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With similar sounding names, it’s easy to understand why there is still some confusion around the differences between Office 365 and the more recently released Microsoft 365. Designed with small to medium size businesses in mind, Microsoft 365 is a bundled solution of existing products under the one licence.  It includes all the cloud services …

We’ve been busy scheduling in server upgrade solutions for our clients in preparation for the end of life of SBS2011 Small Business Server 2011 on the 14th January 2020. Microsoft announced they will no longer support SBS2011 Small Business Server 2011 with updates and patches, meaning anyone left running the software will be more vulnerable …

Microsoft has announced that from the 14th January 2020, Windows 7 will be at the end of it’s life. This doesn’t mean Windows 7 will stop working on this date, it means it will stop being supported. So, what does that really mean? It means that Microsoft will stop releasing patches or updates. That in …

Just a quick blog post if anyone else finds the same problem after following Microsofts article on setting up Redirected Folders Deploy Folder Redireciton with Offline Files In my test environment everything went well except I noticed I wasn’t able to access the users file on the file server under the domain or local admin …

There is a great post on Technet on Manually Clearing the ConflictAndDeleted Folder in DFSR, however it was written back in 2008 and it seems things changed slightly, so I thought I better write a quick blog post in case anyone runs in to the same issues I did. Please refer to the above article …

WordPress is an easy-to-use, open source platform that makes it simple to create a high-quality website with little to no prior experience. Since it’s a platform run entirely by a community, there are thousands of plugins being added constantly that can help improve the look, feel, and features of your website overall. If you’re a …

All businesses work with some form of data to achieve specific objects. Think big data, niche-specific data, and traditional data such as your physical documents. It is therefore going to be bad news for business if, for some reason, you lose any form of data. This could potentially turn into a disaster if backup and …

If you’re a business owner with a limited budget to spend on IT infrastructure or customer support, you might want to consider partnering with a managed IT services provider who can take the stress and hassle out of these areas for your business. Sounds great, but if you’re just starting out in business, you may …

Everybody has their own way of organising their e-mails. Some people are e-mail hoarders and keep every email ever received for a lifetime. Some prefer to keep an empty inbox and archive important ones away in folders. No matter how you organise your emails, it’s important to know the correct way how to search emails …