Trend Micro is coming back to Cincinnati, Ohio again for some FREE training on the new Worry Free v7: Event: Cincinnati SBS SIG – Trend Micro Live Training Date: Saturday August 21, 2010 Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT Venue: Max Technical Training 4900 Parkway Drive, #160 Mason, OH 45040 Map to venue: Click [...]

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Whitepaper Title: VHD Getting Started Guide File name: VHD Getting Started Guide.docx Data Published: May 27, 2010 Language: English File size: 1.13 MB Pages: 82 Download URL: Click here Description: This guide provides an introduction to virtual hard disks (VHDs) in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. It includes an overview of technologies that [...]

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Bill Kam of Trend Micro is coming to Cincinnati to give a FREE live in-person training on Trend’s Worry Free products – best practices for install/configure and how to protect from things like “fakeav”, and new tools for the partner/IT Pro to use as well.  He may cover some of the Worry Free 7 info [...]

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The Kentucky Small Business Server User Group (KYSBSUG) meeting #74 last week on Hard Drive Recovery had a fantastic turnout! I’d like to thank all who attended and a special thanks to Craig Mayfield for a killer presentation! Here are the links for the resources mentioned in the presentation: Streaming recording of the entire presentation [...]

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I really hate carrying around physical CDs/DVDs for programs I use a lot. Normally I just convert all my discs into ISOs with the free ImgBurn program (which totally rocks) and then throw the ISOs onto my Toshiba 320 GB portable USB drive. Then when I’m on-site if I need a CD, I just mount [...]

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Nowadays you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting someone who’s talking about virtualization. I’m guessing that your technicians are up-to-speed with virtualization, but are your sales folks? Microsoft has a great series of webcasts for Microsoft Partners to give them the basics of virtualization with the following 4-part (6 segment) series with Ronald Grattopp [...]

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Invitation – January 2010 KYSBSUG Meeting #71 Meeting Date: Wednesday January 20, 2010 Time: 6:30 PM Eastern Location: Money Concepts Address: 323 Townpark Circle, Suite 100, Louisville, KY 40243 Topic: “Password Security and Password Cracking” Guest Presenter: Dana Epp, MVP (Enterprise Security) Founder & President of Scorpion Software (makers of AuthAnvil) Website: http://www.scorpionsoft.com/ MVP: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Dana.Epp [...]

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Inspired by the cool findings on CNET regarding the Windows 7 ‘God Mode’ (as bloggers are calling it), and yet another post about additional features, I did some more digging to see what other options I could find. First, the actual name for ‘God Mode’ is (anticlimactically) “All Tasks”: I then did a search in [...]

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If you hate looking all over the control panel in Windows 7 for where Microsoft moved your favorite icon, you’ll love the “God Mode” hack. I found this on CNET. Basically, you open Windows Explorer, navigate to the C: drive, create a new blank folder in Windows 7 and give it the following name: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} [...]

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If you’ve been wishing for some structured Windows Small Business Server 2008 training offered by Microsoft, wait no more.  Microsoft has announced a set of four hands-on labs for SBS 2008, and (it gets better) it’s free! Title: Windows SBS 2008 Hands-On Labs for Partners Release Date: 9/25/2009 Version: 2.0 Download Size: 12.5 GB The [...]

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