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- New mobility products: What do they mean to your SMB?
- Here's a look at some of the new products that SMBs are likely to see their workers carrying and using, and how you can integrate them into your network environment to enhance productivity without compromising security. Big companies are big on mobile devices, and can afford to provide...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Deb Shinder, Smart phones, Cellular phones, LetÂ, small and medium business, mobility, WhatÂ, phone, smart phone, handheld computer, handheld computer phone, handheld, SMB Strategies Newsletter, Device, Mobile, Network, Problem, Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Worker, Computer, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Hardware
- Technical articles 2007-03-05
- New storage project, part two: Setting priorities
- In the first partof this series, I described my environment at a small, liberal arts collegeand our current storage dilemma. I also explained what I consider importantwhen it comes to making an appropriate storage decision. In part two of thisseries, I will expand on my priority list and explain what...
- Tags: Hardware servers, SAN, Scott Lowe MCSE, Storage
- Technical articles 2007-03-02
- Manage dependency injection for ColdFusion with the ColdSpring framework
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download, which includes code Listings A-D in a more manageable text file format.Adobe ColdFusion has been gaining in popularity among thedevelopment community. This boom is caused by a sort of feedback loop: morepowerful tools and frameworks drive application developers to become better,while...
- Tags: Adobe ColdFusion, Allaire ColdFusion, Brian Kotek, ColdSpring, dependency, UserDAO, UserGateway CFC
- Technical articles 2006-11-02
- What's the best way to increase processing power?
- Processing power--seems you can never have too much of it. But what's the best and most scalable way to increase the processing power available to your vital applications without breaking the bank? Just like death and taxes, one thing we can count on is that tomorrow's operating systems...
- Tags: Processors, Deb Shinder, LetÂ, processor, SMB Strategies Newsletter, Clustering, Processing Power, Distributed Computing, Computer, Distributed Processing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Technical articles 2006-07-28
- Understand Storage Groups and Stores in Exchange
- Here's a high-level look at how Exchange stores data and make some sense of the limitations inherent in the different versions of Exchange server If you've managed an Exchange server, you’ve probably heard someone say that the enterprise edition of Exchange supports up to four stores, or...
- Tags: Scott Lowe MCSE, E-mail servers, LetÂ, storage groups, storage, E-mail Administration Tips Newsletter, Mailbox, Store, Storage Group, Hardware
- Technical articles 2006-06-28
- Don't measure project success unless you have a target
- When you're trying to objectively measure the success of your project, it's imperative that you have good targets in place. Many organizations have a hard time determining whether their projects are successful or not. One of the best ways to determine project success is to define a...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, Marketing research, LetÂ, survey, baseline, Project Management Newsletter, Target, Marketing
- Technical articles 2006-06-20
- Using SQL Server 2005 to document Sarbanes-Oxley compliance: Part 2
- By Tim ChapmanIn Using SQL Server2005 to document Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, I outlined how to create a"home-grown" auditing system to document security changes in SQLServer 2005. In that article, we used DDL triggers to track login activities,which are server-level events. In this article, we'll demonstrate how to useDDL triggers to track...
- Tags: database, DDL, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, trigger
- Technical articles 2006-05-15
- Google is the Nike of Computers
- LetÂ’s be honest, I love Google products. I would even go out on a limb to say that most of you use some type of Google product. In fact I believe I could go into any corporate environment that is not bogged down by limitations and find GoogleÂ’s products installed...
- Tags: computer, Google Inc., Nike Inc., Web browser
- Blog posts 2006-01-31
- Don't deliver more features than the client requests
- In project management, goldplating--delivering more requirements than what the client requested--is a no no. Let's look at a scenario: You have worked with your client to determine the business requirements for a new solution. After gathering all 100 requirements, you estimate the time and money that is...
- Tags: Strategy, Tom Mochal, Project management, LetÂ, Project Management Newsletter, Client, Tools & Techniques, Corporate Communications, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Marketing
- Technical articles 2006-01-10
- Develop a scalable data protection plan
- Almost every company has data that shouldn't be accessible to any and everybody, but not every company has a well thought out plan for protecting confidential data. You need a data protection plan that's effective, cost-effective, and will continue to work as your company grows. Protecting confidential data is...
