I talked a few weeks back now how I carry a Netbook with me when I travel on trips more than a few days. The blog posts I wrote for CRN Channelweb last week and this week talk about the problems both myself and my clients have faced and the solutions that I use to help avoid those problems. Check them out and feel free to share what you use to help protect your clients as … [Read more...]
Microsoft IT Environment Health Scanner released.
Have you ever had suspicions that your Active Directory environment was not right? Well Microsoft have taken today released another tool that can be used to scan your environment and help diagnose the issues you might have. It s called the IT Environment Health Scanner and comes from the Essential Business Server team who originally designed it to ensure that EBS could easily … [Read more...]
Free Visio Plugin until June 30, 2008
One of the cool tools I've mentioned in my talks around Australia this week and last week is a free tool that works with Visio to diagram your network. This tool is only available for free until June 30, so you need to act fast to grab it. Check it out here … [Read more...]
Free security software from Scorpion Software
Yes - you heard right, CEO of Scorpion Software, Dana Epp has released a free security tool to help address one of the often raised security concerns about the Remote Web Workplace in Small Business Server 2003. By default SBS 2003 allows all users (including administrators) to remotely access their desktops inside the network. This is via the Remote Web Workplace portal and … [Read more...]
How to make friends and influence people on Twitter
I'm still not sure about twitter as a business tool. For the moment, I'm seeing it more as a live discussion tool that I liken to overhearing conversations at a party, you hear scraps of it from the people next to you, but you don't hear the full conversation unless your following all the people in that conversation. Mack Collier has just blogged an article about some of the … [Read more...]