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[Jan 21, 2010]
The Benefits of Fax Over IP
With ever-tightening budgets it is absolutely critical for IT to get the most out of every dollar. Fax is rarely thought of in that first rush to find cost-effective new technologies. However, Fax over IP offers many benefits to your business.By making better use of your existing routing infrastructure, fully utilizing your VoIP environment, eliminating costly fax hardware and reducing energy consumption, the decision to implement FoIP is a good example of a "win win" situation for your organization.From delivering information to the user's desktop in a more efficient and effective manner, to improving communications between customer, business, and vendors, Fax over IP is a 21st century technology -- that offers a measurable return on investment-- for the competitive business. — David Chernicoff
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[Jan 4, 2010]
How You Can Be More Green with Your Computing
In this podcast Orin Thomas discusses "green computing." Orin talks about why portable computers, such as laptops and netbook computers, rather than desktop computers, are more eco-friendly as they have been designed to minimize their use of electricity as a method of enhancing battery life when they are not connected to an outlet. The podcast will also cover how technologies such as fax routing have meant that organizations can reduce the number of fax machines and fax printouts they require by centralizing faxes and having them delivered to user mailboxes centrally as digital copies. Orin also discusses how Windows Vista and Windows 7 power plans can actually reduce the amount of energy needed to accomplish the same task. — Orin Thomas
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[Oct 30, 2009]
Virtualization and the Cloud
Length: 0:9:16 -Virtualization has become an increasingly common part of enterprise IT because of the potential advantages it offers. However, virtualization adds a new set of data protection challenges. In this podcast, we'll discuss potential solutions to these challenges, including cloud-based data protection and hybrid systems that combine cloud-based protection with on-premises data protection tailored specifically to Microsoft's server products. — Paul Robichaux
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[Aug 19, 2009]
Fax over IP: Bringing FAX technology to the 21st Century
Length: 0:4:10 -As networking technology changes and businesses use VoIP to combine telephony with their existing networking infrastructure IT has the chance to update their corporate faxing approach to take advantage of the greater efficiency of FAX over IP. Understanding how FoIP works and how IT can implement a cost effective faxing solution using this technology will result in an improved ROI for the money spent on the VoIP infrastructure, improved FAX management capabilities, and better utilization of FAX technology throughout the enterprise. This podcast will give IT managers the basic information necessary to jumpstart their research into implementing and deploying a cost-effective FoIP solution. — David Chernicoff
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[Jul 22, 2009]
F5 and HP Partner to Optimize SharePoint Server 2007
Length: 0:14:14 - As people migrate to the new version of SharePoint, many are taking advantage of the opportunity to consolidate their existing SharePoint farms into fewer farms in a more centralized location – however, workload on the system of the Wide Area Network (WAN) puts stresses on their network performance. Register below to download this podcast. —
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[May 13, 2009]
Take the Challenge Out of Migrating Data to SharePoint
Length: 0:09:32 - The rapid acceptance of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) has introduced a challenge for those companies anxious to implement the product's many features: how to get existing business data currently stored both in previous versions of SharePoint and other systems migrated into MOSS 2007 quickly, easily, and without sacrificing metadata and security.Microsoft has yet to provide a single, streamlined answer to the migration question and instead focuses on basic upgrade scenarios while also sharing the .NET SharePoint object model that can be used to leverage content migration API's via custom code.In this podcast, SharePoint expert Wendy Henry talks about the content migration solutions that ship with SharePoint and their shortcomings.Luckily, Wendy says, SharePoint's popularity in the market has birthed over 2,250 Microsoft Partners committed to producing beneficial third-party add-on's and education tools for this mission-critical collaboration software. Learn why she suggests that you consider purchasing a migration utility from a third party to- import data from disparate repositories- re-organize content during a migration- and manipulate the values being placed into SharePointThe key qualities to look for in a migration utility, Wendy says, are- flexibility- fidelity- supportabilityLearn how, with the right migration tools, such as the suite of Migration Managers for SharePoint offered by Metalogix, you can start taking advantage of your SharePoint investment sooner rather than later. — Wendy Henry
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[Apr 29, 2009]
How to Select the Right Search Solution for Your Business
