Helping IT get Managed
SolarWinds Web Help Desk is a pretty great product, I have reviewed it and use it daily at my IT Pro job. This post is to alert you to a contest that SolarWinds is running on FaceBook to help promote the product.
What do you need to do? Go to their facebook page and vote for your favorite video and share it on your facebook wall.… Continue Reading
I have been working in IT in some capacity for over 10 years and had heard of Dameware time and time again, but never played with it much. Since my organization is a SolarWinds customer and I have worked with them on some projects in the past, I had to check out the Dameware product to see what it was all about. Wow. I have seen a few posts about this product being “RDP on steroids” and I think that gets pretty close.… Continue Reading
This is the mystery among IT Professionals. The MVP award is all about community and how those in the IT community help both others within the community and those outside the IT community who rely on us for help and learning. Contribution is the way to the award, but that is only part of the process. Yes it is a big part of the process, but Microsoft or someone known to Microsoft has to be watching.… Continue Reading
Welcome to a new post series called MVP Mondays. The posts here will serve as my thoughts on being an MVP, what it is about and what it isn’t about. No this is not the inside track to the discussions at the MVP Summit water cooler. Remember, those discussions are all covered by NDA. Along that front I will say this… each of my four trips to MVP Summit have been great experiences and “The Food was good”.… Continue Reading
This year at the MVP Summit I was thinking about the whole idea of being a Microsoft MVP. I decided to put up a few posts centered around the Microsoft MVP program and my experiences with it.
As a series goes, that is another attempt and I will do my best to keep up.… Continue Reading
I am a huge fan of Neat Receipts, the scanner and application that help organize your receipts and other paper documents in a database on your computer. Once scanned, the application makes the files, documents, and other items it has collected searchable. Not a bad idea really, with a few exceptions.… Continue Reading
I have been working with OneNote since its release in 2003 and it has definitely gotten better with each release. 2013 is no exception. The application seems more streamlined and easier to get around, if that’s possible, but the primary upgrade is the SkyDrive integration. Being able to use my skydrive as the default location for saving Office data is pretty great. It ensures that my content is offsite and available on all my computers.… Continue Reading
I spent my summer vacation working with Scott Lowe and Rick Vanover on a book project for MS Press. We wrote a training guide for Windows 8. It was a great experience and its available to order on Amazon today. It should be on shelves, at your local Barnes and Noble (or other bookseller) soon.… Continue Reading
Computers are becoming both more sophisticated and more portable all the time. For many today, a good amount of work takes place on a smartphone or a tablet. Because a good number of business professionals are using Windows (hopefully Windows 7 or newer), the IT Pro community is fully entrenched in supporting it.… Continue Reading
Recently SolarWinds released version 2.5 of their User Device Tracker product and because I had started reviewing the previous version, I thought it might make sense to start over again with the newest release.
User Device Tracker is a server based application that monitors network environments to return information about connected user accounts and computers. It will quickly tell you where a computer is connected and how it attaches to the core switching infrastructure within your environment and even the UserID of the account logged on.… Continue Reading
