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Rule 3 – No Drama

“I love it when a plan comes together.” The line lands after chaos. Explosions. Miscommunication. People doubting each other. Then […]

Kevin Fream February 19, 2026 Leave a Comment

CoPilot Agents Don’t Replace People — They Replace Delay

The rain comes down sideways. A gray morning. A city that looks like it’s already late for something important. In […]

Immutable Backup Is Your Project Hail Mary

Why “we have backups” is no longer a strategy DISCLAIMER: This article is provided for educational and informational purposes only. […]

Costly Risk of Using Unvetted IT Support

What Moneyball Teaches Us About Eliminating Preventable IT Risk “If you don’t know what you’re looking for, you’re not going […]

New Computer Cyberist Best Practices

NOTE: This article discusses general best practices and is not intended for operational instructions. “Sometimes it is the people no […]

Rule 2 — Protect Yourself at All Times

“Protect yourself at all times.” — Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood), to Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) In Million Dollar Baby, that […]

SharePoint Usage Prime Directive in the AI Era

How many people does it take, Admiral, before it becomes wrong?” Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) That line hits harder […]

E-Mail Retention: Quiet Move That Eases Legal Discovery

The opening pages of The Rainmaker don’t start with power—they start with exposure. A young lawyer, buried under files and […]

SSL Renewal Quantum Leap

SSL is the digital lock that encrypts your connection to a website so the information you send and receive can’t […]

Brand GEO 100K Upgrade

Air opens with a problem, not a product. Matt Damon’s character isn’t selling shoes. He’s selling belief—before anyone else sees […]

Incompatible Office Products Are Installed on Your Machine

Recently, we’ve begun to receive numerous help desk requests with the following error message: Sorry, we can’t perform this action. […]

Kevin Fream March 11, 2015 4 Comments

CryptoLocker Prevention: Top 12 Defenses Against Business Loss

Despite worldwide publicity concerning the staggering business loss from CryptoLocker (or other variants), few organizations have taken precautions to protect themselves. […]

SharePoint Online Breadcrumb Alternative

Breadcrumb navigation in SharePoint Online 2013 is gone. Despite the numerous dis-information articles on the web that tell you to […]

Firewalls and Cloud Computing

One of the great things about cloud computing is that it lessens the cost and difficulty of protecting the perimeter network […]

Managed Services Pretenders

This customer was in extreme pain. It was hard to understand how they were so patient – for the last […]

Cloud Computing vs. Hosting

Cloud Computing and Hosting are not the same thing. Hosting is defined as renting rack space and paying monthly for hosting […]

Facts of Internet Explorer Vulnerability 2014

Following the recent Heart Bleed exploit, Open Source pundits have been scrambling and the press has capitalized on a slow […]

Using Salesforce with Office 365

Currently, the Salesforce plugin for Outlook does not support the industry standard of software installation called click-to-run. Consequently, customers downloading […]