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Technology is Costing You More Than You Know Business owners or managers of departments usually need to figure out costs for their technology.  They may be planning to upgrade or purchase new technology, which means understanding what it’s going to cost the business. The challenge is figuring out what the true cost of technology is.  …

We have been working hard over the last few months to close the loop and become a Microsoft Silver Partner.  I’m happy to announce that we met our goal and we are now a Microsoft Silver Partner in Portals & Collaboration (SharePoint for all who don’t know Microsoft marketing-speak) and Small Business.  We are very …

I’ve made a few posts regarding Veeam and, if you have read them, you’ll know I’m a fan.  You’ll also know that we have not yet put Veeam into any real large customer sites (like datacenters) but I think it’s important to know that Veeam’s benefits are as valid for small shops as they are …

itgroove has their office in the Save On Foods Memorial Center (a hockey arena) in Victoria (my God, how much more Canadian can you get, eh?).  The arena is home to the WHL’s Victoria Royals, a junior team full of young players with aspirations to the national team and beyond to the NHL.  These are …

We are Cloud Friendly. Everyone nowadays talks about “the Cloud” as being the next big thing that ALL companies should be looking at as a part of their IT infrastructure planning. The problem is that the term, “Cloud”, has become so ambiguous and attached to so many things that it is hard for most companies …

I attended a webinar the other day on this topic, it was really good, and wasn’t actually entirely predictable.  I’m sure from most people’s experience, you would agree wholeheartedly with the outcomes.  This is a blog post version of the same idea – though with far less content obviously.  It’s worth a quick look. http://www.itskeptic.org/why-it-projects-fail-underspend

Well, Dear Reader, I have a confession to make.  I’m in love!  There, I’ve said it.  It’s out in the open.  And the object of my affections is Veeam. I did promise sometime back that I would write on our experiences with Veeam and I have to say that they have been overwhelmingly positive.  For …

Is the “Managed Services” model a good way to purchase services from your IT services provider?  I really can’t say but we (itgroove) think there is a better way … We believe that the best model is one that works best for you, as the customer, rather than trying to fit a square peg into …

This is a tip from PowerShell.com.  I’ve slightly changed the text and title to make the boss man smile every time he reads this post.  Displaying Balloon Tip Let’s assume your script wants to share status information via a balloon message in the system tray area. Here is a sample: [sourcecode language=”powershell”] [system.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(‘System.Windows.Forms’) | Out-Null …

John Rice from our office just posted this on our internal blogs.  He asked me to post it here as he has not yet set up his external blog.  John has been setting up a new Lync server internally and he has had to work hard to find “correct” information about how to install Lync …