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Continue reading →: Why is my internet speed so slow?
As technology gets faster and Internet Services Providers (ISP) are pushing faster and faster speeds, is your internal network keeping up? How fast is fast enough for you? The ISP says I need Gigabit speed, but I don’t know what that means. Gigabit is 1000Mb and it’s how many bits…
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Continue reading →: Do you know who’s accessing your Microsoft 365 (M365) data?
For years, a lot of people have pushed “Put it in the cloud” without discussing the potential data risks and management overhead. This is important insight for everyone using M365, but especially the small businesses (SMBs) who think they can manage it without proper guidance. “If it’s in the cloud,…
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Continue reading →: Migrate Ubiquiti UniFi Network Server to UniFi OS Server on a different computer
My environment is simple – five Ubiquiti wireless access points (WAP) managed by UniFi Network Server. However, we are looking to add a Ubiquiti gateway and two switches at a different office location, so it makes sense to move management of these devices to a newer tool – UniFi OS…
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Continue reading →: Unjoin a Computer from an On-prem Domain and Join it to Entra ID
Please read the entire document before beginning. A client recently requested to move from an on-prem Windows Server to Azure AD in the cloud. The client is currently utilizing Microsoft 365 (M365) for email, Teams, etc., so they won’t be starting from scratch. Obviously, the first recommended step was to…
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Continue reading →: Controlling Your Email Inbox
When is the last time you’ve seen this in your email Inbox? Nothing. Nil. Nada. There was something weirdly satisfying when I moved the last email to its proper subfolder. I consider myself an organized person, but my Inbox has not been empty for years. Most of us have hundreds…
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Continue reading →: Undo Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
A client recently requested to move from an on-prem Windows Server to Azure AD in the cloud. The client is currently utilizing Microsoft 365 for email, Teams, etc., so they won’t be starting from scratch. Obviously, the first recommended step is to install Azure AD Connect and create a Hybrid…
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Continue reading →: Shout-Out
Some of you aren’t old enough to remember life without computers and electronic data. That was a time when protecting your doors and windows was the only thing you had to worry about. If they got in, they headed straight for the filing cabinets to sift through your documents. Remember?…
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Continue reading →: Windows not recognizing your USB drive – use diskpart
Have you ever connected a USB drive, and nothing happened? Usually, Windows will make a noise and either run File Explorer or present a dialog box prompting you to ‘Choose what to do with removable drives’. You unplug/replug a few times, change ports, change cords – nothing works. Here’s a…
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Continue reading →: Undo Folder Redirection and use Known Folder Move
A client recently requested to move from an on-prem Windows Server to Azure AD in the cloud. The client is currently utilizing Microsoft 365 for email, Teams, etc., so they won’t be starting from scratch. Obviously, the first recommended step is to install Azure AD Connect and create a Hybrid…
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Continue reading →: 10 IT Problems I’ve Encountered That Could Have Been Avoided
I’ve personally seen all the following while working in IT. Sometimes because someone else worked on the problem and now the end user has a bigger problem. So much time is spent troubleshooting someone else’s mistake. Do it right the first time and if you don’t know what you’re doing…
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