March, 2011

A few short and sweet tips... Categorise evey single email as you read it, and either move it to an appropriate folder (eg: home, fyi, urgent action, monthly meeting) and/or set up appropriate rules, so your emails will automatically be posted...

Training staff Showing new employees how to perform daily tasks can take time – and time is the most precious business commodity. Now, you can make your job - and their learning process - easier with Steps Recorder . Dr. Ernest Tako...

If you have more than a handful of PCs in your company, you already know that it can be a chore keeping them secure against viruses and ensuring that they have the latest software and updates. This is where Windows Intune comes in. It provides cloud...

Too much email? Process and organise it immediately into ‘urgent action’, ‘this week’, ‘information only’, and project-based folders. "I don’t like to delete files – I might need them." Hmmmm. Amassing...

Using existing or new hardware, shifting compute resources where they are needed, virtualised server capacity can be far less expensive than buying and operating new hardware in anticipation of future demand. Memory, storage and processor capacity can...

On April 12, 2011, SQL Server 2005 will transition from Mainstream Support to Extended Support, which includes: Paid support (charged on an hourly basis per incident). Customers will no longer receive no-charge incident support and warranty claims...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional is a great tool for individuals performing basic development tasks. It simplifies the creation, debugging, and deployment of applications on a variety of platforms, including SharePoint and the Cloud. Visual Studio...

We're all time-stretched and email-overloaded. Here are a couple of tips to help your mails get read. Make more of the subject line so recipients can immediately see how the message relates to them and why it's important. Be very specific...

Continuing our series of Windows 7 Business Insights, here we take a closer look at security and control. Case Studies With security being vital in an educational setting, Dean Close School found several benefits from deploying Windows 7 . With...

This guest post by Simone Schuurer was first posted on the Microsoft adCenter blog on 3 March. Last week the Microsoft Advertising Community team was at SES (Search Engine Strategies) London to keep an eye and ear out for the latest trends in search...

Here’s an extract from a just-published case study on wine importer and distributor Liberty Wines . The company wanted to speed up business processes to improve the way they met the needs of customers in the fast-paced world of fine dining. Updating...

The growing popularity of mobile devices has created a need for businesses to review their approaches to IT security. While medium-size businesses have obtained a range of benefits from the development of mobile broadband and remote working technologies...

Tim Danton, editor of PC Pro, Steve Cassidy, contributing editor to PC Pro & IT Pro, Simon May, IT Pro evangelist and Steve Plank, Architect Evangelist, talk about cloud computing Format: wmv Duration: 10.23

Windows Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand computing power and storage to host...

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is an important update that includes previously released security, performance, and stability updates for Windows 7. Installing SP1 helps keep Windows 7 up to date. For more information, see Learn how to install Windows...

This Microsoft Public Sector Business Value Framework (BVF) is an easy ROI tool that helps you find out how much your government organisation could save with smart ICT investments. This assessment gives a personalised analysis of your ICT infrastructure...

After addressing cost, another major issue for IT decision makers is deployment. Upgrading your whole company to a new operating system can look like a major task especially if your last deployment experience was 5-10 years ago. It still requires careful...