With the new Microsoft Windows Multipoint Server, better and improved features are designed to make business operations much more productive and cost effective. With support for thin clients and older workstations as well as better connectivity with other Microsoft Server products, the new Multipoint Server is sure to be a much more versatile tool to [...]
Entries from January 19th, 2012
The New Windows Multipoint Server
January 19th, 2012 · No Comments · Backup, Microsoft, Servers, Storage
Split Keyboard on an iPad
January 18th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Did you know that on iOS5 on the iPad, you can actually split the keyboard into two? This can be useful for typing with your thumbs if you are holding the iPad with both hands.
To do so, press and hold the keyboard icon on the on-screen keyboard. An option will appear, allowing you to split [...]
Tags: iPad·Productivity·tablet
VMware ESXi – Enabling SSH Access
January 17th, 2012 · No Comments · Servers, VMware, Virtualization
In today’s data centers, many companies are turning to virtual environments for their needs. A GUI interface can be a great tool to use when managing your virtual environments, and this is the case with VMware ESXi. The whole VMware environment can be managed by the GUI, but sometimes administrators want to have more access and options [...]
Tags: Servers·Virtualization·VMware
Beware of Facebook Scams
January 16th, 2012 · No Comments · Security
As the worldwide use of Facebook continues to grow, more and more scams are appearing on the popular social networking website. Using promos, “interesting” links and all other sorts of strategies to trap you, a grain of salt is always needed when dealing with things outside of what Facebook offers.
As more and more people continue [...]
Tags: Facebook·scams·Security·Social Networks
Cool Tool Friday: Shrew Soft VPN Client
January 13th, 2012 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Security
Welcome to this week’s installment of Cool Tool Friday! Each Friday we will feature a tool – hardware or software – that we’re using and think you might enjoy. Whether it increases productivity, helps with organization, provides a quick work-around for difficult networking situations, or is simply interesting and fun, we’ll share it if we [...]
Read the Fine Print to Avoid Spyware Pushed via Google Ads
January 12th, 2012 · No Comments · Security
Not every ad you are served by Google is good for you, warns Zscaler’s Julien Sobrier, after he spotted a suspicious looking ad for a free Flash Video player in his Google Reader.
By clicking on the link he was taken to the download page of the player, which repeats many times over that the offered [...]
Consumer Electronics Show 2012
January 11th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized
The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show is officially underway in Las Vegas! For those of you that are not familiar with it, CES is the world’s largest technology tradeshow, where major tech companies unveil their newest products and innovations in both consumer products and information technology concepts. If you’re into gadgets and keeping up with technology [...]
Tags: CES·Consumer Electronics Show·laptops·networking·tech·wi-fi
Honoring Robert Noyce
January 10th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized
It seems only fitting that with the 84th birthday of the late Robert Noyce recently, we should take a moment to reflect on the ways the co-inventor of the microchip and co-founder of Intel impacted technology. Mr. Noyce co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968 and is credited (along with Jack Kilby) with [...]
Preparing to Migrate to Office 365
January 9th, 2012 · No Comments · Managed Services, Microsoft
We recently blogged about the process of migrating a customer from BPOS to Office 365. While we discussed the steps in the final changeover, the planning and analysis stages leading up to the final migration are critical in ensuring a smooth transition. ChannelPro has posted an excellent article outlining the planning steps necessary for planning [...]
Cool Tool Friday: TeraCopy
January 6th, 2012 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center
Welcome to this week’s installment of Cool Tool Friday! Each Friday we will feature a tool – hardware or software – that we’re using and think you might enjoy. Whether it increases productivity, helps with organization, provides a quick work-around for difficult networking situations, or is simply interesting and fun, we’ll share it if we [...]
Memory Issues for IE 8 in Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop
January 5th, 2012 · No Comments · Microsoft, Servers
I recently had a user call to advise that they were experiencing latency and performance issues when opening links in new tabs in a published IE 8 window. I checked Task Manager on the server that the user was logged into and realized that this user had seven different iexplore.exe processes running at the same [...]
How to Fix NtFrs Event ID 13559
January 4th, 2012 · No Comments · Managed Services, Uncategorized
The File Replication Service is needed for SYSVOL information to be replicated between domain controllers. If this fails, then issues with group policy objects/changes are not replicated and other active directory objects will not be updated. The error below – Event 13559, NtFrs – is one such error regarding replication.
This can be corrected by following [...]
How to Disable Remote Logon on a Citrix XenApp Server or Terminal Server
January 3rd, 2012 · No Comments · Servers
If you have ever had to manage a Citrix Presentation Server, Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop, or any other Terminal Server-based environment, you’ve probably run into issues on a specific server in the farm or needed to perform maintenance on a server. You might also want to disable logons for another reason, such as new app [...]
Tags: Citrix·Servers·Terminal Server·XenApp