Keeping Stakeholders in the loop Today we are going to discuss keeping your Stakeholders in the loop when making changes. For managed services providers that means obvious items such as new computers, networking, and new employees. Clients should also remember to keep their managed services provider in the loop for other items such as a…
Should I Allow My Employees to Work From Home? The pandemic has escalated the need for employees to be able to and their desire to perform their job or a subset of their duties away from the office. Should your firm allow employees to work from home? What are the risks of your employees working…
Marketing Minute: Define Your Target Market The pandemic has not only changed many of our workflows it has also changed the way we market. Companies can market to 1000s if not millions of people per day with the right marketing spend, but this can be a huge mistake. Companies should invest the time to building…
How to Select a New Computer Many of you who upgraded your computers during the initial Windows 10 launch may be again looking for a new computer. There are four major factors when selecting a new pc; chassis, features, specifications, and price. Chassis is usually pretty easy but it has expanded a bit in the…
Cloud Migration Mistakes More and more companies are migrating segments or the entire business to the cloud. The cloud provides great benefits such as the ability to work anywhere, enhanced security, mitigating risks pertaining to a physical building, and greater flexibility and scale. There are questions companies should be asking of our software and IT…
Small to Medium Business Mobility Business mobility has moved from “a nice feature” and seldomly used, to a requirement in today’s modern workplace. The ability for employees, management, and the executive team to transition seamlessly from the office to home and other remote locations is now critical to the viability of an organization. In this…
Ransomware is a malicious program that infiltrates your pc usually through a link in an email or an infected website. The program then encrypts all the files it can access on your pc and across the network. The program writes the decryption key to a hosted server. The program prompts the user to pay a…
OneDrive and SharePoint are a collaboration, file sharing, and management tools provided by Microsoft. The backbone of each tool is very similar. Each tool provides a central location to store and access files. The files are stored on Microsoft servers but can also be fully synced to your local machines. Both OneDrive and SharePoint provide…
Data is critical to every business. Businesses have multiple subsets of data such as; sales, client, employee, vendor, and various company data. In today’s world companies must use a combination of permissions, security, and policy to protect company data. Permissions Companies should take a holistic view of the data folder structure and determine what…
Email spoofing, what is it? I received a threatening message from my own email address! Is this real? How did they do it? Should I be worried? These types of emails are unfortunately commonplace in today’s world. We get at least one call a day about these types of emails. So how do they do…