McDowell Consulting LLC

11/29/2017

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/office_sustained_engineering/2017/11/16/end-of-support-for-the-excel-and-powerpoint-Viewers-and-the-office-compatibility-pack/

The Excel viewer, PowerPoint viewer, PowerPoint 2007 viewer, and the Office Compatibility Pack will be retired in April, 2018. At that time, they will no longer be available for download and will no longer receive security updates. Microsoft recommends using these applications to view Excel or Power...

10/11/2017

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/iaitam-head-dont-buy-scapegoating-by-former-equifax-head-in-testimony-to-congress-300531079.html

CANTON, Ohio, Oct. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- When the former CEO of Equifax testified before Congress...

10/03/2017

Great information that can be applied to building dashboards in ZENworks Reporting Server.

Everyone loves a great dashboard, one that gives users the answers they need and requires little effort to understand. You get at-a-glance insights that can be acted on quickly and also let you drill deeper for more detail. Delivering the right information, in the right context is key. Unfortunately...

07/15/2017

Always read your T&Cs!

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05/15/2017

All-American Sports Posters® (a division of AllAmerican Publishing) focuses exclusively on helping high schools raise additional funding through uniquely designed full-color schedule posters, pocket schedules, and other products.

05/08/2017

The implementation of service support standards provides organizations with the opportunity to differentiate their business and service offerings from their competitors.

04/07/2017

Just when you think you have everything settled and running smoothly in your asset management program, something changes: deployments alter your inventory counts, new software titles are introduced and upgrades keep coming; manufacturers change license models including transitioning to the cloud, po...

03/21/2017

When working with Imaging Toolkit, VMware can be a great help, as it allows you to take snapshots (so you can go back and repeat steps more easily), and comes with built-in network connectivity (which makes it easier when creating base images) and does not require any special drivers (again, this he...

03/11/2017

Interesting information about changes in Firefox. I use the ESR (Extended Support Release) version because it's supported for a longer period of time by other applications, such as ZENworks.
https://www.klaus-hartnegg.de/gpo/firefox52.html

Version 52 of Firefox is special in several aspects

01/17/2017

uajay explains how to calculate the Primary User on a machine based on the number of user logins, the amount of time the user is logged in, or the designated user... +read more