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Written for Northern Michigan business owners who don’t have time to read every cybersecurity advisory or Microsoft 365 release note. We do that for you and translate it into what actually matters for your practice, firm, or shop.
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Hey You, Get Off the Public Cloud
Hey You, Get Off the Public Cloud The Rolling Stones sang, "Hey you, get off my cloud," yet businesses might want to think instead about [...]
Why You Need Both Software and Hardware Firewalls
Why You Need Both Software and Hardware Firewalls A firewall sounds like a pretty intense thing – unless you're an action-movie stuntman. Yet when it [...]
Remote Working with Microsoft 365
Remote Working with Microsoft 365 Working from home is a big change in an already tumultuous time. Yet there's a bright side. The quarantine could [...]
Tips for Better Email Management
Stop the Inbox Insanity: Tips for Better Email Management A staggering 269 billion emails are sent every day. Your business is receiving only a small [...]
How to Spot a Tech Scam before your Bitten
How to Spot A Tech Scam Before You Get Stung If your computer had a virus, you’d want to know about it ASAP, right? Before [...]
Managed Services for Healthcare Providers
Healthcare's IT Prescription? Managed Services No one is safe from cybersecurity threats or able to ignore digital transformation. But the healthcare industry faces extra pressures [...]
Onedrive vs Sharepoint vs Teams
What is the difference between OneDrive, Sharepoint, and Teams? The modern IT workplace is constantly evolving - Seemingly every day, a new tool or application [...]
Microsoft Teams Training
Microsoft Teams Training! In this video we go over how to use Microsoft Teams within your organization. Microsoft Teams is a great [...]
Hardware as a Service aka “HAAS” Goodbye Capital Expense, Hello Operating Expense
Hardware as a Service aka "HaaS" Goodbye Capital Expense, Hello Operating Expense Why is Hardware as a Service one of the greatest ideas for your [...]
You are the Product: One reason we don’t recommend Avast (or AVG for that matter)
You are the Product: One reason we don't recommend Avast (or AVG for that matter) This came across the headlines from Vice: Leaked Documents [...]
Your Equipment Fails – What’s Next?
Your Equipment Fails - What's Next? You invest heavily in information technology. You depend on your equipment to support your business. Then, the equipment fails. [...]
Do you copy? What can go wrong with BCC
Do You Copy? What Can Go Wrong with BCC Try to find someone who has not "replied all" when meaning to send to only one [...]
