Best Practices From The Spiceworks IT Network September 2008 Running A Sound IT Shop
Jan 20, 2015
Running A Sound IT Shop 2. What Well Cover I. What is Spiceworks? II. Where do these best practices come from? III.Running a sound SMB IT Shop 3.
What is Spiceworks?
Free Network Management Software For SMB 4. Who Uses Spiceworks? and 400,000 other SMB IT Pros... 5. The Value of the IT Network
6. A Tour of the Community Home Page 7. Spiceworks Community
8. Conversations 9. SpiceLists 10. Ratings and Reviews 11.
Running A Sound IT Shop
12. Sound SMB IT Shop I. Setting Up Your Network II. Setting Up Messaging III.Maintaining Your Shop IV.Supporting Your Users V. Documentation 13. Part I: Setting Up Your Network
14. Part I: Naming Your PCs
15. Part I: Setting Up Your Network
16. Part I: Network Closets How does your network closet look? 17. Part I: Network Closets We asked.... 18. Part I: Running Cable
19. Part I: Designing A Server Room
20. Part I: Setting Up Your Network
21. Part I: Connecting To The Internet
22. Part I: Setting Up Your Network
23. Part I: User Access Control
24. Part I: User Name Schemes Plan For Growth. Avoid Problems Later First Initial Last Name jsmith First Initial, Middle Initial, First 5 characters of last name jhsmith First 5 chars of last name, 2 chars of first name smithjo First Name.Last Name John.Smith First char of First Name First 2 chars of Last Name JSM / JS2 / JS3 Department, machine type, initials, computer # DeLaJS01 25. Sound SMB IT Shop I. Setting Up Your Network II. Setting Up Email III.Maintaining Your Shop IV.Supporting Your Users V. Documentation 26. Part II: Setting Up Email
27. Part II: Hosted vs Internal
Buying Guide / Reviews 28. Part II: Setting Up Messaging
29. Part II: Email Server Software
30. Part II: Setting Up Messaging
31. Part II: Anti-Spam Solutions Buying Guide / Reviews SpiceList 32. Sound SMB IT Shop I. Setting Up Your Network II. Setting Up Messaging III. Maintaining Your Shop IV.Supporting Your Users V. Documentation 33. Part III: Maintaining Your Shop
34. Part III: Backup Strategy
35. Part II: Online Storage Cable Contest Submission Product Pages / Comparisons 36. Part III: Maintaining Your Shop
37. Part II: Backup Software Best investment we ever made, easiest and most reliable way to backup and restore servers or even migrate to VMware... Acronis True Image Enterprise Server JB Awesome for recovery and can be used for incrementals to mount image to pull just one file.Easier than ghost! adamroof 38. Sound SMB IT Shop I. Setting Up Your Network II. Setting Up Messaging III.Maintaining Your Shop IV. Supporting Your Users V. Documentation 39. Part IV: Supporting Your Users
40. Part IV: Help Desk Adoption
41. User Avoidance Techniques 42. Sound SMB IT Shop I. Setting Up Your Network II. Setting Up Messaging III.Maintaining Your Shop IV.Supporting Your Users V. Documentation 43. Part V: Documentation
44. Part V: Documentation 45.
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