Minimum requirements for any customer data location are listed below - most of our services currently run exclusively in Azure or AWS east.

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• You receive an email that appears to be from ...

Windows 10 is Here 

You've probably heard about the new version of Windows about to be released by Microsoft, Windows 10.  And you may have even seen a little icon displayed at the bottom right of your screen which allows you to Get Windows 10.  

SureTech wants to be sure you are fully informed about this valuable upgrade BEFORE you consider installing it. 

Microsoft is listing Windows 10 as a free upgrade but this is true only if your computer can support it.  

• If you are still using Windows XP or Windows Vista you cannot upgrade directly and you may need additional hardware.  

To ensure your company is protected, SureTech recommends several key things to keep in mind:

- Change the password for your VOIP account regularly

- Be aware of who has access to this password and how they are storing it

- Know how your VOIP data plan is set up and what alerts you will receive if you exceed your regular minutes. 

- Set the credit card you use to cover your VOIP plan with a maximum charge allowance in any single month.

- SureTech can help make sure that customers using our recommended VOIP sytems are protected.

If we can be of assistance on this or any other HelpDesk request, contact us at solutions@suretech.com or 800-882-8701.
Your SureTech Solutions Team

If we can be of further assistance on this or any other HelpDesk request, contact us at solutions@suretech.com or 800-882-8701.
Your SureTech Solutions Team

IF YOU HAVE TO EXPLORE, ALWAYS USE PROTECTION

Background

Microsofts Internet Explorer browser has been exploited by the Operation Clandestine Fox attack starting on April 26, 2014 - See Business Week article for more details.

This is just the latest security hole to create headlines helped by no less than the Department of Homeland Security, which advises that you not use any version of IE until further notice. Wow!

The Official advice

According to DHS, if your business uses custom applications that require Internet Explorer, avoid visiting any public sites with the browser outside of the application.  Make a direct link to the site from your desktop to avoid going to any other sites but the application site.

According to Microsoft, you should pay your IT company thats us, folks J - between $1,000 and $10,000 per office to implement this temporary work around.  And once we do all that work you will:

What is Sharepoint:

SharePoint is a feature of our hosted Exchange SureMail product and can be provisioned for SureMail Advanced users if the Organization subscribes to SharePoint.

SharePoint provides a single infrastructure to share documents with colleagues, manage projects with partners and publish information to customers.  It allows you to build no-code solutions to business needs.  You can provide access to information in databases, reports and business applications.  It offers a collaboration tool and content management easy.  You can establish compliance measures such as retention policies and automatic content sorting and then let people work naturally in Microsoft Office.  The search feature uses a combination of relevance, refinement and social cues to assist with finding information and contacts needed.

We offer 2 SharePoint plans, SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Enterprise 2010.  SharePoint Enterprise provides scalability, large companies or smaller companies anticipating large growth may need, this information will be provided by Sales.

SureTech.com is proud to be a presenting sponsor of Communiversity, a wonderful festival day in downtown Princeton which will be held this year on April 28, 2012 from noon to 5 pm. 

Communiversity will feature more than 200 artists, crafters, merchants along with live entertainment on 5 stages; children's activities; delicious food vendors and more! 

The event takes place in the heart of downtown Princeton and throughout the University campus as well.

For more information visit the Arts Council's website.  

We hope to see you there!   

-The SureTech.com Team  

SureTech.com is proud to be a presenting sponsor of the 10th Annual Arts Council of Princeton's Dining by Design event on November 5, 2011. 

This unique event supports ACP's community education and outreach programs including ArtReach and Arts Exchange programs.  

We hope you can join us at this lovely event.   

-The SureTech.com Team

The BNI Tigers Networking Group is hosting a Wine Tasting Networking event on Wednesday, Oct 12^th 2011.  Come say hello to your friends at SureTech and meet some other great area businesses.  Click HERE to register.   

