Advanced Topics Why Microsoft Email Stopped Working & How to Deliver your Emails If you have an Office application subscription, you likely use Microsoft for your email as well because it comes with most subscriptions. This is not the case with all O365 and M365 subscriptions, but it does apply to most. Unfortunately, when you do not host your own email, troubleshooting email
Advanced Topics The Reason More Emails are Bouncing Back and What you Can do About it If you have recently noticed more of your emails being bounced back to your inbox, without being delivered to their intended recipients, you are probably sending to Google or Yahoo email accounts. Google and Yahoo recently implemented stricter controls on incoming emails to protect their users. This enhanced security has
Advanced Topics How to Restore the Ability to Send Email When your SPAM Filter Company Gets Blacklisted Many companies use an external vendor to filter through all incoming and outgoing emails looking for SPAM. There are several companies that provide this service and the purpose is to help prevent SPAM emails from being delivered to users on your network, in addition to preventing SPAM emails from being
Advanced Topics 3 Reasons Why Your Business Needs to be Running on Virtual Servers Servers that run business applications, programs or house business data come in one of two ways: 1. Physical 2. Virtualized In reality, both servers run on physical hardware - otherwise they could not host data and files. However, a virtual server is very different from a simpler physical server. This
Advanced Topics How to Create Forms in Excel With Cascading Lists that Control Data Input Excel is a very powerful application, and as such, we have discussed several topics about what it can do including how you can use it to save time, organize data, find patterns, find data outliers, manage data input using predefined lists, chart data over time, and much more. In this
Organizational Tips 3 Things You Can do to Better Organize Data in Excel Pivot Tables When you have large amounts of data in an excel spreadsheet, inserting a pivot table is a great way to see the data from a macro level. The purpose of a pivot table is to take any amount of data, no matter how large, and summarize it into an at-a-glance
Advanced Topics Why All Your Emails Sent to Google Accounts are Suddenly Being Rejected If you send emails to Gmail accounts using any account other than another Gmail account, you may have recently experienced an issue where your emails were not being received. This problem has been happening to people sending from many different domains, but the issue has nothing to do with the
Security Topics How to Manage Permissions on Shared OneDrive Folders OneDrive is a file syncing tool used to store files in the cloud or as a hybrid of in the cloud and locally. The OneDrive app is included with most Microsoft Office subscriptions, both O365 and Microsoft 365, and includes 1TB of storage. OneDrive shows up as a folder in
Advanced Topics Why you Can't Save an Access Database After Updating a Field Last week we discussed how to modify the length of a field in an Access database [https://eyonic.com/1/?RK]. This process includes documenting the linked relationships, breaking the existing relationships where the field being changed exists, updating the fields in all tables where it exists and saving all
Advanced Topics How to Manage Field Lengths in an Access Database Access is a Microsoft database application used to track larger groups of data that would be challenging to track in a spreadsheet. The benefit of using Access, and any database application, is that they allow you to create a number of tables, each collecting unique data, that tie together to
Security Topics How to Fix Failing User Credentials on Domain-Joined Devices Connecting via VPNs When a great deal of people shifted to working remotely rather than going into an office, the one thing they were often missing was access to the files they used to be able to easily access. These files were often stored on servers or other computers, rather than on the
Advanced Topics 2 Important Changes to QuickBooks Basic Payroll You Need to Know Most people are used to regular updates being pushed out by software manufacturers. These changes typically address security issues or enhance features. It is rare when a company removes features. However, as tax season is upon us, this is exactly what happened to our QuickBooks Basic Payroll subscription after recently
Advanced Topics Tips for Using WooCommerce to Sell on Your Website - Part 2 WooCommerce is a free plugin that integrates with WordPress websites to help manage products, sales, inventory and more. Some benefits of WooCommerce are that it has been around for many years, is updated frequently, and is free to use. Like all plugins, WooCommerce works best when you take the time
Advanced Topics Tips for Using WooCommerce to Sell on Your Website If you aren't familiar with it, WooCommerce is an open source plugin that integrates with Word Press websites to facilitate sales. One of the things that makes it great is it is free to use, has been around for years, and there are many additional plugins that provide
Advanced Topics How to Disable Active Directory Syncing with Azure There are several different ways Windows Active Directory (AD) can be used in an organization. Active Directory is used primarily to manage user accounts, their passwords, group access, home folders and permissions. Some networks have AD running only on local onsite servers. Other organizations use Azure Active Directory to manage
Advanced Topics How to Fix Remote Desktop Permissions that Microsoft Broke Remote desktop is an application that allows users to connect from one computer or device to other devices. The benefit remote desktop provides is it allows you to connect to another computer without physically being at that device. This is extremely helpful for IT staff who can connect to computers
Advanced Topics How to Track File Deletions on Windows Server Shares Consolidating documents and files on a server provides many benefits. Servers reduce data duplication, help ensure everyone has access to the most recent versions of files and perhaps most important of all, keeps track of business content. A recent post, 4 Ways to Detect if your Business Benefits from a
Advanced Topics 4 Ways to Detect if Your Business Benefits From a Server Most businesses start small and grow with time. Starting small means fewer employees, fewer devices and less of an infrastructure when compared to larger businesses. Over time, the needs of most businesses change. This can be due to growth, changes in products and services or even in available technologies. Additions
Advanced Topics How to Troubleshoot Issues with Website Domains Anyone with a website knows it can be extremely stressful when problems occur. Our websites easily deliver vast amounts of information to a broad audience 24/7. Unfortunately, sometimes things happen and a website might be unavailable or redirect to a different site altogether. Luckily, there are ways to troubleshoot
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
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
