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ScripLogic Partner Wins Readers Choice

Posted on November 4th, 2010 by by Steve Schulte

CNS uses and recommends ScriptLogic  for all our network installations.  ScriptLogic was just named winer of the Redmond Magazine Readers Choice Awards. Redmond Magazine  of  the  two  major  magazines  in  the  Microsoft‐centric  IT  industry,  today  published  its  annual  Readers  Choice  Award  winners.   Over  40,000  readers  were  asked  to  participate  and  vendors  were  strictly  prohibited  from  [...]

Accelerate Document Signing with EchoSign

Posted on September 14th, 2010 by by Michelle Egan

Have you tried EchoSign – the #1 electronic signature service on the web? We have and love it! EchoSign is an electronic signature service that lets us get our documents signed within minutes rather than days.  We use it for all client agreement documentation and it really is a time saver.  Not only does it [...]

Is the iPad a Good Fit for Your Business?

Posted on June 3rd, 2010 by by Michelle Egan

The iPad is sexy, fun, and portable. Apple cannot produce enough of the devices to meet demand. The arrival of iPads in an office definitely is noticed and draws interest. But can the iPad meet your needs? Perhaps you need devices that are capable of multitasking. The word on the street is that the iPad applications do [...]

Windows 7 made easier with Citrix XenDesktop

Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by by Steve Schulte

This is a great article that Citrix put out on how to make the Windows 7 adoption easier for larger orginizations.  For those of you that have XenApp under Subscription Advantage please also see the XenApp Trade up offer. Windows 7 made easier with Citrix XenDesktop Windows 7 presents both an opportunity and a challenge [...]

First Look at Microsoft Office 2010 – I’m Impressed

Posted on February 15th, 2010 by by Don Thompson

As founder and CEO of Capital Network Solutions, I’m always on the lookout for improvements to Microsoft products for our clientele.  So when Office 2010 beta applications became available, I downloaded and installed them eagerly.  Although I have not gone through all the applications in depth, what I’ve tested is a major improvement over Office [...]

Citrix Offers Trade-up to XenDesktop 4 Program

Posted on February 10th, 2010 by by Steve Schulte

A unique opportunity for customers to add desktop virtualization to their proven XenApp implementation and save up to 80%. The Trade-up to XenDesktop 4 Program gives XenApp customers a simple and cost-effective path to the most complete desktop virtualization solution— XenDesktop 4. With XenDesktop 4, customers can do everything they do today with XenApp and [...]

CNS AttendAnywhere Training

Posted on December 15th, 2009 by by Steve Schulte

Gain the benefits of Vendor Authorized Technical Training from any location  Introducing  AttendAnywhere, Capital Network Solutions, Inc. (CNS) new training delivery model.  Students can now attend Instructor-led Citrix classes in the CNS classroom, or from the convenience of their office or home.  Our new model enables those individuals interested in attending vendor authorized training to [...]

Hyper-V Core R2 “Windows installation cannot proceed”

Posted on November 24th, 2009 by by Dave Murphy

Had an interesting dilemna the other day. I had a HP DL360 G5 system already loaded with Windows 2008 server and hyper-v. However, I wanted to put the free, hyper-v r2 core on there instead. About half-way through the installation, I received an error that windows installation cannot proceed. Ok. I tried it again, failed. [...]

Get a quick estimate of file space by age

Posted on November 20th, 2009 by by Dave Murphy

I needed to give a customer an estimate on how much space would be saved if old files were moved off of the server into cloud storage, such as Amazon S3. While there are lots of ways to do this, I broke out the old robocopy program and ran the following: robocopy C: C:\Robocopy /s [...]

Five Steps to Managing Application Readiness for Windows 7

Posted on November 12th, 2009 by by Steve Schulte

Windows 7 has generated a great deal of interest, and many of our clients want to know how they can take advantage of it new features and clean, easy to use interface. Whenever Microsoft releases a new operating system, the biggest challenge is ensuring that applications and peripherals used within the organization will run without [...]