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Two great friends and fellow MVP's - Amy Babinchak and Eriq Neale - have combined forces to start ThirdTier, a new business venture providing support to the IT professionals in the SMB marketplace. Here is their press release: Eriq Neale and I have...
I never thought I would find myself recommending the Windows Desktop Search utility to anyone. But, perhaps with version 4, they finally are getting it right! The prior version (Windows Desktop Search 3) is now named Windows Search 4 . And this is from...
For those of you using Trend Micro's Clent Server Messaging (CSM) suite for your SBS servers, you should know that Trend Micro on June 2, 2008 recently rebranded the CSM product to "Worry-Free Business Security Advanced (WFBS)" and released...
I know that there are plenty of posts that deal with issues related to external USB drives on servers, such as problems when rebooting the server, or the server acting strange when a USB drive is not removed properly. But until today, I had not encountered...
As many know, Windows XP MCE by default does not allow you to join it to a domain. Variations of the infamous "Banana Hack" are available to allow MCE systems to join a domain. I posted about my experience here . What the banana hack does is...
I just came across a new product, currently in beta, that turns Outlook into a "social networking tool". Not only does it give you lightning fast email searches, but it brings a wealth of information that I certainly did not think possible,...
This is from the "If the Shoe fits" department ... apparently some people are having problems with IE on Windows Vista after applying the latest rounds of security updates (see Wired Blog Network for more information and workaround). It seems...
Adobe just released version 8.1.2 of their Adobe Reader. I had my issues with version 6.x and 7.x, but 8.x has worked very well for me. And for those who do use Adobe, keep in mind if you like to distribute copies of Adobe Reader to your clients or on...
Jeff Middleton's 3-day NOLA conference and optional 5-day Cruise is fast approaching. The dates are May 9-11 for the conference, and May 12-17 for the cruise. This conference title: IT Pro Conference 2008, "Transition Strategies: Migrations,...
A recent post in the newsgroup reminded me that we should all be more diligent in obtaining permission to use and distribute third party software. Case in point is with Adobe's PDF Reader. Do you download the installation .exe file, store it on your...
The long awaited "what comes after Vista" OS from Microsoft has finally been released, and is receiving tremendous reviews . What do they say about the grass always being greener? Enjoy. -kw