Posts by dipak
MBS Barracuda SPAM Filter Service – Quarantine Email Best Practices
For those using MBS’ Barracuda SPAM Filter Service, this is a simple instruction sheet on how to manage the contents of your Quarantine. DOWNLOAD PDF HERE -> [download id=”4498″]
Read MoreOutlook Email Mail Merge
Combining the power of Outlook and Mail Merge can help you communicate better! Windows and Mac Outlook versions are different, so let’s look at how to do mail merges in both!
Read MoreMac OSX 10.8 & Windows 8
Operating system updates are a way of life, but are they good or necessary; desirable or to-be-avoided? The manufacturers would say they are good, necessary, and desirable, but that’s not always true. Let’s take a look at the two most recent releases and see where they land.
Read MoreBYOD (Bring Your Own Device)
BYOD is a wave that is just beginning. There are management, legal, and even tax implications!
Read MoreTelecommuting Can Work!
Some members of our team have been telecommuting since the 1990s. I’m often asked how I know whether it’s working for us. The unspoken question is, “How do you know you’re getting a full day of work in exchange for a full day of pay?” That is an excellent question!
Read MoreWhat Do You Use?
Folks often ask me what I use for a computer, cell phone, tablet, headset, etc. Here are my answers– and why– so my perspective might help you make whatever hardware decisions you need to make.
Read MoreThe Business Case for Software Charity Licensing
There are more than 985,000 charities in the U.S., with more than 13 million employees. Charities make up a large percentage of the U.S. economy. Some software companies, knowing only that, have a difficult time justifying charity licensing discounts. But there’s more to the story, and knowing it proves that offering charity licensing discounts is smart business.
Read MoreWise Cloud Strategies
Church and ministry leaders are being tasked with making Cloud decisions, but need to know whether their decisions are good or bad, wise or unwise. This brief article will give you a framework for working through Cloud decisions.
Read MoreMedia Files– What Do ‘The Studios’ Do?
The number of churches that use video is on the rise, and that presents some challenges to IT management! So I was wondering: what do the movie and television studios do? I got to interview someone who works in this area for one of the largest movie and television studios on the planet and was surprised at what I learned!
Read MoreThree Things…
Our team does a lot of network engineering, and we run into some common issues in Christian churches and ministries. We find ourselves saying, “Now that needs to be an article!” The problem is, they’re usually topics that won’t make a full article by themselves, so they never make it as an article idea. In this article I’m going to address three of those issues: Macs in Active Directory, Who Owns Your Domain?, and How’s Your Cable?
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