Jason Slater Weblog

Moving to a managed service is often considered a positive step especially in a small business where resources are tight and priorities difficult to manage. Migrating to a managed service potentially opens up a huge avenue of support and allows a business to offer services that compare to those offered by larger companies. Electronic Data [...]

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A little known feature of Microsoft Excel is the ‘text to columns’ option under the Data menu which allows information in a cell or range of cells to be split into columns. Typically we find this tends to occur on exported lists of address information or such like.
For example if you have a list of [...]

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I am preparing a new technology series on things to consider when working from home - some of the initial ideas and considerations include:

Health and Safety (monitors,ergonomic chairs, foot rests, eye breaks, pat testing, hazardous substances)
Environmental Factors (humidity, temperature, air, and noise)
Communications (Internet, Phone, Fax, Separate Phone Line, Remote Access and VPN)
Layout (Sun Spots) Curtains/Blinds [...]

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Roll Up, Roll Up, the Live Mesh Tech Preview is here and in the words of the Live Mesh team:
"Live Mesh puts you at the center of your digital world, seamlessly connecting you to the people, devices, programs, and information you care about — available wherever you happen to be."

Live Mesh is taking Microsoft a [...]

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For some time I have been backing up our Exchange Information Store using Microsoft Backup and storing it on external USB hard drives (Retrieving data quickly) for safe keeping off site (as well as keeping an electronic copy of it on another server). Recently though the following message has started to appear when copying the [...]

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