In response to COVID-19, the amount of people working remotely has greatly increased the use of Microsoft Teams. Microsoft is working on the rapid scaling of Teams! With a 12 million active user gain in one week, they're working very hard. If…
Because so many people are going to be conducting their school, work and volunteer business from home, I am posting links to resources for remote productivity. Of course, we are here to help you as well. Many of my direct…
In my 25+ years of IT experience, there is one costly but preventable mistake that I have seen business owners make repeatedly. It is using outdated or inferior technology to try to save money. For the most part, currently supported…
The Computer Monkey is now Skyline IT Management to more clearly reflect the direction my company is going. (See more in About Us.) There will continue to be a need for technicians like myself to repair issues with technology when…
No doubt there are nefarious actors who might try to breach your network by launching external attacks. However, I would argue that the greatest enemy of your IT security is most likely you or your employees. From not practicing good…
There are so many phishing scam emails floating around that it would be impossible to send an alert out for all of them. This one is a particular threat for my local customers because Cox is a major internet service…
As a reseller of Carbonite Online Backup, I typically tout what Carbonite WILL do to keep your data from being lost in a hard drive failure or other disaster. However, this post is about what Carbonite will NOT do BY…
This is a picture of a standard hard drive (not the newest SSD technology). My father has a degree in industrial engineering and the hefty part of his career was spent with companies that manufactured hard drives. So, I've heard…
You turn on your computer only to see it freeze at the manufacturer's splash screen (Dell, HP etc. logo) and some boot options with the progress bar only at the very start. Nothing happens after that no matter what you…
Skyline IT Management is an authorized reseller of Malwarebytes Premium, an outstanding product for preventing and removing malware infections. Visit this page for instructions on how to activate a new license key for Malwarebytes version 4. Your license key has…