07 Mar
Posted by admin as Business, IT Support, life, Personal Develoment, small business
When I was a kid growing up I used to get all sorts of aches and pains, when I asked what they were more often I was told these were ‘growing pains’. With the sharp departure of my teenage years meant I saw the last of these ‘growing pains’ but I didn’t realise that they [...]
Things have been a little quiet on the blog recently. This was mainly down to a project that was being planned for a client. The project consisted of a transition from a Windows 2000 Active Directory running Exchange 2000 over to a new Exchange 2007 server running on Windows 2008 server and to make things [...]
Some of you may have read that latest news that Microsoft has put out a $250,000 reward to find who is behind the Conficker worm that is said to have infected as many as 12 million computers. They are doing this because it has taken the firm view that the creation of the Conficker worm [...]
Today I was called to a clients that had added some new RAM to a Windows XP pc but could not access the network any longer. What was happening was it showed a connection was in place but it would not obtain an IP address from the network nor would it workwith a fixed IP [...]
Over the weekend it was time to re-install the work laptop, which isn’t too much of an issue however the data need to be taken off first. So the first job was to try and find somewhere to dump about 40gb of data, nothing too major but the state of modern computing shows that your [...]
As I posted recently we are in the process of implementing Autotask which is not a short process however even in this short period of time it is proving to be well worthwhile. So what have I learned from this process so far? Business automation is a not a simple process. This quite simply is [...]
Before we, as a business, moved into managed services I looked into how it was being done and the various software that is typically used to implement a managed services practice. There are two core elements that were being repeated over and over again and these were: Desktop/Server agents – these will typically be used [...]
Recently we had some problems with our DNS provider for the business which caused us to look at moving the domain over to another more reliable provider. In the end we decided to settle with hosting the DNS with pipex and while they may not have always had the best reputation they are one of [...]
Over the weekend I was onsite finishing off and installation for a client of a VoIP PBX system that we had provided. What they had got was one of IP PBX’s with 4 Linksys SPA941 IP Phones connect to 2 ISDN2e lines so that they had 4 incoming calls. Due to the nature of their [...]
I’ve been working in computers now for about 15 years and seen many versions of software come and go. My time in IT started with DOS 6 and Windows 3.1/Windows NT3.51, from there it build through the various Windows versions going to Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows 95, Windows NT4, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows [...]