Second Annual List recognizes IT Solution Providers with deep technical expertise and premier certifications in North America
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina – February 21, 2012 – eGroup, Inc. announced today it has been named to CRN’s annual list of the Tech Elite 250 for the second year in a row. Companies on the 2012 Tech Elite 250 list represent an elite group of IT Solution Providers that have invested in the training and education needed to earn the most technical certifications in the IT Channel.
In compiling the list, CRN editors worked with the UBM Channel research group and a team outside experts to define the most customer-beneficial technical certifications in the IT channel. These technical certifications have enabled solution providers to deliver the most premium products, service and support to their North American customers. Read more >>
The Charleston SharePoint Users Group (CHSSPUG) is back! Come for an eGroup sponsored Lunch and Learn on Valentine’s Day 2012! Please RSVP and indicate how many people you are bringing so we can plan for you.
Who is this meeting for? We would like to see everyone from power users to advanced users and developers at this meeting!
Where is it meeting? We will be meeting in Room 120 at the Lowcountry Graduate Center:
Lowcountry Graduate Center
5300 International Blvd
Building B, Suite 100, Room 120
North Charleston, SC 29418
What’s the agenda? Due to feedback from the last meeting, these sessions will start at a lower level, but will quickly progress to more advanced features. This will give everyone a chance to learn something from each session.
10:00AM – Introduction to Document Management
11:15AM – Workflows
12:30PM – Lunch/Networking
13:30PM – Developing and Extending Document Management features
Ask the Experts! The founder of the Charleston SharePoint Users Group and internation speaker, Paul Swider, will be speaking at this meeting, along with several other SharePoint experts! Don’t miss an opportunity to get all of your tough questions answered!
REGISTER
Midwinter in the Lowcountry is highlighted by both a busy schedule for both road races and oyster roasts. This year, the month will conclude with a “race & roast” (to benefit Mount Pleasant Land Conservancy) on the gorgeous trails of Oakland Plantation. So you may want to pencil this into your running schedule.
RACE & ROAST – 5K Trail Run and Oyster Roast
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. –The Race & Roast at Oakland Plantation is a 5K trail run and oyster roast benefiting the Mount Pleasant Land Conservancy (MPLC), sponsored by eGroup. The public can participate in just one or both events. It all takes place at the same beautiful location in Mount Pleasant starting at 12:30pm on Sunday, February 26th.
The inaugural 5K trail run will wind through the 132 acre forest at Oakland Plantation that is permanently preserved by a conservation easement held by the MPLC. The run will begin and finish under the avenue of oaks that line the main drive to this seldom seen private historic plantation. Registered runners will receive a race t-shirt and one complimentary beer ticket for the post event. The Race will begin at 12:30pm. Awards will be given out after the race to the top three finishers in each age category. Read more >>
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Many of you already know of my love for ScriptLogic’s Desktop Authority and if you don’t you can certainly read about why I think it’s great here, but today I wanted to point out perhaps a lesser known product that can make life as an IT administrator much easier. ScriptLogic’s Privilege Authority is the perfect tool for allowing your users to have the rights to do their jobs without giving them the keys to bring down the network or their PC. In my experience as an admin in the past it was always an all or nothing deal, we either locked down the desktops so tight that they couldn’t install anything and we got a million calls a day need permission to install this app or ActiveX blah blah and it was a nightmare… We spent more time installing things than we did actually fixing things. On the flip side eventually you cave and just make them an administrator of their local machine only to come back and see that antivirus is disabled because it makes things “slow” or they had installed every toolbar ever and a thousand games.
Privilege Authority bridges that gap, giving users a configurable amount of rights to their machines without giving them the keys to the whole world. We can let them install ActiveX controls, of course only the ones that we are okay with, likewise for additional applications or even certain windows processes. We can get as granular as we want on the different privileges they have down to users, computers, network subnets, etc. Sometimes its little things that you don’t even think about take the use case below for example provided by the ScriptLogic team.
A School District had granted the students admin rights on the workstations and they thought they were secure. What they didn’t know was that in Windows 7 you can check a box to reveal wireless passwords if you have admin rights. This features existence became known when a student figured it out and tweeted the WPA2 wireless password thus causing a major security breech. They now needed to lock down all machines but the students need rights for a certain application thus leading them to Privilege Authority to solve exactly this issue
Here is the issue in Windows 7.
Wireless Network Security Key Flaw
When the Wireless LAN Network Keys have already been entered into the system, a normal user with administrative rights (to the local machine) can in fact goes into the Wireless network properties and view the entered Network Security Key.
This is due to a checkbox located conveniently below the Network Security Key, named Show Characters. By clicking on this checkbox, the user actually can have the network security key displayed in clear text!
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprosecurity/thread/c5900c75-c031-4e02-9350-df7cb65bce04/
I don’t know about the readers out there but this is something that I don’t think I would have ever thought of and sometimes it’s the little things like this that get you! One last thing before I end my rant… ScriptLogic has a cool video that I think if fitting for all this. Check it out LOL!
IT Admin Gets Trolled
Thursday, February 9, 2012, 9:00 AM PST
IT management must change. Traditional tools and processes designed for siloed, static physical infrastructures don’t provide the automation and control needed for inherently dynamic virtualized and cloud infrastructures. By building management directly into the VMware vSphere® platform, we’ve already transformed the way you manage your infrastructure. The next step is to automate operations using an integrated approach to performance, capacity and configuration management with patented analytics. This unique approach delivers the new levels of intelligence, visibility and policy-based control required to ensure service levels in dynamic virtual and cloud environments.
Attend this webcast to learn how the new VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite allows IT to:
- Dramatically simplify services
- Automate service delivery and management
Featured Speakers:
Ben Scheerer, Senior Product Manager, VMware
Vic Parker, Technical Marketing Manager, VMware
REGISTER!
The Race & Roast at Oakland Plantation is a 5K trail run and oyster roast benefiting the Mount Pleasant Land Conservancy (MPLC). You can participate in just one or both events. It all takes place at the same beautiful location in Mount Pleasant starting at 12:30 pm on Sunday, February 26th.
The inaugural 5K trail run will wind through the 132-acre forest at Oakland Plantation that is permanently preserved by a conservation easement held by the MPLC. The run will begin and finish under the avenue of oaks that lines the main drive to this seldom seen historic plantation.
Registered runners will receive a race t-shirt and one complimentary beer ticket for the post event. The Race will begin at 12:30 pm. Awards will be given out after the race to the top three finishers in each age category. Tickets to the Oyster Roast are an additional $15 for registered runners and $25 for anyone else.
The Oyster Roast is from 1pm – 4 pm on the picturesque lawn of the plantation house, and next to the start/finish line for the race. Oyster Roast tickets include live music, all-you-can-eat local oysters, Lowcountry cuisine, Palmetto Brewery beer, hay rides, kids’ activities and more…all for a great cause. Children 12 years and younger are free.
Click HERE for more details!
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