Posts by Vanburen

Yes, we know Active Directory cloud sync is a MESS, says Microsoft

Re: But does it work?

When we moved from SBS to 2012 essentials, we ditched AD entirely. As we weren't using much of the functionality, besides centralised login and didn't want the overhead of dealing with AD.

We are also using Google Apps, which I see as being a potential alternative to AD in some ways (at least in a limited sense). What would be nice, is if some company came up with a way to enable centralised login on Windows machines, but against the Google Apps back end instead of AD.

Google frees Gmail updates from Android

Apps

Hopefully they will do this for the other Google apps such as gtalk, google calendar etc. as well

Intel snaps up McAfee in $7.68bn deal

Symantec

To be fair it seems Norton is at least getting better:

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/08/19/norton-kaspersky-share-top-spot-in-q2-testing-of-antivirus-apps/

McAfee still sucks though

Malware protection for the rest of us

Is clear cloud any good?

Is Clear Cloud any good? (http://www.clearclouddns.com/)

I use Google DNS at the moment, and to be honest don't notice any real difference in speed/increased security over the ISP one

Ditch the malware magnet

PDF Creator

You could try PDF Creator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

It can creat PDF's and can be used to create a single pdf from multiple different files