SureTech.com is proud to support the 30^th Annual Princeton Trade Fair this Monday, Sept 26^th 2011.  This event will be held at the Westin Princeton at Forrestal Village and goes from 11 am to 4 pm.  Come say hello to your friends at SureTech and meet some of our Business Solutions partners and clients (you can also get some good eats - see who'll be there!)

The Arts Council of Princeton Awards SureTech.com the Pride of the Arts Council Business Award.  The award ceremony will take place at the Arts Council's annual meeting on Thursday, June 16 at 7 PM.

For getting attention, the only thing more reliable than a train reck is a historic international train wreck like the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

Looking at the bloody pictures is so natural, impuslive and reliable that criminals have a perfect opportunity to capitalize on it before the real pictures are shown.

BEWARE OF BIN LADEN IS DEAD PICS

The email below from facebook is almost impossible to ignore, but it is a TROJAN HORSE designed to download a malicious program to your computer or facebook account.  My friend below clicked on a similar link which then took over her Facebook address book and sent out the email below to her friends.  Also the pics it's refering to are FAKE.

TO SEE THE REAL PICS

You are connected to the internet, trust me, you will know as soon as the real pictures are released.  you won't have to click on a special link, accept a download or agree to any terms.  The pictures will be on the new york times, cnn and major newspapers easily and publicly.  If someone sends you a special attachment in email you can safely ignore it, but you cannot safely open it.

If you would like more information about the site, please contact us! 

I always hate ads that distract from good content - except when it's that one thing I'm interested in.  But that's not when I want to look at it!

In the old days when we only had to keep track of 7 things a week, we clipped the ad and put it on the fridge.  But now it's 900 things and never in paper of course?  Finally we can clip for later:  

Weve always said that Managed Services for IT is usually a flawed business model.  Pretty much the better job you do the less you make.  Kinda like lawyers, I guess, except at least we talk about it!

13 hours to reformat and upgrade a client laptop is the perfect example of providing GREAT service at a TERRIBLE value.  I worked over a long day and night replacing the hard drive of this particular laptop.  Theres no question the client got a lot of benefit.   3.5x more storage space, 3x improvement in speed.  And almost no worries he handed me the laptop in the morning and came back for it the next day fully upgraded.  I couldnt save him from a couple headaches, though he had to hunt down passwords that needed to be reached in his browser .... and he had to see my 13 hour bill!  Which points to the value problem the work took 13 hours, but no one wants to pay labor of 13 hours for 3.5x space and  3x speed.  Think of it this way the 320GB drive cost less than $100 and the 3x speed was just getting the computer back to the speed it was the day he bought it.  Who wants to pay almost the cost of the computer to simply set (or in this case reset) it up?

Ill tell you: nobody.  But whats the alternative?  It takes hours and hours to set these things up so we as a ...

As chocolate lovers, we could not be happier to support a client that makes the most exquisite and delectable chocolate we've ever had.

The iPad just unveiled by Apple offers incredible new potential for the mobile office.  While it's being touted for it's video/music/gaming possibilities - we see huge potential for the business realm.  

You're right, you are overwhelmed.

Essentially infinitely overwhelmed, in fact.

The cost of diseminating information is nearly zero, so information you could never have imagined 20 years ago now finds its way to you.  Storing information is very cheap, so information you would have physically HAD to throw away 20 years ago, now stays with you.

Overwhelmed doesn't even capture the extent of the imbalance between you and the information coming your way, anihalated would be more accurate if it were a battle.

Your only option is not to give up, but fighting is futile.

Even organizing the data is impossible, managing the data flow is impossible.

Here's a graph to show you the futility of managing data:

 A zettabyte is sextillion bytes. That's 21 zeros, kids. Add one zero to get the number of actual information bits.  

For comparison your brain (if you just said no in high school) has about 100 billion cells (11 zeros).  If each cell tried to keep just one bit of data, and that's all your brain did, and didnt' keep track of who you loved, what you wanted to do or take space to admire a sunset, you'd be 11 zeros short of keeping track of the data out there today, and you'd be FALLING FURTHER BEHIND EVERY MINUTE.

