Several years ago I ran across an article on leadership by the same title as this blog post. I thought the content of the article was relevant enough to copy into a Word document and save for future reference. While the rules are very basic, their simplicity is a large part of their value. We [...]
Until recently, VDI was a technology reserved for enterprise level customers with deep pockets and an equally deep roster of expert IT staff to support it. The expense and complexity of VDI implementations has historically kept SMBs from even considering the technology. When the Citrix VDI-in-a-Box (ViaB) product debuted it changed the landscape dramatically by [...]
There is no shortage of documentation on the process of upgrading BPOS to Office 365. The problem is most of it is verbose and hard to follow. Some clients prefer to take care of the on premise work themselves during their migration, so we decided to create a concise document together to guide them. There [...]
Today Bruce Marshall from Microsoft and I teamed up to present to the North Carolina Chapter of the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) on technology readiness and Microsoft Office 365. SCORE provides mentoring and other resources to aspiring entrepreneurs. Most entrepreneurs understand the need for professional, reliable and cost effective technology infrastructure but many [...]
Once you have migrated to Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), you will need to access certain BPOS resources, configure your workstations and set up mobile devices. There are resources out there to guide you through this process but they are scattered about. We will try to consolidate as much of this information as possible [...]
There has been quite a bit of press coverage regarding the outage at Amazon this week. Much of this coverage has focused on how the outage has brought down many popular web sites such as Reddit, Quora and Foursquare. The point that seems to be getting missed here is that by failing to plan, these [...]
Setting up a new account on Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) can be a challenging process that takes several steps. There are several tricks that can make the process slightly less difficult for small implementations (<15 users) but they are not well documented. To keep things simple, we address the least complex scenario in [...]
At a recent Charlotte Regional Technology Executives Council meeting, Fred Sexton from MouseKick.com made an interesting presentation outlining six things that Google does not want you to know. I thought the information was insightful and worth passing along. With Fred’s permission, I wanted to share some these insights. I have added some of my own [...]
Until recently, users of Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) had to open a support ticket to enable server side email forwarding. However, Microsoft released a set of PowerShell scripts in February 2011 which allows administrators who are comfortable with the command line to set this up on their own. Using the command line can [...]
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