In the enterprise, Microsoft has been the preeminent supplier of business software, and just about all companies rely heavily on its personal productivity products as well as its growing portfolio of business applications. While the vendor has been able to accurately gauge many market trends, the company was a step slow recognizing the importance of enterprise search. As a result, customers have often struggled to find needed information stored in applications, such as SharePoint, which has become a staple in many organizations. To address that limitation, Microsoft publicly announced in 2007 that Enterprise Search was one of its strategic initiatives. The company's goal is to develop or acquire the capabilities needed to serve business needs from the low-end of the market with simple requirements to the high-end with advanced requirements in terms of scalability and customizations. The company has been trying to develop a unified search strategy, which means rationalizing its disparate search portfolio. That process is still unfolding, so the company now has three products capable of meeting various search needs. — Wendy Henry
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[Mar 2, 2009]
Keep Your Email Flowing
Join Exchange MVP Paul Robichaux and AppAssure Software to learn how you can leverage virtualization to create business continuity for Microsoft Exchange.In this 30-minute podcast, Paul talks about common Exchange recovery challenges and how virtualization, both of your infrastructure and of your Exchange services, can help meet those challenges. You may face one or more of the challenges Paul talks about:- The last Exchange recovery took over 8 hours due to corruption and email was down for the entire company- In our last outage we lost 6 hours of email data, which cost our company thousands of dollars- We don't have a disaster recovery plan because it is too complicated and expensivePaul talks about existing solutions to these challenges: replication over a WAN and Exchange clustering. But each of these solutions, he says, have their niche applications and their problems. The problems, he notes, can be summed up in two words: expensive and complex.In this podcast, Paul talks about a solution that uses leading edge technology to mitigate these challenges: continuous application virtualization. Continuous application virtualization creates a stateful virtual machine - a copy of the application server that is an always-ready, mirror image of your Exchange environment.Download the podcast to learn how continuous application virtualization can work for you. — Paul Robichaux
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[Aug 1, 2008]
Backup Lifecycle Management for Remote Offices
Managing the information lifecycle has become a critical piece of the IT environment. What is often overlooked is that each component of the lifecycle can have its own set of processes. In this podcast, we will look at the process of backup lifecycle management. In this environment you will prioritize your backed up data, aging it out of the regular backup storage cycle and migrating it to a less expensive storage medium. We will discuss the efficiencies of applying backup lifecycle management to an effective remote offsite backup solution.Listen to this podcast, get special pricing on remote data backup services! — David Chernicoff
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[Apr 8, 2008]
Optimum Backup for Virtualized Servers
If you ask IT professionals what their hot topics are in IT right now, you can be sure that the subject of virtualization comes up. Whether it is application virtualization or virtualization for server consolidation, the ability to deliver virtualized services is a key one for IT departments today and for those planning their future growth. Virtualization simply makes technical and economic sense when looked at in terms of improving the efficiencies of your operations. — David Chernicoff
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[Jan 25, 2008]
Creating Data Storage Systems that Meet Regulatory Guidelines
Regulatory compliance is often a major bugaboo for the storage administrator. For smaller businesses without IT staff focused specifically on compliance issues, this can be an even more complex problem. In this podcast, David Chernicoff will talk about the regulatory issues surrounding data storage requirements, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC Rule 17-4, and HIPAA. He will also provide direction to IT personnel who are responsible for setting up storage systems that meet regulatory guidelines to help them easily and efficiently meet these needs without requiring an expensive and resource-intensive solution that interferes with their normal line-of-business IT responsibilities. — David Chernicoff
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[Oct 31, 2007]
Using SharePoint 2007 As A Platform For Managing Information Across the Enterprise
This podcast investigates the benefits of employing SharePoint 2007 as a platform for managing information throughout the enterprise. We will discuss the basics of the content management process and explain how workflow and information management policies are implemented in Office SharePoint Server 2007 solutions. After listening to this podcast, you will know how to develop a tactical approach to your own automated processing solutions with ease of implementation and use as key components of that solution. — Melissa Fraser
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[Sep 27, 2007]
The Keys to Backing Up and Securing Data at Remote Business Sites
Growing businesses often find themselves operating multiple locations, creating significant IT challenges. With many companies facing stretched IT resources, decisionmakers often find it difficult to provide a high level of service at just the main office, resulting in remote sites getting short shrift, especially when it comes to data protection. But keeping the data at remote office sites backed up and secure is a critical component of business success. In this podcast, David Chernicoff discusses the issues that need to be dealt with to provide data backup to remote sites and offer ideas and suggestions for accomplishing these backups. — David Chernicoff
