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Email Recovery Compliance Requirements, The Stellar Way

Email retention plays an important role in fulfilling the organizations compliance requirements, especially if you are in the financial or other regulated industries. Demand from regulators and investigation agencies for emails of an employee long gone are not unheard of in these industries.
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Run ESXi in Secure Boot Mode? – Backup Up Your TPM Recovery Keys

Secure Boot is a mode of running VMware ESXi server that helps prevent malicious files and programs like ransomware from being loaded on to it. This is due to the fact it will only allow signed software packages. However, the recovery keys need to be backed up in the event of a hardware failure.
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Creating An On/Off Switch For Conditional Formatting In Excel

Often times what you may consider better indicators of various items, others do not. It is always a good idea to have a way to turn off conditional formatting in whatever program is displaying it. The most obvious I will use here - MS Excel.
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Credential Theft

MoveIt, Ofcom & the case of the exposed sensitive data

A security breach at file transfer tool MoveIt has exposed the data of thousands of users, including the UK telecom watchdog Ofcom and the Minnesota Department of Education.
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Deploying VMware Cloud Foundation in an Existing Environment

Looking to migrate your existing VMware environment to VMware Cloud Foundation? Below is a brief summary of what is involved in making this transition based on my personal experience.
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Perils of Reusability

This article examines the validity, challenges and finally the approaches towards reusability of your deliverables. It digs deeper than usual slogans such as DRY and invites the reader to look into the consequences of adopting reusability approach!
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Upgrading to Mac OS Big Sur

Article about upgrading your Apple Mac to macOS Big Sur.
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The nuances of new age SSDs - Slow performance & Solution

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Post purchasing a portable SSD recently, I ran into several performance issues. Namely, the new SSD (SanDisk Xtreme Pro 1TB) having slow speeds on data copy and the files (on disk) taking a lot of disk space. These issues are now sorted but I want to share this for anyone in the same boat.
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iSCSI adapter IQN may change during the upgrade of ESXi 7.0 U1

According to VMware KB 84339, if the iSCSI adapter IQN is not the user setting then it is auto-generated by ESXi, and the IQN may change post upgrade.
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Natural Language Processing for Surveys - it's got a long way to go (Qualtrics Text iQ)

This post discusses my experience with the natural language processing component of Qualtrics (Text iQ) (https://www.qualtrics.com/iq/text-iq/). This software is used to analyze open-text comments from surveys or other qualitative data. Overall we love Qualtrics, just not Text iQ
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Being The Pro That Other Pro's Call When Stumped

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Being the tech support person that other tech support companies call as a last resort
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Prevent and Restore Lost Outlook Contacts

Prevent Losing Contacts in Outlook

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While repairing a troublesome IMAP connection with Office 365, a list of over 500 Outlook Contacts mysteriously disappeared. Learn how to prevent and safeguard yourself against that happening to you by following the steps in this article.
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Windows 10 Maintenance tips

How to Keep Windows 10 in Tip-Top Shape

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In over 20 years of working as an IT Professional fixing computers, I see the same problems posted again and again which can be prevented by just doing some regular maintenance on the Windows operating system. This article explains what you should be doing to keep your computer in tip-top shape.
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VPN Comparison for Beginners

VPN Comparison for Beginners

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An honest and unbiased comparison of four popular VPN software solutions available. Includes security features offered, reliability, speed tests while connected to identical servers (where possible), additional features offered and subscription cost comparisons. Includes a FREE VPN service provider.
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A Beginners guide to VPN Software

A Beginners guide to VPN Software

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In part one of this two-part series, I'm going to explain in layman's terms what a VPN is, what it can and can't do for you, and how it works. In part two (coming soon), I will compare two or more popular VPN services and describe which one I believe is the best to go with.
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iOS 14 The Visually Appealing Update

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iOS 14 brought some changes to what we've known as the iPhone home screen. Join me as we discuss the update and what features you're going to need to know.
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Feeling the Talent Shortage? 5 Ways to Build Your Tech Team

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As an IT professional, you know how hard IT teams work. How a team operates as a unit can make or break a project. Building a fundamentally cohesive tech team can make all the difference for any organization.
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Kofax PaperPort Professional

Free in-place upgrade of Nuance PaperPort Professional 14.5 to Kofax PaperPort Professional 14.7

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Earlier this year, Kofax acquired Nuance's Document Imaging Division, which included PaperPort. Kofax recently released the first version of PaperPort under its stewardship — V14.7. This article explains Kofax's method for upgrading from PaperPort Professional 14.5 to Professional 14.7 at no cost.
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Professionalism in Software Development

Essay about what professionalism means to software developers.
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Sage 50 Quantum 2020 Won't Run After Upgrade

The early release of Sage 50 Quantum 2020 has issues with client installation. This article is to help those that may run into this so they can analyze and resolve.

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