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By SuperUser Account on 1/25/2011 11:49 AM
BackgroundStonetree Network Solutions specializes in bringing the "Fortune 100" technology experience to small and medium-sized businesses in the Denver, Colorado area. Innovative offerings include their popular STONEMail service for spam-free, virus-free, HIPAA/PCI/SOX-compliant secure email – all without the overhead expense of an in-house email solution. Clients can access their email the same way they would with a traditional email server without the worry of server configuration, backup, retention, archives, or upgrades. Other Stonetree services include outsourced IT, disaster recovery, electronic backup, hosted email solution, project implementations, wireless installation and support, and virus scans and malware protection for a client base as diverse as medical offices, engineering firms, property managers, nonprofit organizations and more. 'Blended' Business ModelIn order to make good on the kind of quality services they were committed to delivering, Stonetree owners Dan and Andrea Mullen chose to partner with technology providers who Dan Mullen calls "the best of the best." Their business relies on a combination of smart technologies that include the Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Microsoft Server 2008 R2 platform, HP ProLiant Servers, VMWare, and WatchGuard network security solutions. Mullen does not refer to his company as a managed services provider (MSP). "We offer 'blended services.' By that I mean a combination of some of the services an MSP would provide, but with the personal on-site touch that lets the clients actually know who we are. We become an integral part of their team, and it doesn't cost them any more for the personal service. We charge a flat rate with no additional fees for after-hours or emergency support." | By SuperUser Account on 1/25/2011 11:02 AM
By Robert Peretson, PartnerPoint Contributing Writer  If you're managing in-house Microsoft Exchange for the clients you support, I'm willing to bet that a very significant portion of your time is dedicated to maintaining that one system. After all, consider all of the issues that require your regular attention:
• Controlling Spam • Preventing virus attacks • Getting clients removed from blacklists • Managing end-users with enormous mailboxes • Configuring communication with mobile devices • Ensuring reliable backups and easy restoral of Exchange data • Configuring remote connectivity for off-site end-users • Dealing with complaints of undeliverable messages • End-users complaining of missing emails • Entourage databases needing to be rebuilt • Archiving or restoring pst files • Setting out-of-office policies • Setting security and user access to public folders • Managing permissions for shared calendars and contact lists The list goes on. Just think of all the Exchange related tasks you've had to deal with yourself over the last couple of weeks. | By SuperUser Account on 11/22/2010 10:05 AM
Ok, so I'm old. I'm now the oldest guy in my company, which I still cant get used to. But it comes with some benefits. For example, I've had the luxury of watching Microsoft, Apple, & Google all grow up, from relative startups to amazing enterprises.
In 1985, I had just graduated college with an big fancy Engineering Degree but wanted to give Entrepreneurialship a whirl using a small one person IT consulting company I had started while in college. It was also the year the first Microsoft Windows was released.
My clients at the time were small businesses like non-profits and law firms in the Washington D.C area, and I supported their PCs (8086, 8088, 286, and 386's :-> ) which all ran MS DOS as the operating system. Most used Wordperfect and Lotus back then as their office productivity apps.
I will never forget the first migration to Windows and how it started. I NEVER thought it was going to go anywhere to be honest. I would get these law firms, who's admin folks were Wizards with Wordperfect, and had all of the Control & Function combo keys down so that they created and edited documents with amazing speed and efficiency, calling me and asking me to help them try out this new Windows Operating system they were reading about. So, I would upgrade a PC or two, and try to train them.
It was horribly difficult and non-productive. First of all, it was the first time they ever had to use a mouse. When you take an aggressive PC user who is used to doing everything from the keyboard, and make them use a mouse, requiring them to remove one hand from keyboard every few seconds…. they don't like it. It slowed them down tremendously. Then, add to that the fact that Windows was amazingly slow compared to DOS. It took forever to load and run applications. Therefor, it was a horrible experience, and many bailed out early.
| By SuperUser Account on 11/20/2010 10:22 AM
Microsoft Office 365 is coming….. as we have shouted almost daily lately. For those of you who are curious, but have tons of questions, our good friends at Microsoft have provided a ton of resources. One that is concise and to the point is the new Microsoft Office Transition Center.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is Office 365?
A: Microsoft Office 365 delivers the power of cloud productivity to businesses of all sizes, helping to save time, money and free up valued resources. Office 365 combines the familiar Office desktop suite with online versions of Microsoft’s next generation communications and collaboration services: Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online. With Office 365 we provide services that are easy to administer and simple to use – always backed up by robust security, reliability and control to run your business.
Q: When will Office 365 be available to customers?
A: Office 365 will be available for purchase in 2011. Please note that existing customers must be transitioned to Office 365 before it is available to them. Transition to Office 365 will be available to existing BPOS customers soon after availability of Office 365. Microsoft will work with all existing BPOS customers to determine the best time for the customer’s business to make the transition.
Q: What services and tools are included in Office 365?
