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Joe Reviews SB10-242 Cert Report (Video)

Here is a review of this weeks Cert Advisory. This includes issues with Adobe products, Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Be sure to update these products if you haven't recently. This is a weekly feature here at Managed Solutions. If you have questions about this video post a comment here or ask on our Facebook Fan Page.

Powerpoint Tip Slideshow in a Window (Video)

Ever try to record a screencast of a Powerpoint presentation? If you have you may have noticed like I did that you cannot easily run the presentation slideshow within a window small enough for a practical screencast. After doing some research I discovered that there are some not so well documented features for Powerpoint 2007/2010 that will allow you to run your presentation in a window. This would be particularly useful if you were doing some kind of mashup.

Dr. Dan wants to buy Real Estate (Phishing)

We're paid to be paranoid here at Managed Solutions. When this message arrived in my inbox today it was a rarity. Rare because it is one of very few phishing Emails that have bypassed my anti-spam mechanisms. Phishing is a process by which a criminal pretends to be a legitimate entity in an effort to gain passwords, identity, bank account or other private data. Here is the text of the message: I am interested in purchasing a private residence in your country or in any country you are well-acq...

DNS Made Easy targeted by DoS attack

One of our DNS partners - DNS Made Easy sent us this Email today about a large denial of service (DoS) attack that occurred on 8/7/2010. The attack started at 8:00UTC and was mitigated by 14:00UTC. While we received no complaints but since this outage may have affected the dns resolution for a small number of our clients we wanted to make this information available in a timely manner to all of our clients via our Service Status category here on Managedsolutions.com. If you have any questions abo...

Joe Reviews SB10-221 Cert Report (Video)

Here is a review of this weeks Cert Advisory. This update contains issues with Apple iTunes, Safari and Mozilla Firefox. Be sure to update these products if you haven't recently. This is a weekly feature here at Managed Solutions. If you have questions about this video post a comment here or ask on our Facebook Fan Page.

Lenovo Product Showcase

This page is provided to provide information about the Lenovo products that are sold through Managed Solutions. This is primarily provided for the convenience of our customers, we do not offer e-commerce at this time.

Countdown to Zero Leasing Offer

Our business partner Lenovo is launching Lenovo Financial Services (LFS) and as a part of that launch they are offering special promotional leasing. This may be just the opportunity for your business to obtain equipment that is needed today while preserving cash flow.  This Countdown to Zero offer consists of a 0% financing, Fair Market Value lease over 39 months with no payments for the first three months. 0% Financing Plus 3 Months of Zero Payments LFS Promotion Transactions may be as sma...

Using the proper Importance Flag with Email

I received an Email Friday from a friend, I receive a lot of Email so sometimes I don't get a chance to review non critical business Email until I have some free time. This morning while responding from the message I realized that part of the message involved a timely issue for Friday evening. The title did not indicate it and the message was flagged normally. This incident was a reminder to me of the usefulness and etiquette of the Importance options with Email correspondence. Here is my interp...

Plague of Adobe Acrobat and Reader Vulnerabilities Continues

I seem to write a post on this once a month minimum. When I opened this weeks Cert advisory there were 14 9.3 vulnerabilities for Adobe Reader and Acrobat. This plague of vulnerabilities and the related exploits that have popped up remind me of Internet Explorer 5 years ago. So here at Managed Solutions we are once again advising our clients to apply any updates to Adobe products when prompted or to exercise extra caution with .pdf files. Here is the menacing list of vulnerabilities announced on...

Quick Tip MrFixit for Windows Update Issues

Have you ever encountered errors with Windows Update or had it just stop prompting you all-together? This might be the solution to your problem. Either way it is a web page at Microsoft that will provide the right tool depending on what Operating system you are running. To run the utility navigate to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971058 and click on the Microsoft Fix It icon or link: You will have one option that can be selected, only use this option if the first attempt without it che...