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(4.11 out of 5)Introduction to IBM Lotus Foundations
I haven’t been very excited about the computing side of technology for quite some time. Microsoft leads the small business server market with Windows SBS, but honestly I think it doesn’t do much and hasn’t advanced much in five years.
First, let me explain why Windows SBS doesn’t deliver much value. Really its used for a [...]
How To: Transfer User Profiles to a New Computer the Even Easier Way
A while back I wrote an article How to Transfer User Profiles and while that article is still useful for certain situations, if the old computer still boots there’s now an easier way! Forensit has a beta of User Profile Transfer Wizard, which makes moving systems a piece of cake.
Download the program on the old [...]
How to restore a crashed server in less than one hour
As I begin writing this its 10:40am and already today I’ve restored a server from a failed hard drive. Our client called around 10am saying the network was down and the server was making a clicking sound. Its the call all techies dread, but we were prepared - this was a Nitix Server running IDB [...]
Why Open Source Makes Sense for Small Business
Is your business’s software all legit? Think about it, maybe installed a copy of Office 2000 on a few extra machines?
While its understandable small businesses sometimes find skirting the rules to be more palatable than forking over thousands for more software, the true costs of piracy can be far greater.
The Business Software Alliance has been [...]
NitixBlue’s new Antispam for Small Business
Without a doubt spam (junk email) is a huge problem for businesses - spam wastes valuable work hours and puts your business at risk for security breaches.
Unlike other small business servers which make you pick the pieces and integrate them yourself, NitixBlue bundles one of the strongest sets of antispam tools around. NitixBlue has for [...]