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Automate ASR Backups on Windows 2003 Server
ASR Backups are a cool way to get system state backups of Windows 2003 server. They are cooler than regular NTBackup system state backups, because you can do a "bare metal" restore by booting a [...]
How close can you get to Exchange with Google Apps?
Here are the main problem I see with rolling Google Apps out to Outlook users who are used to Exchange: Access to shared calendars won't work the same I guess you could use something like [...]
Re-imaging instead of troubleshooting
At a large HMO I used to work for, they used to have a tough re-image policy. I believe that if a problem took more than two hours to solve, they would just have the [...]
Workstation builds – two partitions or one?
I had a lively exchange with another consultant today that included a discussion of imaging client machines. This other fellow subscribed to what I think is an old school philosophy that there should be a [...]
NetMeeting in the corporate video conference context
For corporate video conferencing, we usually have a dedicated "codec" from Tandberg or Polycom. However, we recently ran across this offering from Sony which works well, has nice modular add-ons, supports the latest protocols, and [...]
Crazy Computing Clouds
I have been thinking about how to provide health monitoring to our clients, host servers for our consulting business, and have a flexible lab environment for testing and training. We don't have a data center [...]
Client Backups: Offline Folders vs. Robocopy
Some IT shops don't even bother with client backups. I've had one IT Admin tell me that he sets a policy for all users to save their data on the network. If they neglect to [...]
Using smartphones as modems
Some clients insist on having mobile broadband cards in their laptops which is pretty cool. But why pay for the extra data plan when so many of these same users already have a smartphone with [...]
Spam Filtering
After much abuse from my associates, I have finally caved in. I'm all for using http://Postini.com to filter out spam. It's cheap and it works well. It keeps the spam off the network, and I [...]