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Document management with Microsoft Search Server

mail@itexpertmag.com (Kay Ewbank) — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:04:31 +0000

Storage is cheap and it’s easy to create documents, so most companies have tens or hundreds of thousands of documents on the computers in their companies. So how do your customers find a document on a particular topic? The worrying answer is probably that they can’t...

Getting to grips with Exchange 2010

mail@itexpertmag.com (Simon Bisson) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:30:42 +0000

The new Exchange Server is here – is it time to move your clients to the latest version of Microsoft’s messaging platform and how much work does that mean for you?

Virtualizing Small Business Server with Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

mail@itexpertmag.com (Tim Anderson) — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:11:34 +0000

The challenge and reward of running SBS 2008 on Microsoft’s free Hyper-V Server platform.

Small Business Server 2008

mail@itexpertmag.com (Danny Bradbury) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:10:18 +0000

By the end of this year, the SBS 2008 portfolio will finally officially be out, and it will change some of the decisions that you have to make on your customers’ behalf.

Using SharePoint for document management for the small office

mail@itexpertmag.com (Tim Anderson) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:05:15 +0000

Project management, version control, group calendars, no more duplicates… SharePoint offers the small business a lot more than fancy file sharing and often it’s free. Julian Jordan from London based IT support consultancy Network Fish shows them how to get the most from it.

What you can do with the second SBS server licence

mail@itexpertmag.com (Tim Anderson) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:20:33 +0000

Small Business Server Premium Edition comes with a licence for a second server (running Windows Server 2008 rather than SBS).

Key Partner Programmes

mail@itexpertmag.com (Administrator) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:13:29 +0000

Microsoft Partner Programme https://partner.microsoft.com/UK/

Signing up as a Microsoft partner gives you access to information, technical and pre-sales support, training (online and locally), certification courseware materials, analyst reports, sales and marketing tools

Types of Storage

mail@itexpertmag.com (Ian Murphy) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:01:04 +0000

There are three types of storage you can provide to your customers: Direct Attached Storage (DAS), Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Networking (SAN). What you choose will affect the cost, the solution and the levels of support and services you can offer.

Leasing Tax Breaks

mail@itexpertmag.com (Stephen Pritchard) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:30:41 +0000

The main reason companies lease high-value equipment is to spread the cost and to preserve capital. But there are also tax advantages to leasing equipment.

Partner Focus: Robert Epstein, Microsoft

mail@itexpertmag.com (Stephen Pritchard) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:19:20 +0000

A good working relationship with Microsoft is often the lifeblood of any IT consultancy or reseller business. Microsoft still sells the vast majority of its products through the channel, but recent moves into cloud-based services have led some firms to worry that Microsoft might bypass them, and sell directly to SMEs.