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Safe and Secure Password (Part II – Strong Passwords)

Friday, January 13, 2012

By Shaun Whitlow

As we covered in the last post, two of the most common methods used to compromise a password are guessing and brute force attacks. A password’s ability to resists these two attack methods determines its strength. In this post, we will look at what makes a strong password.

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Safe and Secure Password (Part I – Keeping your Password Safe)

Monday, January 09, 2012

By Shaun Whitlow

A password is like a key that opens the door to your account. Keeping that key safe helps keep your account safe. If that key were to fall into the hands of someone else, that individual could use it to access your private information or use your account for spamming. It is essential that your password be kept safe.

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Outlook Tips: Error when performing send/receive with SMTP accounts

Thursday, January 05, 2012

By Brandon Bonet

If you’re like me, you need the ability to send E-mails using several different aliases. This requires you to configure an SMTP account for each alias that you wish to send messages from. After this configuration has been performed, you may have ran into an error message when performing a send/receive within Outlook. Depending on how many accounts you have configured this error could and can stop your Outlook from functioning all together.

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SPAM - Best Practices

Sunday, January 01, 2012

By Nathan Carr

We all know that the best way to avoid spam is staying off of the spammers lists in the first place. Find out how to use contact forms, Scr.im, image obfuscation, and best practices to keep your email address hidden from spammers while still making it available to friends, customers, and family.

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Credential Manager

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

By Nathan Carr

In Outlook you have the option of saving your password to prevent having to log in each time you launch Outlook. When you choose to save your password in Outlook by placing the check mark next to “save password” Outlook simply adds an entry to the Windows Credential Manager or Stored Usernames and Passwords manager.

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Apple Launches iOS 5

Thursday, October 13, 2011

By Nathan Carr

Today Apple launched iOS 5. While the new iPhone 4S will come with iOS 5 out of the box, the update is also compatible with all current iOS devices. This includes the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch, and the iPad and iPad 2. The iOS 5 update contains over 200 new features, including the following:

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New Features in Exchange 2010

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

By Shaun Whitlow

 For those of you who would like a basic list of the new features for Exchange 2010 that apply to client-side use.

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SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) Defined

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

By Shaun Whitlow

Here's just a few thoughts on SaaS for those unfamiliar with why it has become so popular. Software-as-a-Service has quickly become a mainstream business resource for sharing and collaboration over the Internet. Content management software and customer relationship management software were once only available to larger corporations that could afford the expensive network infrastructure required. SaaS has now made these technologies accessible to even the smallest businesses.

Here are just a few of the advantages of SaaS for businesses of any size:

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Benefits of Hosted Exchange - Initial Investment Savings

Friday, July 29, 2011

By Guy Chan

I wanted to cover a topic, Hosted Exchange, that is already out there but maybe put a fresh perspective on it. As I thought about this topic for a few days, I decided that maybe it would be best to cover Hosted Exchange in several posts. I feel this topic deserves to be treated with more attention rather than to give you a bunch of bullet points. It would more fun this way too.

So let’s start from the beginning…..The Acquisition of Hardware for your Exchange Server Environment.

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Windows Mobile 6 Update

Friday, June 10, 2011

By Nathan Carr

Still using a Windows Mobile 6.x smartphone? Changes are coming.

If you still have not upgraded to one of the latest offerings from Microsoft, Android, BlackBerry, or Apple now may be the time.

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