With the talk in the media of potential power cuts this winter, I’ve been asked to share a few thoughts on what organisations can write into their Business Continuity Plans to cope with this type of situation. What this blog is not… This blog is not about generators and your own personal power station. If […]
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The decision on which data backup to use can be a difficult one. It isn’t just a simple matter of looking for the best-known or the larger provider. The best data backup is fit for your business! So, keep your data safe! “Selecting a reliable backup provider is a big decision. Automated off-site backup is
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Cloud computing is increasingly growing on its popularity since the Covid-19 pandemic and even more now with the energy crisis! Cloud computing is a better control of your security. Currently the cloud adoption rate in the UK is 88% (Cloud Industry Forum, 2022). What’s more, it is seen by many as one of the ways
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Prepare for the fall The school holidays are almost over and so is summer. With back to school, yellowing leaves, and soon pumpkin spice latte and warmer socks, autumn is coming in tiny steps. I love this time of the year! It’s also a good time to reflect on your marketing strategy and “lean” into
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Imagine your good day at work: things go to the plan, all staff on board (no one called in sick), scheduled jobs are getting done and ticked off the list, no complaints from the clients, just good feedback all way round, email is working and so is other technology and so on. Just another great
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We had a customer passed our way this month who almost fell victim to “legacy.” LEGACY is a term manufacturers and developers use to describe their older products which are no longer cost effective to support fully. We are talking about things like Adobe Creative Suite 5, Microsoft Office 2013, first generation i7, even hybrid
Problem Files in OneDrive / SharePoint cannot be opened, are already in use or cannot be attached to emails. Challenge Client called to report intermittent issues with files either not opening, not saving correctly or at all, and being unable to add to emails as attachments. Some files opening with 8.3 file names Eg
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Problem: No Teams meeting option in Microsoft Outlook showing on 365. Challenge: The user logged a call with us as she couldn’t use the teams meetings addin for Outlook and it didn’t exist to be added manually. Solution: We tried reinstalling Teams and checking the addins to see if it had been disabled etc. Nothing
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Last year’s lockdowns made many businesses adapt to a remote working situation, and for many small and medium businesses this was quite simple. The high utilisation of Microsoft 365 Business and its cloud-based technology, designed around collaboration for multiple teams and external organisations, just meant not seeing our colleagues in person for many months. Some large organisations rapidly implemented sterile working conditions and
