Category Archives: Microsoft

Google Apps for Business a Clear Challenge to Microsoft

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Last week, several of us here at Welsh Consulting attended an event spon­sored by Google entitled “Coffee. Cloud. Conver­sation.”  The pretense was to discuss trends in cloud offerings, but the real agenda was to sign up new resellers and channel partners.  The high­light was a chance to chat with a …
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Microsoft Critical Security Bulletin MS12-020

This morning, Microsoft released a patch to correct vulner­a­bility in the Remote Desktop Protocol that can be exploited to run arbi­trary code on a Terminal Server. Our team has tested the patch and are now sched­uling 20 minute sessions to apply this to our clients’ Terminal Servers.  For further infor­mation, …
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Death to the PST

One of the most inter­esting new features of Exchange 2010 is the Personal Archive Mailbox.  This allows users to maintain a separate mailbox (in a separate database) for messages that are accessed less frequently.  Exchange 2010 allows admin­is­trators to configure policies that can auto­mat­i­cally move content from a user’s primary …
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Cool New Features of Outlook 2010

After spending a couple of weeks using Office 2010, I’ve begun to really like Outlook 2010. With past upgrades of Microsoft products, I’ve often spent a long time adjusting to the new platform, followed by an even longer period of time complaining about why access to features was moved or …
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A Power User’s Perspective On Upgrading To Windows 7 From Vista

Mike Sandman, the Senior Vice Pres­ident at Fuld & Company, the global leader in compet­itive intel­li­gence, provided us with this very infor­mative review of his expe­rience upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7.  Thanks Mike!  If this was a report on the upgrade from almost any earlier Windows OS, it would …
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Early feedback positive for Windows 7

Microsoft’s struggle with the Windows Vista oper­ating system needs no expla­nation. The negative reaction from end users was surpassed only by the scathing reviews of tech­nology bloggers worldwide. No amount of Seinfeld and Bill Gates commer­cials could convince users to ditch trusty old Windows XP for the ever so clunky …
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Microsoft Critical Security Bulletin MS09-003

Yesterday Microsoft issued a bulletin acknowl­edging a publicly disclosed vulner­a­bility in Microsoft Exchange Server. According to Microsoft, an attacker who success­fully exploited this vulner­a­bility could take complete control of the affected system with Exchange Server service account priv­i­leges. The second vulner­a­bility could allow denial of service if a specially crafted …
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Microsoft Critical Alert MS08-078

Yesterday Microsoft issued a bulletin acknowl­edging a publicly disclosed vulner­a­bility in Microsoft Internet Explorer. According to Microsoft, the vulner­a­bility could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. Welsh Consulting is prepared to help you protect your systems and networks by applying …
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