Ensuring Maximum Stability of Blackberry Enterprise Server

Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) functionality is highly dependent upon the following: 1 – Exchange being alive 2 – The controlling domain controller (global catalog server) being alive 3 – BES being at the proper service pack level for the Exchange service pack level.

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Unified Messaging for Microsoft Exchange Can Be Virtualized

When Exchange 2010 came out Microsoft stated that all the roles could be virtualized except for Unified Communications.  As Exchange 2010 has been updated and evolved Microsoft now says that the Unified Messaging role can now be virtualized with Hyper-V or other approved third party virtualization platforms (aka VMware). https://www.

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Small business owners. Do you have an IT plan?

In speaking with small business owners on a daily basis I have found that many of them have not put together either a short or long term plan for their company’s technology needs. Most times you’ll hear, “we’ll get it fixed later as long as it’s working”, or “maybe next year”.  While there are always certain items that can […]

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Why do people work in Panera Bread?

Since we have moved our office, I occassionally drive around the block for lunch at the local Panera Bread.  There is always table after table of big meetings and small meetings with all these laptops and tablets and smartphones.   Here’s an article on why all those folks might be working there.

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Future Directions of Adobe and Flash

All of us who have an iPad or an iPhone or even PCs have struggled with the love/hate relationship between Adobe Flash and surfing the web. Flash has lots of security updates. Flash blows up a lot for me now and again. On my iPad2 I keep looking at those “Install Adobe Flash” messages with […]

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Emergency Flash Update 9/21

From Adobe – “A Flash Player update is scheduled for release tomorrow, September 21, 2011. This update will address critical security issues in the product as well as an important universal cross-site scripting issue that is reportedly being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks.

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What Makes A Team Smarter? More Women

An interesting article from Harvard Business Review on a research study that suggests having women in a group raises the team’s collective intelligence more than the IQs of individual members. https://hbr.org/2011/06/defend-your-research-what-makes-a-team-smarter-more-women/ar/pr

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On-Line Gamers Solve AIDS Retroviral Puzzle

This is a pretty interesting article on how making scientific research into a computer game allowed on-line gamers to solve a scientific mystery that traditional scientific research has been working on for nearly a decade in only three weeks! https://www.

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