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Weekly Guilt-free IT Maintenance

Regular maintenance for a better computer!

As always, I continue to assess and improve the maintenance process on my client’s computers. There are three goals I’ve been working this past month to achieve:

1. Transfer some maintenance tasks to the middle of the night to reduce maintenance duration at peak usage times (evenings). I’m paying some money for each of my client’s computers to automate certain weekly maintenance tasks. It’s pretty cool stuff! :)
2. Provide the computers with the maintenance they need at the frequency that is best for reliability and performance. Some tasks are best performed monthly with my hands and eyes, while others are best performed weekly and can be automated. So there are really two frequencies. Before now, I didn’t have the capability to do this.
3. Provide better reporting about maintenance tasks, their status, and any problems identified.

As a technology consultant / IT support professional / computer enthusiast, I’m always looking for ways to utilize technology to improve processes. Efficiency AND improved quality are usually the result.

I can’t wait to see how our lives are improved by technology in the future. Hopefully the Terminator version of our future won’t happen. But I know one thing for sure, there’s no stopping the advancement of information technology.

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Nested labels now in Gmail Labs!

I know a lot of people have been waiting for this feature for a long time now, including myself! Now we can all go crazy categorizing our emails and losing track of stuff just like in Outlook. Fortunately, Gmail still has an awesome search capability so even if you bury your emails into nested labels, hopefully you’ll still be able to find them.

New in Labs: Nested Labels and Message Sneak Peek

Thursday, April 08, 2010 5:27 PM

Posted by Manu Cornet, Software Engineer

Labels are more flexible than folders because a given email can have several labels but can’t be in several folders at the same time. A highly requested feature for labels, though, comes from the world of folders: the ability to organize labels hierarchically.

If you think this might be useful to you, go to the Gmail Labs tab under Settings, look for “Nested Labels,” enable it and click “Save.” You’ll then need to name your label with slashes (/) to make it the child of another. For example, let’s say you wanted to create a simple hierarchy with a “Home” label, and inside it a “Family” and a “Vacation” label. Just create three labels with the following names:

Home
Home/Family
Home/Vacation

You can then create “Home/Family/Kids,” “Home/Pets,” etc., to get something like the screenshot on the left. If you had the parent label “Home” before you don’t have to create it from scratch.

You can create complex hierarchies of labels if that’s the way you like to organize your mail, and you can expand/collapse labels to save space. You’ll always be able to tell whether a given label contains unread messages in its collapsed child labels by looking at whether it’s bold or not.

Please note that this lab doesn’t play nicely with the “Hide Read Labels” lab. You might not get exactly what you expect if you have both labs enabled; for example, the collapse/expand icons won’t always appear when they should.

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New Dev channel version of Google Chrome now with Aero peek for tabs!

I’m glad to see this feature is now available for Google Chrome users! If you’d like to get it, you’ll need to install the dev channel version of Google Chrome: http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?extra=devchannel

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Microsoft® Exchange to Google Apps

I’ve done Exchange migrations to Google Apps before. This will make things much easier!

Now it’s easy to switch to Google Apps from Microsoft® Exchange

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 9:00 AM

Today we’re making it a lot easier for customers of Microsoft Exchange to go Google with Apps. Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange is a new server-side tool that migrates your company’s email, calendar and contact data from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps. With the tool, migrations are: • Easy: set it up in just 4 steps • Efficient: select the combination of mail, calendar and contact data that you want to move, with the option of doing so in phases • Fast: migrate hundreds of users at the same time • Painless: employees can continue to use Microsoft Exchange during the migration without interruption or any involvement on their part As Paul Lovett, Project Manager for the Google Apps project at New Zealand Post, described, “We are a very calendar-bound organization, so Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange was the missing link in our migration strategy, allowing us to perform a server-side migration of our calendar and contact data from Microsoft Exchange 2003. We moved our corporate executive team first which required spot-on accuracy and a quality product, and Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange met that high bar.” The tool has been a boon to our Google Apps partners as well. Mayooran Rajan, CTO of Revevol Consulting, noted, “We work with companies with 100 to 20,000 employees. This tool will help us move our clients to Google Apps faster and more efficiently, helping us save them time and money.” Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange works with Microsoft Exchange 2003 and 2007, and both on-premise and hosted Exchange. It’s available free to Google Apps Premier and Education Edition customers here. If you’re considering the switch from Microsoft Exchange, you can find resources to help make your decision here. Also, for those who have already gone Google by making the switch to Google Apps, you can share your experiences and spread the word at www.google.com/apps/spreadtheword. Live webinars: Learn about Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange best practices and customer experiences

• Register here for the Asia session.
• Register here for the Americas, Europe session.

Posted by Abhishek Bapna, Product Manager

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