Monthly Archives: September 2007

Protect your PCs, work smarter, stay connected.

Invest in a winning combination. Windows Vista® Business and Microsoft® Office Professional 2007 provide powerful tools to help you manage your business. Add Microsoft Windows® Small Business Server 2003 R2 (SBS 2003 R2) and Windows Mobile®-powered smartphones, and you’re ready to take your business to new heights.
Built-in Peace of Mind
Stay focused on your business, knowing [...]

Daylight Savings Time – Are you Prepared?

If you are running Microsoft Exchange Server in an Information Technology IT environment, you must take additional measures to guarantee the correct operation of your Exchange Server post-Daylight Savings Time.  You will need to use the Exchange Calendar Update Tool.
Daylight saving time is a system to set clocks ahead so that both sunrise and sunset [...]

BizTalk Server 2006 R2

BizTalk Server 2006 – Release Two – is now available.  BizTalk Server is a business process management server that enables companies to automate and optimize business processes. BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Beta 2 is now available from the Microsoft Connect Site. If you are not a member of the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 connect community, [...]

Organizations Looking to Outsource Employee IT Support Services

As the support of devices becomes more complex, organizations are looking to take advantage of other support resources outside of their own four walls — namely, outsourcing of employee IT support services.
A recent study by IDG Research Services confirmed that the level of IT support for highly productive employees ( or potentially productive employees ) could [...]

More IT Support Needed for Productive Employees

A recent survey by IDG Research Services found that enterprises would be better off if they offered more targeted and strategically-focused IT support for their employees.  The study, which focused on 700 IT decision-makers worldwide, asked with kinds of support services they offer their companies’ employees. 
The study found that companies are increasingly shifting from using [...]

What is Microsoft Silverlight?

Based on the Microsoft .NET Framework, Silverlight enables developers and designers to easily use existing skills and tools to deliver media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Simple integration with existing Web technologies and assets means Silverlight works with any back-end Web environment or technology. No “rip and replace” required. Silverlight integrates with [...]

Risk Management and Business Continuity Planning

In the past an organization’s computer systems were centrally located in the company’s data center and the duty to keep those systems running smoothly was responsibility of Computer Operations IT personnel. Disaster recovery and contingency planning are the responsibility of the IT department, whose focus is to ensure that business applications within the IT environment are available as required by its useres.
Today’s IT [...]

Explore SQL Server 2008 Pre-Launch

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides a trusted, productive, and intelligent data platform that enables you to run your most demanding mission critical applications while reducing time, cost of development and management of applications.  All this while delivering actionable insight to your entire organization.
Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008 builds on the management capabilities of previous versions and [...]

Outsourcing IT Support Dallas Ft. Worth

Located in Dallas, Texas, close to Fort Worth, Paranet Inc. is a one-stop shop for IT support needs.  Targeting businesses in Dallas, Paranet offers products and services for security management, network security and design, managed IT services, outsourcing IT and email security.  Paranet is known for its total managed IT solutions.
Dallas businesses are becoming smarter [...]

Microsoft and Novell focus on virtualization, directory and identity services

The Microsoft / Novell partnership announced a joint interoperability lab is now open for business.
“Customers want interoperability out of the block,” said Microsoft’s director of open source technology strategy, Sam Ramji. “The lab’s built, staffed and powered on and will be run by Microsoft’s Tom Hanrahan who was hired away from Linux.”
The two companies plan [...]