Posted on June 1, 2008 by Brian Williams
SEE FOLLOW UP BELOW
SMB Migration conference 2007, ‘Disaster Preparedness.’ The post conference chatter, none.
Comcast.net is hacked, http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4492&rss.
The Planet faces a fire, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/01/the_planet_houston_data_center_fire/.
How would you handle the above events, how would you handle them if they were your managed clients?
If you haven’t planned, implemented and tested…it’s time.
Susan Bradley provided an excellent link to the following article, [...]
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Posted on May 31, 2008 by Brian Williams
Portland’s local user group, Technology Wizards, is putting on a Vista adoption event.
This event will be a community-wide educational event targeted at IT Pros, Resellers/Consultants and IT Business Decision Makers. This event will focus on providing real facts regarding adoption or deployment of Windows Vista in businesses.
When: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 from 11:00 AM - [...]
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Posted on May 30, 2008 by Brian Williams
As an MSP you should use Comcast’s recent breakdown, http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4492&rss, as a warning.
Do you know the following about your managed clients;
Who’s your client’s registrar?
Do you or your client know the username/password to the registrar’s website, is that password secure?
Do you know all the contacts who are listed with the registrar?
When does the domain expire, does it auto [...]
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Posted on May 30, 2008 by Brian Williams
A good friend, and peer of mine, attended an event this week where Scott Hanselman, now a Microsoft employee, spoke. He said Scott had a ton of great content and was a great speaker, here’s Scott’s blog http://www.hanselman.com/blog/.
In the presentation Scott was going big on his talk about cloud services, no not specifically Microsoft, he [...]
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Posted on May 10, 2008 by Brian Williams
Email as a reliable business tool is done until a worldwide set of standards and protocals are set and enforced, here’s why.
We’re all aware that spam is at record high levels.
To resolve the issue we follow Exchange best practices i.e. recipient filtering, turn off NDR’s to non-accounts, if no 3rd party spam utility is in place then establish [...]
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Posted on April 24, 2008 by Brian Williams
SaaS, software as a service, is all the rage these days especially now that Microsoft is in the mix. Microsoft entering the space reconfirms that cloud services, which have already been offered by other providers for years, are here to stay.
Our peers locally, in Portland, and nationwide have been inquiring whether these services are going to steal sales away from [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by Brian Williams
Vlad had a great post a month or so ago about how our country is bailing out Bear Stearns, the state of our economy etc… http://www.vladville.com/2008/03/damn-ostriches.html.
Reading the post and the comments it just got me fuming about the direction of our country both morally and from a financial stability standpoint. Paying for a war where [...]
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Posted on April 5, 2008 by Brian Williams
We’re currently a one-man shop, not by choice, but because we hired an employee to fit a specific position that needed to be filled and due to a number of factors it turned out to be a horrible experience. As a result we’re now like turtles too scared to go through the process again we’d just prefer [...]
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Posted on January 7, 2008 by Brian Williams
This past month we had two good leads come from our local user group website link. We met with each prospective client in person to just listen to their needs and get a general assessment of their environment. We didn’t talk about technology in depth , overwhelm them with what we do, just listened for about [...]
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Posted on December 31, 2007 by Brian Williams
2007 was our best year ever; however, the writing is on the wall that 2008 we’ll enter a recession and there will be a shakeout in our industry causing a number of our peers to suffer, possibly us too, but we’re working to offset this.
In Portland, Oregon we’re one of the few markets to show positive [...]
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