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Microsoft Office 365 now released

The Microsoft Office 365 beta has now finished and the service is live to trial and use. This is the latest version of Microsoft Online services and all personnel currently using the existing BPOS service will be migrated to the … Continue reading

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Office 2010 versions – which ones are business ready?

The following link compares the different versions of Microsoft Office 2010 that are available: http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/buy/office-2010-which-suite-is-right-for-you-FX101812900.aspx Whilst the Home and Student version is the cheapest and can be installed on up to 3 systems this is NOT for business use. Microsoft … Continue reading

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Quickly lock your Windows system and other keyboard shortcuts

Most business PC’s are set to automatically lock the screen after a few minutes such as when the screen saver activates. You can also lock the screen by going to Ctrl-Alt-Delete and selecting lock screen but what about when you … Continue reading

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Set Outlook to highlight emails sent directly to you

Your inbox shows you all of the email you have received and it is likely that a number of messages have you cc’d in them rather than a message directed only to you. It you need to know which emails … Continue reading

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Windows SBS 2011 announced

The latest edition of the popular Windows Small Business server product is due for release early next year. https://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2010/11/02/announcing-windows-small-business-server-2011.aspx This builds on the existing systems present in SBS 2008 with the standard edition allowing up to 75 connected users or … Continue reading

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Microsoft Office 365

The Microsoft Office cloud offering is starting to become a reality and when combined with the existing online Exchange, Communicator and meeting services your office applications need no longer be tied to your PC. http://office365.microsoft.com/en-US/online-services.aspx We have signed up for … Continue reading

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October's Microsoft Patches

A large number of patches this month affecting most systems and software. Testing has shown some issues with Companyweb on SBS2008 but everything else looks ok to be rolled out to everyone soon

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Create PDF Files

Easily create PDF files Continue reading

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Add week numbers to your Outlook calendar

Add weeknumbers to the Outlook Calendar Continue reading

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