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[Jun 5, 2007]
Online Backup As a Service
IT has never been short on buzz - the problem is for each innovation that is buzzworthy, two prove to be just buzzwords and are forgotten within months. "Software as a service," including online backup as a service, is currently generating a lot of buzz. In this podcast, you will find out a little more about why storage as a software service is definitely worthy of the buzz. — Ben Smith
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[Apr 24, 2007]
Exchange 2007 and High Availability
Microsoft has invested several years and a great deal of effort in refining the new availability features in Exchange Server 2007. In this podcast, Paul Robichaux talks about the new clustering and replication features and what they mean to your HA design as you prepare to migrate to Exchange Server 2007. Paul also highlights HA situations that might be better addressed by other technologies. Figuring out which combination of technologies will give you the best possible protection is a challenge, but it's well worth the effort. — Paul Robichaux
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[Mar 29, 2007]
Build a World Class End-to-End Web Filtering Solution in 5 Steps
IT departments tend to spend a lot of time and energy on creating and managing firewall rules and router tables, yet overlooking a direct channel between the Internet and computers on the corporate network. Without any type of filtering solution in place - this connection is managed purely by the user. Do you trust your user's enough to make the right decisions? Are your users really educated enough to make good decisions? Are all of your users aware of company policy and comply faithfully? Even if you believe that your users are capable of safely using the Internet, it really only takes one bad apple to ruin the lot by downloading a virus or viewing highly objectionable content. Here are the 5 steps to build a world-class web filtering solution -- end-to-end. — Ben Smith
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[Mar 29, 2007]
System Center Launch: Talking to Kirill Tatarinov Direct from MMS
Find out about the launch of System Center Operations Manager 2006 as Microsoft VP Kirill Tatarinov discusses the first product to embody the Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) and what that means to IT pros. — Karen Forster
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[Mar 21, 2007]
Blackberry Security In-Depth
Karen Forster, editorial and strategy director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine, interviews Scott Totzke, Vice President, Global Security Group at Research In Motion, in a conversation that centers on mobile device security, including the popular Blackberry. — Karen Forster
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[Mar 12, 2007]
Microsoft and the Midmarket: A Renewed Commitment
Midsized companies that have a strategic focus on IT are, on average, 30 percent more profitable than companies that don't. Microsoft's research has also shown that IT infrastructure, not business applications, is the component that shows the most direct correlation to profitability: Think about the importance of security, reliability, and keeping IT running. Microsoft has realized that its focus on the enterprise segment has meant that midsized businesses have been neglected. The company is now making up for lost time and focusing on solutions specifically for the mid-market segment, with products such as Windows Vista Business, Office 2007 Pro Plus, the Vista Hardware Assessment Tool, System Center Essentials (SCE), and the upcoming Windows Longhorn mid-market server package code-named "Centro." Karen Forster talks with Davide Vigano, Microsoft's general manager for midmarket strategy about this new focus. — Karen Forster
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[Mar 5, 2007]
Vista Security, Part 2: Windows Vista Kernel Mode Protection
Would you change your spark plugs while the car engine was running? That's how Stephen Toulouse, a Microsoft security expert, described what security vendors do when they "hook" the Windows kernel to take advantage of it for security products. Much has been said and written about Microsoft's Kernel Mode Protection in Windows Vista, yet few people realize that this lockdown applies only to the 64-bit version of Vista and that access is provided through APIs. This conversation between Karen Forster and Toulouse might just change your perception of this controversial security feature of Windows Vista. — Karen Forster
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[Mar 2, 2007]
Vista Security, Part 1: ASLR, UAC, Integrity Levels, and Beyond
Microsoft is touting Vista as its most secure operating system ever, but what does that really mean? In this podcast, Karen Forster talks with Stephen Toulouse, Microsoft Senior Product Manager to discuss the various built-in aspects of Vista security, including User Access Control (UAC), IE with Protected Mode, Windows Defender, ASLR, and BitLocker, among others. Karen and Stephen also discuss recent vulnerabilities, such as the one discovered in Vista's voice recognition technology. If you're considering Vista or already using it, you'll want to hear the inside story on Vista's security enhancements. — Karen Forster
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[Feb 27, 2007]
Who is watching your back? A primer on hosted security.
