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Free personal backup software from GFI
Posted on May 23rd, 2009 1 comment
Many people do not realize how important it is to keep an updated backup of all their important files on their computer and neither do they use appropriate tools to do so. As part of GFI’s We Care initiative, and to give home users a helping hand as well as encourage them to start backing up their files, GFI is giving away GFI Backup 2009 – Home Edition, a FREE backup and recovery software product for the home user. A version for SMBs will be available later this year.
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MS Exchange and Archiving Compliance – Strategies Webinar
Posted on May 14th, 2009 No comments
WEBINARRegister HereSPEAKERS
Thursday, May 21, 2009
1:00PM EST/10:00AM PSTWebinar Duration:
1 HourLee Benjamin
Microsoft MVP Advisor
Exchange Guy ConsultingKevin Hodak
Senior Engineer
GFI SoftwareBruce Naylor
CEO
Frugal Brothers SoftwareMicrosoft Exchange and Archiving Compliance – Strategies to Protect Your Business
Do You Know What Regulations Affect Your Business for Archiving Retention Policies?What is the formula for a successful email archiving strategy – one to help ensure that your company meets the requirements of various laws and regulations, such as HIPAA, SOX and many others?
We’ll answer this and more in this complimentary webinar.
What’s On the Table in FY’09?Lee Benjamin, Microsoft MVP and Exchange Guru explains the pitfalls of current archiving methods and will help guide you through what you need to know and implement to avoid serious penalties and headaches in 2009.
Current Methods of Backup are Not Enough to Keep You Compliant.Kevin Hodak from GFI Software and Bruce Naylor of Frugal Brothers discuss best practices and documented case studies of what a successful email archiving policy should entail.
Discussion Topics:
Email Compliance Regulations Overview
Challenges Businesses Face with New Regulations
Best Practices for Email Retention and Archiving Policies
For questions about this informative discussion, please contact: Anne Murphy – amurphy@gfi.com
GFI Software
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Free is Good, Thx Eric
Posted on May 14th, 2009 No commentsYes, this offer is true and available to Microsoft Small Business Specialists right now. Microsoft is offering a total of 1,000 free exam vouchers to our Microsoft Small Business Specialists and these vouchers are good for the following eligible exams:
- 70-653 TS: Windows Small Business Server 2008, Configuring
- 70-654 TS: Windows Essential Business Server 2008, Configuring
- 70-236: TS: Exchange Server 2007, Configuring
- 70-432: TS: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Installation and Maintenance
- 70-630: TS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Configuring
- 70-403 TS: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Configuring
Requests for free vouchers must be received by May 30th, 2009, assuming the 1,000 quantity lasts that long, so be sure to request yours right away if you are planning to or want to take one of the exams listed above.
How do you request your free exam voucher? As a Microsoft Small Business Specialist, you recently received your Microsoft Small Business Specialist Action Pack Add-on kit. Inside that kit is all of the details, so take a look inside there and you will see the full details on how you can get your free exam voucher.
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First Bug Found in Win7 RC
Posted on May 9th, 2009 No comments
First Bug Found
If you read my earlier article about Installing Windows 7 RC and got motivated and installed it, read Ed’d Article on the first bug found in the RC and the need to patch it quickly before you install anything else.
Direct link to KB http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/970789
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Free 5-IP version of GFI LANguard available
Posted on May 5th, 2009 No commentsFree is right within your budget during these tought times isn’t it?
GFI has just released a freeware version of its award-winning vulnerability management software, GFI LANguard. This fully functional version for 5 IPs is available for free and the goal of this release is to give back something to GFI’s customers and to tangibly help SMBs maintain and improve their current levels of security, even more so when budgets are being cut and IT spending reduced. Partners are encouraged to offer the freeware version to their clients and use the opportunity to talk about security and educate customers that there is more to security than viruses and spam.Read more information about GFI LANguard and the FREE 5-IP version here.
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Return of the HA’s Blog
Posted on May 2nd, 2009 No commentsWell it has been a lonely few weeks since the blog blew up and all the kings horses and all the kings men could not put it together again.
As you may have noticed I started pulling posts out of my newsreader’s cache and putting them up on http://handyandy2.wordpress.com before I realized I they do not allow redirects to it. Well the plumbing is finally repaired and I will re-post the important pages here, over the next few weeks.
Sorry all the old links will undoubtley be broken, but at least the important content will be back.
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Where is blog.sbs-rocks.com?
Posted on April 29th, 2009 No commentsWell a couple of weeks ago the gods of bits and bytes decided to sacrifice my blog for some unknown reason.
All attempts by mere mortals to restore or resurrect it from the ashes have failed.
What you see here is a last ditch attempt to save some of the content from my NewsGator Aggregator thanks to a an idea from the Diva herself. So please be patient as I restore these pages one at a time without losing too much hopefully. And please excuse the dates being completely out of whack.
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oops, ha is too quick to blame this morning
Posted on April 8th, 2009 No commentsSo I am reading my normal slug of e-mail as I drink my coffee this morning and I see this messges in my inbox from ExchangeDefender.
Not wanting to miss a chance to annoy Vlad I sent him this note,
I think your system is suffering from an identity crisis, it does not recognise itself :>)
In his normal helpful manner (you can find this Vlad on his business sites, not Valdville his personal site) he sent me back the following explanation,
It could be SPAM, not everything from ownwebnow.com is implicitly trusted because it could be web based generated junk.
Unfortunately before I got his reply thinking I was so smart, I approved it as always trust sender, so now I have to go back and figure out how to undo that setting. Probably just go into the white-list and remove it.
And just to make matter worse for my favorite smartass (me), turns out the message was a note from the blog engine asking me if I wanted to approve a reply that had been generated by a robot and contained nothing but spam.So I sit here out of coffee and red faced eating crow, but have to admit ExchangeDefender Really Rocks!
!!disclaimer for conspiracy nuts out there, yes I am a reseller for ExchangeDefender & OwnWebNow, but that does not make the services any less valuable. Corollary, just because I am paranoid does not mean they are not watching :>)
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So you don’t know who HandyAndy is?
Posted on April 8th, 2009 No commentsSo in reading some of the recent comments on my new blog (Thankx Vlad for talking me into it) it occurred to me that some of you may not know who I am. So if you would like to find out a bit about me, look at the appropriately named page on my regular site http://www.sbs-rocks.com/aboutus.htm you can also gain a bit of insight at the Microsoft MVP Site . You are also welcome to stop by the SBS Forum at MCP Magazine a.k.a. Redmond Magazine and post a question, I tend to hang out there a lot (I am the forum moderator). Or if you find yourself in the Triad North Carolina area, stop by my IT Pro Group Triad SBS Group which is a chapter of SMBTN the Small & Medium Business Technology Network
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Shadow Protect Enable Lan Communications
Posted on April 8th, 2009 No commentsNew Article on my SBS-Rocks.com website
Shadow Protect Enable Lan Communications
a.k.a. How to create an XP Firewall Exception GPO in SBSSo as you may know I have been working with imaging products and have pretty much settled on Storage Craft’s products.Well I hit a road block the other day trying to control the desktopversions of Shadow Protect from the Shadow Protect Server Console.
This article explains how to allow these communications as well as being a good intro to the XP Firewall GPO.
Enjoy,
HAUpdated 6/22/2007 Thankx to Bob Haley who just wrote and sent me an ADM Template for Shadow Protect, I have updated the article on my site with the new instructions Shadow Protect Enable Lan Communications
