Apr 1, 2020 Portland, OR. - for immediate release In response to an uptick in demand for customers to work from home, SpireTech has developed some new technology to rapidly move legacy servers to the...
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Datacenter bandwidth upgrade coming soon
We’re upgrading the bandwidth in our Portland colocation facility to have four times the current bandwidth. Part of the upgrade has already been completed, and the rest will be completed in May. We’ll be increasing the included data transfer and port speeds for all...
WFH security issues
We remain very concerned about recent security issues related to work from home, including: Proper anti-virus and anti-malware software installed on home systems Patch management and updates of home systems VPN’s allowing additional paths for...
From the trenches: An IT worker’s perspective on WFH issues
IT workers around the world have been busy the last couple of weeks. At SpireTech, the service desk has been slammed with issues relating to everybody getting setup to work from home (WFH) and we apologize for any...
Improved client reporting rolling out in March
Starting this month, SpireTech VIPsupport Managed Services clients will be receiving improved reports. These reports will go to the main contact(s) in your organization charged with overseeing your SpireTech relationship. The reports are interactive with...
Working remotely policies and procedures
With recent headlines, has your company considered what might happen if your employees needed to work from home suddenly? Does your company have policies and procedures in place for working remotely? SpireTech can help you get ready. Things to consider...
How to report spam to Microsoft 365
Getting a lot of annoying spam in your email? Here's a quick guide on how to report spam in Microsoft 365. For customers using Office 365’s built-in junk mail filter, there is an outlook plugin you can install to report spam that gets past Microsoft’s filters and move...
3 million SSL certificates abruptly revoked
Let’s encrypt, an industry nonprofit that issues free SSL certificates, had to revoke 3M certificates Wednesday March 4, 2020 due to a bug. SSL is the technology that gives websites the https “padlock” and is often used to secure other things like mail servers....
Simultaneous editing of docs with Office365
“Co-authoring” is available in Office365, which is the ability for multiple people to edit a file at the same time. The file must be stored on Sharepoint or Onedrive for this feature to be available (not an internal file server). To see it in action, along...
Implement Multi-factor authentication now
We’ve been recommending for quite a while that our clients implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) on their email and Office365 accounts – really, anything that can have MFA enabled should. You may have heard of two-factor authentication (2FA) before,...