IT Managers need to get the most out of their investments, and that includes their Microsoft Active Directory (AD) environment. So many organizations use AD as the backbone for Microsoft Windows authentication, but it is an expandable database that can do so much more for your enterprise. Let's talk about how you can reduce your IT costs by managing your Active Directory investments.

Microsoft has released MS08-068, a security update. As an administrator running a Microsoft shop, what do you need to know and what do you need to do? First off you can read the official update on the Microsoft security website here - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-nov.mspx

Microsoft Groove users have to be careful when using Groove to transfer very large files. Groove is a great application for what it does - sync large numbers of files across disconnected users. Groove is great to have users share and collaborate on many small files, multiple files, and users that are working all over. That includes in the office, at home and anywhere they have connectivity back to the Internet or home server.

Shopping for a new headset is usually driven by some very simple factors. The 7 most important things to consider when purchasing a computer microphone headset are:

No new ads so far this weekend, but for everyone who was unable to get the $299 Compaq Laptop from Walmart, Best Buy has their $299 eMachines Laptop on sale (+$20 shipping) right now online here:

If you are like most people, you have a ton of photos. Your have been collecting them for years, have many from before your birth, and all of them are keepers. But what do you do with all of these photos?

It is November, the 11th month of the current calendar year, 2nd month of Q4. How are you doing on budget for October and September? How are you doing on budget for the year? We need to take some time today to review our recent performance to see what we can work on and improve.

Its Thursday and you only have two days left in this week to work on cutting costs and improving your position in your IT organization. What do you have planned for this Saturday? Can you move any meetings from the calendar to a Saturday meeting, in the office, without catering services, to increase productive time today and tomorrow with your teams?

  SCCM Administrators can configure their site server computer accounts as the push account by using a client user account password. If your clients are part of a domain, the client push account was have local administrator rights on the target client machines.

IT management has to make cost cutting decisions and today we are going to make a large decision that has a long term impact to your support model. Yesterday we fired the delivery man, and today we are firing the delivery truck. That’s right, we are going to cancel all of our orders for new desktops and laptops for the next 3 months and possibly hold until Q2 2009.