small business

Small business owners are already thinking ahead to 2018, with a recent survey suggesting they are excited to bring new ideas to fruition but challenged to stay on top of advancing technology. In fact, 90 percent of small business owners plan to hire one to two new employees in the upcoming...

This week we recognize National Small Business Week; something that is near and dear to my heart. As someone who worked in a small business myself, I firmly believe that small businesses are the backbone of our global economy and key innovation drivers in the tech industry and beyond. In today’s...

Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I’ve been a lifelong adventurer who enjoys camping in the great outdoors with few amenities and the ability to disconnect from the urban world. When I had the first of my two daughters ten years ago, I knew things would change and they did. As the girls got...

Since the global financial crisis of 2008, many countries have struggled to return to strong economic growth. Nonetheless, small and midsize businesses (SMB) continue to be an engine for economic growth. According to the International Organization for Standardization, SMBs are responsible for...

Hello friends! My company is i the final stages of developing our first software for windows. Ours is a small company with just 6 staff and we don't have any previous major experience in releasing our own software and releasing it. But we have managed to complete the major modules of the...

What do the Link Removed list of fastest- growing inner city companies and Surface have in common? UYL COLOR SUPPLY CEO Yen Hoang. Yen jokes that she loves her Surface Pro so much that “it’s like my third child!” “As the CEO of a fast-growing small business, I need to remain flexible and have...

On Monday, October 26, head to your local Microsoft store to experience the launch of the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4. Link Removed Earlier this month, Microsoft ushered in a new era of Windows 10 devices and we’re seeing incredible enthusiasm for the Surface Book, Microsoft Surface Pro 4...

Today, Lenovo announced its new lineup of premium PCs loaded with Windows 10, the latest in technology and stylish designs for business professionals and PC gamers. The lineup includes the new Lenovo Y Series, the ThinkPad Yoga and ThinkCentre, the ThinkPad E Series, the updated Lenovo M, B and...

Interested in seeing how line of business (LOB) apps built on Microsoft technologies are transforming commercial industries (e.g. retail, hospitality, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing) and public sectors (e.g. education, public safety)? Check out this multi-part Link Removed where...

We have a small network having downsized some years ago. Currently we have two 2003 servers and 6 workstations. Originally we were running Exchange on one of the servers, but now Exchange is remotely hosted. I have a new server that will be running Essentials. I want to replace both of the old...

I think this experience may be useful to Win7/8 users who build and maintain home and small business systems. I regularly clone and swap drives keeping at least one spare at the ready per system at all times. I was shocked to discover that under certain conditions Win7 installation creates a...

I work in a relatively small business. We have 11 computers in the office that are all on a network with our server. Is there a way to make it so no matter which computer we are sitting at we can log in to the network under our own username/password?

Today we provide advance notification for the release of four bulletins, two rated Critical and two rated Important in severity. These updates address issues in Microsoft Windows, Office and Internet Explorer. The update provided through MS14-017 fully addresses the Microsoft Word issue first...

Good morning, I have a network under a domain where server is powered by windows small business 2003. I have 20 pcs in this net. Some pcs are running windows 7. One of them is trying to make a search in shared folder by Windows Explorer. This search is made by archive's name and by any...

I have recently installed Small Business Server 2011 and would like to both host my web site and have Exchange handle my mail. I don't have an ISP provided IP and was wondering if I could access these features via either a DynDns or No-IP dynamic IP address. Thank you

As a part of the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI), Microsoft is pleased to present an initial set of monthly security updates – originally released on May 8 – in the consortium’s newly established Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework...

Hello! We have a Small Business Network with an SBS2008 Domain. On a Server we have one Network Share which schould be accessible to all Users. Up to now there were no Problems at all with the Share. Now we got a new PC (Windows 7 Business x32) which joined the Domain successfully. I can...

Hi there! I am new to this forum and I apologise in advance if this is a question covered a zillion times already! Am having problems finding previous posts (probably as I am not familiar with correct terminology). However, we are on a network here and several of our older PCs are experiencing...

Hey, I work for a small, non-profit organization, and we use small business server 2008. We have our computers set up to do a network login (meaning I can sit down at any computer that we own and login using my user info and access all my server drives, even if I've never used that computer...

Describes the client-side package of Update Rollup 1 for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, for Windows Home Server 2011, and for Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. More...