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When Microsoft shuts you down and other IT horror stories

SearchCIO-Midmarket.com Staff
10.30.2008
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Vampires? Ghosts? Monsters? These creatures of the night may haunt your nightmares -- but what about what's lurking in your IT department? Nothing is scarier than losing control of some critical aspect of IT -- well, except for possibly an auditor … or your boss.

Imagine being locked out of your system by someone on your own IT staff? Or losing a half-day's work after client access licenses suddenly and mysteriously became corrupted? What about struggling through the compliance maze and getting audited -- twice?

We have compiled a list of the top five most chilling midmarket tales (and the subsequent words of caution) from those who lived to tell about them.

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For one CTO, Microsoft client access licenses were inadvertently corrupted overnight (apparently by Microsoft), halting company productions for five hours. Could it happen to you?

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Personal digital assistants (PDAs), the most ubiquitous unified communications weapon, sometimes trade messaging flexibility for regulatory compliance rules.

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Dynamic Systems Inc. CIO Will McManus learned about software license audits the hard way. He was audited -- twice.

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Want to keep your unified communications as secure as possible? Start at the most vulnerable spot: the Office Communications Server edge server.

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