DrayTek Specialist Partner
We are please to announce that we have just been successful in applying to the new DrayTek Partner Program. As a DrayTek Specialist Partner we can help you choose the correct product, configure it and support it.
The New Normal
With 2 years of lockdowns, isolation and restarts the landscape is looking very different – or is it? We have been busier than ever with new clients coming to us from across the country needing help to address those specific challenges that the ways of working have thrown up. Here are some of them: Everyone…
Localised Outages
For the first time in ages Edinburgh has experienced an outage which is not localised to a single provider. At the moment it seems that around 4am services stopped and while it resumed for some providers there are still others with issues. Logs from 4am this morning showing the failover in effect. For a number…
Free Tools for Lock-down
With our office still closed and remaining so for a few more weeks we thought it would be worth reminding people of the free tools that have been making our life easier when travel is blocked. Quick Assist Need to help your Dad sort his email password? Quick Assist is built into Windows 10 and…
Remote Wireless Surveys
Whenever we install a wireless network we always do a survey first. In general the reason people need us is because the simple kit does not work, and the reason the simple kit does not work is because the site is not simple. In the last few weeks we have shipped out a number of…
Working through a Crisis
With all IT projects there are constraints: CHEAP, FAST, GOOD – pick any TWO. During the last two weeks we have had to help a lot of clients in ways we might not normally do, but it is important to keep businesses functioning. A good example of this is remote access. There are lots of…
Broadband in Edinburgh
Broadband in the UK and in Edinburgh in particular is very variable. Some areas have multiple oftions of 4G and fibre, while other areas struggle to get ADSL. As the majority of Broadband is provisioned via BT Openreach there is plenty of scope for things to go wrong. We have recently been involved with a new…
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Goodbye XP
With this weeks patching we say good-bye to Windows XP. It seems like only yesterday when we got access to the early beta code and started downloading the discs over a dial-up connection. We have been asked by many clients about what they should do with their existing XP boxes and how to ensure they…
Office 365 Mailbox Size Increase
All users of Office 365 have just had their mailbox sizes doubled from the standard 25Gb to 50Gb. At the same time the kiosk accounts have gone up to 2Gb as well. New Primary Mailbox Size: 50 Gb New Shared Mailbox Size: 10 Gb New Resource Mailbox Size: 10Gb For more information see the Exchange…