Excel 2007 and Pretty Charts - author: jason - date: 2010-02-14 16:32:27
Let’s start with a simple set of data to see a new Chart. Here we have an example of candy sales fr ... Read More

Excel 2007 and Pivot Tables - author: jason - date: 2010-02-14 12:17:07
Excel 2007 has made improvements to the Pivot Tables, over Excel 2003. Another nice thing about the ... Read More

Viruses, Spyware, and Your Business - author: jason - date: 2010-02-08 12:14:50
Protecting your employees, computers, and systems from virus and spyware threats is more than just r ... Read More

Clearing the Outlook To Line Cache - author: jason - date: 2009-09-11 15:57:26
Sometimes when an email address changes Outlook doesn't want to forget the old one. There is a way ... Read More

Accounting Software - author: jason - date: 2009-08-15 10:14:13
PC Magazine has a good article on free accounting software for small businesses. They talk about fr ... Read More

Backing up, inexpensive and easy - author: jason - date: 2009-08-12 09:33:15
Backing up your computers is a good way to make certain important files and documents aren't lost. ... Read More

System Maintenance - author: jason - date: 2009-08-11 13:10:22
There is a good business case for performing routine maintenance on your computer systems. Just li ... Read More

Expanding with Wireless - author: jason - date: 2009-08-11 12:05:14
Expanding your small office with wireless sounds like a good idea, and it can be, if implemented cor ... Read More

Wireless Terminology - author: jason - date: 2009-08-10 12:58:08
Wireless comes with its own set of acronyms and security terminology that we will briefly discuss. ... Read More

Small Office Setup - author: jason - date: 2009-08-10 09:32:34
Setting up a small office for 1-5 people doesn't need to be difficult. The phone/cable company can ... Read More

personal Daily Activity Log - author: jason - date: 2009-07-29 15:57:05
pDAL is a small Visual Basic application written with Visual Studio 2008 that enables users to log a ... Read More

Executing Subscriptions via Stored Procedure in SQL Reporting Services 2005 - author: jason - date: 2008-10-02 02:23:22
SQL Reporting Services allows users and administrators to set up timed subscriptions to be saved to ... Read More

SQL 2005 and OPENROWSET - author: jason - date: 2008-04-09 00:16:37
I use the command OPENROWSET to push Excel files into a table. To do this I need to change the "Su ... Read More

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Installation - author: jason - date: 2008-04-08 23:46:50
Here is a quick run-through on installing SQL Server 2005. This install uses the Developer edition ... Read More

SQL Reporting Services Snippets - Expressions - author: jason - date: 2008-04-08 12:01:26
I've run into a couple situations with writing reports for SQL Reporting Services that I thought I ... Read More

SharePoint Services 3.0 Install - author: jason - date: 2008-04-01 03:26:34
This is a quick overview of a basic install of Microsoft SharePoint Services 3.0 on a single stand-a ... Read More

simple SQL - author: jason - date: 2007-11-19 12:03:12
simple SQL is a small Visual Basic application written with Visual Studio 2008 than enables users to ... Read More

simple Report Distribution - author: jason - date: 2007-10-28 02:13:32
simple Report Distribution is a small Visual Basic application written with Visual Studio 2008 Beta ... Read More

simple Master Station Log - author: jason - date: 2007-08-30 12:03:12
simple Master Station Log is a small Visual Basic application written with Visual Studio Express tha ... Read More

Querying WMI for DCM Events - author: jason - date: 2007-05-04 15:06:31
DCM records the results of a scan to an output XML file, the event viewer, and a WMI repository. DC ... Read More

Running DCM - author: jason - date: 2007-05-04 14:54:43
DCM can be run via the provided batch file: RunDCM.bat. In an enterprise environment SMS is used to ... Read More

Basic DCM Template - author: jason - date: 2007-05-04 14:52:10
It's a pretty easy task to create a template to check for registry settings. Let's check the Syst ... Read More

