Tec(h)tonic

Insights into building a solid I.T. foundation in the mid-size business world.

Author: Christopher Scott

  • Spiceworks optimization & best practices

    I’m getting ready to migrate my Spiceworks installation to a new system and thought I’d use this as an opportunity to investigate how to improve its performance. In the process, I stumbled onto this article – could be useful: Speeding up Spiceworks Some other steps I suggest: If you use Active Directory, take the time…

  • MS Exchange Server routing

    Our office has been using MS Exchange Server for over 18 months now and I only just now discovered that our outgoing mail has never been going through our spam/antivirus service provider – d’oh! Fortunately, this turned out to be an easy fix – all I had to do was to use MMC to go to:…

  • The iPad just became a viable I.T. support tool

    SonicWALL has just released a free iOS app, SonicWALL Mobile Connect, that makes the task of establishing a VPN connection between your iOS device and your office network a piece of cake. I’m now able to use my iPad to more effectively manage the servers protected within our network from anyplace I get an Internet…