This is kind of an angry post - apologies beforehand! For some stupid reason, Windows Server 2008 (not the R2 version by the way) and Windows Server 2008 for Small Business has the 'hibernate' feature turned on by default. Hibernation is when a machine commits all running memory to disk and powers down only to pull this data back off the disk upon powering on and thus giving you the impression everything is as it was before you 'hibernated' the machine - I say 'impression' as very often it doesn't work properly. Anyway, as it commits all running memory to the disk,...
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Imagine the scene; it's the late 1990s and all over the world people are preparing to embrace the Internet and all the possibilities that entails. Optimism for the new medium is at a fever pitch. By the time the new millenium is ushered in, thousands of Internet-only start up companies are being valued at ridiculous prices. Everyone is getting on email and heralding the paperless office and the death of fax machines. Newspaper companies are tripping over one another to bring the news to the Internet first - worries abound over their prospective futures as blogs take over and the...
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So much is written online about the brilliance of Office 365 and why we should move there. I agree with most who say it's a fantastic way of getting an organization up into the Cloud and to harness the benefits of better connected mobility in an agile business world such as the one now present in the second decade of the twenty first century. However, while it may be easy to sign up to Office 365, migrating there isn't exactly straightforward. First, it depends, as many things in the world of technology do, on how many users you're taking about. I...
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So you've taken the plunge and bought yourself a Mac. Welcome to the future my child, where computers rarely break, viruses are for the other guy and everything is beautiful. But wait, you work for a company who's head is stuck in the digital sand? They still use Windows for their accounting software or legacy applications? You've tried to get the IT manager to help you setup your mail on your Mac but he's totally dumb? Well, if you want, recommend me to your boss. Alternatively, you can do without the hassle of getting all worked up about your inept...
Read More Post a comment (0)One of the things that bugged me for years with TextEdit on the Mac was that it used Rich Text Formatting (RTF) instead of plain-old plain text. At work I'm forced to use Windows PCs because Irish people in business are sticklers for tradition. So every day, I use Notepad.exe. I love it. I use it for taking notes, washing text (i.e. removing the formatting before I format it), coding, configuration changes, HTML editing and all sorts of techy-uses. But Mac has a more powerful version in TextEdit.app. Trouble is, I hate the default RTF format. But a while back...
Read More Post a comment (1)So you've deployed Microsoft Office 365, and are retaining the admin account for your own use so you can better manage the deployment into the future. You've gotten over the fact that you have a more complicated username than your staff, and the fact that it can be tricky setting up a mobile device to sync with Office 365 because of the combination of your different username and the email address you have. Now you want to change your admin password. If like me, you set all the users (in a fresh deployment) to have the same password, you want yours...
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Viruses and their modern-day menacing equivalents called 'malware' are the among the top 5 reasons for the loss of productivity to businesses and enterprises around the world today. These troublesome bots wreak havoc with computers, notebooks, mobile devices and servers by encouraging users by any and all means to part with their precious valuable data - more often today, by getting the user to actively hand over their credit card details. Today, viruses and malware have reached into the more popular areas of the internet. It used to be the case that viruses and malware would infect machines who were pirating...
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So you've been handed the task to set up a new phone system for your office or a client. You've battled through the fact that Cisco products come with no instructions, managed to get all the phones to 'talk' to each other, and are now ready to send them to their new homes where a mixture of bacteria-ridden hands and earwax will forever be their comfort. But you'd like to make an impression with these new-fangled phones. You want to put a wallpaper on these puppies so you can be sure people spot that this isn't just another Panasonic Hybrid...
Read More Post a comment (0)So you've started to sink your teeth into Office 365 and you miss the administrative functions of Microsoft Exchange 2010 which is at the back end of your new 'cloud' based email service (and before I get slaughtered, yes I know Office 365 is more than just 'email' but that's what it'll inevitably be most popular for). One thing you've noticed is those shared mailboxes your company loves so much are now seemingly impossible to create. Well, fear not for others have found the methods, and I'm here to back up the evidence as it does indeed work. You'll need to...
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So since this is the first post on the new ssdoc.com blog, I decided to make it about the system used to power this website - Wordpress. It's been around a few years now, and I've used it since version 1 in other places now long consigned to the annals of the Wayback Machine. Wordpress is simply a database-driven blogging platform. It comes in two varieties; hosted (free) and self-installed (also, free!). I've set up blogs on their hosted services in the past over at wordpress.com but to be honest, I'm such a control freak that I use the self-installed version....
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