Your computer is a valuable asset and deserves to be looked after as if it was any other piece of your business. You only realise how it important it is when it breaks down. The following five tips will help you to get the most out of your computer. 1) Clean Out All the Junk…
Your data stored on your computer, laptop or tablet is valuable to others and therefore its security should be at the top of your checklist when it comes to looking after your information. Below are our top ten valuable tips to safe computing which you can integrate into your daily work life. 1) Use a…
Microsoft is rolling out a new feature so that you can co-author Office 365 documents such as Word, Excel and Powerpoint etc. This a great way to collaborate on documents with people outside your organization. This is can be good and bad so make sure that if you don’t want to share documents outside your…
We have many customers that run critical applications such as Sage Payroll, Sage 50 Cloud, Decorus for Sage, Microsoft Office 365, Gemini, Acturis etc. Unfortunately, due to the sensitivity of the data, they are a prime target for hackers. You as a business have a legal responsibility for keeping this safe to comply with GDPR…
We have many users who feel really upset with themselves when we perform our magic on their machines, you have to remember we all have a different skill set and there is likely to be things that you know that we don’t and vice versa. Personally, I have been supporting people in an IT capacity…
There are so many free anti-virus products out there but are they actually worth installing? The simple answer is “No” if you’re installing it onto a business device you have a responsibility of keeping the data safe and secure. The cost of the downtime because you have had a virus would cost you far more…
One job we do a lot at Offsite Servers Ltd is upgrade users from a spinning disk to a solid state hard drive, but why do we do this? It makes your computer run faster Computer boots faster If you’re using a laptop it increases the battery life when it’s not on charge It has…
The Cloud is only as safe and secure as it’s weakest point and unfortunately the weakest point is usually either the end user or the device that is connecting to the cloud. The vendor let’s use Microsoft, in this case, can put the best protection in place in the world employ man guards to protect…
It’s really important that you review your backup software from time to time. One to check that your backups are actually working but more importantly to make sure you are still backing up everything you need too. Quite often you add new folders and sometimes the backup is not told about the new location. If…
There are so many benefits to outsourcing your IT Support rather than trying to do it yourself. It might seem expensive but is it really? You know and I know, employing staff is expensive. To some businesses the staff payroll is probably their biggest expense, let alone the hidden costs we don’t think about such…