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ViewSonic ViewPad 10, Windows 7 review

October 11th, 2011 · Comments Off

As you have noticed it has been a long time since my last article on the ViewPad. Six weeks to be exact. I really have been trying to give the ViewPad tablet a real chance. This part of the review is based on the Windows 7 Professional boot. For my review of the Android OS part, [...]

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Tags: Software

Windows Intune Part 2

July 27th, 2011 · Comments Off

In Part 1 of this article I covered what Windows Intune was and some of the features. In this concluding article I would like to go over the financial benefits or non-benefits of Intune. So financially let’s see what we have, Intune cost $132 per year per computer. If you don’t pay you cannot access [...]

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Tags: Purchasing · Software

Microsoft Office 365: The cloud vs. your wallet

July 8th, 2011 · Comments Off

Over the years Microsoft and others have offered cloud based services, software, data and security that is located on a server somewhere “out there”. In theory you don’t have to worry about updates, security patches and backing up. Such offers include Google Doc’s and Gmail as well as what we are going over here, Microsoft [...]

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Tags: Purchasing · Soap Box · Software

ESET and SBS 2008 Issues, Part 3

November 30th, 2010 · Comments Off

In the first two parts of this article I have gone over some issues with Windows Small Business Server 2008 and the Server / Exchange version of ESET, let’s pickup where we left off.

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Tags: E-Mail Issues · Internet · Networking · Software

ESET and SBS 2008 Issues, Part 2

November 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off

In our continuing saga of a quack that had gone to the dogs, we pick up where we left off last. Since the customer had been using POP email, the inability to use Exchange was a problem but not critical. After 2 months of ESET not being able to solve the issue we ramped up [...]

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Tags: E-Mail Issues · Internet · Networking · Software