This may be more of a rant than an article, yet it needs to be said. For the love of Pete, please upgrade your internet from DSL!
In October 2017 a customer needed new computers. A long-needed upgrade from XP to Windows 10. With that came the mandatory migration away from Windows Live Mail, part of Windows Essentials which was discontinued January 10, 2017. This was the email client / program that they entire office had used for years.
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Protecting yourself from phishing attacks starts with knowing what’s out there.
Never click on links from unknown senders or if any detail about the exchange has aroused suspicion.
Whenever possible, hover over a link to ensure the destination matches your expectations. Note this will not work on mobile or if short codes are used, so be extra wary on mobile devices.
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Recently a customer changed the password on their server in a peer to peer network. As a result, no-one could access the shared folders.
The interesting part is one program, that has a database, on the server worked just fine, while another would error out.
If they tried to navigate to the server via “Network” it popped up asking for a username and password.
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In a previous post I wrote about issues a client, Botanas had with their MSP. Well COVID-19 caused a mistake to be made. You can read that blog here: http://www.theweeklygeek.com/2020/05/04/pay-for-manages-services-dont-get-support/
As a restaurant and needing to stay in business, move the produce she purchased before the mandatory (and in my opinion illegal) shutdown the owner wanted to offer online order and drive up pickup.
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It seems there are hundreds if not hundreds of thousands of people who cannot sync their iCloud data with Outlook. I just ran across this and spent 5 hours 20 minutes finding the correct solution for my client.
Here is the issue, icloud contacts and calendar and tasks are not syncing with Outlook. There are several error possibilities or in our case there were no errors, just no syncing.
In this case we had Windows 10 Professional x64 and Office Home and Business 2019 x64. The end user uses an iPhone and iCloud photos et al.
Searching the internet it seems the troubled systems are Windows 9 and 10, Office 2013, 2016, 2019 and 365.
