Category: General IT
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New Monthly Featured Customer – Sauder
We’d like to kick off our featured customer blog post this month with one of our favorite customers, Sauder Woodworking Co. Located in Archbold, OH, Sauder was established in 1934, and has grown into North America’s leading producer of ready-to-assemble (RTA) furniture, and the nation’s fifth largest residential furniture manufacturer. Pro-actively monitoring their network is […]
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5 Ways to Recycle Your Smartphone
The digital age brings with it many benefits. We now all have smartphones, dedicated personal computers that fit in our pockets. We’re the “always on, always connected” generation and we have access to vast quantities of data right at our fingertips. However, with every new innovation and technological addition there are the inevitable pros and […]
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Top 10 Amusing Questions To Ask Siri
Since the iPhone 4S release back in October 2011, people have been falling in love with Siri the world over. In case you’re not familiar with it, Siri is your virtual personal assistant neatly stowed away within your phone. All you need to do is ask Siri a question – using your spoken voice – […]
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Is Antivirus Software Becoming Obsolete?
Viruses, trojans, worms – malware (a contraction of ‘malicious software’) come in many forms. Even though these threats have been around for decades, the volume has increased steadily in line with overall internet usage. What’s more, just as the sophistication and capabilities of technology has improved over the years, so too has the proficiency of […]
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BYOD Security Threats and How to Solve Them
Bring your own device, or BYOD, is becoming an increasing trend within large and small businesses alike. Allowing employees to use their own devices has its benefits. It has been seen to increase productivity immensely by allowing employees to work from home and the freedom to work during commuting and outside the office has gone […]
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Configuring Network Load Balancing in Windows Server
Services and applications that are affected by high load require technologies to address this issue. Network Load Balancing is a technology that allows system administrators to configure clusters that distribute traffic between several servers. Suppose you have a website that receives a large number of requests and cannot be handled by one server. In this […]
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How Useable are Word and Excel for iPad?
Microsoft’s Office for iPad was a long time coming, and indeed the delay has allowed plenty of alternatives to get their foot in the market door, some of which are now thriving and are fully integrated into some larger organizations’ mobile and cloud service strategies. The debate surrounding how useable Office for iPad would end […]
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Deploying Active Directory Certificate Services and Online Responder
Certificate Services has become one of the core components of any Active Directory infrastructure. A certification authority (CA) issues digital certificates to testify the authenticity of applications, users and computers. Digital certificates can be issued, revoked and renewed based on the necessities of the company. When deciding to deploy AD CS within your organization, you […]
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Configure Network Address Protection w/ DHCP Enforcement
In this article I will show you how to install and configure NAP with Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) enforcement. You may already be familiar with DHCP which is a service used to allocate network parameters automatically and offers a centralized way to manage your network devices. NAP is a security mechanism offered by the […]
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Computing Degree or Experience?
Deciding whether to continue your education and go on to college can be a difficult decision. It used to be that going on to further education was the only way to get a well-paid job, and a career that would sustain you during your entire working life. But with the rise of Internet based courses, […]