A Look Back at 2010: Project Review
This post is part of a three part series titled "A Look Back at 2010". Over the next couple of weeks we will be talking about the past year; the clients that we have taken on, projects that we have done, and improvements that we feel we have made in the past year. In our post this week we will be talking about some of the projects that we have taken on in the IT side of Cage.
As another year comes to a close, the team here at Cage took some time to sit down and look back at 2010. Among the many discussions we had, we took a look at our projects from this past year and we wanted to highlight a few of them for you below.
Server 2008 migration
Yes, we know it’s almost 2011. You may be wondering why we’re bragging about rolling out a server operating system that’s three years old. Most of our clients have been running servers that were rolled out circa 2003 and it’s now getting to a point where that equipment is getting old and tired. Since SBS2008 is the latest and greatest (still), that is what we have been upgrading out clients to. Now, this is no easy task; technically speaking, it’s pretty simple, but working on it is a different story…
Windows 7
With Windows 7 being the latest and greatest operating system from the big boys over at Microsoft, you can imagine that we’ve spent a lot of time rolling these out to our clients and answering a lot of how-to questions. Yes, it looks different, but everything is mostly in the same place as it was with XP and it is very sweet, and we all have grown quite close to it, here. If you’d like to upgrade or are a current user and have questions about it, let us know and we’ll be happy to help in any way we can.
Exchange 2010
This fall we took a step to upgrade our internal email system. We have been running Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and with the release of the newest version Exchange 2010 we decided to take the plunge. It was a very good learning process. We attempt to run most processes on our own network and server, before rolling them out to clients, so we have a thorough working knowledge of new products and systems before it touches any of our customer’s networks.
Barracuda Anti-Spam
Are you sick and tired of getting emails about “\/|@gr@”? Yeah, so were we. This past summer, we rolled out a Barracuda Anti-Spam system for one of our close clients and let me tell you, it’s one kick-butt spam-blocker. It’s relatively inexpensive and is up and running in about 30 minutes. The way this works is we point all your mail to hit this device first before it even connects to your servers. This keeps all the bad stuff out and only lets through the stuff that you need and care about. If you want some more information or a referral from a user of the system, let us know and we’ll get you the hook-up.
