We’re down in Hollywood this week (actually in Century City, but who’s fact checking us?) for a webcast for Wizards of the Coast.
You can watch the webcast here: http://www.wizards.com/webcast
Webcast starts at 10:45 PDT on Sunday, May 25th 2008. Please come watch! You won’t see Larry, Aaron, or Justin on the webcast, but we’re here doing IT Support and Webcasting.
Hardlines is one of the first companies to implement Microsoft Windows Server 2008 locally.
Justin Heiner implemented Windows Server 2008 over the weekend of April 27th and April 28th. You can read the Case Study at Microsoft’s Website here: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000001971
If you’d like to meet with us and have a free Business Assessment, we’d love to meet with you. Please call us at 360.738.7168 and ask for Aaron Booker.
Hardlines recently did a case study for their client - The Bellingham/Whatcom Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
We did a case study on Windows Mobility (Windows Mobile 5 and Windows Mobile 6).
You can read the case study here: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000001946
If your company would like to help its mobile employees become more productive, please give us a call at 360.738.7168×104 for a free mobility evaluation.
I’m speaking at SMB Summit this year… Microsoft asked me to speak on messaging in Small Business Server 2008 (Microsoft asked us to do pre-release testing of SBS 2008 with our client, The Bellingham/Whatcom Chamber of Commerce - we’re one of only 11 Microsoft Partners in the World to be so honored)
http://smbsummit.com/speakers.html
I’m also speaking on how Windows Home Server can help back up important client PC’s on a Microsoft business network.
This year, Hardlines will be webcasting the international event, SMB Nation, live from the Microsoft conference center in Redmond. We will be webcasting 4 keynote events over the course of the two days. Tune in on Sept 29th and 30th for the webcast at this page.
Hardlines is proud to be webcasting the Terry Fox Family Headshave. Friday September 14th, the Terry Fox at Work Day is a national fundraising opportunity for workplaces across Canada to hold fundraising events for cancer research. The premiere fundraising event of Terry Fox at Work Day is The Great Canadian Headshave. All across Canada, people will be losing their locks for cancer research, in workplaces, salons and community head shave locations. Tune in to see Rolly, Betty, Darrell, Fred, and Judi have their heads shaved at this special event at Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver on September 5th at 10am PDT.
Remote Support System lets you support your customers even if they are behind firewalls and routers. With RSS you can transfer files, chat, re-boot & auto-reconnect and remotely control their PC in real-time without pre-installing software or any network changes on their side. You can even reboot the remote computer into “Safe Mode”. Hardlines is a proud affiliate of RSS. To sign up to use RSS, click on the image link to the right.
We’ve already received a large number of attendees for our seminar and open house. If you would like to register for this Friday’s free Mobility Seminar, please give us a call at 360.738.7168 or shoot us an email at events@hardlines.com and we’ll get you signed up. See you there! Click on the flyer to your right for the full pdf.
June 8th Event:
Hardlines Company
510 Carolina Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
You won’t want to miss this afternoon full of activities! On June 8th we will be holding another mobility seminar followed by an open house party. This event will focus on the integration of smartphones with Microsoft Small Business Server. This solution will give you new remote working capabilities as well as Microsoft Office in the palm of your hand. We will be discussing Windows Mobile and Palm devices, Microsoft Small Business Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Microsoft Office. Please come to our open house and celebrate our move to a great new location as well as six successful years in business.Registration will be at 1:45, and the seminar will begin at 2pm and go until 4:30 - but don’t leave! At 5:30pm we’ll be having a ribbon-cutting with the Chamber of Commerce, along with a luau barbecue and refreshments! Also, you definitely won’t want to miss out on our drawing after the ribbon-cutting. Participate for your chance to win a free Treo 700wx - that’s a $300 value - as well as iPods, tshirts, and more! Don’t miss this fun and free event with your favorite local webhosting and IT Support Company. If you’d like to attend, please register by clicking here (http://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=118227).
We’ll see you there!
On May 30th we’ll be holding a Mobilize Your Workforce seminar. Hardlines will be presenting mobile solutions that will integrate with the email services you already have. We will show you how to increase your productivity and office integration simply by switching your cell phone over to a “smartphone” like a Treo 700wx. Smartphone devices can help you manage your email anywhere, anytime and put your entire address book and calendar into the palm of your hand. Let us put the power of these amazing new devices to work for you! There will also be some great give-aways, iPod Nanos and Shuffles, so don’t miss out. Registration will begin at 11:40am, and the seminar will begin at 12noon. There will be a one hour seminar with lunch provided. If you’d like to attend, please register by clicking here (http://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=118226).
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Hardlines is moving it’s offices today from the Ohio Work Studios to 510 Carolina Street. Not to worry, we will have someone answering phones, and will be reading our email and support tickets. Stay tuned for an invitation to a Office Warming BBQ at our new office.
Earlier this week, ICANN revoked the accreditation for a big name in domain registrations, RegisterFly. This comes amongst many months of scandal and drama at RegisterFly (and parent company, UnifiedNames). If you have any domain names registered at RegisterFly, we must suggest that you immediately take action to move the domains to a different registrar. Hardlines can assist in this process in any way possible, however, it is important to act soon. For more information, please refer to the following sites: RegisterFlies, and StopUnifiedNames, and a story at BusinessWeek.
This afternoon Hardlines will be presenting at an event jointly organized by Technology Alliance Group and Microsoft. Chris Avis of Microsoft will be there to make a presentation on the new features of Windows Vista, and Office 2007 suite, and it will be followed by a luncheon at Lakeway Inn, in Bellingham WA. Come check out the 42’ Microsoft Across America Truck (see the picture) and play around a bit with the new operating system and software suite. The truck will be located outside Lakeway Inn between 11:30am and 4:30pm. We hope to see you there!
