There’s an urgent problem plaguing managed service providers (MSPs) and other organizations around the globe — far too many are ill-equipped to handle ever-evolving cybersecurity threats, but think they’re doing just fine.
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How MSPs Can Keep Clients Ready to Work Remotely
The 2020 pandemic has come and gone, and employees are now back to working in the office. But that doesn’t mean that they will never have to return to a work-from-home strategy.
Forward-thinking companies should be preparing plans and resources to enable them to switch back to a remote workforce in the event that another pandemic or similar disaster strikes. Continue reading
Moving Clients Back On-Premises: Guide for MSPs
If you support companies whose employees worked from home during the coronavirus pandemic, you may now find yourself helping those companies to move their employees back to the office. To make this transition smoothly and securely, MSPs must address a variety of factors. Continue reading
4 Tactics for MSPs to Survive and Thrive During the Crisis
Following these four steps will keep your MSP business going during the crisis. They will not only help you to survive this unfortunate pandemic but to come out stronger on the other side. Continue reading
Working From Home 101: Terminal Services Guide
For decades now, businesses have chosen to use terminal servers for employee client-side access to their data. With the rise of cloud computing, managed service providers have a number of new ways to put a different spin on this traditional solution.
Work-From-Home Security Essentials
Even before the coronavirus pandemic kicked in, a BLS report estimated that 29 million wage and salary workers could work remotely in their primary jobs. Here’s what you can do to enhance your cybersecurity measures and protect your customers.
Offsite Employees Productivity Essentials
The biggest hurdle of remote work is clear: how does management ensure that their employees are continuing to offer a solid level of productivity? Here is an overview of how to make this happen.
How to Remotely Manage Your Servers Using PSRemoting and Invoke PowerShell Commands
Using PowerShell to remotely manage your servers is both fast and effective. Once you get everything set up, the rest will become second nature by running the various cmdlets that will be discussed in this guide. Continue reading
Best Practices for IT Teams Supporting Work-from-Home Employees
For IT professionals, moving your company’s workers from the office to a work-from-home setting may seem simple enough at first glance. You simply tell them to log into their company workstations from their home computers and then get to work, right? Continue reading
Working from Home: How to Prepare Your MSP Business and Customers
COVID-19 is upon us. As an MSP, you are likely to find that many of your customers are working from home. Many of your employees may be doing the same. Explore tips for keeping both your own MSP business and your clients' businesses operating smoothly during the mass transition to remote work. Continue reading
Managing Office 365 Users, Licenses and Groups Using PowerShell
One of the primary tasks of any Office 365 administrator is managing user accounts, licenses, and groups. Sometimes it gets easier to perform these tasks in the Microsoft 365 admin center, but other tasks are much quicker and easier to do with PowerShell.
PowerShell Remote Alerts for Firewall, Defender and Antivirus
If you find that your Windows security components are suddenly turned off, that might be the first sign of a ransomware attack. On the other hand, these components could simply have been turned off by a user who wanted to stop annoying updates or antivirus messages. Even that, however, opens a gate for possible attack.
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