With the world increasingly moving online, understanding cloud services is crucial to staying ahead of the curve. Whether you’re a business owner, a tech enthusiast, or a curious individual, this...
While IT may initially appear complex, understanding the importance of IT Services can unlock a secret superpower that propels your business to unimaginable heights.
Get ready for an exciting journey as...
Picture this: You’re sippin’ your morning coffee, all set to conquer the day, when BAM! Your computer screams “Ransomware attack!” 😱 Who knew these cyber attacks today, weren’t just for the...
WinSXS folder is the component store of Windows vista and later operating systems. Windows OS stores all its core components within WinSXS directory.
WinSXS folder is the only place where...
Signature personalization is a must for business professionals.
While setting your signature is easy, there are a couple of caveats you must be aware of:
When you set up your signature –...
Slow internet speed is often a result of a bad attenuation and SNR margin figure. If you are one of those people who have problems with their internet speed, then you...
To help you respond to such circumstances, we have prepared a small article to describe a few things you can consider to temporarily move your small business to your home...
Out of office messages are quite handy when you want to inform your colleagues that you won’t be available, for a certain period of time.
Actually, when someone send you an...
Email scams are popular. Phishing attacks, as these scams called, will try to manipulate you in disclosing your data. Including your login credentials, your credit card number, etc.
The problem with...
Despite the fact that SharePoint for Office 365 is -among other things- a web based document management tool, you have the option to sync your documents with your computer.
The benefits...
The common place to work with files within a SharePoint site is the document library: A secure place to store files, where you and your colleagues can work with them...
Did you know that 94% of organizations already use at least one cloud service? While cloud services adoption is not a big surprise… Cloud services have their own share of...
Often, an application gives us capabilities that we do not know how to exploit. One of these applications is Outlook within Office365. An application with features, you probably don’t know...
Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers at Facebook have spent the last year working on a project that saw an AI system learn how to navigate parts of the sprawling conurbation that...
Digitally signed malware has become far more typical recently to mask harmful intentions.
Security researchers have actually found a brand-new malware project misusing taken legitimate digital certificates from Taiwanese tech-companies,...
WhatsApp just introduced a new feature designed to help its users identify the origin of information that they receive in the messaging app. For the first time, a forwarded...
Facebook is becoming a marketplace for enterprise apps that help Group admins manage their communities.
To protect itself and its users in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook...
A distribution campaign for a new ransomware called Nozelesn is currently underway that is targeting Poland. This campaign started July 1st and we already have reports from victims in our forums and numerous...
Ransomware is a sophisticated class of malware (software designed to perform malicious activities) that prevents the victim from accessing his/her data.
47%59%71%Nearly 50 percent of organizations have been hit with ransomwareEmail...
Microsoft enabled a new feature, for their Office 365 email users, called “Clutter”. Clutter attempts to classify which emails you really need and hides the rest from the main view.
Microsoft says...
On April 14th of 2015 Microsoft will roll out “Skype for business”, as an update to Lync client. Customers currently using Lync client via Office365 or Office 2013, will see...
Really? Yes! Customers running Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 will be able to upgrade for free within the first year of Windows 10 after launch.
Additionally, Microsoft will...
Stay calm, Microsoft will continue to issue free security updates through extended support until January 14, 2020. However free telephone support and free non-security updates are not supported anymore.
Note that...
Microsoft’s new operating system core will run on PCs, tablets, phones and even the xBox. It will be tailored for each type of device though.
Windows 10 is going to be...
The American journalist Glenn Greenwald claims that NSA modifies hardware equipment, exported from the U.S, to embed them with surveillance trappings in order to spy on international users.
Are you planning to buy computers for your business? Are you evaluating different computer brands? Are you confused about the different types of computers? Then you are in the right...
It might seem obvious that an internal IT department, already knows the requirements, the needs and the environment of the company they support.
But, is that the case?
Do they have the...
Have you ever found yourself frustrated waiting for your PC to turn on or the internet browser to finally open the webpage? If you are like me and every other...
Maintaining legacy systems and legacy OS is a common ground across many companies. You feel that the system is working as expected and you see no reason to upgrade it....
Server virtualization technology is quite a mystery for new adopters although it has gained its market share for quite sometime, especially in large enterprises and datacenters. A study conducted by...
Since windows 2008, server core has become a valuable option for deploying more secure and more stable windows servers. Although it is quite easy, many administrators avoid to deploy such...
A new feature in windows 2012 installed by default in all server editions! Microsoft calls it Storage Virtualization and the idea behind it is somewhat familiar to most administrators that...
In the previous part of the blog post series you’ve seen that the query optimizer examines query predicates in order to analyze statistics for useful indexes in the execution plan...
Which columns should you choose for indexing?
To decide on the columns of an index you have to consider the most frequent queries running against your tables. You have to examine...
So, why do you need to index your tables?
Because without an index the SQL server has to scan the entire table to return the requested data. It is like the index...
I bought the first edition of this book to introduce myself to the world of Linux. It is well structured and quite understandable for someone who is taking his first...
Before we begin our journey in SQL Indexing it is important to understand how a SQL Server stores its data.
Database FileGroups and Files
A MS SQL database uses a .mdf file as the...
It’s time to move on! It’s time to understand what is virtualization and why you need it. I know, it’s complicated to feel comfortable with something you don’t know, with...
If you are one of those engineers, administrators, enthusiasts who encountered the situation of which a Cisco ADSL router is selectively blocking web sites, then this is the right post...
Windows preinstallation environment (windows PE) is a bootable tool that provides a minimal set of operating system features for installation, troubleshooting, and recovery. In this post I am going to...
What about it? You can just put a firewall and here you are! Completely Safe!
A few years ago maybe… But in nowadays the things are little bit different. Instant messaging,...
In a previous post of mine I explained how to create managed properties and modify the search results page for a custom Protocol application. In this post I am going...
The customization of the search experience in MOSS is crucial in many situations. You may need to add additional metadata to your display results, to modify the search result page...
Did you ever wondered what is this “automatically detect settings” option in LAN settings under connection tab in Internet Explorer? By setting this option you enable the web proxy auto...
Have you ever come up with the situation to export your Exchange mailboxes to PST files? From time to time, an Exchange administrator needs to export some or all of...
Many system administrators are dealing with the situation of moving their MOSS and Project Server databases to a new SQL server. The reason for that kind of change can vary...