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Security Topics Technology Checklist for When Employees Leave your Business Owning a business comes with many responsibilities. One responsibility that must be taken seriously, or you will surely suffer consequences, is how you handle an employee leaving. An employee leaving encompasses many parts of course, including but not limited to: * Printing their last paycheck * Finding someone to cover their duties
General Topics 3 Ways to Isolate the Cause of Web Browser Issues Web browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Safari are a more integral part of our daily computer usage than ever before. This is partly due to how much we rely upon the internet for information including research and how-to documents and videos. It can also be attributed to the rise in
Security Topics Security Round Up: WhatsApp, Google & an XP Patch The past few weeks have been fraught with news about security threats putting our information at risk. These threats centered around our data being used in ways we never expected or approved, and vulnerabilities we could never have known existed. Worse yet, some threats created risk without any activity on
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Security Topics 4 Single Point of Failure Categories & How to Address Them Whether you own a business, or simply own a computer for personal use, the best way to protect yourself is to be aware of the limitations in your systems. A single user with a laptop and a larger organization with hundreds of endpoints often have more similarities than differences in
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Security Topics Windows 7 End of Life is Coming: What you Need to Know - Part 1 There are two important dates that correspond to every Windows operating system released by Microsoft. Those dates are the end of that operating system's: * Mainstream support * Extended support Understanding the differences between these types of support is extremely important to your environment. First, it is important to know
General Topics Scanning to Email versus Scanning to Folder Multi-function printers typically include scanning capability and provide many more features than a simple printer. One of the most time-saving features of a multi-function printer is the ability to scan to email and scan to a folder on a computer on the same network. These scan functions operate much the
Security Topics Security Round Up: Amazon, Facebook & Ransomware If you are interested or looking for them you can find near daily news articles discussing some form of risk to the security of our private data. This can come in many forms including, but not limited to: * Company data breaches * Ransomware attacks * Phishing schemes * Malware * Companies storing files in
General Topics How to Share an App Link with Someone to Download Downloading new apps because of a feature you need or because someone mentioned one that piqued your interest is a common occurrence for most people. Unfortunately, it can be challenging to be sure the app listed in search results is indeed the app you intended to get. This becomes increasingly
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Security Topics It's Consumer Protection Week - Here's 4 Ways to be Safer Online This week is National Consumer Protection week and as while there are many threats to our user data and personal information, there are also a multitude of ways we can protect ourselves. Some examples of best practices are: * Using a credit card rather than debit card - this prevents you
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Advanced Topics How to Ensure a Microsoft O365 License is Available to Reuse Immediately If you have more than one license in a Microsoft Office 365 or O365 account, you know managing the licenses can sometimes be tricky. The bigger your organization, the greater the number of licenses and the easier it can be to run into issues. There are many benefits to subscribing
General Topics How to Make iPhone Contacts Accessible on a Windows Device Backing up a smart phone to a computer or laptop does not mean the data is stored in a usable format. For instance, backing up an iPhone does not mean you can go directly to the apps, images, calendar or other items easily. Some things sync with iTunes, but most
Organizational Tips How to Take Square Payments Without Creating User Logins To see this process in action, watch the video [https://eyonic.com/1/?IF] that accompanies this post. As a payment processing service for small businesses, Square is easy to set up and easy to use. There are many benefits to using Square over accepting credit card payments directly, including:
Security Topics Security Round Up: Email, Voicemail & Paycheck Phishing We are barely a month into 2019 but attacks on our data are as prevalent as ever. Threats can come in many forms, including but not limited to: * Company data breaches (which you have no control over) * Hacked user accounts often stemming from weak or commonly used passwords (which we
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General Topics How to Use Microsoft Word as a Free PDF Editor To see this process in action, watch the video [https://eyonic.com/1/?IK] that accompanies this post. For nearly any task you can think of, there are probably multiple software solutions available to meet that need. Deciding which one to use requires research to find which one meets the
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Security Topics Security Round Up: What Recent Breaches you Should Know It is the start of a new year which means new goals for most people and a fresh way of looking at things. Unfortunately, one thing that did not change with the start of the new year is the threat to your personal information and data. During the last few
Advanced Topics What to do About the Recent .Net Update Crashing Servers If you have Microsoft servers running the Azure Connect agent to sync your active directory user accounts, you may have noticed some issues over the last week. A recent .Net Framework update has caused the Azure Sync agent to have a memory leak. As the amount of memory used by
