Thursday June 23, 2011 at 2:11pm
Earlier this year. IT Services was tasked with assisting a local web development and hosting provider, with the planning and implementation of a hosted Exchange Server.
This would allow the company to offer hosted Exchange services to their existing clients under Microsoft's Service Provider Licensing Agreement along side their current hosting services.
Microsoft Exchange Server is a server based collaborative application product, offered by Microsoft providing hosted mail, calendar....
Wednesday April 20, 2011 at 9:45am
Security has always been an ongoing issue affecting businesses. The methods and technologies that individuals or groups will use to attempt to exploit businesses has continuously changed.
Among those changes has been the main goal of of security attacks. The first known virus to affect machines in the wild, opposed to in a controlled environment, was in 1981, named Elk Cloner, The first virus was created and spread across Apple II floppy disks which produced a message on screen.
There have b....
Friday January 28, 2011 at 9:34am
Among the keen eye administrators providing ongoing maintencance to Small Business Servers that they are responsible for, they will have noticed a new rollup update sneaking into automatic updates.
Officialy released 26/01/2011. SBS 2008 Update Rollup 5 (KB2458094) is the latest in ongoing released of service packs and update rollups released by Microsoft for their SBS platform.
An update rollup is a tested, cumulative set of hotfixes, security updates, critic....
Monday November 15, 2010 at 11:05am
On the 5th November, Apple announced the retirement of their dedicated server platform, XServe, effective January 31st 2011, ending a product that has seen poor sales.
XServe is Apple's only designated server hardware design, anyone wishing to run the Mac OS X Server platform, will have to purchase a Mac Pro, or Mac Mini with Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard.
In a statement published on its own website, the company said it was "transitioning away from Xserve"
Macbo....
Monday October 11, 2010 at 12:55pm
IT Services Support were recently awarded a contract to design, supply and install a wifi network to cover a large area of the site of a historic manor house, to allow access to internal and external resources with optional public broadband access. The requirements deemed that the solution was reliable, provided excellent coverage and that no electrical point distribution changes were necessary to provide power to access points. 10 business class POE (Power Over Ethernet) access points were stra....
Thursday July 22, 2010 at 9:34am
With the ever increasing numbers and complexity of computer threats, protecting your IT is a serious concern. That’s why we take our role in helping you protect your systems very seriously.
IT Services is an Authorised Partner of ESET UK, to which we sell, distribute, install and support their products to new and existing clients. Direct comparisons tell the story better that we can, with ESET’s NOD32 antivirus system is the only solution worldwide that has never missed a si....
Wednesday June 23, 2010 at 11:12am
What is a Microsoft Small Business Specialist? At IT Services Support Ltd, we had to demonstrate to Microsoft our technical knowledge and proven experience of dealing with SME's using Microsoft server and desktop products.
IT Services has a wide array of clients in both size and industry. We understand the unique requirements and working methods of SME companies from our direct experience of working directly with our clients on a regular basis.
Microsoft's Small Business Specialist allow....
Friday May 21, 2010 at 9:31am
In an era of E-mail, VOIP calls, blogs, video content among other communication technologies, it is sometimes surprising that certain types of information and communication will still come by post, especially one regarding your own company domain.
It would seem that the Domain Renewal Group scam is once again doing the rounds. The scam is well known in the domain/hosting industry. A professional letter will turn up on your desk 2 months before your renewal is due. So if you get a letter that l....
Wednesday April 7, 2010 at 1:37pm
ESET is an award winning security software company headquartered in Slovakia with UK regional offices in Bournemouth. Established in 1992 It's first product was released in for MS-DOS. ESET's products are regularly tested by independent organizations such as AV-Comparatives, AV-Test and Virus Bulletin. It is the first security software company to achieve 60 Virus Bulletin 100 Awards. It was also the first company to achieve" Compatible with Windows 7" certification from Microsoft, bein....
Wednesday March 3, 2010 at 3:53pm
Dell are well known for being a direct to customer approach company without the use of any middle man or retail shop selling their range of desktop computers, notebooks, netbooks, servers and other equipment.
A major shift in strategy developed Dell's Partner Direct program encouraging companies to resell Dell products allowing companies to take advantage of partners knowledge and experience of dell products.
Despite Dell well being known for a direct business model, Dell currently has w....
Wednesday February 17, 2010 at 12:51pm
Microsoft has produced a smart phone OS since 2000, but recently Windows Mobile has become somewhat stale with no major changes since the original release of Version 6 in February 2007. The recent release of 6.5 being nothing more than an unwanted stopgap until the next version.
Since then the mobile market has changed dramatically for both the domestic market and business users. All devices running innovative software that have upgraded the capabilities of mobile phones.
Two ....
Tuesday February 2, 2010 at 1:37pm
On Wednesday 27th January, Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed a new class of Apple product, apple's first tablet machine named the IPad.
The reaction to which has been of mixed review, both positive and quite cynical feedback, of which the one that has summed up our initial feelings towards the product are summed up with the following.
Looking at the product in depth the criticism has been quite just. Apple have always been known for being a marketing ....
Monday February 1, 2010 at 10:00am
Welcome to the IT Services blog.
Over the coming weeks we will be taking are more in depth and personal look at news and developments that we feel affect the IT Industry, issues that affect Businesses and our general thoughts and comments from the engineers at IT Services.
Product announcements, changes in software, known threats. Issues that affect SME and large enterprise businesses alike. We hope to take a more personal but objective view that we feel may be of ....