Sage Computer Associates

Jan/Feb 2008
In this issue

►Greetings
►E-Mail Overload
►Security Quickies
►Internet Search Tips
►Groove 2007

Microsoft Office
Groove 2007
Top 10 benefits

Microsoft Office Groove 2007 is a collaboration software program for working on a broad range of project activities, from simple document collaboration to custom solutions integrated with business processes. Here are the top 10 ways Office Groove 2007 can help you and your team work together dynamically and effectively regardless of location or network connection.

1. Bring the team, tools, and information together in one place.

2. Customize each workspace for the team's unique needs.

3. Collaborate with colleagues, partners, and customers — with one product.

4. Stay productive anywhere, online or offline.

5. Stay in sync, automatically and efficiently.

6. See who's working on what, when.

7. Synchronize SharePoint document libraries with Office Groove 2007.

8. Create a form with Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007; share it with Office Groove 2007.

9. Make the most of impromptu encounters with Microsoft Office Communicator integration.

10. Work with international teams in their own languages.

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Greetings,

Welcome to the January and February edition of our Making Business Smarter E-Newsletter!

As we finish up the accounting for 2007 and start the new year, all of us at SAGE thank you for being our clients. We continue to strive to provide secure and reliable networks for you, with productivity that produces a substantial return on your investment.

Looking back on 2007, we saw significant gains in hardware performance and many new software releases with enhanced user functionality and maintainability. We also saw enormous increases in SPAM and associated Denial of Services (DOS) attacks, new and more aggressive virus and Trojan Horse attacks, and more sophisticated human engineering attacks. The SAGE Security Practice is now 9 months old, and has been critical in protecting our clients’ networks from the latest threats. Please see our article Security Quickies for some ideas or pick up the phone and call us if you have any questions.

As we look forward to 2008, we see more hardware and software improvements. SonicWALL has released a new series of firewalls which are able to provide full Unified Threat Management (UTM) services at FIOS and other high internet service speeds. Microsoft will release Windows Server 2008 and SQL 2008 in February. We expect Microsoft to release the next version of Small Business Server later this year or early next year. More and more application software is being upgraded to be Vista compliant. When the software you use to run your business is Vista ready, we can help you take advantage of its improved productivity and security.

As always, we appreciate your business.

The Most Productive Article You Will Read this Quarter:
How to get Treatment for Email Overload
By Craig Davis, SLPowers

Corporate workers are now spending as much as 40% of their time dealing with email. I personally have come to expect between 100 and 150 emails every business day. From the important, such as a new customer requesting information to the mundane, such as an endless chain of email discussions between colleagues. It's come to the point where the issue can no longer be ignored. I've assembled a list of tips that you can use to help keep the problem at bay, at least until software catches up and solves the issue for us.

Security Quickies

“that could save your bacon”

Choose a password that's hard to crack
When choosing a password, try to make it by writing a sentence that you can easily remember. For example: "Los Angeles Lakers will win the NBA tournament this year". Then pick up the first letters of each word and also add at the beginning or at the end (or at both parts) some special characters and numbers. For example, with the last sentence you could get the password: =3LALwwtNtty$. This method lets you come up with easy-to-remember passwords that are also hard to crack. And you avoid the need to write such a long password down in order to remember it.

Be careful with cybercafé computers
Cybercafés offer a convenient way to use a networked computer when you are away from home or office, but be careful. It's impossible for an ordinary user to tell what the state of their security might be. Since anyone can use them for anything, they have probably been exposed to viruses, worms, Trojans, keyloggers, and other nasty malware. Should you use them at all? They're okay for casual web browsing, but they're NOT okay for connecting to your email, which may contain personal information; to any secure system, like the network or server at your office, bank or credit union; or for shopping online.

10 Tips for Finding Information on the Internet


Sometimes looking for quick information on the Web can be like searching for a needle in a haystack. With so many billions of Web pages in cyberspace, finding specific information can be a daunting task. "Often when I use search engines I get so many irrelevant results that I just give up," admits a frustrated Lorraine Adams, mother of two and a disability consultant.

Perhaps Adams isn't aware that there are ways to get more out of your favorite search engine, whether that's Live Search, Google, or Yahoo!. A few searching tips, tricks, tweaks, and techniques can help you find what you are looking for in cyberspace quickly and easily . Follow these 10 suggestions with your favorite search engine.

For 10 Tips read on