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July 21, 2017
Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal, U.S. Army Retired
I had the opportunity to hear General McChrystal talk about his experiences and the war on terrorism. We were better funded, better trained, better equipped, but we weren’t winning! This book is eye-opening – not only does it discuss the challenges we faced and are facing waging this battle, it dives into the structures of […]
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July 14, 2017
Summer Heat vs. Computers – Heat Wins Every Time
Every summer we hear from a client that has turned off the air conditioning over a long weekend to keep the electricity expenses down, only to find the server room equipment is ‘frozen’ and unresponsive. High temperatures can be a death sentence for your electronics. A server that becomes overheated usually costs more in energy […]
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July 09, 2017
Updating S100C v19 Datasets – ALL of them, please!
As we work with some new clients and guests, I’ve come across several instances where prior year datasets have been moved to a separate folder (other than the MB7/). This would be OK if each time there’s a software upgrade, they’re all moved back to the original folder, then Reindexed to the latest version – […]
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July 04, 2017
FedEx Email Scam; Do Not Open!
I received a very good-looking email from FedEx (or so I thought) with a tracking number and links to see the progress of my package. We have a FedEx account, and we just shipped some packages, so I thought it was an update on their status. I was kind of surprised because Friday afternoon, these […]
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June 20, 2017
Microsoft Audit Notices: Did you get the Email?
We’ve seen a new round of Microsoft Audit email notifications. They seem to come in waves, and there’s a wave out there right now. The first step is to make sure it is a legitimate request, not just a scam. If it’s from a legitimate source, and Microsoft uses third parties to perform these audits, […]
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June 14, 2017
Our first Version 20 Horror Story!
Here’s what happened: Their tech decided to install the Sage 100 Contractor upgrade just like all the prior upgrades, but all of YOU know version 20 doesn’t work that way. During the installation, the server didn’t meet the necessary requirements, so the installation failed, shutting down the network. No problem, they’ll make the changes to […]
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June 12, 2017
Company cellphone: Don’t lose your password
We purchased new Samsung S7 cellphones for all the techs. We’d been waiting for this model, and were anxious to upgrade our S4 phones. Everyone moved their contact list with no issues, installed Slack, setup their email and we were off and running.
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June 08, 2017
Company Cell phone; Personal Password?
We purchased new Samsung S7 cell phones for all the techs! We’d been waiting for this model, and were anxious to upgrade our S4 phones. Everyone moved their Contact list with no issues, installed Slack, our Syscon F.I.T. System app, setup their email, and we were off and running. Then we wanted to swap my […]
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May 31, 2017
Death by Meeting by Patrick Lencioni – Recommended!
Last year, our techs read Five Dysfunctions of a Team, by Patrick Lencioni. The setting is a fable surrounding a tech company; we just couldn’t stop talking about it! As a follow up, I recently read Death by Meeting with my accountability group, also by Patrick Lencioni. It follows the same format, opening with a […]
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May 29, 2017
Lightning Fast Drives for Our Hosting Services
We added a new storage array, an MSA, with super fast drives and a RAID 10 configuration. The latency charts are amazingly quiet and we are very excited about what this means to clients in our hosting solutions, as well as our future clients! Our hosted email offering includes inbound and outbound anti-spam services. We […]
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