I run Office 2007 Ultimate and Business Contact Manager 2007. I use BCM to track all my contacts, do marketing campaigns, and manage projects. It works pretty well... except... PERFORMANCE SUCKS. I didn't notice it at first, just found that Outlook would freeze from time to time for no good reason. I tried to read many blogs showing how to improve performance like this one, … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2008
Trend Taiwan – Day 1
So today I started my one week work with Trend here in Taipei. I arrived last night after a long flight from Sydney via Hong Kong and finally got into my room around midnight. Unfortunately the guy and gal next door were not ready to go to bed and I was not able to get to sleep for some hours (lucky guy next door). So I arrived at the office today - caught a cab from the … [Read more...]
Firewall Dashboard being retired
Dana has had to make the hard decision to discontinue his excellent Firewall Dashboard product that he designed for the SMB market space - specifically SBS 2003 Premium. His announcement here is to me a major example of the SMB community NOT supporting a vendor who has directly invested into our community. You the SMB community are using his product for free and not actually … [Read more...]
Jeff and HarryB webcast this Friday
The leader Swinger - Jeff Middleton in conjunction with SMBNation and HP will be doing a webcast this Friday (US time). If you want to know more about what's going on with migration to SBS 2008 then check it out. Registration: Event - Friday 8am - 9:30am (PDT) March 14 https://www119.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000064431/Registration.aspx?pageName=3l3kfrpb3ql4lp7s Jeff Middleton will … [Read more...]
Microsoft finally fix SP2 Network issues
SBS, ISA, Exchange, Windows Server - are all products that have experienced some major communications issues if you have installed Windows 2003 Service Pack 2. I've blogged about it before with some of the issues that I've personally had. The fault lies in the Scalable Networking Pack which are a set of features designed for high performance environments. Some bright spark … [Read more...]