Winter is nearly upon us!  The days are starting to heat up for everybody here in the IT/MIS departments.  We say this over and over, but our busy season is starting now and will start to tail off in March.  We have some very exciting projects planned for this winter.  Johnston and Ames are getting new servers to run their dispatch program.  We are installing 20-22 new PC's across the company.  With our theories on "trickle-down" computer replacement that means in excess of 35 computers will be jockeyed between users.  These projects alone should take us well into February.

The SPAM situation around here has really started to get better.  We upgraded our mail server in April and up until the first week of November we were rejecting an average of 70% of the unsolicited mail directed at our domains.  The software vendor that makes our e-mail server has since come out with an updated scanning method that has enabled us to identify upwards of 90% of unsolicited email.  Coupled with some simple to set up message rules in Outlook Express, we are really cleaning up users' inboxes!  If you still have SPAM problems and would like to try the solution we've developed, contact John Beaderstadt or myself and we'll get you going. 

Jamie and Candace continue to make great strides in the Viewpoint arena.  We have completed so many custom reports, as well as tweaks and upgrades to the software itself.  I couldn't be more proud of the job everybody has done to make this system work!  One of the bigger things on the horizon with Viewpoint is network scanning of the paper trail…more to come on that subject in the coming months!

That's the quick and dirty rundown for this issue.  If you're in Brooklyn stop and see us.  As always, call if there is anything we can do!