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Tue, Jul 7 2009 13:28

Microsoft IT Environment Health Scanner released.

Body: 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...
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Wed, Jun 25 2008 1:12

Free Visio Plugin until June 30, 2008

Body: 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...
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Sat, May 24 2008 2:07

Free security software from Scorpion Software

Body: 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...
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Wed, May 7 2008 16:05

How to make friends and influence people on Twitter

Body: 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...
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Sat, Apr 26 2008 16:44

Twitter - useful or useless?

Body: Ok - so I've heard of twitter, and to be honest, did not get it. I mean what's wrong with email and IM as a means for communication? Then in the lead up to the MVP summit in Seattle a few weeks back, someone suggested we use twitter as a...
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Wed, Mar 12 2008 15:47

Firewall Dashboard being retired

Body: 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...
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Tue, Feb 19 2008 18:26

What is Xobni?

Body: I've been searching for a tool to prove that the illustrious Susan Bradley does indeed sleep. Finally I found it! I've been using Xobni now for about a month and I'm at the point where I can't live without it!!! What is it I hear...
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Sun, Feb 17 2008 17:53

File Sync problems? Try Sync Toy

Body: I've used this tool a few times now and find that many people do not even know of it's existence. Sync Toy is a cool tool from Microsoft that will allow you to do all kinds of file based synchronisation. From full bidirectional sync of removable...
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Wed, Jan 16 2008 4:57

Things I love about my new phone

Body: One of the cool things that came with my new phone is a copy of CoPilot Live v7. This software uses the inbuilt GPS antenna on the TyTn II to guide me from site to site. One of the really cool features though is that it allows my family to login...
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Fri, Nov 30 2007 22:59

HP Product Bulletin and ConfigureAider

Body: Amongst the software that I use are two little gems from HP. HP Product Bulletin This is basically a full guide to the HP Product line, both present and past. It contains all kinds of useful information including tech specs, memory option part numbers...
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Mon, Oct 29 2007 14:34

Facebook – Friend or Fiend?

Body: Ok – so I've resisted many of the online social networking sites for a while now. I've got some info up on LinkedIn and now finally got a Facebook account. I've got to ask the question though "Is it too much to be connecting?"...
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Mon, Oct 8 2007 16:18

Testing Email Antispam Solution – now in progress

Body: This morning I've started testing of TrendMicros InterScan Messaging Hosted Security product. It's an in the cloud based Antivirus/AntiSpam/AntiPhishing solution that should offload the task of cleansing my email before it reaches my server...
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Fri, Sep 28 2007 18:41

SBS Best Practice Analyser – available soon.

Body: Exchange, ISA, SQL and Windows Server all have a best practice analyser – the BPA looks at the system and reviews the particular product for it's setup and configuration and compliance to the recommended best practice as put forth by the MS...
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Wed, Aug 29 2007 16:25

Software I use…

Body: I talk a lot to people, both face to face when I'm running training or presenting, and also online via various forums. Often I'm using some cool piece of software that helps people do things better. People want to know about this stuff and...
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Wed, Aug 29 2007 5:39

What RSS reader do you use? Aka – I wish MS had support this good!

Body: I've used a few different RSS readers over the past 12 months and I've finally settled on one that I like. I tried to use Outlook 2007 – but got fed up with the fact that it would all by it's own accord stop synchronising the feeds....
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