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Business Clinic: managing SharePoint servers

Steve Cassidy helps a university cope with a swathe of data trapped in SharePoint

Ten tips for handling a techie

Steve Cassidy provides no-nonsense advice on how to deal with the chap fixing your computer

Bring Your Own Confusion

Steve Cassidy is surprised at the unsuitability of laptops being sold as business-ready, but at least he’s making money out of it

The failings of router failover

Failover connection options in today's routers are often a miserable failure in themselves, argues Steve Cassidy

Plastic cabling won't save you from electrosmog

Steve Cassidy takes retailers to task for advertising the health benefits of a plastic optical fibre distribution system

Wanted: owner of this VoIP phone

Steve Cassidy gets a surprise when he plugs a second-hand VoIP phone into his network

Can we please stop clinging to Windows XP?

Steve Cassidy deplores businesses that are still reliant on Windows XP software and hardware

Dealing with a backup that backfired

Steve Cassidy travels to Florida to investigate the recent Backup Exec failure and ponders the intelligent design of virtualisation software

Why you have to be left in the dark on OS patches

Steve Cassidy examines the twisted logic of security patches

Why antivirus is fighting a losing battle in your office

Antivirus software is hamstrung by poorly coded business apps and daft users, says Steve Cassidy

Why virtualisation hasn't slowed the growth of data

The huge success of VMware and virtualisation has done nothing to help slow the tide of data volume, says Steve Cassidy

The BitTorrent threat to businesses

Steve Cassidy argues that rioters and copyright thieves have a lot in common

Why two ISPs are better than one

Why you should keep on the good side of your ISP, and what to do to protect your connection

How to ensure your business never loses its net connection

Steve Cassidy reveals why businesses can't afford to rely on a single ISP for their internet connectivity

Avoiding VoIP hacks

Security risks aren't limited to mobile phones, says Steve Cassidy, especially when networks are managed by the technically naïve

Keeping ahead of Skewed Time

A Skewed Time error message means deep trouble, says Steve Cassidy, unless for once it turns out to be completely accurate

The dos and don'ts of VM snapshots

Steve Cassidy warns how careless snapshots can kill machines

The new rules of virtualisation

Steve Cassidy explains how the rules of virtualisation have changed

My tape backup trauma

Steve Cassidy recounts his horror story of rewriting a Goliath sized drive

Is Microsoft Hyper-V really free?

Steve Cassidy teaches you how to dissect MSDN licencing using the pub advice rule

Steve is a networks expert and a contributing editor to PC Pro for more years than he cares to remember. He mixes network technologies, particularly wide-area communications and thin-client computing, with human resources consultancy.