Category: Services

Here’s a good explanation of how the components of Microsoft Groove fit together.
Although after reading this, I still have a question: Can people who buy Office Groove 2007 (retail box) or Office Enterprise (volume licensing) share data via the Internet as soon as they install Groove, or do they have to purchase GES? I [...]

Reflections a year after my taping of Vladfire ….
There are many names for people and businesses who do what I do.

IT consultant
Trusted advisor
Outsourced IT vendor
Value added reseller (VAR)
Value added provider (VAP)
Managed services provider (MSP)
Channel partner
Solution provider
God (on our good days)
Those idiots (on our bad days)

The names we choose for ourselves and that others pin on [...]

I don’t demand 100% uptime from web hosts. I expect it, but I understand that things happen. So it took not one, not two, not three, but at least four site-down situations before I gave up on ANHosting / midPhase, the original host of The Schlog and The Schrug. And those were just the outages [...]

As an independent consultant, I rely on Yahoo! groups to converse with peers all over the globe. It’s a great technology, except when it doesn’t work as expected. For the last 24 hours or so, almost nothing I’ve e-mailed to my groups or posted directly to the groups via the web interface has shown up [...]

One in a series of posts on various things you can do with technology to make yourself more productive …

Filter your company’s inbound e-mail. More than 90% of all the world’s e-mail is spam, according to one spam filtering service. If you block all that junk mail before it ever gets to your company’s mail server, you [...]

This is from Mozy, an online backup service. You get this prompt after creating a password to encrypt the data that you want to back up.

I’m currently evaluating the professional version of Mozy. If I like what I see, I will start recommending and reselling it to clients.