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We’re only as good as our team, and they’re pretty awesome. Whenever we bring on a new team member, we like to introduce them (see all of our past team member introductions here). This month, we introduce you to our newest member of our sales and account management team, account executive Ron DiTullio. |
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We had mentioned last year that Microsoft was going to be increasing the prices on some of its Office 365 licenses. In addition to the base pricing changes, Microsoft announced they are also going to start enforcing their terms and cancellation policies and raise their prices further later this year. Click here to read all the details. |
 If you’re into that sort of thing (which we kind of are), you may have heard about a vulnerability in McAfee’s Enterprise Anti-Virus Software. You can read the gory details about it here. Obviously on a product like this, which we use to help protect thousands of machines (along with our multi-pronged approach we use as a good MSP), we keep a close eye for announcements like this. Our early-morning proactive monitoring staff received this alert, we had the patch pushed out to our monitored machines before most folks were getting their first cup of coffee. If your business would like to learn more about our security approach, don’t hesitate to contact us. |
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 If you live out of Outlook and your address book in there is gold, it’s probably fairly large and hard to navigate. Microsoft’s search tools for its Address Book left quite a bit to be desired as it defaulted to name only searching. But they’re trying to fix it and make it better. In a new version coming soon, the default options will also you to search easier for for specific information in your contacts and have things show up properly. |
 Occasionally, you may have had a need to record a video of a PowerPoint slide show, maybe with your face superimposed in the corner (we’ve all seen those kinds of video presentations). We’ve used the free FlashBack Express screen recorder when we’ve had those needs in the past, but now you can record a slide show presentation right from within PowerPoint where you can have teleprompter prompts, notes view, and more. Here’s how you do it. |
It’s been a long year or so, hasn’t it? Back in March of 2020, we were hoping COVID would long lost memory by now. We mentioned shortages in March and in November of 2020, especially among equipment needed for work from home (laptops and web cams were the biggest trouble spots). And while things got decent for a little while earlier this year, things have gotten messy again. Cisco says things won’t be back to normal until later this year. Various supply chain and manufacturing issues are adding delays to a variety of hardware from laptops, desktops, network switches, processors, graphics cards and more.
J.P. Morgan has a great article on the economics of this mess right now and when they expect things to level out, aptly entitled "Dude, Where's My Stuff?"
Basically, things are a bit of a mess right now. If you’re wanting to swap out some hardware in the next few months, we recommend ordering now so you will actually have the parts in-hand when the time comes.
Email us at sales@weston-tech.com if you have any further questions, concerns, or want to get a quote going for something.
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