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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SQL Server Alternatives
We’ve talked mostly about SQL Server mainly because Microsoft has focused not just on enterprise level BI, but also on the needs of smaller companies. David Hobbs-Mallyon, SQL Server product manager, claims: ‘Right from the start, Microsoft hasread more -
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What you can do with the second SBS server licence
Small Business Server Premium Edition comes with a licence for a second server (running Windows Server 2008 rather than SBS).read more
Stopping Spam for Exchange Users
Spam doesn’t have to be a way of life; add to the built-in spam tools in Exchange Server with services that can almost banish spam from the inbox.
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.
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...
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.
BlackBerry without BES
RIM’s little smartphones are some of the most popular devices on the market – but BES is complex and costly. How can you get customers online without the cost of a full BlackBerry server?
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?
Turn DPM and Windows Storage Server into an appliance
Combine windows storage server and add windows system center data protection manager and you can get a backup and dr appliance you can build – or a service you can sell.
Raid 6 Storage
If two drives fail in a RAID 5 array, you lose data. RAID 6 promises more protection and better performance.
Windows 7 upgrade tools
Windows 7 is proving as popular as Microsoft could have hoped and you can expect to have customers ask you to upgrade them. What tools are on offer to help you to help them?
Dell Remote Access Controller 6
iDRAC6 and Dell Management Console combine into a powerful remote server management tool.
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