As the COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak disrupts our daily routines, many organizations are scrambling to provide methods for their employees to work from home. If you are examining methods to allow…
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Those of us that have been using Windows since the early days are likely still very familiar with navigating the OS without a mouse—and no touchscreen, either! Lots of folks…
The final part of this blog series is the Microsoft phone system. Microsoft has been making and supporting a phone system for a while — over a decade, in fact. Office Communicator was released in…
Windows Server licensing is something that, if you don’t live in it every day, can be extremely confusing. To be fair, even if you DO live in it every day,…
If you’re new here, start with the first installment on what Office 365 is and an overview of the licenses available. When deciding which Office 365 license to acquire, you’ll want to weigh some…
Licensing SQL Server has always been a bit of a pain point. Luckily, Microsoft hasn’t really changed anything in eight years. If you could license SQL 2012, 2014, or 2016,…
We get a lot of questions about what Office 365 is and its different licenses. It is a challenge if you are not continually reviewing the offerings as Microsoft keeps…
For years, LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) has been a standard to integrate systems and services with Active Directory. Firewalls, application delivery controllers, and the like use LDAP to give…
Flash storage has evolved over the years and the specific improvements (and inevitable tradeoffs) have not been very transparent to end users. Specifically, flash performance, density and lifecycle changed a…
Microsoft released some critical patches today in its Patch Tuesday cadence addressing vulnerabilities in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016/2019. (If you have Windows 7, well, you also have some…
“Warning! You’ve used up your Teams/Skype for Business PSTN minutes for this month” – if you got an email from Microsoft with that subject line, you’re not alone. Many businesses…
Each year we try to cover topics that are most important for our clients, whether that be Windows Server licensing to gaining a better understanding on how to navigate Microsoft…