Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft Exchange’

CNS Helps New Jersey Non-Profit Move to DC

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

The Corporate Network Services tenet, “Our only product is our customers’ success” is exemplified in the story of a New Jersey non-profit. The organization was moving its headquarters to Washington, DC and had hired one of our satisfied customers to head their new office. The non-profit continued to work with its managed services company in New Jersey and initially contacted CNS to provide only the office cabling, network, and phone system. They thought they would economize by continuing to use the New Jersey managed services provider.

After two months working with that provider, the office manager recognized that this bargain was no bargain. They were wasting money due to significant downtimes and outages and the service they were receiving paled in comparison to that offered by a Corporate Network Services’ managed services solution, PROSuite.

In addition to the new PROSuite Executive Agreement with co-location, the non-profit also contracted with CNS to travel to New Jersey, power down the network, disconnect, pack and transport the servers to the CNS COLO location and bring the servers and network back online. Including the out-of -state travel time, the organization was only offline for seven hours. CNS has worked to stabilize the network, establish secure connections for the remote users and assure that the infrastructure supports the organization’s goals.

Knowing that Corporate Network Services was the trusted IT Partner to bring to the new organization has helped the office manager exceed expectations in the new position. Let us help you exceed expectations!


Office 2011 for Mac – Coming This Month!

Saturday, October 9th, 2010

It’s right around the corner – Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac is set to release at the end of the month!  This highly anticipated version marks the return of OUTLOOK to the Mac platform – and the death of the much hated Entourage!  For more information, check out Microsoft’s site – http://www.microsoft.com/mac/office2011features/office2011.mspx


New Features of Outlook 2010

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Sometimes I forget that I don’t always have to actually write EVERYTHING I post up here. To that end, I came upon this slideshow this morning about the top 10 coolest new features in Outlook 2010. I definitely approve!

http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid43_gci1514139,00.html#slideshow

Number 7 is my favorite – which one is yours?


Microsoft TechEd Day 1 – Office and Exchange 2010

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

The first day of the Microsoft TechEd conference started with a discussion of the cloud and its future in IT environments. MS has clearly positioned itself to fully embrace the cloud and their software will continue to provide great security and access to cloud based system – specifically so that organizations can deploy private cloud infrastructures using their licensing :)

I spent the day learning about some new Office 2010 features. Always pushing their better together message, there is a sharp focus on integration with the new Windows Phone 7. For example, Sharepoint will be able to sync whole workspaces into a phone offline mode, which allows full access to the workspace even when the phone loses it’s connections. When documents are updated on the server, the change is also synced over the air down to the phone. Access anywhere is the key.

Also with Office 2010, there are new security features that allow for required cleaning of metadata or a section 508 compliance every time a file is saved. This means that the hidden data about who create the file, when and other identification information can be quickly and easily scrubbed every time. Government workers know that section 508 compliance is an accessibility requirement. Office 2010 scans the whole document and makes recommendations to achieve compliance. Both of these scans can be run manually, and now a group policy can force Office 2010 to run these on every save.

With Exchange, there are a lot of enhancements on the way with Service Pack 1. From themes in OWA to customize the appearance to better management of compliance requirements. Better together with Outlook 2010, users will now be informed about retention policies when they move messages between folders. No more guesswork. It’s a pretty amazing feature that really brings the auto-archiving feature into its own.

That was the end of day one at the conference. Later that night while having dinner and drinks on Bourbon Street, I was able to, well let’s just leave that alone :)