Precautions to ward off the increase in attacks against small and medium size firms, where finances workstations are compromised giving an attacker access to the firms payroll and operating accounts.

The Waypoint family is enjoying the fruits of our labor, recently being recognized by the Houston Business Journal. First, we made the publication’s list of top Technology Consulting Firms in the area. Shortly after, we were named to their list of top Computer Network and System Integrators.
This year marks the first time we were named [...]

Microsoft is slated to launch the next-gen version of its communications product, Exchange 2010, this month. There’s been a lot of buzz about 2010 – everything from better archiving capabilities to improved interoperability between Outlook and Outlook Web Access (OWA).
The new release offers features that simplify administration, protect communications and meet users’ demands for greater [...]

Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system has been well received.  It appears the mistakes made with Vista are truely gone.  I have been running Windows 7 RTM for a little while now and I have been pleased with its performance and some of the new features.  Â
I do not get too excited about the O/S anymore, but [...]

So, I am finally recovering from attending the Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference in New Orleans in July.  The conference itself was well worth attending and as a Microsoft partner I am very excited to see the number of new versions of products shipping this year.
But, as attending this conference or any conference, I often struggle [...]

The latest hot topics today are virtualization and cloud computing.  It is a development that we have been waiting on for a number of years and I am excited to see it here.  We are seeing more and more midsize and small organization start to investigate virtualization and how they can use it especially in [...]

So as a Gold Certified Microsoft partner, we have built our entire practice on the Microsoft Windows platform.  As with any prudent business, we monitor our environment for upcoming changes and trends and ensure we and our clients can adopt accordingly.
Google has been a threat to Microsoft recently and it has been very interesting to [...]

Hurricane season is approaching so how does your buisness continuity plan stack up? Successful IT departments plan with the business units to get their requirements and come up with documented agreed upon SLAs. How will your plan change this year?

I recently had the experience of sitting on the opposite side of the table of the sales process and saw first hand the value to the client and the software vendor of having the right partner in the room.Â
To begin, Waypoint was hired to assist one of our clients with a software selection process for [...]

Tough economic times always fires up people’s creativity.  With scarce resources, many must think outside the box in order to get the job done.  Many IT Managers find themselves in their information technology lifecycle at the point where they must improve what they have in order to maintain or create efficiencies for the organization.  The business units have to exploit automated [...]