Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Free computer certification training videos for Cisco, Microsoft, and CompTIA

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Train signal  Training

I recently came across a site with some great free training videos. These videos are a great way to start learning some of the more advanced computer skills that you’ve been looking for.
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Installing an SSL certificate on your windows mobile device for Exchange 2k7

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Motorola Q Phone


Exchange 2k7 requires a secure SSL connection. Here are the procedures for installing the SSL certificate for your mobile devices. You may be using your own self signed certificate or you may have purchased one. (more…)

RIM’s Blackberry Enterprise Server service down!

Monday, February 11th, 2008

RIM's Blackberry Enterprise Server service down!

RIM’s Blackberry Enterprise Server service is down. My clients were not receiving emails on the devices. (more…)

Enabling Exchange 2007’s built in spam filtering module

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Exchange 2007

Exchange 2007 has a built in anti-spam filtering module that just needs to be enabled.

Here are some simple instructions to get going with it. (more…)

Have your Dell PC repaired under warranty quickly (the easy way)

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Dell, warranty, hardware, PC, server

In my journey as an IT professional, I’ve had to contact Dell many times for warranty replacement hardware. In my experience, it’s very time consuming to contact Dell via phone.

Here’s how I get it done quickly.
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Download Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

Exchange 2007

Microsoft Exchange service pack two is now available for download. (more…)

Open source network gateway - more than just a firewall

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Untangle open source network gateway.Untangle is a free open source network gateway, not entirely a managed services platform but it does fit its way in there.

It’s all about how you package it. If it had backup, monitoring and billing, we would be all set wouldn’t we?

I’ve built the spam filters from freespamfilter.org, Untangle does what I need and more.

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Web based domain, DNS, and email testing tools.

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Using NSLOOKUP, telnetting, and other command line tools can be a pain sometimes, (more…)

Make money providing tech support online.

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

A while ago I thought about starting an after hours helpdesk site. I did some searching and found Supportspace.com. Supportspace is a website that is bringing together techs which they are calling “experts” and customers. SS offers (more…)

Firefox - are you still using internet explorer?

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Firefox Girl

TechSack.com recommends Firefox

The main reason that I use Firefox is that the browser feels so much lighter than Internet explorer. When I launch the Firefox browser even with a number of plugins it loads very quickly and once it’s running it doesn’t use as many resources as IE. I started using Firfox for it’s tabbed browsing which IE7 does offer. Firefox has cool built in features like an RSS reader, spell check, and a download manager to list a few.
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