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2008 has been a year of launches for Microsoft and they are continuing to roll with the recent release of SQL Server 2008 (volume licensing) and the forthcoming release of the new Windows Small Business Server 2008 later this year. With so many large...

Symantec is pleased to announce that in their ongoing efforts to improve their customers’ licensing experience, we are reducing the number of steps required to activate a product. For products where they supply keys with the certificate or Software Version...

Info on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V is only available for x64 editions of Windows Server 2008 RTM. If you are using a version of Windows Server 2008 that is pre-RTM, you will need to perform a clean install of Windows Server...

CA Goes Green In an effort to go "green," effective July 1, 2008 CA has decided to eliminate the physical mailing of certain documentation, if an alternative is available. As part of this effort, CA will no longer be shipping tangible Open License...

Is Traditional Antivirus Software Now Defunct? The increasing occurrence of malware, and the rising popularity of working from home offices combine to present new challenges for IT security management. This white paper evaluates the future of traditional...

When your customers purchase Acrobat Standard 8.0 and Acrobat Professional 8.0 or the suites including these products between the 2nd June 2008 and the 31st August 2008 they can claim a free of charge upgrade to version 9.0 (or CS 3.3). Your customers...

**HOT OFF THE PRESS** I'm currently sitting watching the key notes live streaming from the Microsoft WPC and have heard the release dates for the long awaited Microsoft Small Business Server 2008, Microsoft Essential Business Server 2008 and Microsoft...

**Announcement** As from July 1st 2008, physical media for Microsoft Open orders will become obsolete. Going forward, media will be available to download via the eOpen website on https://eopen.microsoft.com Please see below for instructions on how to...

I have a customer that is after SQL server for a database server to host multiple databases for websites. Does he need to licence each database (5 at the moment 100+ in the future)? If the server's are to be used on the web then they will need to...

I have a customer who has 6 servers that backups to a main storage server. They do not want to perform large backups on a certain time period but backup when any live changes occur. What is the product that can perform this? The product that they need...

Webex Reminder For those of you who were unable to attend last week’s webex, Trend Micro will be re-hosting this again tomorrow morning, Tuesday 24 th June at 11am. The purpose of the webex is to introduce the new Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security...

Hi Guys We've got a bunch of special offers this week on HP Notebooks. Please visit our new HP Hardware portal to view these and other offers we currently have http://www.bluesolutions.co.uk/hardware/hp.asp If there is any other HP Hardware that we...

I have a customer that has 50 servers and needs to know whether the Trend Worry Free Business products are limited to the amount of servers that it can be licences on and does it support Exchange Server 2007 and Server 2008? The new Trend Micro Worry...

I would like to purchase an SQL runtime licence but do not know how this works? The SQL Server Runtime licence is a licence that lets an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) embed the complete SQL server code into a solution for use only be the ISV application...

I have just received my licence certificate for Backup Exec 12 windows server with Agent for Windows, Agent for Exchange Server, Agent SQl Server and Agent for Active Directory. However some products have 2 licence keys and others only have one. Is this...