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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...

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...