Installing Desired Configuration Monitor (DCM) - author: jason - date: 2007-05-04 14:50:10
If you have a couple servers and a couple technicians in the office you've probably run into server ... Read More

Creating and Testing a Database in SQL Express - author: jason - date: 2007-05-03 20:21:58
It is a fairly simple task to create a new database, tables, fields, and users in SQL Express. In t ... Read More

Installing and Configuring SQL Express - author: jason - date: 2007-05-03 15:59:56
Every now and then I have the need for a database and let's face the facts: 1. Microsoft Access doe ... Read More

Power Saving Group Policy Object - author: jason - date: 2007-04-30 07:32:21
Nearly all modern computers on an enterprise network have power savings capabilities. Microsoft Win ... Read More

PivotTables and PivotCharts with Excel 2003 - author: jason - date: 2007-04-30 06:36:35
So you've got a list of data. You need a report by the end of the day. You need to make pretty gr ... Read More

Migration Snippets - author: jason - date: 2007-03-29
Introduction Migrating users and computers from one Microsoft domain to another (and from one Exc ... Read More

QEMU - Emulate Windows or Linux - author: jason - date: 2005-12-23
Here are three options a person can use to create a virtual machine: Virtual PC, VMWare Workstation, ... Read More

Visual Basic Script - Listing Disabled Users from Active Directory - author: jason - date: 2005-03-30
In this lesson we are going to look at querying Active Directory for disabled users with VBScript. ... Read More

XP Remote Assistance - Auto Login - author: jason - date: 2004-11-07
Set Remote Assistance to auto login a remote user, and auto take control of the machine. The below s ... Read More

Visual Basic Script - Listing MP3 Files - author: jason - date: 2004-06-01
In this VBScript tutorial we will search for MP3 files, write them to a HTML file, then open the fil ... Read More

Visual Basic Script - Deleting Files - author: jason - date: 2004-05-31
Quick change in lesson order. I'm going to show file deletion for the third lesson. We'll go bac ... Read More

Visual Basic Script - Listing Files and Folders Recursively - author: jason - date: 2004-05-30
Here's a quick intro into getting a recursive folder and file listing from VBScript. VBScript is a ... Read More

Visual Basic Script - Listing Files - author: jason - date: 2004-05-29
Here's a quick introduction into getting a file listing from VBScript. VBScript is a great way to ... Read More

Ultimo FreeBSD - author: jason - date: 2003-11-25
Now that you've installed FreeBSD, wouldn't you like to do something with it? Like host a web or f ... Read More

Minimal FreeBSD 4.8 Install - author: jason - date: 2003-11-23
So you want to install FreeBSD, eh? Going to use a spare drive, or make room on your WinDoze drive? ... Read More

FreeBSD and BitchX - author: jason - date: 2003-11-23
All righty then... So you want to IRC from work... But your work monitors/blocks access to IRC (6667 ... Read More

FreeBSD and cron - author: jason - date: 2003-11-23
Want to run scripts at startup? Want to do it under your username and not root? I'm using FreeBSD 4 ... Read More

FreeBSD and mounting ext2 - author: jason - date: 2003-11-23
Now, I'm jumping the gun. I need to write a tut on installing FreeBSD. But you know? It's prett ... Read More

ProFTPD - author: jason - date: 2003-11-23
Installing ProFTPD in FreeBSD is the same as Linux. Don't listen to the hype! You don't need to in ... Read More

Shoutcast - author: jason - date: 2003-11-23
Now you want to stream those MP3s you've worked so hard at downloading... Everyone needs to hear th ... Read More

Lockdown W2K (in progress) - author: jason - date: 2003-05-16
The reason I like Windows 2000 Server for my home is that I use it at work. The time I spend learnin ... Read More

How to setup IIS 5.0 on XP Home - author: jason - date: 2002-10-18
Installing a full version of IIS on XP Home isn't too hard. All that's needed is a Windows 2000 C ... Read More

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