One of the low hanging fruits of Green IT recommendations is to replace the 'printer at each desk' model with the 'fewer, higher-capacity printers shared amongst an office' model. In my office, we've been trying to follow this recommendation in order to save electricity, reduce maintenance, and provide printers with increased capabilities to my users. Unfortunately, it's not … [Read more...]
RSoP and GPResult – Must-Know Tools When Using Group Policy
RSoP, Resultant Set of Policy, and GPResult are two of those tools you absolutely have to know about if you're using Group Policy in your environment or you'll wish you had known about it sooner. Through the Group Policy Management Console you can see all the settings that a specific GPO will apply to machines and users in that OU but because the Active Directory is … [Read more...]
Mini-Golf to Advertise Your Site
I'm having trouble recalling an episode of a TV show, perhaps Simpsons or Futurama, where the main joke of a scene was that advertisers realized what valuable real estate the tongue was and they started putting ads on people's tongues. If I had been able to remember that show (or you tell me in the comments) and embed a clip (assuming it actually exists), it would have been the … [Read more...]
Book Review: CompTIA Strata Green IT
CompTIA just recently announced their CompTIA Strata Green IT certification and as this has been what my job involves lately, I decided to jump on in and see if I could get the certification as soon as possible. The exam certifies that you as an IT Professional have... A specialized knowledge of current IT methodologies The ability to develop, deploy, and calculate true ROI … [Read more...]
PowerPoint Print Out Cuts Off Notes and Blanks Slides
I had an interesting case come across my desk earlier this week involving PowerPoint. It seemed this person wanted to print out the slides along with the notes that they had made. Actually, it gets a little more complicated than that. High-ranking administrator had originally created the PowerPoint and put notes along with each of the slides. After that, the slides were handed … [Read more...]