There is a famous saying by Stephen Hawking, which was quoted in the Pink Floyd song ‘Keep talking’, which goes All we need to do is make sure we keep talking. In business and in life communication is the key to everything that we do, without it everything else falls down. In the modern age of [...]
I had an interesting call from a client this afternoon telling me that his client PC’s were all showing the wrong time by about 10 minutes. Now since they have SBS 2008 there should be nothing to worry about as it uses the Microsoft time server time.microsoft.com to keep the correct time. So after logging [...]
This is something that I recently came across when we upgraded our office server and to be honest it had me stumped for a little while, but here is what I found. Essentially we setup our new SBS 2011 Standard server using all of the MS consoles and wizards including the wizard to created the [...]
Every so often something comes along that really does change how things work and only last week this happened again, the implications are far reaching for the IT industry. As you may be aware the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has begun to issue fines over breaches of the Data Protection Act (DPA). Since there has [...]
06 Feb
Posted by admin as IT Support, Microsoft, SBS, Sharepoint
Following a series of Windows Updates to your server you may encounter an issue connecting to your Sharepoint website. If the site comes up with the message “Cannot connect to the configuration database” then this is the result of one of the updates applied. To resolve the issue follow the steps below on your server: [...]
30 Dec
Posted by admin as Business, IT Support, Microsoft, SBS, Sharepoint, small business
Always one for trying to get things automated then I wanted to get backups of my new Sharepoint 2010 website automated. Previously I have not had a great experience of this, as I never tried a restore of the backup set before it was time…still we live and learn. In previous versions of Sharepoint backups [...]
29 Dec
Posted by admin as IT Support, Microsoft, SBS
Having re-launched my love affair with Sharepoint since the introduction of Sharepoint Foundation 2010 I really do love it. Much of the work that I have done previously when out and about have been using Dropbox which has worked great but as more people in the business needed access to the same data as me [...]
I had a phone call earlier this evening from my sister in law who’d had a rather strange phone call and wanted to check with me. They had received a phone call from someone with an indian accent who claimed to be from ‘windows’. They told her that she had corrupt files on her laptop [...]
I have just had from a client what appears to be the latest scare, which will inevitably result in some kind of infection. This is how it looks, which by the way appears very genuine. From: Abuse Department [mailto:abuse-uk-irl@ripe.net] Sent: 24 September 2010 14:32 To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX Subject: ISP DISCONNECTION WARNING – ADVISORY ABUSE NOTICE From: [...]
Today is shaping up to be a good end to a good week, not great but then not bad either. It has been a week of working with clients and working on my own business, which has been nice for a change. This afternoon find me setting up virtualization for a client, not just for [...]
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