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Public Speaking 101 – Presenting for Your Audience

Continuing her campaign for better technical presentations, Dr. Masha Petrova now provides simple yet fundamental guidance to becoming a great speaker, in 3 easy steps....

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Troubleshooting Windows Blue Screen Errors

The so-called 'Blue Screen of Death' has inspired fear in the hearts of mere mortals, but Systems Administrators are expected be capable of casually beating...

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4 Geek Excuses for Bad Presentations

Frustrated by technically interesting yet agonizing conferences, Dr. Masha Petrova leaves geeks with no excuses for making bad presentations, and begins her campaign ensure that...

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Getting Started with Active Directory Rights Management Services for Exchange 2010

With security concerns being a constant litany, it's worth considering Active Directory Rights Management Services as a powerful tool in your access-control arsenal, particularly when...

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Troubleshooting Nonpaged and Paged Pool Errors in Windows

Ben Lye uncovered a memory leak in the nonpaged pool which was crashing his servers with disquieting regularity. Luckily it was relatively easy to troubleshoot,...

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Unteachable Disaster Recovery Techniques

There are some skills which are extensions of your instincts, and which you can only learn though years of experience. Matt Simmons has this brought...

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Active Directory Snapshots with Windows Server 2008

Snapshots are a useful feature of Windows Server 2008. Taking a snapshot of Active Directory as a scheduled task can prove to be a wise...

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Social Networking at Professional Events

Dr. Masha Petrova compresses, into a small space, much good advice on networking with other professional people. She draws from her own experience as a...

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The Art of Dealing with People

Technical people generally don't easily adapt to being good salespeople. When a technical person takes on a customer-facing role as a support engineer, there are...

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Increase Your Value as a Professional in the Technical Industry

It has never been so important to enhance your employability as it is today. Job security can never be taken for granted. Employability, increasing your...

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Hiring System Administrators

Hiring someone for a technical post is a task that should never be tackled half-heartedly. Matt Simmons provides some general advice on the subject, illustrated...

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Manage Stress Before it Kills You

The key to a long career in IT is in learning how to cope adaptively with stress. Matt Simmons, like many, didn't realise it applies...

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Change Management- What It Is and Why You Need It

Bill Holmberg takes a practical look at Change Management, and list the steps you need to take. To make things simpler, he also provides a...

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A SysAdmin’s Guide to Users

What level of trust do you afford users by default? What level of support do you offer users who have low technical skills? Are you...

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A SysAdmin’s Guide to Change Management

In the first in a series of monthly articles, 'Confessions of a Sys Admin', Matt describes the issues involved in Change Management, and gives a...

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When Email Collaboration Could Have Changed History

In our mission to make history relevant to the busy IT executive, we speculate how Email might have helped pivotal events in history. Could the...

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