Sometimes an employee is the only one who knows the password for something and my not be inclined to respond to requests for help once they have left the business. Therefore it is advisable that some time is taken to plan and mitigate the risks before any action is taken. Many people leave a business without issue but that shouldn’t be a reason not to take precautions to protect the business and the employee. Extra care should be taken when key people leave either through choice or other means. The go-to IT guy in the office often has more power […]
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I thought I would let you all know of a revision to the backup service we offer that will mean you will not need to worry about changing that tape or disk again. Online backup from Baigents gives you the following Encrypted off site backup ISO 27001 Certified Data Centers EU Storage (complies with EU Directive 95/46/EC and UK Data Protection Act) Share your storage with all your (NEW) Servers and Workstations PC and Macs SQL Server and Exchange Live backup support Backed up when a change happens or scheduled Set it and forget it peace of mind How much ? Starts at £25 per month for 50Gb of storage including setup. For this cost an example configuration would be 1 Server […]
It’s been a tough week this week lots of jobs from Sonos installs to Wifi Printing and server rebuilds. But the prize for the strangely satisfying job goes to the Mac user who’s iMac lost his mail settings due to a power cut. The only application that wasn’t working was mail it was asking to setup new mail accounts when it was started so the plist settings file was damaged. Luckily we had him set-up on time-machine for backups and this was working current. So we remoted in and when back in time to that morning and restored his settings file re opened mail and it was like […]
A few weeks ago and just 3 days after moving in to our new house we our area was hit by 2 lighting strikes. A large bang and a flash out the front of the house and the same 15 minuets later at the back. The second strike resulted in the RCD triping and power going out. After switching everything back on and checking we found that virgin broadband and TV were out, our combi boiler, shower extractor fan, a monitor had blown in my office along with a network port on my office machine. Luckily my PC was on a APC UPS. […]
Make regular backups of your important files. Strange noises from your Hard Drive ? Grinding, Rattling, Scrapping. SHUT YOUR PC/LAPTOP DOWN NOW, This will minimise the damage already done. Contact us, we will assess the problem and offer a solution this may mean sending your drive to our partner OnTrack Data Recovery Deleted a file by mistake and emptied the recycle bin ? Log out and shut down your PC Contact us and we will assess the problem, and offer a solution Deleted files can often be recovered very quickly if the file system hasn’t been used since the deletion. The […]