Archive for November 2008

Fraudulent UPS email contains virus

A few of our clients have received a fraudulent email being circulated that appears to be from UPS about a shipment that could not be delivered. The email urges the recipient to open an attachment that supposedly contains a waybill for the shipment, but the attachment contains a virus.
Play it safe by observing the following [...]

Improvements to our data backup and disaster recovery service

We’ve made several key improvements to our backup and disaster recovery service offering this month:

The Basic model now protects up to two servers, instead of just one.
The Advanced model now comes in both a tower and rack-mount configuration.
We’ve introduced a new, lower-cost offsite storage option. At just 29¢/GB/month, this option allows you to synchronize your [...]

Small Business Server 2008 launches

The next version of Microsoft’s Small Business Server platform launched this past week. Overall, SBS 2008 is more of an evolutionary improvement on a great product than a radical redesign, and it offers several key improvements that will benefit our clients using Small Business Server:

Built upon a new underlying operating system, Windows Server 2008 is [...]

Google’d

I was beside myself this evening when I discovered these! Notice how they’ve taken the courtesy to blur my face.

Microsoft Financing

As part of our Certified Partner status with Microsoft, our clients are able to take advantage of a program to finance the acquisition and installation of entire technology solution – software, hardware, and implementation costs – at a fixed interest rate.
The program provides for flexible payment options of 24-60 months, with no down payment, no [...]

X-BAR helpdesk utility menu

We’ve built this handy utility to make it easier for our clients to contact our helpdesk when you need support. Here’s how to get started:

Download the Helpdesk Menu installer to your desktop.
Double click X-BAR Helpdesk Menu Setup.msi to start the installation.
In the Open File - Security Warning window, click the Run button.
Follow the installation wizard [...]