November
2012
In this issue
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Happy Holiday! |
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Holiday Scams Abound |
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Wireless: How Reliable? |
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Working Securely |
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Sort Incoming Email |
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Managed IT Services |
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Business Continuity Tip |
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7 Advantages of Managed IT
Services
by Chase Moritz,
Heartland Technology Solutions
Many small to
mid-sized organizations are turning to Managed Service Providers (MSPs)
to help alleviate some of the strain on their internal IT resources, or
take over the management of their network all together.
There are quite a
few benefits to partnering with an MSP, from improved reliability to a
better understanding of assets, which are all valuable in their own
right. These are a few that top the list for most organizations
considering some form of Managed IT Services.
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So, first of all, what is 'Managed IT Services'?
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Business Continuity
Tip
5 Simple Steps to Prepare Your Business
Sometimes the most obvious things
you can do to prepare are the ones that are most commonly overlooked. Here
are 5 simple steps you can take to prepare. Set aside a few minutes and you
will have these knocked off your list in no time.
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Practice your
evacuation plan €
Click here for a list of suggested items you should take with you
during an evacuation. |
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Please forward this newsletter to anyone else in your
organization who might be interested!
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Busy Life - Holiday Scams
Abound Near Black Friday
reprinted with
permission from Norton by Symantec
Scam-a-Claus is Coming To Town!
You better not pout,
you better not cry, you better keep your wits about you, I€m telling you
why... Holiday time is fast approaching and crooks, thieves, and cyber
criminals of all kinds are prepared more than ever to steal your money,
your identity, and reap untold havoc upon you. Black Friday, the date we
now know as the busiest shopping day of the year, is a particularly
vulnerable time for online and mobile holiday shoppers.
After digesting that
turkey and delicious pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving, the very next day is
that other great American tradition called Black Friday.
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Wireless: How
Reliable Do You
Need It To Be?
In
this final post of our "Is Consumer Grade enough for your business?"
series we'll look at the difference in Wireless solutions.
Wireless isn't really in
the same category of Computers, Operating Systems, or Firewalls. It
probably isn't a necessity for you to have wireless capabilities for
your business to continue operations. It is however becoming more and
more common in small businesses across the country and more people are
beginning to rely on it in order to get their job done more effectively
or conveniently.
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8 Tips For Working
Securely From Wireless Hot Spots
reprinted with
permission from Microsoft at Work
Wireless
(also known as Wi-Fi) hot spots, are changing the way people work.
These wireless local area networks (WLANs) provide high-speed Internet
connections in public locations (and at home). You can access them with a
wireless-ready mobile PC, such as a laptop, netbook, smartphone, or any
other mobile device equipped with a wireless card.
Hot spots range from paid
services, such as T-Mobile or Verizon Wireless, to free, public
connections. Hot spots are everywhere, including coffee shops,
restaurants, libraries, bookstores, airports, trains, and hotel lobbies.
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Automatically Sort Incoming Email
with the Create Rule Feature in Outlook 2010
When you receive a lot of email, your inbox can get cluttered and difficult to navigate. Thankfully, you can use the Create Rule
feature in Outlook 2010 to sort your incoming email by sender. Here are
the steps to set up a rule in Outlook 2010 that will automatically put
incoming mail from a particular sender into a specific folder:
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"You cannot do a kindness too soon because
you never know how soon it will be too late."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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