So you’ve been prudent about getting your business continuity plans set up. You have all your servers set up with image based backups, you have moved your mail to the cloud with a service such as Office 365, you even have critical files stored in the cloud with a file based cloud backup service. What now, are you all set? Well, the answer is how much do you depend on your Internet connection? Read on…
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As we approach the end of 2012, it’s time to give some thought as to what your IT needs may look like in 2013. If you haven’t already, it’s a great idea to put a budget together for new hardware (computers, servers, infrastructure upgrades such as firewalls, backups, and network devices), and any software upgrades you have been putting off for a while.
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Nobody wants to hear about it or think about it, but the fact of the matter is hurricane season is upon us. Hurricane season officially started on June 1^st and runs through November 30^th in the Atlantic. While risking sounding like a home improvement store commercial, are you prepared for hurricane season?
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We’ve all been there, yes, even us IT guys… the dreaded moment where your hard drive is full and you no longer have any more space to store your data. But is that really the case? You could swear just the other day you had a ton of space left! Well, one of the toughest things to find on your hard drive with the built in tools Windows provides you is finding the space hog on your PC. Sure, you could go folder by folder doing folder size counts, but it takes forever and sometimes it’s like finding a needle in a haystack.
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Adobe PDF files are portable, convenient, and great for distributing documents that you might not want others to edit as it gets passed along. The format has become so popular, that Microsoft has even included the option to save documents as PDF’s in Office 2010! (Now that’s saying something..)
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As a consultant who sees quite a few servers, I’m shocked at the number of offices still depending on their aging equipment running Windows Server 2003. I’m not dogging Server 2003, through its lifespan it was a very powerful operating system that brought us quite a few advancements over the years. We’ve run several versions of Microsoft Exchange, SQL, and many other powerful platforms on this operating system version; it has lasted a long time in the marketplace.
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If you have ever wondered how you can access your office PC from home or on the road, rest assured there are quite a few options to let you connect to your workplace. As always, before installing anything on your PC, or attempting to work from home, contact your systems administrator to make sure this is an acceptable practice at your company.
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GPT or MBR? BIOS or UEFI? What do I pick when setting up my server? This has probably come up quite a bit, especially for those of us in the consulting field installing Small Business Server 2008 or 2011.
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