Making friends with the new CFO (or other C-Level Execs)

I hear you there! I report to the VP of Finance but work directly with the CEO for all of the IT initiatives. As far as day to day operations and approved projects I have free reign (within budget of course). I give status updates on a monthly basis, but chat with them fairly frequently. I could not be happier with this arrangement.

I took over as the I.T. Manager (now Director) a couple of years ago. I had a great working relationship with our CFO and saw many high-priority projects funded without much difficulty.
Alas, our beloved CFO has moved on and we have a new one starting in the next few days. I have had a chance to meet her, and she seems really great. She even mentioned she is driven towards new tech.
The IT Director / Manager relationship with the governing bodies is crucial to the success of an organization. Do any of you in IT Management have tips on building good working relationships with the new executives?
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Basically I don't want the icloud to show up in my library or a viewing option that lets me hide it. Everything I've tried just simply gets rid of the little cloud icon in the library. I don't want to delete the songs from icloud just so that when I'm viewing my library only the songs on the computer show.
This has been an annoying problem because like I said on my each of our seperate librarys eachothers music shows up from the icloud and we have different tastes and I don't want his stuff intermixed and playing with mine when I'm in my library.

Turn it off.
Edit > Preferences > Store > Show iTunes in the Cloud purchases

Still no full retina support, even with the new CC Apps?

Hello over there!
I just bought the full CC abo, after trying PS and Indesign and becoming a fan of the new workflow, that is possible with the upcoming new CC Apps (Muse, Edge Tools...).
Now, after getting things right and downloading the needed Apps to my Macbook Pro (15" Retina) - I was very disappointed. The updated CC version of Dreamweaver and even some of the completely new Apps still have blurry text fields and buttons/layout graphics in it. Acrobat Pro XI is still a laggy, blurry fail on retina. The Mac OS Preview is sharp and scrolls a 600 pages PDF in seconds.
I mean... Srsly? This would be okay if the retina MBP came out last month. But it came last year. I'm really a big fan of the Adobe workflow and functionality, this is why I upgraded and decided to spend some hundreds of dollars for it ( and become friends with the new and scary rent model ). But the best program is a pain, when your eyes start being overly stressed after 20 minutes of work, especially when you're already looking at hundres of code lines (And I'm 21 years old, so I'm glad to still have those good working eyes..). I remember when I fell totally in love with Dreamweaver because it was able to handle the amount of information in a good stucturized and clearly visible way. But the only really sharp and "look like it fits all together"-Apps are PS, AI and ID as far as I tried for now.
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Thanks very much for reading and helping in advance. I really do not want to troll or sound agressive. The Adobe Suite is a very very big product and it does very good. But I'm simply disappointed about the handling of retina support, which is essential for users like me.
English is not my main language, I hope everything was clear.
Best regards,
D. Fuchs

Hi David,
thank you for your effort. If I remember correctly you said you’ll also hand through this issue/question to the tech guys. Does this mean I’ll get further information? Because this article you found is about 10 month old and I’d like to get this issue verified.
Furthermore, Acrobat (XI) is not even mentioned in that article and this is what brings the most problems.
I really don’t like to be a stressing customer, but I think a official answer to this issue is definitely possible und should be made.
I’ll attach a few hardcopy pictures of the issue. Don’t know if it helps, but it proofs.
Thanks again and best regards,
D. Fuchs
Am 25.06.2013 um 01:17 schrieb David__B <[email protected]>:
Re: Still no full retina support, even with the new CC Apps?
created by David__B in Adobe Creative Cloud - View the full discussion
Hi D.
I found this http://blogs.adobe.com/creativelayer/new-macbook-pro-retina-display-su pport/
I believe has been added to Photoshop, Illustrator and Lightroom so far. Hopefully it will be added to Dreamweaver soon too.
Kind regards,
-Dave
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