Active@ KillDisk allows you to destroy all data on hard disks, SSD & USB disks completely, excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders. It’s a hard disk drive sanitising tool and partition eraser utility. If you use FDISK, FORMAT utilities, or the standard operating system DELETE command for data removal, there… Read More »
Microsoft yesterday stopped providing Windows 7 Professional and Windows 8.1 licenses to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), including its PC partners and systems builders. The end of sales for Windows 7 Professional comes a full two years after sales ended for Windows 7 Home Basic, Home Premium and Ultimate. Windows 8 sales ended a few months… Read More »
Microsoft is to increase its prices by as much as 22%in the UK because of sterling’s recent decline, a rise that is likely to affect thousands of businesses and could cost the Governments tens of millions of pounds. The price increase, from Jan. 1 2017, will be 13% for its enterprise software and 22 %… Read More »
Users who are running the 2013 version of Office 365 ProPlus after February 28, 2017 will have to upgrade to the latest version of Office 365 ProPlus to continue to receive support from Microsoft. Note This article doesn’t apply to the Office 2013 Professional Plus, Professional, and Standard editions. For the support dates for the… Read More »
The Microsoft Cloud in the UK provides Azure and Office 365 from multiple data centre locations in the UK. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online will join the line-up in the first half of 2017. The local offering brings world-class reliability and performance combined with data residency to government departments, regulated industries and other businesses alike. … Read More »
We have received reports of yet another ransomware. KillerLocker ransomware is not vastly different from other ransomwares that we have seen in the past. It encrypts the victim’s files and shows a warning once it finished its job. This time, the warning uses a creepy image of a killer clown. With killer clown attacks all… Read More »
Microsoft has opened Azure data centres for Azure and Office 365 in the UK. Azure has two new regions, UK West which is listed as Cardiff but is probably in Newport, and UK South which is listed as London but is probably near London. Office 365 (just Exchange Online and SharePoint Online at this time)… Read More »
Internet pioneer Ray Tomlinson, who is credited with the invention of email, has died at the age of 74. The US computer programmer came up with the idea of electronic messages that could be sent from one network to another in 1971. His invention included the ground-breaking use of the @ symbol in email addresses,… Read More »
The year 2015 was a milestone for the technology realm. Both eBay and Amazon ditched their teenager tags and celebrated 20 years in business, while IMDb turned 25. Elsewhere, the humble .com domain name reached 30 years of age, as the first dot-com domain was registered in March 1985. However, 1985 was a notable year… Read More »
In order to update the SharePoint databases, you must manually run the PSconfig utility. 1. Open an Administrative command prompt. 2. Change directory to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\%VERSION%\BIN 3. Run PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force -cmd applicationcontent -install -cmd installfeatures
Readycrest continues to be certified to supply academic volume licensing.
What are REIN and SHINE? Repetitive Electrical Impulse Noise (REIN) and Single Isolated Impulse Noise (SHINE) describe interference that can affect the stability and performance of a Broadband service. In both cases, a power source is generating interference in the frequencies used by the ADSL Broadband service. REIN is where this interference is generated for… Read More »
By Mark Ward Technology correspondent, BBC News (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28661463) Before now Cryptolocker victims had to pay a hefty fee to get the keys to unlock their data. All 500,000 victims of Cryptolocker can now recover files encrypted by the malware without paying a ransom. The malicious program encrypted files on Windows computers and demanded a substantial… Read More »
The below instructions require information specific to the Exchange Server within your company. Should you require assistance with this information, then please contact the Readycrest support team. 1. Touch Apps. 2. Touch Settings. 3. Scroll to and touch Accounts. 4. Touch Add account. 5. Touch Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. 6. Enter your workplace email address. 7.… Read More »
Windows users are at risk of having their computers infected, after a malware attack posing as an “important company update” was spammed out. The emails, which use forged headers to pretend to come from the same domain as your email address (in other words, if you have an email of fred@example.com the email… Read More »
Please follow the instructions below for connecting your iPhone or iPad to an Exchange server (the screen shots below are taken from an iPad running iOS 7 so may differ slightly from your own device). At section 8 you get the choice of what to synchronise in terms of Mail, Contacts and Calendars. 1. From… Read More »
Open the Windows 8 Control Panel. Windows 8 includes a tool to create a Recovery Drive and it’s most easily accessible from the Control Panel. Tap or click on the System and Security link.Note: You won’t see System and Security if your Control Panel view is set to Large icons or Small icons. In your… Read More »
Windows 8. is a free update to Windows and is coming later this year. The pre-release version is available now to try. Windows 8.1 has new ways for you to personalise your PC and includes a wave of new apps and services. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/preview Windows 8.1 Preview Product Guide
Click the Apple in the upper-left corner of the screen. Select About This Mac. Click More Info. Select Network on the column to the left. Find your IP address. It will be in the upper-right portion of that window.
The NetExtender utility is automatically installed on your computer. To remove NetExtender, click on Start > All Programs, click on SonicWALL SSL VPN NetExtender, and then click on Uninstall. You can also configure NetExtender to automatically uninstall when your session is disconnected. To do so, perform the following steps: 1. Right click on the NetExtender… Read More »