New Licensing Model for Microsoft SQL Server 2012

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is a cloud ready information platform. With SQL Server 2012, Microsoft continues to offer a variety of licensing options aligned with how customers typically purchase specific workloads. The Server+CAL (client access license) licensing model provides the option to license users or devices and then have low cost access to incremental SQL Server deployments.

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Microsoft Office 365 – Taking Your Office to the Cloud

The success of your business depends on the ability of your people to collaborate and communicate from anywhere at any time. To do this, your company’s services must always be available to them. Microsoft Office 365 is the next step in the future of productivity and a brand new way to think about productivity in the Cloud. Office 365 is a revolutionary technology that allows individuals and companies to create and maintain a virtual office in the cloud. It offers businesses and professionals with an easy and flexible way to work on the go from a PC, through a browser and a smart phone. Read More

Symantec Backup Exec 2012 Review

Symantec Backup Exec 2012 is one integrated product that protects virtual and physical environments, simplifies both backup and disaster recovery, and recovers data or systems at any scale, from an individual item to an entire server. Backup Exec 2012 restores entire servers, critical Microsoft applications, and VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual environments to dramatically minimize business downtime.

Backup Exec 2012 is truly the culmination of Symantec’s global team of expert engineers who spent million of man-hours singularly focused on changing the playing field of backup software. In addition to completely reworking thousands of lines of code, Symantec offers Backup Exec in four editions. Read More

How To Use Slicers To Edit PivotTable Data in Microsoft Excel Tutorial

Slicers are visual controls that let you quickly filter data in a PivotTable in an interactive, intuitive way. If you insert a slicer, you can use buttons to quickly segment and filter the data to display just what you need.

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12 Time-Saving Tips in Microsoft Excel 2010

Excel 2010 – 12 Time Saving Tips

1. Add content or formatting to multiple sheets at once

You can add content or apply formatting to two or more of the sheets on a multisheet worksheet by “grouping” the sheets together. When you group multiple sheets, any content or formatting that you add to one sheet also gets added to all the other sheets, so you can add a row of headers to one sheet and have it automatically appear on all the sheets that are grouped together with it.

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How to Create and Publish a Web Database in Microsoft Access Tutorial

How to Create and Publish a Web Database in Microsoft Access 2010

Microsoft Access 2010 offers many new features and improvements. The improved integration with SharePoint Server 2010 via Access Services allows for Access 2010 databases to be published to SharePoint, which enables multiple users to interact with the database application from any standards-compliant Web browser. Read More

Adobe CS6 – Release Date & New Features

Everyone is itching for any information they can get on the upcoming Adobe Creative Suite 6 release which is slated for sometime in the first half of this year. The internet is filled to the brim (does the internet have a brim?) with rumors about the new features in Creative Suite 6 and supposedly “leaked” documents that show various aesthetic and functional enhancements such as the new, more Lightroom-esque Photoshop interface.

Well we have scoured the collective hive-mind (otherwise known as Google) searching for any shreds of information that we could bring to you about CS6, and here is what we found… Read More

25 Microsoft Excel Shortcut Keys

25 Keyboard Shortcuts in Excel: So You Can Get the Job Done Faster

If there’s one thing that’s common in every job in the world, it’s that it seems like we never have enough time. Whether it’s lack of ample time to send out that extra status report or rushing to finish our progress charts, our daily tasks never seem to fit into the 9 hour work day. This leads us to spend more time in the office, and less time with our families and friends. As we experience this problem on a daily basis, we learn to strive for efficiency in our everyday tasks. Read More