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July 2007
In this issue
√ Exchange 2007
√ Success
Story
√
Tech Tip
√ Employee
Spotlight
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Tech
Tip
Make Your Excel
Data Jump
With the revolution of Office 2007,
Microsoft has put a great deal of effort into helping you do your
job faster and easier, and helping you get the information you need
quickly and clearly. Nowhere is that effort more apparent than in
Excel 2007.
One of the coolest new enhancements
is the evolution of conditional formatting. Your data has an
important story to tell, but in a worksheet with row after row of
numbers it's not always easy to see patterns and trends. With
conditional formatting, it only takes a glance to compare worker
productivity, sales figures, product performance, or other measures
that are important to your business. Excel 2007 makes it easier than
ever to apply rich conditional formatting
Watch this demo to see how data bars, gradient
colors, icon sets, and other conditional formatting can turn raw
data into information you can act on.
Please forward this newsletter to anyone else in your
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| Exchange 2007 —
What you Need to Know
Many of today's
small to mid-sized businesses operate in a Microsoft Exchange
environment. Most of these businesses have invested in
Exchange and Exchange-compatible systems over the years, and
now they are both loyal to and dependent upon Exchange for
email. Now that Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 has finally
been released, you might be wondering if it's worth the time,
effort, and cost to migrate to 2007 from your current
platform. Find out what's new with Exchange 2007, and what
security issues to consider before you migrate.
 Long time coming
Prior to 2007, the last release of Exchange was in 2003.
Exchange Server 2007 includes many new enhancements and
features that improve upon the 2003 platform. Here are some of
the improvements that come with Exchange 2007:
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Success
Story:
Philadelphia
Cultural Icon Keeps IT Costs Low
with Server
Upgrade
Background
The Library Company
of Philadelphia is America's oldest cultural institution. It
was founded in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin as a subscription
library supported by its shareholders, as it is to this day.
Free and open to the public, the Library Company houses an
extensive non-circulating collection of rare books,
manuscripts, broadsides, ephemera, and works of
art.
The
Challenge
The Library Company
has been a client of IT Solutions since 2003. Since the start
of the relationship, The Library Company was centralizing
storage of files and resources on a Windows 2000 Server. While
this unit was adequate for file storage and some network
traffic control, as a comprehensive solution it was lacking
key components.
Among the
more critical issues, client workstations were not uniformly
joined to the domain and network services were not being
provided by the server, thus creating authentication, folder
access and connection issues. In addition to having to use
multiple logins to access their workstations and the network,
users would frequently experience network disconnects and
time-consuming interruptions. Collaboration and sharing of
calendars, contacts and tasks were an additional challenge for
the staff, as there was no centralized software in place. And
with email being hosted off-site by an Internet Service
Provider, the staff didn’t have the kind of control and
freedom associated with email programs hosted
locally.
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Employee
Spotlight
Robin Story
Name:
Robin Story
Title:
Developer
Education:
Bachelor of the Arts from New York University
First
job:
Waitress at a Retirement Center
Little Known fact
about you:
I regularly break the first law of
thermodynamics.
Home:
Bellows Falls, VT
Word
that best describes you:
Saucy!
Like best about your
job:
Solving clients' problems
Like least about your
job:
The commute
The most important lesson you've
learned:
It's never a bad idea to take a few minutes to step
back and ask yourself if something could be done in a simpler
way.
Life motto:
Are you going to eat
that?
Greatest fear:
Clowns. With guns.
Person
most interested in meeting: Shigeru Miyamoto
Most
influential book:
Cat's Eye by Margaret
Atwood
Favorite movie:
Ruckus
Favorite
restaurant:
El Azteca (East Lansing,
Michigan)
Favorite vacation spot:
Turkey
Favorite
way to spend free time:
Playing games, reading books
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