Upcoming Events

Executive Briefing:
Get More Out of Your Computer Technology in 2007!
You are invited to attend a complimentary Executive Briefing on computer technology for small and mid-size businesses.

• For: Business owners & executives, whose companies have 10 to 100 computers
• Cost: FREE
• Date, Time: Wednesday, June 6, 2007
• Where: Microsoft Pittsburgh Office, North Shore
• Food: Snacks and Soft Drinks will be served
• Notes: Seating is limited and reservations are required.

What Will Happen. What Will NOT Happen.
Obviously we do these Executive Briefings for promotional purposes. But, you will NOT be coming to a two-hour sales pitch. We will NOT spend two hours talking about our company. What we WILL do in this two-hour meeting is education and training.

The discussion will be kept at a higher-level, as this Briefing is for business owners and executives – not for extremely technical folks like network administrators or computer programmers.

We will provide some insight into the computer technologies shown below, and share with you a little bit about how, and why, companies use them to increase productivity and efficiency, and to eliminate problems.

Computer Technologies That Will Be Discussed:

Disaster Prevention and Recovery

• Protection from system crashes and human mistakes.
• Server-based tape backup systems – to automatically backup all critical data files.
• Redundant server components to keep the server (and business) running – even in the event of a server disk drive failure or server power supply failure.
• Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) – to provide protection from power surges and spikes, and to provide battery power in the event of a momentary or extended power failure.
• Firewall – to prevent unauthorized Internet access to the server, workstation PCs and network.
• Antivirus software – to protect servers, workstation PCs and network from computer viruses, worms and trojans.

Remote Access

• Access business email, schedules and contacts from a home-office, or from a remote-office.
• Access business data files from a home-office, or from a remote-office.
• Remotely control an office PC from a home-office, or from a remote-office.
• Connect computers at various office locations so users can share access to the same data.

Product Life Cycles, and UnSupported Operating Systems

• The pitfalls of running un-supported operating systems.
• Review of Microsoft’s Support Lifecycle policy - which provides guidelines for product support availability.
• Unsupported server operating systems: Windows NT Server.
• Unsupported workstation operating systems: Windows 95, Windows 98.

Share Data Files, and Share Printers.

• Allow everyone in the office to access data files from a centralized server.
• Public file folders – for everyone to share, add, edit, and delete files.
• Private file folders – for secure server storage of private files for individual users or groups of users.
• Allow everyone in the office to share printers.

Email, Calendars, Contact Lists, SPAM Filtering

• Communicate via email with employees, customers and business partners.
• Allow everyone to share a public/common calendar, or access someone else’s personal calendar.
• Allow everyone to share a public/common Contact List (address book).
• Anti-spam technology - eliminate fraudulent, inappropriate and offensive emails.

Share Higher-Speed Internet Access

• Increase the speed of your Internet Access, or implement a "full-time" connection (instead of dialup).
• Allow employees to simultaneously share Internet access.
• Set Internet privileges –granting Internet access to some employees, but not others.
• Firewall – to prevent intrusions and unauthorized access from the Internet to the network.

Call to Register, or for More Information
Seating is limited and reservations are required. To register for this Executive Briefing, or for more information, please call 724-325-2900 x4 today.