Introducing……Simplified Business  Computing                                    “Simply pay for what you need” In this tough economy everyone is trying to save money and cut their costs,  yet most businesses are long overdue in updating their business technology.  Simplified Business Computing  gives  small to medium businesses the ability to upgrade their  business  technology to stay competitive without having to [...]

For some backup programs, like Backup Exec, the Exchange Management Tools need to be installed on the server running the backup software. I came across the following Microsoft article that explains how the tools can be installed. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555841 The article also has a nice summary of the prerequisite software necessary to run the console. 32 [...]

Under certain circumstances, such as when utilizing multiple domains in a forest or having a trust between forests, you may not want to present your end-users with an opportunity to select a different domain to login to; the reason being, they may not have rights to login or it could cause confusion and questions to the help desk. [...]

When using ConnectWise it uses cross site scripting (XSS) to populate names and other information in Service tickets.  If you have Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) installed on your system you will get a cross scripting error: If this happens you will need to go into IE and disable XSS filter by clicking on Tools, then [...]

The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) provides significant incentives for physicians and other providers to adopt electronic health records (EHRs). Within the ARRA stimulus package, information technology related to health care receives $19.2 billion. These stimulus funds are intended to enhance the use of electronic medical records (EMRs) by service providers and hospitals. [...]

Apple, on Wednesday 9/9/09, released an update to iPhones OS. Apple is now enforcing a policy that is used to encrypt communications between Exchange 2007 mail servers and mobile devices, including the iPhone. Currently the issue seems to be only affecting users with the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G models (not the latest 3GS [...]

Ever have a server that shuts down due to heat but don’t know how hot it got before it crashed.  Well I found the solution, a great free product call Speed Fan.  Speed fan uses the reporting built into most chipset devices, however, many systems today usually come with this but there are older systems [...]

As I’m sitting in my office on hold with a distributor, I’m dreaming that I was at VMworld this week like all the other 25,000 techies like myself.   To ease the pain, i’m sharing the VMworld 2009 Web site.  It’s got everything - News, Blogs, Social Media connections, Show Highlights,.. Check it out and dream, what [...]

Google Gmail had a 2+ outage world wide yesterday.  Here is the explanation to the issue and a link for more infromation. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/update-on-todays-gmail-outage.html Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:14 AM Posted by Acacio Cruz, Gmail Site Reliability Manager Gmail had a major outage early this morning: for about two and a half hours starting at 1:30 [...]

About one month after Hitachi launched the first 2TB 7200RPM drive, Western Digital has responded with its own entry into the 7200 ultra-high density storage market. The 2TB Caviar Black features 64MB cache, 3Gbps SATA interface, a dual storage activator and integrated dual processor. Cost for the 2TB Caviar Black is $299 (sure to come [...]