SBS 2008

Affordable, Integrated Solution

Windows Small Business Server 2008 is designed for small businesses. It is designed to work with existing technology, build on Microsoft best practices, and deliver a comprehensive network at an affordable price.

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• Have virtually anytime, anywhere access to your business desktop, including e-mail, files, business applications, and more.

• Share resources and equipment, such as Internet access, printers, and fax machines, to get the most value from your technology investments.

• Enjoy compatibility and scalability. As your business needs change, Windows Small Business Server 2008 can change with you—easily add users, servers, and applications, or expand into other Microsoft technologies.

• Work more efficiently and add more value to your business with an integrated administrative console.

• Work confidently with a top performing network based on Windows Server 2008 technologies.

Protect Your Business Data

Windows Small Business Server 2008 helps protect your vital business information from loss, by backing up the data on your network and helping enable you to recover accidentally deleted files.

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• Use antivirus and anti-spam protection to help protect your information from malicious attacks, viruses, and spam.

• Keep your computers and servers current and your network healthy and up to date with the latest updates.

• Get better control over your business and business information with daily and weekly reports alerting you on the health and security of your technology. A single administrative console gives you or your IT consultant a daily view of PCs and servers and makes it easier to manage common IT tasks.

• Get an at-a-glance snapshot of the security and health of your PCs and servers from a 'green check' report.

Grow Your Business Capacity

Windows Small Business Server 2008 gives you highly secure access to business contacts, calendars, e-mail, files, and other important desktop resources from any Internet-connected computer, virtually anywhere at any time, so you can be productive while you’re away from the office or on the road.

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• Improve your day-to-day efficiency by using a central repository for storing and sharing information.

• Connect with customers, vendors, and suppliers easily and professionally, with access to contacts, appointments, and files from any Internet-connected computer or a Windows Mobile–powered smartphone, so you can be responsive even when you are away from the office.

• Create a bigger business presence with online marketing tools from Microsoft Office Live Services Small Business*, so you can differentiate your business and present a more professional image to your customers.

* To learn more about market and language availability, visit the Editions page.

New Acting Branch Manager

Andy Liu has been promoted to Acting Branch Manager at our Berkhamsted Branch, The KCS TEAM wish him the very best of luck as he transitions into this new role.

Here is a little bit that you may not know about Andy:-

Describe yourself in three words:

Chinese, Loveable, Panda


How do you relax away from work:

I play music to chill out and I also lead an airsoft team, a cross between paintballing and military simulation.

What is your favourite:

Movie: Monsters Inc. No really, it has everything a film needs.
Book: It’s a Chinese one, you won’t know it.

What was your first computer:

Some beige fridge look-alike with MMX processor... hardcore

Who is the funniest person you have ever met:

Certainly not Anthony Jones, he bullies me at work. And also out of work. It used to be so easy with Childline... My best friend is the funniest person, we would have a laughing fit over nothing.

What did you want to do when you were younger:

When I was really young it was out of being a Tennis Player, an Astronaut or a Fire Fighter. When I was aged 11 my best friend came over and we destroyed a PC... and fixed it. From then on I wanted to become someone who worked hard in I.T. 12 years on and I’m now doing it.

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What motivates you:

Family – I see my parents and I thank them for every day they have given me, and my little sisters as I strive to become the perfect (often drunk) role model for them.

For those of you who have not yet had the pleasure of meeting Andy, please pay him and his team a visit at our Berkhamsted Offices.

Office 2010: What's changed since beta

Several members of Microsoft's Office team dropped by CNET on Tuesday to deliver the final version of Office 2010 and talk about the changes that the company made since the beta test version.
To be clear, not a whole lot has changed in the version that was finalized earlier this month from the public beta version that has been downloaded some 7.5 million times. The final version of Office 2010, in its many flavors, will be made available to businesses on May 12 and hit store shelves for consumers in June.
Perhaps the most notable shift since beta is the fact that Outlook's new conversation view is no longer turned on by default.

"It clearly works, in some cases," said Microsoft group product manager Chris Bryant. "It clearly doesn't work for everyone. We'll let those folks who want the conversation view find it and turn it on."
My 2 cents is that it is a feature worth trying, at a minimum. A few pet peeves aside, I find this to be one of the most useful improvements in the new Outlook.
One other change Microsoft made was in the nomenclature of its file menu, changing the "share" option to "save and send."
"People didn't understand what 'share' meant," Bryant said.
That follows on the decision to restore the file menu itself, which had been replaced with an Office logo in the initial test versions of 2010.
I did get a clarification on co-authoring that surprised me, though Microsoft says it is not new. I knew that Word only allows one person to be working in any given paragraph at a time, even when collaborating. What I didn't realize is that the co-authoring features in Word and PowerPoint are only in the desktop applications, not in the browser-based Office Web Apps that are due out in June.
That strikes me as a blow to Microsoft's effort to take on some of the collaboration scenarios that are some of the most popular uses of Google Docs.
As is often the case with beta software, one must uninstall the beta and then reinstall the final version of Office 2010. But what I appreciated was the fact that a lot of data and settings are preserved. For example, I was still able to pull up the most recent documents and see the Word files I was working on using the beta. Likewise, my e-mail in Outlook picked up right where I left off, remembering my settings, password, etc.
For those wondering about those browser-based Web Apps, consumers should be able to get their hands on it about the same time in June, as Office hits store shelves. Businesses can run the Web apps today by installing the new SharePoint on their servers, while those looking to have Microsoft host an enterprise version of the Web Apps will have to wait until the SharePoint Online service moves to the 2010 version later this year.

KCS Launch Their Web Design Division

We are very pleased to announce the birth of our new Website Design division, this is another quality service from KCS and we look foward to implementing this as a tool within your business.


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