One of the most confusing things we all encounter is Microsoft software licensing.   You hear one explanation and then another.  We are left mystified – hoping that we did it right and the school district is legal. On Wednesday, April 25th at 10:00 am Microsoft will be providing a Microsoft Licensing specialist in a webinar […]

CSI is excited to announce our third hands-on learning event entitled “Introducing Microsoft Teams for Next Generation Classroom Teaching and Learning” in our classroom in partnership with Microsoft on Tuesday, April 17th from 9 am until 1 pm. Microsoft Teams is the digital hub that brings conversations, content, and apps together in one place.

CSI is pleased to announce that on Thursday, May 3rd from 8:30-4pm we will be hosting HPE Nimble in an all-day event.  In the morning Nimble will overview their advanced storage solutions:

Preparing for “A rather blustery day” “Oh the wind is lashing lustily And the trees are thrashing thrustily And the leaves are rustling gustily So it’s rather safe to say That it seems that it may turn out to be Feels that it will undoubtedly It looks like a rather blustery day, today It seems […]

“Configuring and Managing APC UPSes” was held on Tuesday, April 3rd at 10:30 am.  One of the most valuable items in your data center and your network closets are your APC UPSes. Scott walked through a live demo of how he normally configures UPSes to provide maximum stability and reporting.

Back on January 29th, there was a flurry of discussion in the IT world about the announcement from Cisco of an Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerability. Originally announced as only affecting the ASA and latest code versions of the Firepower Threat Defense firewalls, over the next few weeks […]

  The call came in.  We have a serious virus outbreak.  Can you help? Over the years we have been asked this question time and time again.   Viruses have been predictable.   Their infection routes could be easily discerned.  Then it became a matter of discipline – Update clients, scan systems, re-image trashed machines.

The 2018 Yankees have taken the field.  We’ll all find out soon who is playing second and third base. In the meantime, I want to continue my discussion of the basics of patching. Many sites decide not to patch or patch only in the summer.