Recently, I was setting up Sage 50 Automatic Backups for a client. The utility lacks the ability to automatically clean-up old backups. Each backup file created has the date postpended to the filename. “Overwrite the existing backup file” would only apply if you ran two backups on the same Company […]
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We highly recommend using CrashPlan Pro as part of your disaster recovery plan. After seeding your initial backup, it continuously backs up changed files every 15 minutes. You get unlimited storage and customizeable file versioning and retention. For example, let’s say you accidentally delete a file and don’t notice it for say […]
We recently had a Mid 2010 Mac Pro in the shop which had three 3TB hard drives. We did a fresh install of High Sierra on the first 3TB drive. The goal was to install Windows 7 on the second 3TB drive. The third 3TB drive was to be added […]
We recently had the need to establish a Site to Site VPN connection with our Meraki MX65w security appliance. Meraki security appliances have the option to establish a Site to Site VPN connection to other security appliances as well as other third-party routers. In our scenario, we successfully configured a […]
We recently replaced our existing router with a Meraki MX65w Security Appliance. While Meraki does have multi-factor authentication to log into the cloud controller, we were disappointed to find out that they do not have multi-factor authentication for client VPN. However, there are third-party solutions that can be used to […]
Microsoft recently added a new feature that by default prevents the opening of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files sent as attachments in Outlook. When attempting to open, users may receive error messages like the one below. These error messages usually do not define the problem. For example, looking at […]