If you're supporting en users who need to transfer files by FTP occasionally, explaining how to use FTP every time can get frustrating. Map an FTP site as a custom network location and they can do it through the familiar Explorer window. If you only have a couple of machines you can choose Tools >Map Network Drive… in Explorer and click the link 'Connect to a Web site that you can use to store your documents and pictures' to open a wizard that creates a network location. Select 'Choose a custom network location', type in the FTP address and fill in the user name and password. You can also create mapped drives and network places on the Environment tab of the user's Active Directory object - but if you have a lot of users to set up, put it in the logon script for the user profile under Active Directory Users and Computers.
If you're running into problems with Group Policy Objects, check this handy summary of the rules at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555991/en-us. read more
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Document management with Microsoft Search Server
Storage is cheap and it’s easy to create documents, so most companies have tens or hundreds of thousands of documents on the computers in their companies. So how do your customers find a document on a particular topic? The worrying answer is probably that they can’t...read more
The architecture of VDI
The architecture for VDI is really very simple and the basics do not differ between the various VDI vendors.
Virtualizing Small Business Server with Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
The challenge and reward of running SBS 2008 on Microsoft’s free Hyper-V Server platform.
Setting up Google Gmail Mobile in Google Apps
With Google Apps businesses can combine the Gmail service with their own domain names. Here’s how to get it up and running and provide mobile email without a mail server.Upgrading Small Business Server 2003 to Exchange 2007
For clients who have outgrown SBS 2003, or who just can’t wait any longer for Exchange 2007, migrate them to a new server that’s 64-bit. Microsoft has made a lot of changes with Exchange 2007. The biggest is a switch to only supporting a 64-bit version.
Sharepoint Comes of Age
Giving your customers a computing environment that will do exactly what they want is one of the best ways to make them happy, and one of the most effective ways to achieve this is with a combination of Microsoft SharePoint and Office.
Supporting mobile email on multiple handsets
Everyone wants mobile email - but not every mobile phone is suitable for business email. Use these tips and tools to secure Exchange servers and make them work with more than Windows Mobile handsets.
Controlling anti-social networking – a guide to blocking employees access to Facebook, MySpace and more.
Right now, your customers’ employees are looking at Facebook and surfing MySpace. If that doesn’t worry their employers, it should.
Social networking has only gained popularity in the last three or four years, but it is generating the same concerns that instant messaging did at the start of the decade.
Bridging PBX to VoIP using a hardware gateway or VoIP enabled router
The simplest way to bridge between VoIP and conventional telephony systems is by installing a hardware gateway, or a VoIP-enabled router.Dirtection Inc: episode 6
In which the vicar delivers a sermon and the rogue cleaning operative delivers the coup de grace.The keyboard cleaning profession seldom takes one into ecclesiastical circles, so I’m not sure if it is considered normal for vicars to sit stark naked upon gargoyles while delivering sermons through a megaphone.
Designing a backup plan
Work through these steps when you first engage with a customer over a backup plan.
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