Aug 19, 2012 | mail, Office 365, Outlook, SBS
If you’re in a small business using Outlook, your mailbox has probably been growing exponentially for years. Your gut instinct is to keep everything forever but Outlook is slowing down and your IT support people seem upset because maintaining Outlook becomes more...
Aug 15, 2012 | Adobe, laptops, Lenovo, Microsoft, OneDrive, SBS, software, updates, web_services, Windows Live, Windows8
The pace is picking up as we head into full-blown techno-craziness this fall. WINDOWS 8 This morning the shipping version of Windows 8 became available to Microsoft TechNet and MSDN subscribers. The download site generated error messages for an hour or so under the...
Jul 9, 2012 | domains, Home_Server, Microsoft, Office 365, SBS, Server 2012
Windows 8 will get all the press attention when it is released in October but Microsoft is also making deep changes to its server operating systems. Last week it announced details about the Windows Server 2012 lineup and again showed a willingness to shake up the...
Mar 15, 2012 | Microsoft, SBS, security, updates, Vista, Windows7, WinXP
On Patch Tuesday, Microsoft delivered a small number of fairly unimportant updates – and one security patch that is being pushed with unusual urgency. Your individual computers are installing this automatically. If your computer restarted this week, you’re up to...
Jan 9, 2012 | domains, mail, Microsoft, Office 365, Outlook, remote, SBS, software, Windows7
A few days before Christmas, Microsoft delivered the “Office 365 Integration Module for Small Business Server 2011 Essentials,” a long awaited add-in that integrates Microsoft’s new server software for very small offices with its hosted Office 365 service. In some...
Nov 21, 2011 | backup, domains, hardware, Microsoft, remote, SBS
Western Digital is shipping the first device available in the US with Microsoft’s small business storage and backup software, Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. Microsoft has a gift for names, doesn’t it? It’s a little embarrassing to gush over a product that...
