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The Microsoft Big Easy Offer |
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| Key Components of Unified Communications |
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| 10
Indispensable Microsoft Word Tips |
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| Technology Advantage™ | |
| CPR announces continued growth | |
| CPR Learning Center News | |
| Upcoming Events: | |
| • | ITMA
May Meeting - IT Measurement and its Relationship to Achieving IT Value |
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Windows Server 2008 Launch Event |
| • | Kalamazoo
2008 Business & Technology Expo |
| • | Backup
Solutions for a Virtual Server Environment Seminar |
Phone Numbers: Grand
Rapids: Kalamazoo: |
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The
Microsoft Big Easy Offer
For a limited time, earn partner subsidy funds
from Microsoft for qualifying purchases. Then use your subsidy dollars
to purchase additional services or products from CPR to enrich your solution.
The Big Easy Offer is the Microsoft Partner Subsidy program that covers
most core products and solutions, delivering great value and flexibility
for your business needs in one simple offer. This program scales to your
business, offering incremental subsidies for qualifying purchases between
February 1 and June 27, 2008. Service benefits could be deployment, training,
assessments, or solutions to meet your line of business needs. Additional
products may include software and/or hardware. Work with CPR to determine
the best solution for your business and get additional value through subsidized
services and products.
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The
Big Easy Offer provides a cost effective way to purchase the latest
Microsoft technology and delivers more value by helping you earn
subsidy dollars on each of your qualifying purchases. For more information
on this program, contact
CPR or visit http://www.microsoftincentives.com/bigeasy
for complete details. |
Key Components of Unified Communications
By: Milton Moore
There is a major new trend happening in office communications. It is called Unified Communications (UC). UC allows for easy communications across many different platforms and devices. Organizations of all sizes are seeing major productivity gains after implementing UC. Some of the key components of Unified Communications systems are: Unified Messaging, Presence, Audio/Video Conferencing, Web Collaboration and Mobility. Below is a brief overview of each component.
Unified Messaging (UM) is one of the most well known components of the solution and includes a number of useful features. UM integrates voicemail and email onto one platform. If you receive a voicemail message you have the option of retrieving it via the phone or in your email client (i.e. Microsoft Outlook) as an email with an attachment. UM has been around for many years. Another nice feature of UM is that it can work the other way around. Using the Text to Speech function it can read your emails to you while you are out of the office.
To read about the other key components of Unified Communications, click here for the full article.
10 Indispensable Microsoft Word Tips
by Chris C. Michels, Service Sales Specialist, Corporate Technologies
No matter how long you’ve been using Microsoft Word, you can always learn new techniques to help you work faster and smarter. Here are some tips and tricks for Word 97, 2000, 2002(XP), 2003, and 2007.
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Learn
to use Undo: Make a mistake? Press [Ctrl] Z or choose undo
from the Edit menu right away. Keep pressing [Ctrl] Z to backtrack
through and undo the most recent editing changes you’ve made.
In Office 2007, the undo button is on the Quick Access toolbar in
the top-left corner. Redo does double duty with the new Repeat button |
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Save
Often: Press [Ctrl] S or click Save button on the standard
toolbar. Save your work frequently. You can also instruct Word to
automatically save your work periodically. Open the Tools menu,
select Options, click the Save tab, and activate the Save Auto Recovery
Info Every Option. You can specify an interval from 1 to 120 minutes.
In Word 2007, click the Office button (in the top-left corner) and
the click the Word Options button at the bottom right of the resulting
dialog box. Now, click Save. You’ll find the Save Auto Recovery
Information Every option in the Save Documents section. |
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Quickly
Move To The Beginning Or End Of A Document: To move to
the top of a document, press [Ctrl] [Home]. To move to the bottom
of a document, press [Ctrl] [End]. |
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Paste
Plain Text: When you copy and paste text from a web page
or another document, the text brings its formatting into your document.
To get around the behavior, copy the text and place the insertion
point marker where you want to insert the copy. Then, open the Edit
menu, choose Paste Special, and select the Unformatted Text option.
In Word 2007, the Paste Special command is on the Paste drop-down
list. The Paste option is in the Clipboard group on the Home tab. |
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For more information on Technology Advantage or any of our service plans, contact us at (616)575-8500 or click here to watch our podcast.
CPR announces continued growth
CPR announces continued growth with the addition of five new teammates
Malket Nahal joined CPR's team as a Network Engineer specializing in Cisco Infrastructure, particularly Call Manager Express. Malket has over a year of experience in the technology industry and has a Bachelors degree in Computer Network Engineering from Davenport University and is also a Cisco Certified Network Associate.
In addition, CPR has hired four new teammates to fulfill various technical roles. Melissa Waites, Mike Oberholtzer, and Steve Peterson will be working at onsite accounts. Mike Stieve will be working as a repair technician in CPR’s depot department.
Each individual brings a variety of skills and experience, and first and foremost a strong commitment to customer service.
Special Training Offers
ITMA
May Meeting - Featuring National Speaker
CPR
hosts The Information Technology Management Association meetings
at our facility every month. The topic for May is IT Measurement
and its Relationship to Achieving IT Value, featuring Richard
W. Swanborg Jr., President and Founder of ICEX.
Richard will lead an in-depth discussion of the latest practices
for measuring IT performance and achieving IT value. This presentation
will provide new insights on both successful and failed attempts
for measurement programs. How IT measurement programs, and linking
them to business value, may be impossible. What tools have found
to be successful for supporting the “value discussion”.
What techniques work well in gaining value from new IT investments.
The May monthly meeting is offered only in Grand Rapids. The meeting
is at CPR on Thursday, May 8 from 8:00am to 12:00pm.
For
more information on ITMA or becoming a member, visit their website
at www.itma.net. |
To
join the May meeting as a guest, click
here. |
Heroes Happen Here
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
7:00am – 4:30pmLocation: DeVos Place
Visit CPR's booth with HP & Microsoft. Click here for more details and to register for the event.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
9:00am – 3:00pmLocation: Radison Plaza Hotel & Suites, Kalamazoo, MI
Visit CPR at booth#48. Click here for more information.
featuring Data Domain
Thursday, May 22, 2008
8:00am – 11:45pmLocation: CPR - Grand Rapids Office
Join Data Domain and CPR to hear how Data Domain helps VMware customers who are experiencing a lack of consolidated backup/disaster recovery solutions for combined .vmdk and file/application level backups; long backup times required to backup large .vmdk files; exorbitant storage costs to retain multiple backup copies of .vmdk files; and/or high replication costs.
To
learn more about the Backup Solutions for a Virtual Server
Environment Seminar, click
here. |
To
RSVP for the Backup Solutions for a Virtual Server Environment
Seminar, click
here. |