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ClimateNE & Climate Change Schools Project support the move to a low-carbon, resilient economy and help businesses avoid risk and realise commercial opportunities. Posts by Jen Atkinson, Krista McKinzey and Harriet Thew » If Swine Flu does hit hard in the winter it could have a huge impact on the economy with some analysts predicting a 7% decrease when we were just starting to ponder a recovery. A few simple steps should be looked at that will give you the flexibility to keep your staff working from home whilst not infecting the rest of the workforce.
Many people have remote access to mail through outlook web access and on their phones and this will go some way to keeping things moving but what about true remote access. MCWare have found that unless you can offer a solution that looks and feels exactly like the system users are used to they are unlikely to use it properly. What are these solutions: -
Remote Desktop - This is a feature offered by Microsoft Servers but beware you will need to purchase terminal sever licenses for each user who wants to use it. Also you will need plenty of lovely internet bandwidth and around 32mb of RAM (memory) for each user.
We prefer VMWARE view see http:\\www.mcware.co.uk for an explanation. If you leave the office and you are in the middle of a report, what you get home and fire up the remote connection the cursor will be flashing where you left it. True remote working.
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