Year: 2022

IT Consultancy Sheffield

Align Your Team to Company Targets with Microsoft Viva Goals

Align Your Team to Company Targets with Microsoft Viva Goals You often hear the words “digital transformation” and “collaboration.” But what do they actually mean? What do they mean for the day-to-day of running your business? Collaboration can’t happen without shared goals. When departments are siloed and unconnected, priorities can conflict. People are doing their […]
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Why You Need a Cloud-First Strategy

In the year 2019, Microsoft ceased its support for Windows XP, marking the end of an era for this legacy operating system. Astonishingly, even three years later, almost a million PCs globally continue to operate on this outdated software. Delving deeper into the landscape of antiquated software, a concerning reality emerges – countless businesses are […]
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Network Services

5 Ways to Balance User Productivity with Solid Authentication Protocols

5 Ways to Balance User Productivity with Solid Authentication Protocols One constant struggle in the workplace today, is the balance between productivity and security. If you give end users too much freedom in your network, the risk increases. But adding too many security gates and hoops to jump through, and productivity can dwindle. It’s a […]
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IT Outsourcing Sheffield

Controlling Business Risk with IT Outsourcing

In our last blog we looked at just some of the benefits of outsourcing your IT. There are other longer term benefits of working with a managed services provider. Every business should have a strategy for controlling risks to the business and recovering from a disaster. That may be a flood or fire in your […]
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Microsoft 365 Apps

Simple Checklist for Microsoft Teams Setup

Microsoft Teams is a lot of things. It’s a video conferencing tool, a team messaging channel, and a tool for in-app co-authoring, just to name a few. During the pandemic, the popularity of Teams skyrocketed. User numbers for MS Teams jumped from 20 million in November 2019 to 75 million in April 2020. As of […]
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The Costs of Not Outsourcing your IT Support

There comes a time in every business journey where you have grown to the point that some services simply can’t be managed by you or one of your team jumping on a problem as it arises. You also have yet to grow to a size that justifies specialist members of staff dedicated to limited roles. […]
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Insider Threats

Insider Threats Are Getting More Dangerous! Here’s How to Stop Them Here at Commstec, we believe that one of the most difficult types of attacks to detect are those performed by insiders. An “insider” would be anyone that has legitimate access to your company network and data. This would be via a login or other […]
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Microsoft Teams Plan Comparison

Microsoft Teams Plan Comparison: Free vs M365 Business vs Teams Essentials The shift to remote work over the last two years has caused companies to realign their digital tools. Now, many meetings default to being via video conference rather than in person, and working from home has become commonplace. Seventy-seven percent of remote workers say […]
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As a Service…

IT as-a-Service: What is it? At Commstec IT, we like to keep our language jargon and tech speak free as far as we can. One of the most popular ways to describe what we do is “IT as a service, or ITAAS.” With ITAAS, the emphasis is on helping your business reduce the problems that […]
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Introducing Commstec IT and our “Why”.

Introducing Commstec IT and our “Why”. I bought my first Personal Computer back in 1998, and within a year I had upgraded nearly every major component within it, probably voiding any warranty I had with PC World in the process. I quickly became fascinated with how computers worked and what made them tick, to then […]
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