Scheduled Maintenance on Aug 31, 2013
We are planning to upgrade our infrastructure on Saturday, Aug 31, 2013 between 10 am PDT and 10 pm PDT. We have planned this upgrade in such a way that there is a minimal disruption of service during the maintenance period. The below features will be impacted during the maintenance period. Mail Add-on If you've configured the Mail Add-on with your Zoho CRM or Zoho Recruit services, You cannot access emails under the Emails related list. You cannot back up emails of deactivated users Whitelisting
Looking for US-based customers to talk at Zoholics
Zoholics, the first Zoho user conference is happening in San Francisco on March 26, 2012. We are looking for customers based in the US who are willing to share with other users on how they are using our apps. If you are interested in doing this talk, please fill your details in the below form.
End of Life for Zoho Polls
We are announcing End of Life for Zoho Polls (zohopolls.com), a service that lets users create polls and embed them in websites. Zoho Polls will be available till Mar 31, 2012 and will be shutdown after that. You can export the results of the polls you created by navigating to the poll page and clicking on the "Export Results as CSV" link available at the top right-hand side. If you have any specific questions on this, please send an email to support@zoho.com. Did you know? You can create polls
Looking for US-based customer to be profiled in Computerworld
Computerworld would like to interview a Zoho Projects or Docs customer who is moving collaboration, personal productivity tools (such as word processing and presentation tools) to the cloud. The customer must be based in the US and should preferably have at least 25 employees. The 20 minute interview will take place via phone the week of March 5. If you are interested in participating in the interview, please fill your details in the below form.
Announcement: Planned Service Update on Jan 1, 2012
We have planned to do a service update to "Zoho Accounts" on Jan 01, 2012, from 00:30 PST to 01:00 PST. We are taking required measures to ensure that Zoho services will not have any impact during this period. We will post here once the update is completed.
Welcome to the new Zoho Forums - powered by Zoho Discussions
Hello everyone, Welcome to the new forums powered by the Zoho Discussions platform. So what is new here? The most obvious is the pleasant look and feel. There is more to the new discussions than just the user interface. Allow us to give a quick primer of the exciting new features. Topic Types: Add more meaning to your post by classifying appropriately. Right now, 4 topic types are supported: Questions: You can answer a Question, comment on an Answer, choose which response really "Answers" the
Scheduled Maintenance for Zoho Docs, Writer, Sheet & Show
Dear All, Zoho Docs, Writer, Sheet & Show will undergo a scheduled maintenance on Friday, April 3, 2009 from 10:00:00 PM PST to 12:00:00 AM PST. Sorry for the inconvenience caused. Regards Sathish
The New Zoho Forums is here
Welcome to the new Zoho support forums! We have successfully migrated from the old forums (which was on phpBB). And the new Zoho forums is actually based on a platform currently being developed in Zoho. This platform has been in use within Zoho/AdventNet's intranet for a few months now and it will mature into a full-blown Zoho service soon with a revamped UI & more functionalities. Once it is out, you can use it as part of both your intranets and extranets. Let's see some interesting new things that's