If you have spent any time around information security, I am sure you have heard someone offer the sage advice that security is all about managing risk. Unfortunately, the person offering the advice rarely can tell you want you can do to manage risk. — Ben Smith
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[Feb 23, 2007]
Keep Unsecured Machines Off Your Network: Microsoft Talks About Policy-Driven Network Access Solutions
Imagine your network protecting itself by preventing unsecured devices from accessing your resources. Microsoft is now providing technology that ensures every device that connects to your network has up-to-date security protection (e.g., current patches, anti-virus and anti-spyware). You can keep machines that are not compliant with your security policies off your network with Network Access Control (NAC) technologies for Longhorn Server and Windows Vista. Karen Forster discusses Microsoft's recent announcements about NAC, as well as Network Access Protection (NAP), with Microsoft's Ian Hameroff. Learn how NAC and NAP work and what technologies are involved, as well as what third-party products are poised to work with these technologies, in this exclusive interview. — Karen Forster
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[Jan 30, 2007]
Industry Bytes: General Discussions—VIRTUALIZATION with Frank Artale of Xensource
Windows IT Pro Magazine created Industry Bytes to keep you up to date with industry news coming straight from the industry experts. Now we've taken another step ahead and created a podcast series called "Industry Bytes: General Discussions". In this series we ask our industry experts to give us their personal take on broad topics such as Security, Backup and Recovery, and Network Administration. In this inaugural podcast we speak to Frank Artale of Xensource about Virtualization technologies. —
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[Jan 19, 2007]
Core Security Technologies Presents: The Inside Story on Forefront Vista and XP Security
This Windows IT Pro Radio broadcast features Windows IT Pro editorial and strategy director Karen Forster in a lively interview with Josue Fontanez, senior product manager at Microsoft focused on Forefront Client security, an enterprise security product. The interview centers around product planning, future versions of Forefront Client, and what customers are looking for in this product. This podcast is sponsored by Core Security Technologies, the provider of Penetration Testing product CORE IMPACT. — Karen Forster
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[Oct 20, 2006]
Microsoft Open Source Strategies Podcast
A discussion between Paul Thurrott and Sam Ramji, director of the open source software lab at Microsoft centering around Microsoft's focus on open-source technical strategies. — Paul Thurrott
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[Oct 19, 2006]
Top 5 Reasons Storage Consolidation Should Be On Every IT Department’s Short List
Information is the "I" in "IT." While, as IT managers and professionals we spend a lot of time thinking about servers and applications, at its heart, IT is about the information and its management within the technology systems and business processes. A simple quiz: Do you know where you information is? Is it protected? Is it being backed up? In this podcast we will discuss why every IT department should be moving to storage consolidation. — Ben Smith
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[Jun 30, 2006]
Beyond the Buzzword - Demystifying Virtualization TCO Improvements
Total Cost of Ownership – TCO – It’s every executive’s favorite buzzword, but what does it really mean and how does it affect you? In this podcast, Ben Smith explains how your organization can use virtualization technology to measurably improve the total cost of ownership (TCO) for servers and clients. — Ben Smith
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[Feb 22, 2006]
Benefits of Server Virtualization
In this audio podcast, server virtualization expert Ben Smith describes the benefits of this technology, which makes use of virtual computing software, such as Microsoft Virtual PC and EMC's VMware, to abstract hardware on a physical computer into virtualization software, making computers much more efficient. — Ben Smith
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[Jan 31, 2006]
The Future of Active Directory
In this podcast, expert Mark Minasi discusses Microsoft's meta-directories strategy and how it will affect Active Directory in the future. He specifically gives his thoughts on how enterprises can use Microsoft's free utility Identity Integration Feature Pack (IIFP) to automate multiple user accounts, and the importance of being able to move domains between forests. — Mark Minasi
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[Oct 24, 2005]
Free Range IT
This podcast touches on a collection of topics, including the release of E2K3 SP2, the Exchange TAP, and how lawyers are perverting a useful legal tool to cover up security malfeasance. — Paul Robichaux
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[Aug 24, 2005]
Free Range IT — Free Advice and Worth Every Penny
If someone gives you advice, and you don't take it, who's at fault if something bad happens? This is exactly the situation we're in with software vendors, and the answer may surprise you. — Paul Robichaux
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[Jul 29, 2005]
Free Range IT
Ever feel like reading your email is wasting all your time? Maybe it is. What can you do about it? Listen and find out. Now with 100% less intro music! — Paul Robichaux
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[Jun 29, 2005]
Free Range IT
In this podcast, I talk about Microsoft's secret weapon in the office-suite wars. Its not what you think. — Paul Robichaux
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[Jun 20, 2005]
Free Range IT
This week, I talk about some of the products that won awards at TechEd US 2005, as well as some products that didn't but probably should have. — Paul Robichaux
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