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Three Bears IT Consultancy have recently begun trading services and physical goods via the BT Tradespace site – allowing yet another portal for consumers and businesses to access the range of products we can currently offer as well as those in development.

Three Bears have experience in using multiple routes for showcasing your business and your products via the Internet and would be happy to hear from any small and medium businesses who may be looking to expand into this area.

Please contact enquiries@threebears.biz and we’ll get back you a.s.a.p.

If you’ve ever arrived at an important meeting or presentation to realise that you left your USB memory stick on the kitchen table, then LogMeIn can come to your rescue. Likewise, if you’re planning to set up a remote IT support team, LogMeIn can help. If you’re tired of popping three doors along to give Mr Jenkins IT support every time he installs something free from the Internet, then again LogMeIn is your saviour.

LogMeIn is a web based service which allows you to take remote access of any machines on the LogMeIn network via your standard web browser – Firefox users need to install a plug-in.  Essentially, you sign up to a free account on the LogMeIn web site, open your emails to confirm your identity and install the application from the web site.  Subsequently, install the application onto all the machines you need to connect to – premium versions of the software also allow remote connection to iPhones and other similar devices.

Once installed, LogMeIn runs as a background process in your taskbar.  Open to console and get access to any machine running the application which you’ve registered against your account.  Premium versions give you the option of transferring files from your remote computer to your local computer, but users of the free version can just load up a web browser/Microsoft Outlook and email them across.

Three Bears IT support a range of systems and users utilising this technology and in the current economic climate, it pays to reduce both your carbon footprint and expensive travel costs.

We’re aware of a number of people who have been experiencing problems with downloading and installing updates from the Microsoft Update site.  Microsoft Vista, as users will know, often has two phases to installing updates – the first happens after the download, the second phase happens when you subsequently reboot the machine.

We’re aware of a number of users for whom the second phase does not execute correctly.  During the boot up sequence, the computer displays the message “Configuring Updates.  Stage 3 of 3.  0% Complete” and at that point, the machine shuts down.

This is due to an issue with Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and a required update which was released around April 2008, but which was never flagged as being essential.  As a result, your machine may not have downloaded it, depending upon your individual settings.

For more information, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949358

Microsoft have released the next generation of their SharePoint Server system to Beta testing.  We’re in the process of installing and configuring the system and will post a review here shortly.

More information is available from the Microsoft web site at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/evalcenter/ee391660.aspx

Continuing from our previous post regarding free resources for planning your implementation of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, please find below links to further resources relating to deployment, operations and system security.

Deployment

Deployment for Office SharePoint Server 2007
Covers installing and configuring Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a new deployment.

Installation guide for Office SharePoint Server 2007
This guide provides the information you need to successfully install Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to a stand-alone computer or simple server farm.

Design and build sites for Office SharePoint Server 2007
This guide provides prescriptive guidance that can help you and your team build custom enterprise sites by using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 — such as company-wide portal sites or Internet presence sites.

Upgrading to Office SharePoint Server 2007
Covers upgrading to Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Deploying Office SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1
Changes in Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 and instructions for deploying the service pack.

Operations

Administering enterprise search for Office SharePoint Server 2007
Includes guidance and procedures for configuring and maintaining search features in Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Document management guide for Office SharePoint Server 2007
Covers document management features that you can use to control the lifecycles of documents in your organization.

Records management guide for Office SharePoint Server 2007
Covers general records management planning considerations and guidelines for configuring Office SharePoint Server 2007 .

Web publishing and planning guide for Office SharePoint Server 2007
Covers features you can use to implement the structure, navigation, and appearance of Web sites and to control how your sites are authored, approved, and published.

Security

Security for Office SharePoint Server 2007
Describes how security is implemented in Office SharePoint Server 2007.