A: Office 365 includes: Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Lync Online and the latest version of Microsoft Office Professional Plus desktop suite.
| By SuperUser Account on 8/16/2010 9:25 AM
At our annual Financial Analyst's Meeting (FAM) we announced that The Dow Chemical Co., Hyatt Hotels Corporation and the University of Georgia have each selected Microsoft cloud solutions. | By SuperUser Account on 8/6/2010 10:20 AM
Wondering what’s new in Exchange Best Practices Analyzer for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 (ExBPA E14SP1)? Curious about how updates to the tool are being handled in Exchange 2010? Here’s the answer to some of your questions. | By SuperUser Account on 7/29/2010 9:04 AM
By Ina Fried - REDMOND, Wash.--Aiming to show it is still winning customers against Google, Microsoft on Thursday announced deals to provide hosted e-mail and portal software to three big corporate customers. The software maker said Dow Chemical, Hyatt Hotels, and the University of Georgia are all using the company's hosted e-mail and portal software, known as Microsoft Online. The announcements were timed to come just as Microsoft is set to host its financial analyst meeting here. (I'll be covering the day-long event live, starting around 8 a.m. PT) In an interview, Hyatt CIO Mike Blake said the company, which had been running Lotus Notes, chose Microsoft after considering cloud-based options from Google, Microsoft and IBM's Lotus division. "I would not say that I was a Microsoft zealot," Blake said. "I worked most of my career to find ways not to use Microsoft. I'm a huge Apple fan." However, going with Microsoft allowed the company to not only provide e-mail to its current group of PC-equipped workers but also to 40,000 additional "deskless" workers, such as housekeepers and porters that historically haven't had work e-mail. Although that might have been possible with both Google and Microsoft, Blake said when it came to cost "Microsoft was probably a little more compelling." | By SuperUser Account on 7/22/2010 7:43 AM
ToneCheck looks to bridge the gap between an email that sounds right in your head and an email that sounds right to the recipient. Jared Newman, Technologizer Jul 21, 2010 4:39 pm For all those times that an e-mail sounds better in your head than it does to the recipient, ToneCheck thinks it can help. 
The plug-in, which is in a free-for-now beta for Microsoft Outlook and coming to web-based mail services in the future, reads over your e-mails for emotions such as elation, humiliation, excitement and fear. Users can set thresholds for how much emotion to allow in their e-mails, and ToneCheck essentially acts like a spell checker, flagging words and phrases that might be interpreted the wrong way. ToneCheck’s website has a demo that shows how it works, but I don’t use Outlook, so I haven’t tried the plug-in myself. If anyone tries it, I’d love to hear how well it works. On that note, it would be wise for ToneCheck to offer a web app in which people could dump text from any source, and if they were sufficiently happy, they could pay for the plug-in on their service of choice. | By SuperUser Account on 7/2/2010 7:47 AM
CBR Staff Writer Published 02 July 2010 Arkeia Software, a provider of backup and recovery software and appliances, has launched Arkeia Backup Agent for backup and recovery of Vmware and Hyper-V virtual environments and applications, including Microsoft Exchange, Sharepoint, SQL Server, Novell's iFolder, GroupWise, and eDirectory. According to Arkeia, the new Arkeia Backup Agent supports vStorage programming interfaces (APIs) to enable backups of VMware virtual machines. It provides support for VMware vSphere 4 platforms, including vCenter, ESX, and ESXi; vStorage Backup Agent permits backups to disk, to tape, and to disk and then to tape (D2D2T); and backup data sets can be replicated locally, and over a WAN. The company said that in Arkeia's roll-out vStorage Backup Agent is the final of three installments of Arkeia Network Backup v8.2 which supports Arkeia's Backup Agent for Microsoft's Hyper-V and Arkeia backup offerings for Xen and KVM. In addition, block-grain incremental image-level backups using VMware Changed Block Tracking (CBT) for reduced storage needs and faster backups due to reduced network traffic; vCenter integration for management of backup and recovery operations for environments with multiple physical hosts; and multiple transport methods that allows users to perform LAN-free backups over the SAN |
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DynamicPoint
Office Location: Long Beach, California, United States
Type: ISV
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Borek Business Solutions
Office Location: Bend, Oregon, United States
Type: Reseller,VAR
Industry Focus: Small and Mid-Sized Businesses needing Financial/ERP Software. Many healthcare firms, Non-profit, distribution and light manufacturing companies.
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Core
Office Location: London, , United Kingdom
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Core provide consultancy, development and support for SharePoint, System Center and Microsoft Online Services (BPOS, Office 365 and Azure).We have over 20 years’ experience helping clients across a range of industries improve productivity, efficiency and achieve their business goals.As an established Microsoft partner, we enjoy the highest level of support from Microsoft and have consistently been launch partners for new Microsoft technologies and releases.
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Program Framework
Office Location: London, London City of, United Kingdom
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Program Framework, a Microsoft Gold preferred partner, are specialists in Enterprise Control and Collaboration; we help companies to:- reduce project overruns through best practice use of Project processes, - train staff to use the software and the company's processes efficiently- configure Project Server to allow the business to select the right projects.
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Avastone Technologies LLC
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