June 2008 - In This Issue:
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Welcome
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Disaster Recovery
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Watch What You Install on Your Server
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The Weakest Link in Network Security
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Connect People, Information, & Processes
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Disaster
Recovery:
Above and Beyond Just Data Backup
Disaster
recovery and business continuity planning continue to be
a hot topic in any industry. Most businesses now have
data backup plans as a result of an expanded reliance on
technology. As such, many executives feel that recovery
planning is solely an IT function. This is the problem
with many business continuity plans. Employees are
oftentimes forgotten.
According
to the Association of Small Business Development
Centers, 43 percent of businesses that experience an
interruption and do not have a sound recovery plan close
for good. That figure rises to over 60 percent a year
after the disaster.
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Watch What You Install On Your
Server
by Christopher Elliott
reprinted with permission from the Microsoft Small Business Center
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warning: Watch what you install on your server.
Today's server
operating systems, including Microsoft Small Business Server 2003,
are so user-friendly that you could be left with the impression that
anyone with the ability to put a CD into a computer disk drive could
successfully deploy a new application.
That is the wrong
impression.
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The Weakest Link in Network Security
By Peter Alexander
Reprinted with permission from Microsoft Small Business Center
 Your
small-business network may be protected by firewalls, intrusion detection and
other state-of-the-art security technologies. And yet, all it takes is one
person's carelessness, and suddenly it's as if you have no network security at
all.
Let me give you an example. In March
2006, a major financial services firm with extensive network security disclosed
that one of its portable computers was stolen. The laptop contained the Social
Security numbers of nearly 200,000 people.
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Connect People, Information & Processes
With a SharePoint Starter Site
By Jane Cage, HTS COO
Everyone can agree – there is not a
business around that wouldn’t benefit from better processes and shared
information. SharePoint, a Microsoft product designed for networks running
Windows Server, is a web-based application that enables anywhere-access for
individuals or groups who are working together on projects. Team members can
share files, calendars, contacts and secure information through a browser
anywhere they have web access. Read below for answers to some of the basic
questions surrounding this great application.
“How could YOU use SharePoint?” |
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Welcome
Welcome to Solve IT Insider. We
would like to announce another
addition to the Solve IT team.
Kris Swanson joined Solve IT as
our SharePoint Practice Manager.
Microsoft Office SharePoint is a
web-based program that enables
your company to facilitate
collaboration, provide content
management features, implement
business processes, and supply
access to information that is
essential to organizational
goals and processes. Kris and
our SharePoint team create
SharePoint sites that support
specific content management,
records management, or business
intelligence needs. Please see
the article included in the
newsletter on SharePoint for
more information.
We would also like to welcome
our newest clients to Solve IT:
Wedgle and Krukreja, Colorado
Orthopedic, Red Book Solutions,
Rentech, Denver Museum of Nature
and Science, Key Financial, and
Sequoia Voting Systems. We look
forward to continuing to build
our relationship with our
current clients and our new
clients.
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Employee Spotlight
Jason
Dever
aka
JD
 Jason
(JD) has joined Solve IT as a
Help Desk Engineer. In
this role, he will receive,
analyze, and conduct basic
troubleshooting of service
requests from clients. He also
helps manage the existing
tickets and dispatches the Engineers as needed. JD joins
us after ten years in the InformationTechnology field. JD
completed a Bachelor of Arts
with an emphasis in Film from
Spring Arbor University. Please
welcome JD to our office when
you speak to him.
Hobbies: Movies, video
editing, computer games and
motorcycles.
Personal Motto: Every
dark clouds has a silver lining
but lightening kills hundreds of
people each year that are trying
to find it.
Favorite Movie: Phantom
of the Opera
Favorite Food: Mom’s
cooking!
Super Power I Would Want:
The ability to fly |
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The trouble with learning from
experience
is that you never graduate.
-Doug
Larson |
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