As part of the Tech Field Day Extra crew at Interop 2016, I got to sit in on a great presentation by Avi Freedmanfrom Kentik. I’d never heard of them, which is not surprising given my Australian-based SMB world, but I sat with an open mind as Avi talked about Enterprise (and larger) networking concepts. It’s always so great when a…
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Outlook 2016 Attach File menu disappears
We’ve seen some strange ‘attach file’ behaviour in Outlook 2016 installed via Office 365 ProPlus. Specifically, when you click on the Attach File icon, the dropdown menu of Recent Items and other locations disappears, rolling back up. You can’t actually attach a file. This behaviour appears when Outlook updates the Recent Items list. It does…
Can Kentik end the performance blame game?
As part of the Tech Field Day Extra crew at Interop 2016, I got to sit in on a great presentation by Avi Freedmanfrom Kentik. I’d never heard of them, which is not surprising given my Australian-based SMB world, but I sat with an open mind as Avi talked about Enterprise (and larger) networking concepts. It’s always so great when a…
Calling all SMB Innovators – Where are you?
Warning: This is an opinion piece and quite honestly, a rant. You have been warned. Our business has been supporting the technology needs of SMBs for 12 years now, after we stepped out of the corporate world. The early years were comparatively easy – a business wanted I.T. support, we’d upgrade a server or two…
The Internet of Things: Smart toasters, smart cities or dumb marketing?
The catalyst for this post was a conversation with a bunch of great, smart people in IT about IoT. The general consensus was that the term meant different things to different people and had fallen victim to its own hype. Sound like any other computing term you know … (Cloud)? It was then followed by…
Flipped your Windows 10 screen?
Flipped your Windows 10 screen? I’m laughing because I just managed to flip my screen while writing the title of this post. The keyboard shortcut for rotating your Windows 10 display is Ctrl +Alt + one of the arrow keys. Sometimes I manage to trigger this by accident. I’m not holding down Ctrl + Alt,…