KKL eReport - December 2002

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December 2002

Extranets: Making It Easier for Your Clients to Do Business with You

“It’s always easier to get business from existing clients than it is to get business from new clients.” This old truism is looking fresher during these lean times, when many firms are looking for ways to encourage client loyalty. There is one approach being widely applied in many industries today that law firms haven’t yet taken much advantage of. more...

Online Backups – The New Wave in Backup Technology

Today most law firms and many legal departments back up all their data the traditional way via a tape backup system. Set up correctly with the proper administration, this is a perfectly reliable approach to backing up all types of data. However, there is now an alternative approach when it comes to data protection. more...

What Attorneys Need—a tragic comedy

Tim Stoppard’s new law office satire ponders the absurdity of implementing solutions without first assessing user needs. Theatre critics hailed it “a no-brainer for getting technology that works.” Read the play and judge for yourself by clicking here.

The “What,” Why” and “How” of Personal VPNs, Part II

This is the second part of a two-part article discussing Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), focusing on issues to consider when implementing a VPN. The first part of the article was published in the July issue of eReports and focused on how users can access their firm’s network remotely.

VPNs are becoming more and more of a necessity as firms respond to the demands of clients, who have become accustomed to mobile computing in their own businesses and expect rapid responses. more...

KKL Software Releases ezClean Version 3.2 Beta

KKL Software announces the beta release of ezClean 3.2, a new version of KKL's metadata cleaner. The new software adds the ability to detect and clean metadata found in Microsoft PowerPoint presentations to its established capabilities in Word and Excel. Version 3.2 also integrates more tightly with Document Management Systems such as iManage and DOCS Open, for the first time permitting users to save cleaned documents directly into their DMS. Users can also now differentiate between email they are sending internally versus externally by specifying that ezClean automatically screen only messages sent outside their organization.

Microsoft Office 11 Beta

KKL is part of Microsoft’s beta test of its new version of Office and our in-house testing is already underway. We will report our findings and observations early in the New Year.

This Month's Answer
Documents created in Microsoft PowerPoint contain several types of hidden metadata, including the author's name, author's initials, company name, computer name, server name, comments and any embedded objects. Microsoft’s guide to deleting these metadata is located at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;314800 See also the item in this issue on KKL’s latest update to ezClean, which also deletes metadata from PowerPoint presentations.

Question of the Month
	Much has been made about hidden metadata in Microsoft Word documents (it exists in Excel, too). Do Microsoft PowerPoint presentations also contain hidden metadata?
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Happy Holidays

As we look back at an eventful year and forward to spending time with family and friends over the coming weeks, KKL wishes all our clients and friends very Happy Holidays and a prosperous, peaceful New Year.