New Research Reveals the Top Skills of C Level Executives at High Performing Organizations

What sets the highest executives apart at successful companies? A recent study by the American Management Association, “AMA Research: Business Skills That Set High-Performing Organizations Apart,” details the skill sets necessary for C-level executives to raise the bar on company performance.

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How to Manage PowerShell Remote Access with SharePoint Server 2013

Have you ever been tasked to do a certain job, but were restricted or prevented from doing it because of the lack of tools or authorization? Many IT administrators who consult or attend training have stories to share about the impediments to using the full power of Windows PowerShell for automating system tasks. There are some ways around this. Although there are many options, we’ll focus on one technique for opening up the use of PowerShell for certain kinds of SharePoint administration.

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CISSP Question of the Week: Secure Communications

Bob manages the sales department. Most of his sales representatives travel among several client sites. He wants to enable these sales representatives to check the shipping status of their orders online. This information currently resides on the company intranet, but it is not accessible to anyone outside the company firewall. Bob has asked you to accomplish this. You decide to create an extranet to allow these employees to view their customers’ order status and history. Which technique could you use to secure communications between network segments sending order-status data via the Internet?

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