Year: 2011

Build Your Skills: E-mail on demand with Microsoft Outlook Web Access

Would you like to provide your users with accessibility to your company’s e-mail system no matter where they are? With Microsoft Outlook Web Access for Exchange Server, they’ll never be more than a browser (with frames support) away from their Inbox. They can have secure access to their Inbox and calendar from any PC with […]

Ten links to help you understand Microsoft’s management shuffle

Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates has announced he is moving aside to let company president Steve Ballmer take the reins as the company’s chief operating officer. Gates, who will remain chairman, now has the title of chief software architect. The announcement came amid reports that lawyers prosecuting the government’s case against Microsoft are pushing to […]

Microsoft discloses some IE 7 plans

Microsoft on Thursday divulged a few more details about its upcoming Internet Explorer 7, and admitted that its implementation of tabs — one of the most-requested new features — will be just “catch-up” to rivals such as Firefox and Opera. Tony Schreiner, a Microsoft developer with the IE team, posted a lengthiest-yet description to the […]

FreeNAS for beginners: What it can and cannot do

In my post on free software titles that can be used to make money in consulting, one product that came up from TechRepublic members in this discussion (and others) is FreeNAS. FreeNAS is a software storage operating system based on FreeBSD that supports all of the major storage networking protocols. Right there is the big […]

Build Your Skills: Tips to help you search Microsoft’s online Knowledge Base like a pro

The Microsoft Knowledge Base (MSKB) is by far the most comprehensive resource for troubleshooting Microsoft products. It’s a database of support information that encompasses the entire range of Microsoft software and hardware. Love it or hate it, the MSKB is a masterpiece of documentation, and once you familiarize yourself with it, you can harness its […]

Gartner takes Microsoft to task

Microsoft should be concentrating on securing Windows instead of trying to challenge security software companies, according to research firm Gartner. Best online Microsoft MCTS Certification, Microsoft MCITP Certification at Actualkey.com Microsoft has bought two antivirus companies and an anti-spyware company–the latter acquisition has already produced an anti-spyware application for Windows–since Chairman Bill Gates launched the […]

Microsoft outFirefoxed?

So there I was trying my best to get a midlevel Microsoft manager to take the bait. “Does Microsoft now feel confident it’s found a way to slow the rise of Firefox–maybe even win back some lost customers?” Earlier in the day, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates was onstage at the RSA Conference in San Francisco […]

Microsoft Dynamics AX Positioned as a Leader in Magic Quadrant for

Microsoft Corp. announced that Microsoft Dynamics AX is positioned as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for ERP for Product- Centric Midmarket Companies 2010, a research report published by Gartner Inc. In the same report, which this year evaluated global enterprise resource planning (ERP) products specifically tailored for companies with 100 to 999 employees, and […]

Microsoft opens new PM career path

There’s a new IT career path at Microsoft Services for project management professionals, spelling potential for 150 new project management positions paying “in line with the industry,” according to Christian Jensen, worldwide PMO program manager at Microsoft. The new role, available to both internal and non-Microsoft employees, also indicates that project management expertise within the […]

Microsoft discloses new threats to Windows, IIS, and Outlook Express

In addition to the critical security threats from Microsoft that I covered in last week’s column, the Redmond software giant has also issued a flurry of medium-level security threats that Windows administrators need to be aware of. Details MS04-018, “Cumulative Security Update for Outlook Express,” is caused by a failure of Outlook express to properly […]

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