Give up trying to store it, don't track it, enjoy ignrorance of 20 zeros and leave space for what you love.

How can yo do this?  How can you let go of information coming at you?  Well for one, ...

I tend to like to write on my keyboard on my lap or on a lap bench... 

In this age of constant change why do most budgets contain very little room for improving efficiency and communications?

Because most IT budgets are maintaining 90% of what they don't need to get the 10% the actually use.

SureTech.com's mission is to allow you to share the basic infrastructure that doesn't provide core value to your business, and allow you to focus your budet on the innovation and efficiency that let's you be the best in the world at what you do, instead needing each of our customers to also be best in the world at managing equipment and networks.

October 8, 2009 - via the Wall Street Journal

By Walter Mossberg

In just two weeks, on Oct. 22, Microsoft's long operating-system nightmare will be over. The company will release Windows 7, a faster and much better operating system than the little-loved Windows Vista, which did a lot to harm both the company's reputation, and the productivity and blood pressure of its users. PC makers will rush to flood physical and online stores with new computers pre-loaded with Windows 7, and to offer the software to Vista owners who wish to upgrade.

 

Windows 7, A Successful Successor to Vista

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WSJ's Personal Technology columnist Walt Mossberg reviews Windows 7, the successor to one of the least successful versions of Microsoft's operating system, Windows Vista.

With Windows 7, PC users will at last have a strong, modern successor to the sturdy and familiar, but aged, ...

Not surprisingly, online data storage can generate a bit of queasiness. Lawyers have an ethical responsibility to protect client information from inadvertently falling into the hands of inappropriate others; failing to carry through with that duty can generate unfortunate repercussions.

A lawyer's immediate reaction, then, might be to completely dismiss the idea of online storage, …

On the other hand, the same lawyer may never think twice about attaching a document to an e-mail message and sending it swirling around the open 'net.

MATURING ALTERNATIVE
Cloud computing is maturing into a plausible alternative…Contrary to what many believe, online storage ...]]> Dana Molina SureTech.com Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:49:02 -0400 http://w99.suretech.com/12503/WEB_STORAGE_Cloud_Computing http://w99.suretech.com/12783

Source: The New York Times

How was I so easily fooled? Looking back, I should have seen that in our last hours together my drive was not at all well. It was only putting on a brave face — preparing to die.

“Do you back up?” Kane asked.

I told the truth: “Never.”

I had photos and songs on my drive, and I also had Word-file diaries...

It's powered by Postini, so the back end looks good. But, I like to try these things out before rolling them out to customers. So, I decided I'd sign up my business domain for the service. I get a little bit of spam, generally it's caught by the filters in Outlook or on my server. I was using StartLogic, which I'd been signed up with for about five years. To make a long story short, after much gnashing of teeth and trying different things, it turns out that StartLogic's mail servers can't handle the Google Message Filtering service. I believe it has to do with the way the MX records are described and how StartLogic figures out which domain the mail belongs to, but I'm not sure.

So, I decided ...

Organizations are increasingly looking to next-generation social networking tools to conduct sophisticated business intelligence and analytics. In many cases, they are mining data and looking for trends and patterns, such as which salesperson has the relationships to pull off a deal or which customers seem to have the biggest influence with others online.

Cloud computing environments will contribute to the expansion of SaaS into areas beyond ERP, CRM and HR management systems. Rob DeSisto, analyst for Gartner, says organizations increasingly see the benefits of moving large-scale software expenses from the capital budget to the operating budget.

Saavy IT managers are now looking for ways to automate and embed security and compliance processes across the value chain, including on mobile devices. Surprisingly, a key challenge is one of perception, not technology. Companies must get over the idea that security and compliance systems are simply insurance against problems, and that they dont improve the business in ...