IT edge

If you are like me and record presentation to share internally in my organization and with customers, you know good screen recording software costs a few hundred dollars. Granted, there are free screen recording software packages that you can download and use. But if you have had the same experience I have had with free [...]

So you have Office Communications Server setup internally and users want to be able to Instant Message with others on Windows Live Messenger, AIM, and Yahoo! Once your find the instruction to set this up it’s fairly easy to do, the hard part up until now has been locating the instructions. There are a couple [...]

Aug 31, 2010 – Microsoft published in the USA TODAY Newspaper an open letter to VMware customers asking them to rethink signing a new three year contract with VMware. In the letter Brad Anderson argues that, “…signing up for a three-year virtualization commitment may lock you into a vendor that cannot provide you with the [...]

Microsoft Released Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 on August 25, 2010. As with all Microsoft Service Packs, it includes the roll up of the security updates since the product RTM in October 2009. There are also some new features and updates for archiving, OWA, and mobile user and management improvements. Service Pack 1 gives [...]

If you have Microsoft Exchange Server and Mobile Devices in your Enterprise which support Exchange ActiveSync, surely you want to know what features are supported on a particular Mobile Device. The TechNet Wiki has a Comparison Table that shows what’s supported for Windows Phone, iPhone & iPad, Nokia, Google Android, Palm, and other device plug-ins.  [...]

TechRepublic.com is hosting a Live Webcast ”Evaluating Cloud Solutions: Insights from an Early Adopter of Google Apps and Microsoft BPOS” Join us for this LIVE Event on: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 1:30 PM ET / 10:30 AM PT / 5:30 PM GMT http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1931015 Overview: Serena Software, a leading software company in the application development and [...]

Ars Technica is reporting that there is a mass series of SQL Injection Attacks occurring over the Internet which links to malware sites. The Injection method uses obfuscation to hide the data to try and bypass basic input checking. The attack tries to inject iFrames into SQL tables, which will be rendered as web pages [...]

CIO Magazine – August 11, 2010 – published an article “The Trouble with Going Google: Four Reasons Why I Got Out”. Apparently “saving money” using Google Apps doesn’t consider the soft costs, user adoption or productivity changes. If you are thinking about going Google take a look at this article on why some companies left [...]

Last week (August 13, 2010) the press published some articles regarding the State of California going with Microsoft for their revamped E-mail system. Google apparently didn’t like hearing this and has been trying to get the state to change 142 of its requirements for an Email system so they can bid on it. According to [...]

If you are looking for an Office migration tools to assess compatibility of existing Office files and macros for Office 2010 compatibility, it’s here!  Microsoft released Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM) 2010 to help assess and migrate documents Download OMPM 2010 here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=81d208f0-7ace-499c-8975-728c648b8b43 OMPM is a tool targeted at IT Pros to assist in the [...]