Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...

With the UK experiencing alot of lost working hours due to the “Big Freeze”, it occured to me that the companies which have decent virtual and remote systems access can allow workers to work from home and even have telephone calls routed there. In some cases the users themselves can divert their phones, which is really useful for sales personnel who are always out and about on the road anyhow. So what options do they have, well theres several with the most popular technologies being Citrix (ICA) and Microsoft Terminal Services (RDP) for accessing your company desktop...

Partner etiquette...

It is well know within the IT industry and indeed pretty much all industries except of course the undertakers of this world that in order to build your business up you gotta wine and dine your clients. VMWare have invited us to a very nice dinner to discuss potential in the countries we operate in and quite rightly so, we will be interested to hear what they have to say. Heck, we might even get to do some business!! On the flip-side, Microsoft, the world’s biggest software company, has announced the latest release of its operating system, a nice looking piece of software...

Ring Ring… Ring Ring...

Telephone systems, gotta love them. They allow us to communicate with clients, both internal and external, carrying out our daily business.  Many moons ago I had training on a Mitel system installed at the company I then worked at, in the lovely “Office” location of slough. For those who aren’t aware the Mitel office in slough is right opposite the Mars factory, and walking down to the centre each day all I could smell is lovely warm bubbling chocolate …mmmmm. Right moving on, in the olden days when I was a youngster many of the business telephone systems...

Linux rules……...

Well, just finished a project converting an entire office to linux terminal services in one weekend!!! So how did the users take it, well actually they took it very well, they like the nice Ubuntu desktop. Thunderbird with addins replaces my personal and I’m sure many other IT managers dark nemesis software Microsoft Outlook. Then there’s the always useful OpenOffice, even allowing them to know export directly to PDF rather than printing or using 3rd party software, replacing Microsoft Office… well almost. We have allowed them access to a windows terminal server via...