The requirements of K-12 are increasingly for anytime, anyplace learning as students use various devices both inside the district and at home.   One to one initiatives are stretching our ability to reliably deliver the applications that our students and staff need access too.

One of the most frustrating things for users and the technical staff that support them is erratic email flow.  Often users and staff don’t know that their email is stuck or being rejected.  By the time the technical staff often realize there is a problem, a whole lot of email has backed up – or […]

We wanted to let you know the CSI Tech Talk meeting and webinar dates for the 2017-2018 school year. Our Tech Talk free knowledge transfer sessions are designed for technical staff responsible for technology support in your organization. Attendees at our previous meetings have given us the highest ratings for the quality of our presentations.

The reality is that your network is under attack.   The bad guys are using advanced machine learning techniques to exploit sometimes subtle vulnerabilities in your network implementation and design to gain a foothold inside your network.  These footholds then use map the network, determine who the domain admin IDs are, who the local admins […]

The reality is that your network is under attack.   The bad guys are using advanced machine learning techniques to exploit sometimes subtle vulnerabilities in your network implementation and design to gain a foothold inside your network.  These footholds then use map the network, determine who the domain admin IDs are, who the local admins […]

The summer months are often very busy times as we try to get all our projects accomplished before school starts again. This month Scott Quimby will discuss summer priorities.   There are so many important tasks that never seem to get done during the school year.

This month Scott Quimby continues his discussion of Microsoft Group Policy.  He will focus on Microsoft Windows logon performance and reliability. There are a myriad of different settings that affect how long it takes the user to get to a functional desktop from the initial Windows logon screen.

Scott Quimby continues his discussion of Microsoft Group Policy.  He will focus on the different ways to deliver items to an end user’s desktop.  These include: Shared folders via a folder re-direction group policy. Delivering customized shortcuts via Group Policy Preference Extensions including Item Level Targeting strategies.

Senior Systems Engineer and Microsoft MCSE Prayer Solanky presented an introduction to PowerShell. Microsoft is increasingly moving towards command based management for server administration. Prayer will present an introduction to the PowerShell interface and introduce some basic PowerShell server administration commands.

Scott Quimby provides continues his discussion of Microsoft Group Policy.  He will focus on a couple of important aspects of Group Policy: Group Policy Modeling – How to know what is supposed to happen to a specific user on a specific computer and also know what policy is controlling the behavior.