Oct 6, 2011 | backup, business, computers, domains, Home_Server, Microsoft, network, SBS
Previously: Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, Part 1: Overview Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, Part 2: Remote Access Small Business Server 2011 Essentials has one overlooked feature that fills an important need in most small businesses. Every night, SBS...
Oct 4, 2011 | business, domains, Microsoft, network, Office 365, remote, SBS
Previously: Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, Part 1: Overview Microsoft has done more than anyone else to promote remote access to small business networks. Almost ten years ago, Small Business Server 2003 opened up Outlook Web Access and safe remote desktop...
Oct 3, 2011 | business, domains, Microsoft, network, Office 365, SBS
Small businesses are finally in a position to set up Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, the perfect server for many small businesses with fewer than 25 users. Today’s technology world does not offer any one-size-fits-all solutions but SBS 2011 Essentials...
Sep 25, 2011 | broadband, hardware, Internet, network
The request was deceptively simple: Six very small offices want to share a single Internet connection. Each office wants to have a secure network for its own computers, not shared with the other offices. The offices want to share a single big Toshiba eStudio...
May 18, 2011 | broadband, hardware, Internet, laptops, network, wireless
Previously: Whining About Wireless I’ll tell you a story about my own experience. You won’t learn anything and there’s not a happy ending, but perhaps it will give you a little perspective on why I’m not urging you to ditch your wires and set up wireless everywhere....
May 15, 2011 | hardware, laptops, network, wireless
When you have a choice between running a cable and relying on a wireless connection, you simply must not consider them to be equal choices. The reliability of a wired connection seriously tilts the scales. I have told my clients for years that the equation is simple:...