Remote Desktop Services
With businesses attaining more WAN bandwidth and businesses trust with hosted services increasing, Microsoft is investing heavily in Remote Desktop Services. Renamed from Terminal Services to Remote...
View ArticleWhere To Start With Infrastructure Monitoring
Recently I spent time revisiting our monitoring system. It needed a little bit of TLC and some of the staff wasn’t clear on exactly how it works and does its magic. As a follow-up, I thought it might...
View ArticleAre you ready for Windows 10?
Recently we started disabling the Windows 10 pop-ups for our MSP clients. We just feel that Windows 10 isn’t ready for the corporate environment. There are a few troubling things about it. The...
View ArticleOffice 2013 Activation error of death solved!
O365 Office 2013 Activation error code 0x8004FC12 This is something that has been annoying me for a while. It only happens on my home computer and will not go away. I’ve tried reinstalling setting up...
View ArticleAnother layer of protection: Cryptolocker and other malware
Preventative Workstation protection: This virus launches from a specific location on the workstation, thus it’s recommended to add a group policy setting to block it from Windows Vista/7/8 and from XP....
View ArticleVeeam v9 New Features
From: http://blog.mwpreston.net/2015/11/09/veeam-v9-what-we-know-so-far/ Unlimited Scale-out Backup Repository This is perhaps one the biggest features included within v9 – all to often we see...
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Windows 10 Upgrade Path
Now that Windows 10 Version 1511 (first major patch) is out, we can look at potential upgrade paths for the OS. For those of you that didn’t know, this version allows for the use of keys from Windows...
View ArticleWindows 10 Major Update Highlights
Windows Update for Business enables control over the deployment of updates within organizations while ensuring devices are kept current and security needs are met, at reduced management cost. Features...
View ArticleWireless Myths
Myth #1: “The only interference problems are from other 802.11 networks.” Summary: The unlicensed band is an experiment by the FCC in unregulated spectrum sharing. The experiment has been a great...
View ArticleMicrosoft Is Killing Support for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 On January 12th
Microsoft is ending the support for Internet Explorer 8,9, and 10 on January 12th. This news has come as a breath of fresh air as it was considered a bane for many web developers, thanks to the endless...
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You, your network and the Locky virus
Last Monday, a new particularly clever (and nasty) piece ransomware appeared on the internet called Locky. The malicious file went undetected by most anti-virus software for a number of days and even...
View ArticleMicrosoft on Upcoming SQL Server 2016; Goes After Oracle
Data professionals might have been expecting a launch date for SQL Server 2016 at the Data Driven event held today in New York City, but what they got was a recap of the flagship database system’s...
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Save backup storage using Veeam Backup & Replication BitLooker
Introduction When you need to back up large amounts of data, you want to use up as little disk space as possible in order to minimize backup storage costs. However, with host-based image-level backups,...
View ArticleWindows 10 – To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade
Since last year, we’ve been telling our clients to hold off on upgrading. We even used Group Policy and our Management Agents to disable the upgrade patch. It’s been a long and treacherous journey,...
View ArticleThe Rise in Crypto Ransomware
In recent years, we have seen a significant growth in Malware. With enablers such as Bitcoin, RSA 2048-bit encryption, and the TOR network, NetCal predicts there will continue to be a significant rise...
View Article802.11AC Wave2
When 802.11AC was introduced, we found it to be the most amazing thing since sliced bread. It was dramatically faster than 802.11N, backwards compatible, and mostly interference free. Today, we will...
View Article8 Trends Shaping Technical Support Services in 2016
8 Trends Shaping Technical Support Services in 2016 Technical support is heavily dictated by technology. Numerous advances in technology have been rapid and have created various paradigm shifts. In...
View ArticlePBX as an automation tool
Have you ever thought about digging into the underbelly of your phone system to see what it can really do? Chat room integration? CRM/ERP integration? How about extending it to your employees’ cell...
View ArticleOS X Server Caching
We’ve all been there: Apple releases a new iOS update and everyone is going ham. Pretty soon you have a few dozen employees leveraging the internet to get their latest fix. These updates aren’t small,...
View ArticleVeeam Disaster Recovery Services
Veeam Disaster Recovery Services Veeam have put together an excellent guide ‘The Essential Guide to the Biggest Challenges with Cloud Backup & Cloud Disaster Recovery‘. As one of our chosen backup...
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