Your company’s domain name, or it’s address on the internet, is an important part of your brand, image, and message.  It is akin to a piece of property or some other form of capital that you want to protect.  That is why it is important to know the vital details about your domain name, including [...]

From Wikipedia: “Disaster recovery is the process, policies and procedures related to preparing for recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure critical to an organization after a natural or human-induced disaster. Disaster recovery is a subset of business continuity.“ This is all well and good. But what does it mean for you and your business? Well let’s first discuss disasters. Disasters recovery [...]

Ever wonder what distribution lists you are on?  Are you getting all the right notifications in your email from all the right groups?  I will show you in this blog how you can see exactly what distribution lists in your network you are a member of to double check that all the right company correspondence [...]

Ever wish for something a little more than those little red or green squiggles when it comes to tweaking your grammar in documents? Many years ago I stumbled upon a great free app called WordWeb as I was looking for a thesaurus program. After installing it I was impressed with how many useful things it [...]

Recently a colleague had a ZIP file sent to them under the auspices of an Airline Reservation.  When it the ZIP attachment was opened, an .EXE file popped open in a text box with a prompt to RUN.  Luckily we realized something was amiss and did some exploring – This is what we found: It [...]

I frequent my neighborhood coffee shop and I like using their coffee drinkers incentive program. But rather than getting my sixth cup of coffee free, more often the case is that I have three partially punched cards next to where a keep my car keys and another goes through the wash every three months or [...]

Did you know that Windows 7 comes with its own backup tool?  Here is a quick tutorial on how to use this tool to protect and back up all the important files, folders and data.  While there is no substitute for a professionally managed backup solution both locally and online to fully protect your data, [...]

Sometimes signals get mixed, communication breaks down and meetings are cancelled, missed or postponed for what seems like an eternity.  A frustrating thing happened to me this week, and it was a simple matter of scheduling.  I had a conference call set-up for a number of different parties.  Everyone agreed on a time, a calendar [...]

Hey there domain administrators.  Did you know it was possible to join a computer to your domain remotely?  Not so hard at all. First, you must have VPN configured on your network.  Your VPN can be configured directly to your firewall, or through your firewall to your Windows Server Routing and Remote Access.  (How to [...]

Google grants is a program for Nonprofit organizations, offered through Google’s Nonprofits program.  If your organization is a qualified Google for Nonprofits organization, you may be able to benefit from Google’s advertising program. The way it works is as follows.  If you qualify, Google Grants will give you an advertising grant within the Google AdWords™ [...]