Resources

I love my Kindle.  I actually read books again.  Its battery life is amazing.  The fact that I can go outside and read in bright sunlight is awesome.  The fact that I can email PDFs to the Kindle to read later is extremely useful for technical manuals.

This is an excellent article from Microsoft TechNet on the navigating complexities of DNS scavenging.   DNS scavenging is a means of helping DNS clean up after itself.  https://blogs.technet.com/b/networking/archive/2008/03/19/don-t-be-afraid-of-dns-scavenging-just-be-patient.

A brief article on the importance of listing your volunteer work on your resume or on-line profiles in addition to your work experience.

Microsoft made a big deal about desktop gadgets when Microsoft Vista came out. I never really liked them because they took up too much space on the desktop for what they did. Now apparently Microsoft is going to discontinue them as well. https://www.infoworld.

Here is a post from Microsoft TechNet discussing issues with Microsoft Excel that have cropped up since MS11-072 came out and was applied.   The article describes the issue and provides a work around for the two scenarios that Microsoft is seeing.   One is dead links and the other is attempting to save an Excel file […]

Microsoft has been introducing the world to what is coming next in Windows 8. This is a good article introducing what comes after Windows 7: https://www.infoworld.com/d/microsoft-windows/what-it-should-know-about-windows-8-173881?page=0,0&source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2011-10-01

This is a great tip for setting Windows desktop wallpaper from Jeremy Moskowitz at GPAnswers.com.  It is also a good example of leveraging the Group Policy Preference Extensions (GPPE) functionality on top of traditional Microsoft Group Policies.  GPPE is only found in a true Microsoft Active Directory domain and not alternative Group Policy management systems […]

While I’m sure this was accidental, it is one way to protect Internet Explorer’s market share: https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220435/Microsoft_kills_Google_Chrome_with_bad_malware_signature?source=CTWNLE_nlt_pm_2011-09-30

A few months ago a number of our clients were surveyed in depth by a third party firm about what they thought about CSI.   We are happy to report that the reviews were extremely favorable.   Our thanks to everyone who shared their thoughts.  When asked what CSI could do better, many respondents said that they […]

As Hurricane Irene approached New York, CSI used our 24x7x365 Paladin Monitoring service to help our clients prepare their computers and networks for the impending hurricane.  We were able to quickly identify all the uninterruptible power  supplies (aka batteries) under management which had bad batteries or other hardware issues.