We are regularly deploying Veeam Backup & Replication at some of our medium/larger sized clients who have multiple virtual servers to backup. Veeam is a very powerful and flexible backup solution which has numerous advantages over the built-in Windows Server…
In the days of tape backup it was easy to tell when a backup had completed because the tape could be configured to eject from the drive. A lot of our clients use a pool of USB backup drives which…
Microsoft’s Office 365 Exchange Online service is great, but some organisations cannot afford to pay the monthly costs that Microsoft asks. Thankfully there is an alternative in the form of Hotmail using a custom domain. This will allow you to…
We support several charitable organisations and have just completed a complete network installation for once such client. We have saved them hundreds of pounds by suggesting to them that instead of purchasing full retail copies of Windows and Office they…
At Focused IT we deal with all sizes of business - from hundreds of users across multiple sites, to small offices with a couple of users. For the smaller businesses we have been installing Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials…
We recently replaced a client's aging Windows 98 PC which was running an unsupported version of Quicken 2000. The client still had the Quicken installation CD, but had unfortunately lost the registration details. After installing Quicken on the new Windows…
Following on from my previous post, here is another bit of software that we have recommended to a client. The client wanted to set up a couple of PCs that members of the public could use to access the internet…
From time-to-time our clients ask us to recommend software that will solve a particular problem. This post will detail one such recommendation required by a chartered surveyor who needed to regularly print off large numbers of photographs in a uniform…
One of the great new tools included in Windows 7 is the port query command line tool known as portqry.exe It allows you to query a specific TCP/IP port on a remote computer or server to see if it is…
Trying to configure Wake-on-Lan on a batch of new HP Windows 7 PCs wasn't as straight forward as expected. There were 3 things that I needed to do in order for a scheduled batch file to wake them up in…