Last Resort Exchange Recovery
Until recent years, most small and medium-sized businesses had their own Exchange Server. However, most don’t have the money for a redundant server out-of-state. Further, Exchange Service Packs and other required […]
Skype Retires Messenger
Microsoft is retiring the existing Messenger service globally and bringing the features of Messenger and Skype together. Initially released in October 2001, Windows Messenger brought chat and presence to hundreds of […]
Managed Serivces Year End
It’s that time of year again, when things seem to both incredibly speed up and slow down at the same time. STOP … Take a deep breath and THINK. That […]
iPhone Not Relevant
Apple iPhones account for nearly 35% of our help desk calls. The iPhone issues are generally: Inability to connect to Exchange for business e-mail Calendar sync issues iTunes updates wipe all […]
2012 Technology Predictions
2011 was another great year for technology with a continued explosion of smartphones, tablets, cloud computing, online backup, and managed services. The following are some intriguing possibilities for 2012: Apple failure in […]
Future Phone
Zander goes into Best Buy. One of the 5 phone sales people pounces immediately. Before “I need a phone” was out of his mouth, it was some crap literature shoved in […]
Bungled Unified Messaging
We’ve done more than our share of firefighting over the last 30 days. While there are a lot of acceptable approaches to technology, straying from or outright ignoring best practices […]
Lucky Green Computing
In the midst of all the basketball, we have the luck of the Irish celebrated on St. Patrick’s day. The problem is far too many companies are gambling with their […]
2011 Technology Predictions
2010 was a great year for technology with an explosion of smartphones, tablets, and controller-less gaming. The following are some intriguing possibilities for 2011: Cloud computing will continue to increase with […]
Top 25 Reasons for Windows Phone 7
First there was Blackberry, then Windows Mobile (RIM had to start giving away the Blackberry Enterprise Server), nearly 5 years later iPhone, and 2 years after that Android. Now Microsoft […]
Mailbox Upgrade
Microsoft Exchange 2010 was released last month. If you’re still running Exchange 2003, this would be a good time to break that old arbitrary rule about always staying one version […]
Channel Changes
Every so often the whole technology industry changes and 2010 will be one of those years. If you are responsible for purchasing or evaluating technology products or services, much of […]
