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October 05, 2022
Geek Squad Scam
Larry is the one that received this email scam. It was to his personal gmail account from another gmail account. The Subject is ‘Your annual Internet security maintenance’ followed by an official-looking account number. Then ‘Hi’ with a poor mail merge showing the email address instead of a name. After thanking him for ‘entrusting the […]
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September 29, 2022
Sage Second Screen
Back in 2012, more and more clients were using multiple screens – a growing trend. Now it seems like most people have at least two screens; and some of you have even more! Most of our software programs seem to ‘remember’ what screen we opened them up on last time. When I launch Teams, it […]
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September 21, 2022
It Worked Yesterday…
On a recent call with a client, we were recapping the changes they implemented including the move to the Azure cloud and SharePoint. The goal was to move everything from their on premise network to the modern cloud architecture, and they are well along that path. For their team members, this has been a process […]
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September 14, 2022
Sage Updates
Azure Hosting, Aatrix Updates For those of you in our Azure hosting environment running Sage 100 Contractor, we have added a daily auto update for the Aatrix reports. Users in this environment do not have sufficient rights to download executables (security!) yet you need these up-to-date. So, we’ve written a routine that updates these at […]
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September 08, 2022
Basic Auth – End of Life
For those of you using Sage 100 Contractor, version 24 has some very interesting features and changes (see our July and August newsletters for more details). If you use Direct Deposit and ACH, before you upgrade to version 24, you’ll need to make a few changes. Some background: Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is critical to secure […]
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August 24, 2022
Book Review: False Assumptions
I love these two authors so when Larry mentioned this title, I was all-in. We bring false assumptions to our conversations and relationships pretty regularly as we try to make sense of what we see and hear. Turns out this book is focused on 12 specific ‘crazy’ beliefs that are usually presented as ‘Christian’ but […]
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August 17, 2022
VPN’s Why NOT to use them
When the pandemic first hit, many businesses scrambled to find a way for employees to access important data from home so they could keep working. For many of our clients, their hosted servers made that part easy. But it turns out some employees kept data and short cuts on local computers at the office (sometimes […]
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August 10, 2022
Retention: Let’s Clear This Up
I get a lot of questions about retention—how it works; releasing versus billing; impact to Over/Under billing (WIP); how to manage in Sage 100 Contractor. First of all, retention is designed to give the owner or general contractor some leverage to make sure the subcontractor has an incentive to finish the job. If you’ve been […]
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August 03, 2022
Phishing, Social Engineering
In an article by a Kaseya Security manager, phishing was one of the top three (3) cybercrimes in 2020 per the FBI. Phishing incidents doubled from 114,702 in 2019, to over 241,000 in 2020. And, 90% of incidents that end up as a data breach start with phishing. So what’s phishing anyway? Hackers put out […]
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July 28, 2022
Holiday Pay and Unions: Tracking
The rules to track and pay vacation time vary greatly across the U.S. For some, Holiday pay is mandatory in the bargaining agreement. For others, the company pays its key Foreman as an additional benefit. Some of the most common questions we get involve ‘missing’ hours and pay on a union report due to how […]
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