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The cure for software upgrades?

A software upgrade can be a major disruption to a business. We've listed the revisions to Microsoft's core businesss products going back to 1995. Windows Servers Office Exchange (email) SQL (database) Windows 95 Windows NT (1993) Office 95 Exchange 5.5 SQL 7.0 Windows 98 Windows Server 2000 Office 98 Exchange 2000 SQL 2000 Windows 2000 Windows Server 2003 Office 2000 Exchange 2003 SQL 2005 Windows XP Windows Server 2008 Office XP Exchange 2007 SQL 2...

Setting up Email Filters will reign in an unruly Inbox

One of the most powerful ways to get control of your incoming email is to use filters. I'm not talking about filtering SPAM because Postini already does that for us. We're talking about automatically filtering email that you want to receive to a folder other than your Inbox. Automatically filtering your incoming mail ensures that less important email does not get in the way of messages that matter or are time sensitive. My current filters automatically divert ~20 messages per day to a folder ...

City of Los Angeles Chooses Google Apps

The Official Google Enterprise Blog has a post about the City of Los Angeles choosing Google Apps for their new Email system that will serve 30,000 city employees. The entire post and video are available via this link. Some highlights from their post: Important decision. 15 proposals were submitted. The top four candidates gave oral presentations to city officials. The City Council unanimously chose Google Apps. Improved collaboration. Much of the city's work requires multiple people ...

Google, Security and your Data

When speaking to clients about Google and Cloud technologies we are often asked if client data will be safe when using Google Apps. With the recent news about Microsoft and T-Mobile losing client data many people are quick to judge all Cloud services as less than trustworthy. This is not true! Don't judge all companies by the bad experiences of some that make headlines. However, always do your due diligence. We've done our due diligence regarding Google Services and we want to share it with y...

Saying No to Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange has been the dominant business Email Server Platform since the late '90s. Today and going forward, Network Velocity is saying NO to Microsoft Exchange. Now hold on, let us clarify this statement. We currently manage dozens of Exchange Servers which will not be going anywhere anytime soon, but we are taking a stand that if a client needs to upgrade their system or is looking to purchase their first Email solution that our company policy will be to recommend Google Apps. ...

Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook

In early June 2009 Google announced that users can now upload Microsoft Office 2007 documents and spreadsheets to Google Apps.  This was a big step for Google by adding value to Google Apps in terms of Office 2007 compatibility. Google has dropped another bombshell with Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook.  This is big news! Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook allows users to use Outlook as their interface to Google Apps hosted email. While we consider the Google interface to be supe...

Make the most of Google Apps

Google Apps is a powerful platform, but to make it even more powerful these simple Mail settings will turn your email into a dashboard of information. We recommend giving these settings a try, we've found them to make a difference for our users: Via the Settings Menu, click on Web Clips and click disable. Via the Settings Menus, click on General and Enable Keyboard shortcuts. Via Settings, the Labs tab enable Labs (if necessary). From the Labs settings area click enable on the following: ...

What SPAM looks like

Network Velocity provides Postini Email Protection Services to our clients. On a typical day we'll process over 32,000 emails. Of those 32,000 emails only 5,000 will be delivered. That's a delivery ratio of 15%. We describe SPAM as a cat and mouse game. Postini has built the best mousetrap available, but the mice (SPAMMERS) are always fighting back. To share what we see from our console we've included a few screenshots of the email traffic we process. This sample was taken in the eve...