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Harry B asked me to mention SMB Nation Europe that is happening this Friday, December 5th in London. Still time to register! http://www.smbnation.com/events_listpage.asp?Category=London~2008&Cat=Category Agenda December 5, 2008 – Microsoft Central London 8:30am-9:30am Delegate Registration 9:30am...
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Actually this is not a vulnerability in the product itself, but if you use Asterisk or one of its derivatives such as TrixBox, you should review your SIP and IAX secrets to make sure they are not the same as your extension numbers. As reported by Kerry Garrison on his blog: There are some new scripts...
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A possible glimpse of things to come from Amy Babinchak on her Small Business Tech Notes blog highlights a new type of attack using x.509 certificate s that is on the increase in the USA. Amy speculates that the bad guys are beginning to escalate the security arms race by leveraging some of the technologies...
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I'm curious how many Microsoft Partners are/are not deploying Windows Vista. I've started a discussion thread at the SBSC group on LinkedIn . If you're not already a member of that group, please take this opportunity to join if you are SBSC qualified.
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Licensing for Windows Essential Server Solutions either just got easier, or more complicated. I can’t really decide which, so I’ll leave that decision to you… Get a Discount on Windows Essential Server Solutions Upgrades & Migrations with Solutions Pathway Help your customers easily upgrade or migrate...
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This publication is available on the Ofcom web site and is in the form of an Interactive Executive Summary where you can leave comments. There are actually very few comments on the document at present, I have started adding mine today. We (IT Professionals) are the people who know best what our businesses...
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I spent a fair chunk of today with Peter Gradwell and some of his colleagues from Gradwell.com. They were celebrating the company’s 10th anniversary and were kind enough to invite some of their customers to lunch in Cardiff Bay. We chose Gradwell.com as our preferred supplier of digital trunks for our...
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I was fortunate to attend a Microsoft event in London today on the topic of Software plus Services, at which the keynote speaker was none other than Microsoft CEO Mr. Steve Ballmer. He was not what I expected - I was pleasantly surprised. He comes across as genuine but direct and to the point, humourous...
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Email disclaimers are one of my pet hates. They are, on the whole, rather ill considered . Here’s a fairly typical one that I received today in a marketing email: This Email any attachment may contain information which is confidential. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction...
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TiGra Networks is proud to announce our new joint venture with Master Place Ltd, which we are calling LiveCRM.biz . Based on Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management, our solution provides a quick and easy way to revolutionise your sales, marketing and customer service. At TiGra Networks,...
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This superficially amusing article about one customer’s experience with Lloyds Bank Plc actually raises a more interesting security issue. The BBC news article reports (emphasis mine): Lloyds TSB stressed there was no security lapse in this case. A spokesperson said: "On the majority of transactions...
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That’s it folks, the next version of Windows Small Business Server is finished. The code has RTMed and evaluation copies will be available within a few weeks. Official availability is 12 November. Time to start training! The resources have been appearing on Technet for some time now, so lets do...
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08-22-2008
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In November 2007 TiGra Networks embarked on a project to evaluate various digital telephony solutions, with a view to implementing our own infrastructure and, in the process, gain the necessary knowledge and experience to offer digital telephony solutions to other businesses. We are now ready. After...
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New broadband installation is complete but was not without some pain. That's not really surprising as domestic providers aren't really geared up for supplying businesses. The line was swapped over by about 10am and I promptly got a text message to inform me that I could connect my new "Be...
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If, like me, you're trying to get up to speed on Silverlight 2.0 beta 2, you should know about Jesse Liberty's webcast series. Jesse has a new approach to coding webcasts where instead of watching the presenter write code live (which takes time) he records himself doing the coding in advance...