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15% Off Exchange Hosting With Sharepoint For All New Accounts

By M2 | January 28, 2010

15% Off Exchange Hosting with SharePointMicrosoft Exchange Hosting and Exchange Hosted Services with SharePoint provides a complete messaging and collaboration system that can be quickly, and easily integrated within your existing network infrastructure or hosting platform. As you are aware, all M2Technology hosting accounts include standard POP & SMTP E-mail (and Webmail too). Exchange Hosting takes this up a few “notches” by offering advanced features that are PERFECT for conducting business.

Automatically Sync your contacts, mailbox, calendar and tasks between Outlook, Outlook Web Access (Webmail that looks and feels like Outlook!), and any compatible mobile device. Our Standard 3GB of Storage per/user, per/account is great for large email stores.

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M2Technology Provides Exchange Hosting and Exchange Hosted Services with SharePoint

By M2 | January 20, 2010

M2Technology MS Exchange Hosting with SharePointM2Technology is pleased to announce our newest service offering — Exchange 2007 Hosting and Exchange Hosted Services with SharePoint. As a Pittsburgh provider of business-class web and E-mail hosting services, we continually strive to expand on our managed IT service offerings. We are very enthusiastic about the benefits that Hosted Exchange services will bring to businesses and organizations.  Performance based communications without the traditional hardware and software expense!

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M2Technology Offers MailFoundry Spam and Virus Filtering

By M2 | December 6, 2007

M2Technology Offers MailFoundry Spam and Virus FilteringM2Technology is pleased to announce the introduction of MailFoundry Spam and Virus filtering services. As a Pittsburgh based provider of web hosting services we are committed to our customers e-mail security. With this in mind we are very excited about the addition of MailFoundry security appliances to our network. MailFoundry is an industry leading hardware-based spam and virus filtering solution that allows for Enterprise level e-mail security.

Of greatest concern for our hosting customers is the issue of dealing with Spam. In order to minimize this problem, we have implemented an industry leading solution.

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BlackBerry Pearl 8100 Cell Phone Review

By Mr.Mac | May 18, 2007

BlackBerry Perl 8100Recently, our company has invested in providing a BlackBerry Pearl 8100 to all of the technicians. At first, I have to admit, I was skeptical about the whole concept. My skepticism came in many areas….how can my fat fingers and thumbs work the keys? How accessible do I really want to be? After using an Axim for a few years, how will I get along without Word and Excel? These were just a few of my initial concerns.

After I got it, I discovered a few really great features and I have to admit, I’m really warming up to the little device and its making my life a little bit easier. One of the main requirements for purchasing the BlackBerry was to have immediate access to customer support emails. As a technician, I’m not always in front of Outlook or Webmail, so I need to know if someone’s having a problem. This is one of the areas where this little device has become a major tool in my IT toolbox. I have to admit, it took a little playing and customizing to get it exactly where I wanted it to be.

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SSL VPN How-To: SSL-Explorer On FreeBSD

By Mr.Mac | August 6, 2006

FreeBSD SSL VPN Using SSL-ExplorerAs with most small companies, there are two and a half factors that have great importance when evaluating a product for your own use. The first is the funcitionality of the product. Will it do what it’s supposed to do and do it well. The second factor is sometimes the first question…How much does it cost? And that “half” factor that I put out there is the frustration factor. All of these are related.How much does something cost? For this price, I get this functionality–OK. But also, for this price, I am getting a certain level of frustration in implementing the solution. A lot of times, when the frustration level increases, our willingness to increase what we’re willing to pay is affected. Any way, you see where this is going, and you haven’t come here to hear my less-than collegiate babbling about micro/macro economics of a small company.

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E-Commerce and Online Sales – On The Rise

By M2 | May 11, 2006

E-Commerce & Online Sales - On The RiseThe Internet offers exciting potential for developing new sales potential for your companies products and/or services. Business owners are quickly recognizing the fact that their websites have the potential to reach a greater number of consumers than all other forms of traditional brick-and-mortar sales outlets.

This is exciting stuff! Because of today’s technology it is no longer necessary to spend large sums of money in order to develop a full fledge storefront – albeit, not a “traditional storefront.”

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Web Design – Establish Your Credibility

By M2 | May 11, 2006

Web Design - Establish Your CredibilityAs a professional working in a highly technical field I am passionate about great design and functional, efficient programming. I often stand on my “soap-box” espousing the need for websites that “do things” and designs that have visual impact. To me these are the key ingredients for a successful website and Internet presence.

The Internet offers exciting potential for client interaction with your business or organization. Because of this I always stress to clients that their websites have tremendous potential as a marketing tool. The Internet has developed into an entity of mass promotion that typically reaches a greater number of potential clients than other forms of advertising. Essentially, your website can be a 24 hour – 7 day a week marketing powerhouse that efficiently promotes your services and/or products.

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Novell – The Network Operating System

By M2 | May 3, 2006

NovellThe power of networking, having total control over the way computers speak to one another, share information, make resources available and handle the complexities of user administration – These are just some of the strong suits of Novell.

Novell offers a wide array of applications that allow for a tremendous amount of user productivity. A perfect example is GroupWise, the popular collaboration software that provides users with e-mail, calendaring, instant messaging, task management, and contact and document management functions. As an alternative to Microsoft Exchange, GroupWise has a huge fan base of users that recognize the overall value, functionality, security and reliability.

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