The Merry-Go-Round continues, and Microsoft continues to push out new operating systems.  Sometimes they seem to come out so fast that you can’t keep up with what is new in each version.  Hyper-V is something Microsoft has been slowly improving over the last couple of server OS’s.  With the latest version in Windows 2012, they have a couple of new features that really spice up what they are offering.
Read more.

Office 365 (O365) is the new Exchange Server in the Cloud offered by Microsoft.  It has many benefits, which include low cost and great flexibility and access to your information.  As with everything else in this world, those benefits do come at a cost.  Here is that downside:  Microsoft puts restrictions on the software that you can use to connect to their servers.
Read more.

With so many companies offering what looks to be the best deal for a computer, picking out the right one for you is no easy task. Considering that manufactures seem to come up with a million different models for every component of your computer, it can become easy to get confused as to what specs you want. And difficult to understand what the difference between each model are, along with the different ways that stores label things and what employees tell you, you can easily miss something.
Read more.

Can you share something cool?
Read more.

I thought this would be a really easy article to write.  About a year ago I moved up from using a laptop to having a docking station with two monitors attached, and found the extra space on the screen to be very helpful.  I realized that even though I have a great outdoor area to work from, I found myself almost never choosing that over the docking station in the office even after the newness had worn off.  So I figured I would be able to just do some quick research that matched my instinctive findings and move on to the results.
Read more.

Despite top of the line antivirus and antispyware protections in place, the spyware creators are still able to create items that get through the filters and cause infections.  (But that’s not what this article is about).  The most common methods of infection are still infected attachments to emails and “drive-by” hits from websites while browsing the Internet. (But that’s not what this article is about either).  Having watched the evolution of some of these infections over the past couple of years, I’ve found a couple of tricks that work on many of these infections.   That’s what this article is about:  revealing a plan of attack that can eliminate most of these spyware infections.
Read more.

With hurricane season fading into history yet again, we can relax knowing our network and data are safe again.  The dangerous storms have come and gone and we can focus on the next item on the to-do list.  We’ve successfully saved our data and our jobs…or have we?
Read more.

You’ve worked with it for years.  You know more about it than you do about your favorite pet.  But do you really know your network?  How many user accounts do you have that are no longer in use?  Do you know how many times you’ve installed your licensed software?  Have you recently looked into those errors on your workstations?
Read more.

A common complaint from many users is that surfing the Internet takes so long loading pages. Gone are the days where the culprit was the slow Internet connections. There are still many possible reasons for being forced to wait on pages to load, and not all of them are under your control. However, a common reason that you do have the ability to change is the number of toolbars you use in your Internet Browser. Whether you use Internet Explorer, Mozilla, or Chrome, if you don’t pay attention, you can find you have 3, 4, or more toolbars installed. Each of these will slow down everything you do on the Internet by a little bit. Now, some toolbars are useful, so if you like a toolbar I’m not saying you should remove it, but too much of a good thing rarely works out for anybody.
Read more.

InfoStream prides itself on providing the highest quality service possible. We are constantly evaluating our support options and adjusting how we operate to ensure we are doing everything we can to keep client networks running smoothly and efficiently. While historically we have limited our services to standard business hours (Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM), that has now changed.
Read more.