I know this isn’t really Technical, but, we are going to have a booth at this weeks Airshow at the Westmoreland Airport.

This is our first year to have a booth at the Westmoreland County AirShow and we are looking forward to seeing all of you there! Hopefully the weatherman is totally off base with their predictions and that we have good weather throughout. Come by our booth to see some of the products and services that we can provide to you and to talk to our staff. If your phone is a little short of a charge plug it into our charging station to give yourself a little boost.

If you are having issues with your phone or tablets let our excellent staff know and we can provide you with a discount coupon to have it serviced at our state of the art cell phone repair center.

We can fix more than just cracked screens. Hope to see you there!

We had a great visit with Sam Liebl from Lenovo today

We were able to discuss many ways that we can provide our customers with products and services from Lenovo and how we can fine the best deals for you on the products that you are looking for. We have been having a great year with them and it is primarily because of the wonderful support we have been receiving throughout the process of determining the best product for the best price and support possible. We love the new Flex-3 notebooks that we currently have on the floor and apparently so do our clients. They are priced well, are light and ease to work with and provide you with a wide range ways to work with the notebook, whether it is in the typical notebook mode, tented, or as a tablet. It’s a great choice for a well built notebook for all-around business use.

Jessy just came back from a Lenovo conference in Florida so he is full of some very useful information that you should really take advantage of.  Be sure to give us a call and, Hey!, stop by and see what we have on the floor.

Email Spoofing...Yes it is a real life problem.

One of my friends, Michelle Drolet fom Towerwall, Inc. just posted an interesting article about Email Spoofing and how the Sophos Product Reflexion Total Control can help prevent this issue.

You can find the entire article here.

Reflexion Total Control provides quite a few ways for dealing with controlling SPAM and other email problems. Take a look at a quick list of features here. To purchase, find out more on the product or to have us setup a trial be sure to contact us.

Easy On Hold Support Notification

Easy On Hold streams for all easyonhold.com URL groups will be down for upgrades for approximately 2 hours Sunday, May 22, 2016 from 10pm to around midnight. Does not affect brandimusic.com URL groups.

During this time, we will be upgrading our databases for increased capacity and speed.

Streams will stop during these hours, but will return to normal operation.

If your installation uses a Grace Digital streaming player, a reboot of the device may be necessary.

ProStream devices will play onboard audio fail-over files during the maintenance window (you will not experience silence). The device will begin using the live stream as soon as it becomes available.

For questions and support, please contact us at 888-798-4653 or support@easyonhold.com.

AMD might actually be making a comeback in CPU architecture

Michael Hunter passed along this article

http://www.itwire.com/it-industry-news/development/72853-amd-zen-will-favourably-compete-with-intel-skylake.html

“Zen will compete with Intel on performance, power and specifications – not just price”

“By the end of the year, AMD will have moved on, to both its Zen CPU core as well as the Polaris graphics architecture. We are far close to Intel than ever before – you always need a number two to keep them honest”

New feature: Office 365 Groups ability to update privacy type

New feature: Office 365 Groups ability to update privacy type

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The ability to update privacy type for Office 365 Groups is a new Office 365 feature. You’ll begin seeing this feature today.

How does this affect me?

When you create an Office 365 Group, users have two privacy options: public (anyone can access the Group's content) and private (only approved members can access the Group's content). This update enables Group owners to change the privacy setting from public to private or vice versa by editing the Group properties in your favorite browser.

What do I need to do to prepare for this

You don’t need to do anything. Please click Additional Information to learn more.

Additional information

New SharePoint home experience in Office 365 rolling out starting today

New SharePoint home experience in Office 365 rolling out starting today

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As announced at the “Future of SharePoint” event on May 4th, we are starting to rollout the new SharePoint home experience in Office 365, starting today, to First Release. The rollout will be completed to all tenants within the course of the next several weeks. We’re committed to evolving your intranet to be more accessible on the go, and more personal with intelligence-driven content based on user activities across sites, the people they work with, and the content they work on.

How does this affect me?

Starting May 11th, 2016, we will begin to rollout the new SharePoint home experience in Office 365. What was the 'Sites' page is now the 'SharePoint home' and the “Sites” tile becomes the “SharePoint” tile - same logo, redesigned for a modern, responsive user experience.

What do I need to do to prepare for this change?

Please click Additional Information to learn more.