ShoreTel – New 10.1 update
ShoreTel, which is our current VoIP phone system we use and recommend for our clients, publicly released a new revision. ShoreTel 10.1 was released with updates and a few new system features. These include; Priority Paging, Malicious Call Trace ( ETSI-Based ) and expanded MCM phone support. Priority Pagaing, expands on the already available feature […]
Tableau 2010 Customer Conference
The Data Studio team will be visiting Seattle for this year’s annual Tableau Conference, an event where smart people and top people in data visualisation and business intelligence come to learn, share, and get inspired. Come and say hello if you are also attending – we’d love to meet you!
Google Caffeine Is Coming – Should I Be Scared?
In the last few months of 2009, the coming of a major change in Google’s search architecture was announced and given the name Caffeine. In short, Google will be working toward purging its existing index and rebuilding based on an entirely new search architecture. This will not be one the ‘updates’ we’ve seen in the […]
Javascript Combiner/Builder
We’re at the point of trying to optimize LANDBOSS, and one of our first tasks was to combine our multitude of javascript files into a single one. Many browsers do not handle a large amount of requests on a page load gracefully, and it can become a major bottleneck. The problem we ran into was: […]
Great free method of accessing remote computers for free!!!
For the past several months I have used a simple and great way to remote access a friend or colleague’s remote computer totally free! As long as you are utilizing the software for personnel use, TeamViewer offers a great tool for accessing remote workstations via your internet connection. And it’s free! All you need to create […]
How to log off remote sessions remotely.
There are two Windows utilities you can use to accomplish this. The first utility is quesr.exe. From a command prompt type in quser /server:name of the server. Once quser runs you will see all of the open remote sessions, and if they are active. After you find the session you want to log off, you […]
Windows Vista/7 Activation Error
I had an error message stating “Windows Activation Error: A problem occurred when windows tried to activate”. The error code listed was 0x8007232B DNS name does not exist. I double checked, and even though all DNS settings were correct, I still kept getting this error. It seemed that all Windows features were functional except that after a […]
When was the last time this user logged into the network?
Have you ever been in a situation where you sat there scratching your head because it looks like someone never even logged into their computer? This recently happened to me and I was surprised to find that some that was with a company for over a year had been logging in with someone else’s account. […]
Microsoft – Synching to an External Time Source
Most organizations setup their workstations to synchronize their time with their domain controller. The problem arises when the server isn’t keeping the time accurately thus affecting the workstation times. Below are instructions to ensure the responsible server is always synchronized with a reliable source. To ensure that the clocks on your machines are more accurate in terms […]
Windows 7 Battery Information
Just recently my laptop battery has started to go downhill pretty rapidly. I have also started to get a notification about needing to replace my battery. I started looking to see if maybe this was an issue with Windows 7 since my battery didn’t seem to be that old. During my search I discovered the […]