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October 9, 2026
What Happens to Your Data When You Cancel a Cloud Service?
Before canceling a cloud service, export your data and confirm that the files can be opened or imported. Move any connected applications and sign-ins, then check the provider’s current rules for access, billing, retention, and deletion.
October 7, 2026
Why Your Employees Shouldn’t Have Administrator Access to Their Computers
Employees should use standard accounts for email, web browsing, and everyday work. Administrator access should be limited to approved IT tasks and protected with a separate account.
September 28, 2026
OneDrive or SharePoint? Where Your Business Files Should Live
If your business uses Microsoft 365, you have both OneDrive and SharePoint, and files usually end up scattered across them with no clear rule. OneDrive is for your own work, and SharePoint is for files the team shares. Getting this right makes files easier to find, safer when someone...
September 22, 2026
How to Keep Your Business Running When Microsoft 365 Goes Down
The tools that run your business, like Microsoft 365, your accounting app, or your booking system, are reliable most of the time, but they do go down. When one does, work can stop for hours, and you often can't do anything but wait for the provider to fix it. A simple plan keeps your...
September 21, 2026
Why You Should Scroll Past the First Result on Google
Scammers buy ads on Google and other search engines using the names of trusted brands and software, so their fake site shows up at the very top, above the real one. Click it and you can land on a fake page that steals your login or installs malware. You can avoid nearly all of it by...
September 14, 2026
The 30-Minute IT Check Every Small Business Should Do Once a Month
Most IT problems don't appear out of nowhere. Backups quietly stop running, updates sit unfinished for weeks, and old staff accounts stay switched on for months. A short check once a month catches these while they're still cheap to fix. This post covers the six things to look at.
August 31, 2026
Still on Windows 10? Here's Why You're Putting Your Business at Risk
Windows 10 reached the end of Microsoft support on October 14, 2025, which means it no longer gets security updates. The computers still work, but any new flaw found in Windows 10 will never be fixed, which makes them easier to attack and can cause problems with compliance and cyber...
August 27, 2026
What Are Passkeys, and Should Your Business Use Them?
A passkey lets you sign in to an app or website using the same fingerprint, face, or PIN you use to unlock your phone or laptop, with no password to type. It's built on a security standard called FIDO that can't be phished, because the passkey only works on the real site and there's no...
August 24, 2026
QR Code Scams: What They Are and How to Protect Your Business
A QR code scam, sometimes called quishing, hides a malicious web link inside a QR code. Because the link is buried in an image instead of written as text, it slips past the email filters that normally catch bad links, and scanning the code usually moves the victim onto a personal phone...
August 17, 2026
Who Can See What Your AI Note-Taker Records?
AI note-takers join your meetings, transcribe everything said, and save the recording and summary to the vendor's servers. Who can see that recording depends on the tool. Some keep your data inside your own Microsoft or Google environment and never use it for training, while others...
July 29, 2026
How Small Business Ransomware Attacks Work (And How to Protect Against Them)
Most ransomware operations target small businesses at volume, running through dozens of prospects per month. A 22-person company can be researched in 40 minutes using public records, attacked using session-token theft after a single phishing click, and ransomed within...
July 27, 2026
5 Microsoft 365 Settings Worth Checking in Your Tenant
Microsoft has tightened several Microsoft 365 defaults over the past few years, but those changes do not always apply retroactively. Tenants set up before 2022, or configured by a previous IT provider and left alone since, often still have legacy settings in place...
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