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1st Quarter MVP
Sean Williams
Sean Williams
was selected as NMGI's 1st Quarter MVP by his
associates.
Sean
was recently promoted to the NMGI management
team as the Technical Services Manager and is
focused on realigning our professional and
managed services departments into a cohesive
group that will continue to provide world class
service excellence.
He
recently recertified his accreditation as a
Microsoft Certified IT Professional by passing
the following exams: Enterprise Administrator,
Enterprise Messaging Administrator and Server
2008 Administrator.
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Employee Birthdays:
Randy Johnston – 4/15
Employee Anniversaries
Mike Yust - 4/11/2007
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Phone 620.664.6000
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Please forward this
newsletter to anyone
else
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In Case
You Missed The
2008 Business Technology Expo
 Thank
you to all our vendors who were on-hand to demonstrate their products and
services. They included Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, SonicWall, Liebert, Alltel
and Trio Satellite.
If you would like a copy of the PowerPoint presentations
given during the Expo
click here. |
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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. How did it
happen? An employee of the firm, dining in a
restaurant with colleagues, had locked the
laptop in the trunk of a SUV. During dinner, one
of the employee's colleagues retrieved an item
from the vehicle and forgot to re-lock it. As
fate would have it, there was a rash of car
thefts occurring in that particular area at that
particular time, and the rest is history.
Read more |
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Lunch and Learn
 Please join NMGI Wednesday May 21, 2008
from 11:30AM to 1:00PM for our next
Lunch and Learn.
Sean Williams will be discussing Microsoft’s
newest server operating system, Windows Server
2008. Specifically, Sean will address the new
features and functionality available in the
operating system for your company and help you
to evaluate whether an upgrade would benefit
your organization. Sean will also discuss the
possible 2008 upgrade paths available to you as
well as the hardware requirements and briefly
touch on licensing solutions available to you
should you decide the time is right to implement
your first Windows Server 2008 machine.
For more information or to register contact
Tom Hammersmith at 620-664-6000 ext. 132 or
register online. |
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Service Pack vs "Patch"
contributed by the Technical Department
at ITsynergy
 Microsoft has been busy the last
several months, and among other things has
released two new major service packs that will
affect most of our customers.
We
thought that we first might provide some benefit
by discussing the difference between a service
pack and a patch.
Patches are released regularly by
Microsoft and fix a specific problem with a
piece of their software. Microsoft categorizes
their patches with the most important being
categorized as critical. Microsoft has one of
the best records in the industry in this area,
including a regular schedule of patch releases
(second Tuesday of every month), outstanding
communication to interested parties about the
patching process (they email us to warn us of
everything that is coming out before it hits)
and free support for problems created by
patches.
Read more |
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How to 'Undo' a
Big Mistake in Windows
 It
used to be, back in that last century, that
people wished for a reverse time machine. This
would allow them to go back in time after they
messed up their computer.
Well,
Windows XP has that time machine. And when some
awful thing gives your computer the staggers,
it's easy to go back to the day before. Or the
day before that. Or last week or last month.
It's an all-too-often unused feature that may
save your bacon someday, called System Restore.
Here are four things to know about
it.
By Kim
Komando - Microsoft Small Business Center | | |
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