- Tags: Deb Shinder, data protection, LetÂ, password, permission, SMB Strategies Newsletter, Solution, Data, Authentication, Option, Data Protection Plan, EFS, Security
- Technical articles 2005-12-05
- GOOGLE: It is all in the Name
- LetÂ’s be honest, I love Google products. I would even go out on a limb to say that most of you use some type of Google product. In fact I believe I could go into any corporate environment that is not bogged down by limitations and find GoogleÂ’s products installed...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web browser
- Blog posts 2005-10-26
- E-mail and Web Use Monitoring: Good or Bad?
- LetÂ’s open a can of worms and make this week interesting,shall we? Is e-mail and Web use monitoring good or bad in a government workplace? I bring this topic up because I just read an article that quoted a recentsurvey in CSO magazine that said that 61% of survey respondents...
- Tags: monitoring, e-mail
- Blog posts 2005-09-11
- Managing excessive absenteeism
- p>ByRobin Thomas, J.D.You've been here before. An employee uses up all of hisvacation and sick days in the first six months of the year and then still needsadditional time off. Do you have to continue giving him the leave? At what point do the absences becomeexcessive and trigger disciplinary action? Most...
- Tags: absence, Americans with Disabilities Act, Family and Medical Leave Act
- Technical articles 2005-06-14
- Learn a best practices approach to Exchange administration
- By Derrick BrasslettIf you've spent much time browsing Exchange support sitesand newsgroups, youÂ’ve seen many of the same questions asked over and over byExchange newbies. The repetitiveness of these questions drives some old-time newsgroupcurmudgeons crazy, but itÂ’s somewhat forgivable. After all, thatÂ’s what newbiesdo, right? The questions asked by green...
- Tags: administrator, Exchange, Microsoft Corp.
- Technical articles 2005-01-05
- Reverse the firewall concept to protect your LAN
- As IT specialists and technicians, we always do our best toprovide the solutions our customers need, all the while trying to standardizeas much as possible in order to make our lives a little easier as well.However, sometimes our customersÂ’ needs are so specific that they require afully customized solution.I ran...
- Tags: developer, didnÂ't, firewall, IP, LAN, network, Oracle Corp., Pierre Dumoulin, software, workstation
- Technical articles 2004-11-04
- Secure Active Directory installations by properly securing domain controllers
- If you do a quick search of the TechRepublic Web site or ofthe Web for that matter, you will find that there are countless articlesregarding Active Directory security. Even so, I have noticed that there seemsto be at least one aspect of Active Directory security that is consistentlyoverlooked: domain controller...
- Tags: Brien M. Posey MCSE, domain controller, domain controller deployment, security, server
- Technical articles 2004-09-20
- Bulk-delete stale computer accounts with VBScript and NetPWAge
- YouÂ’ve probably been looking at your Windows-based domainslately and wondering about all those inactive computer accounts. What are someof them? Are they merely shut down for the day, or have they been permanentlyremoved from the network? If you have hundreds or thousands of computeraccounts, the thought of tracking them all...
- Tags: computer, Microsoft VBScript, password, Randy Barger
- Technical articles 2004-07-21
- Converting Microsoft Office documents to OpenOffice documents
- Grow your Microsoft Office skills and keep time-saving and productivity-enhancing tips ready with TechRepublic's Quick Reference: Microsoft Office Pak. Work more efficiently and help end users help themselves with these four durable laminated reference charts covering Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft PowerPoint.If you've decided to switch from...
- Tags: Brien M. Posey MCSE, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office document, OpenOffice
- Technical articles 2004-07-14
- Manage Offline Files on a Windows Server 2003 network
- When Microsoft released Windows 95 nearly ten years ago, itincluded a brand new feature called the Windows Briefcase that would allowmobile users to carry cached copies of networked files with them as theytraveled and then resynchronize those files at a later time. In Windows 2000,Microsoft enhanced the Briefcase feature and...
- Tags: Brien M. Posey MCSE, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, network, server
- Technical articles 2004-06-02
- Add multiple monitors without additional video cards using MaxiVista
- Have you ever wished that you had a multiple monitorconfiguration? As you know, in order to create a standard multiple monitorconfiguration, you need to have at least two video outputs on your system usuallywith two video cards and two monitors. However, now there's an alternative wayto set up and use...
- Tags: Getting MaxiVista, Greg Shultz, MaxiVista, monitor, monitor configuration, multiple monitor configuration, network, video, video card
- Technical articles 2004-06-04
