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Fiber Optics: Reviving an Old Idea to Reduce Internet Congestion and Boost Speed

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“Unable to download video. Please check your Internet connection.” Messages like these make using the Internet painful, but new fiber optic technology has the power to increase bandwidth, which will decrease congestion and prevent download errors. According toWebsite Magazine, faster Internet speeds will foster the consumer move away from traditional media sources like TV and […]

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What is the best CPU that a Dell Poweredge 840 can take? A Quad Core Xeon X3230!

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We recently got our hands on a Dell Poweredge 840 tower server from a customer who had downsized their server footprint from multiple boxes down to just one. The box was going to go straight to the recycler, but after first glance, we noticed that this machine would not be bad for serving as aWindows […]

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3 Free Tools to Help Diagnose Email Flow or Connectivity Issues

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At FireLogic, it’s a fact of life that we have to diagnose and fix issues with traditional mail servers on a fairly frequent basis. While we actively push most of our clients to move their email servers up to the cloud into stable, secure environments like Office 365, there are still those who choose to […]

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74,000: Number of New Malware Strains That Hit Every Day

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If you thought malware was becoming any less of a problem for the technology world, guess again. LifeLock has come out with a wonderful new inforgraphic that displays some mind boggling new statistics surrounding viruses and malware. While we have been working around the clock to help customers get protected and stay safe, for every […]

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Questions and Answers: Office 365 for Nonprofits Pricing, Editions, More

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As Office 365 continues to gain popularity, nonprofits are starting to take notice and have been contacting us about moving their email solutions to the service. Without a doubt, Office 365 sits right next to Google Apps as one of the best options going forward for email that includes all-inclusive calendaring, contact management, and much […]

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Let the Surf Ride While Linux Administrates Your Servers

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Linux is the server operating system of choice for approximately 30 percent of websites, according to W3Techs, giving it a solid hold in the market spread across various Linux distributions. Since desktop Linux is not as commonly used for workstations or other types of computing, Linux server versions have to go above and beyond what […]

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What is the max number of domains Office 365 supports? Microsoft confirms: there is no limit

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If you have a need to load in a large number of domains into Office 365, you could be searching the internet frantically to find out the answer to the question posed in the title of this post. That’s exactly what I did when doing some timely research for a new customer looking to take […]

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Step by Step: How to migrate a single user account from Exchange 2007 to Office 365

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While our company has been moving small to midsize organizations to Office 365 for a decent time now, there are some situations that don’t necessarily require too much hands on attention to get the job done. So likewise, when a fellow industry colleague asked me to provide some documentation on how he could move his […]

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How To: Change Your Password in a Server 2012 Remote Desktop Session

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We recently deployed a customer on Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services running off Surface RT tablets, but a new dilemma arose: how do we enable password changes for users now that CTRL + ALT + DELETE is not an option? For those that have tried to hit the three key combo in a remote desktop […]

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Best Practices for Windows Server DNS And How to Avoid the Common Pitfalls

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We recently finished a big overhaul for a customer of ours that involved downsizing from three physical servers to a single unit. To make a long story short, they had one server hosting file shares; another box doing Exchange; and finally a third was the domain controller and DNS/DHCP host. What a mess! In the […]

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4 Reasons To Consider SSD over HDD for your next PC

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If you asked me just one year ago if I would consider recommending SSDs, I’d quickly roll my eyes. From their uncomfortable price points, to higher than normalfailure rates, SSDs (short for Solid State Disks) were up until recently an enthusiast’s toy. But the landscape has been rapidly shifting and the OEMs have been stuffing newer […]

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Need an Easier Way to Clean your Keyboard? Try the Dishwasher!

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I’ve always been stumped as to how to best clean filthy keyboards. I mean the nastiest of the nasty – grime, gunk, sweat, and plenty of food in between the keys. I’ve gone from using compressed air to my beloved air compressor, and while they do a decent job for 80% of the largest buildup […]

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Google Drive uploads not converting into Google Docs? Here’s how to fix it!

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A lot of customers on the Google Drive and Google Docs platform have some warranted misconceptions as to how files are treated, especially when they are uploaded (Word files, for example.) Ever since Google re-branded Google Docs as Google Drive, there have been some lingering question marks as to how files are treated, and how […]

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How to import Exchange distribution groups as Google Apps Groups for Docs sharing

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A lot of FireLogic customers moving from Exchange to Google Apps are curious as to how they can leverage their existing distribution groups for the purpose of sharing in Google Apps. The nice part is that you don’t even have to be fully moved off Exchange to take advantage of this feature. If you are […]

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New to Office 2013? Microsoft has free PDF quick guides available!

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Who’s to say that Microsoft never gives anything good away for free? Hot on the heels of the Office 2013 release last week, Microsoft has made available a full set of downloadable Quick Start guides. These are fully featured PDF files that you can download per-product, and print out if necessary. They are all done in beautiful full […]

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How To: Use UMA WiFi Calling on a Blackberry to Save on Minutes

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A dirty little secret that many people don’t know about is a technology called Unlicensed Mobile Access, or UMA, that is offered almost universally on Blackberry phones that support WiFi. OK, let me qualify that statement by saying that the capability for UMA must also be supported by your cell provider. In short, UMA allows you […]

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