SCCM 2007 to SCCM 2012 Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 is now in Beta 2 release. “SCCM 2012” is a considerable rebuild over SCCM 2007. Similar to Novell’s ZenWorks,…
What’s Green about Microsoft? I recently completed a number of articles about building a green IT business plan. Given that PEI represents a number of organizations that have green IT…
No Forklift Needed With the ever growing interest of Microsoft’s Lync, a common question that is asked to PEI by customers and prospects is, “We’ve already invested into a different…
Ten Reasons why VMWARE’s ZIMBRA is Something to Think About Self-Proclaimed (by VMWARE) as the next-generation of email and collaboration; it combines email, calendars, contacts, file sharing, documents, social media,…
Smartphones and Microsoft Lync As a Microsoft UC specialist, we use Lync (formerly OCS 2007) day in and day out. We are also a Verizon shop. This leaves us in…
End-User Perspective on Microsoft Lync I am sure many of you are familiar with the end-user adoption process when implementing new technologies in your organization. Some additions and upgrades are…
Blurring the lines between video and web conferencing I have been selling and implementing video and web communications for clients since 1996 and I can honestly say until recently there…
Web Conferencing There is no substitute for face to face interaction with clients and vendors when it comes to building and maintaining relationships. However this may not always be possible…
Exchange 2010 and Cisco CUCM We recently migrated our production environment over to Exchange 2010 from Exchange 2007. During the process we hit one snag that caught us a bit…
