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Did your business suffer because of the snow? Employees unable to make it into the office?How many staff hours have you lost because of freak weather, transportation problems, sickness or family emergencies? Get a 60-second overview of how Small Business...
Microsoft’s new Business Resource Centre provides personalised help, support, training, articles and tips customised specifically for you and the products you have. I particularly like some of the Office 2007 videos particulary the advanced version showing...
Accounting News Flash: Microsoft has announced a new version of its small business accounting software, Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2009 and Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2009 for UK customers. Office Accounting 2009 is a free upgrade...
These days, more and more software companies are releasing “beta test” versions of their software to the general public. People are downloading and installing these betas as if they were released versions. In the right circumstances this can be justified, but I am seeing an increasing number of users – especially in small and micro-businesses, installing beta software without really understanding the implications.
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Virus warnings are almost always hoaxes. Even if they’re not, forwarding the warning to your friends and colleagues can do more harm than good. My simple advice is this: press delete . Virus warnings and hoaxes are one particular flavour of chain email...
Are you making the most of Windows Search? This was one of the most important new features introduced with Windows Vista that can save you a good deal of time. Instead of clicking through layers of folder hierarchy, simply type the filename or a phrase...
Exchange mailboxes are never large enough. The upward pressure of the ever-increasing volume of email we deal with is set against the downward pressure from system administrators, as they battle to manage the servers and keep up with storage requirements...
It seems there is an instant messenger virus at large at the moment. The virus sends messages similar to these (the URLs are deliberately obfuscated): "Hot or Not? hxxp://mymsngallery.my.funpic de/viewimage.php?youremail@someplace.com" or "this...
Another blog article I've been meaning to write for a long time: how to construct a strong password. Much has been written on this subject, but it is also out of date. To understand what makes a password strong, first we need to be clear what would...
I received the following email today, which is clearly a rather crude hoax: From: <deleted> @hotmail.co.uk To: <24 MSN/Hotmail addresses removed to protect privacy> Subject: PLEASE READ Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:48:22 +0000 Hey it is tara...
I recently had a problem with a customer running all Windows Vista clients on an SBS 2003 R2 domain. The problem was how to deploy printers to users who have restricted access (i.e. standard users). The users cannot install the printer drivers themselves...
Here's a great tip for new users of Microsoft Office 2007. There is an add-in you can download that adds a new Getting Started tab to the ribbon. The new ribbon contains links to all sorts of online training and demos plus the interactive guides that...
David Overton - a Microsoft employee in the UK- has started publishing a series of demos on his blog. I've watched a couple of them and they are really good, concise video clips packed with useful hints and tips on how to achieve everyday tasks. If...
Darren Strange aka The Office Rocker has a new guest blogger, Colin Ashurst from Durham Business School, who has nailed what I see as one of the biggest challenges facing companies today. Time and again I see computers being used as nothing more than...
For historical reasons, my Live ID (formerly called a Passport ID) has always been different to my main email address. This was getting annoying because it meant that I didn't get presence information against my ID in applications like Outlook, SharePoint...
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