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June 2008 June has been an interesting month. Strong storms in the local market have caused some significant network failures. Electrical discharge from lightening and high winds can cause electrical spikes, creating significant damage to your network, as some of our clients have discovered during the most recent storms. A simple and low cost way for you to protect your networks against blown network switches and routers, fried motherboards and the like is OPPD’s Surge Guard Plus Program for Commercial Offices. To access customer service, please call 402-536-4131 in the Omaha area, for as low as $9.95/mo. Speaking of storms, many Iowa companies now know why an effective disaster recovery plan is so important. If you're not sure how effective your recovery plan is, call OurTech for a confidential review.
This month’s featured articles give you our
review of the significant features and benefits of Windows 2008 Server
release, along with the challenges of dealing with Mac’s in a Windows
environment. As always, don’t forget to check out this month’s Tips & Tricks
section for some helpful ways to get the most out of your computer.
July’s newsletter will provide more information on the benefits of going green with Intel’s new w vPro series line up, Tips and Tricks and more.
ReadyBoost: Flash thumb drives have really become inexpensive recently. You can use one of these drives to cheaply and easily speed up your PC by using a feature of Windows Vista, ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost allows the flash drive to read small, random bits of frequently accessed data. To maximize its efficiency, a ReadyBoost thumb drive should have the same amount of memory as is built into your system. In other words, match your 2GB of RAM with a 2GB flash drive for best performance. Insert the flash drive into an available USB port on your workstation. When the drive is first inserted into a port, Windows Vista checks to see if its performance is fast enough to work with ReadyBoost. If so, you are asked if you want to use this device to speed up system performance. You can choose to allocate part of a USB drive's memory to speed up performance and use the remainder to store files. As flash drives have a finite number of writes that can be carried out, ReadyBoost will eventually wear out the drive it uses — although this may take a long time, depending on various factors. According to Microsoft, the drive should be able to operate for at least ten years. Display times from two different Time
Zones: 
Windows 2008 Server Features Windows 2008 comes with a host of new
features and is redesigned with more security and stability. Two of these
features stand out as being more industry-shaping than the rest, Hyper-V
Virtualization and Server Core.
Diversity in the Workplace
Macs and PCs have not always played well
together, as demonstrated on the commercials recently released by Apple.
Prior to the release of OS 10.3, it was not an easy task to add a Mac to a
Microsoft Windows Active Directory environment. It required that Services
for Macintosh be installed on the Windows server and even then, the
configuration was manual, complicated and insecure.
Integration with AD has improved with the
release of OS 10.3. The Active Directory Plug-in provides a simple platform
for the configuration of AD services. It allows Macs to communicate with a
Windows domain in nearly the same way as Windows devices do. Because of
improved integration, an increasing number of Macs are entering the business
environment.
As the number of Macs increases, IT
departments and IT managed service providers are challenged with the need to
manage a cross-platform environment and deliver the same service levels the
customer expects in a single-platform infrastructure. At OurTech Solutions,
the OurTech Manager will soon have the ability to extend its remote,
automated systems management capabilities to include Mac support for
consistent and reliable service.
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