You want the PCs you support to have the right time for more reasons than keeping the users happy; for one thing, if every PC has a slightly different time, finding which version of a file was updated most recently gets much more complicated. Get your head around the Windows Time Service at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773013.aspx, get the commands for making a PC get its time from the domain at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc758905.aspx and if you want a an alternative time server use uk.pool.ntp.org to get the time from a random time server in the NTP Pool Project (read about the project at http://www.pool.ntp.org/use.html) read more
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Support in the cloud
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Security
Application Whitelists
Endpoint security is about ensuring that PCs and laptops are secure at all times – so what better way to do it than by ensuring that everything running on them is completely trusted?read more
Monitoring servers remotely
Staying on top of customer servers without making a visit using logs, scripts and consoles – and how Windows Server 2008 helps
Designing a backup plan
Work through these steps when you first engage with a customer over a backup plan.
All-Access Pass
Good security requires good passwords. But good security is as much about ensuring access by authorised users as it is about preventing access by interlopers. Recovering, resetting, or removing passwords is sometimes a necessity. Here’s how.
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.Considerations when installing or upgrading SharePoint
Choosing a server
SharePoint in all its forms has several dependencies, including ASP.NET, IIS and SQL Server. It becomes the default Web site on the server where it is located.
Exchange 2007 safe list aggregation
You can give Exchange 2007 a little spam-fighting help by enlisting all the copies of Outlook on your client’s network.
Dirtection Inc: episode 7
In which the Secret Service gets to grips with bonkers boffins and hallucinogenic horseflies.
Get better security with Vista by implementing best practices for using User Account Control - UAC
Operating your PC when you’re logged in with an Administrator account is an inherently insecure thing to do. If you’re a user with highly-elevated privileges across multiple machines or an entire Active Directory domain, running your everyday processing with these privileges can be dangerous to the point of negligence.
Video Conferencing on a Budget
Video conferencing technology has never been so cheap or so effective: what can it do for your small business customers?
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