Dan Kolansky

I was a bit dubious this morning when Chris asked me if I wanted to join in on an office party today. April 1st is a scary day to do anything in the office, but it turns out that it is indeed true. Network Depot turns 10 years old today. The journey has been a…

There have been a few updates to some of the issues which we reported on last week in our February patch blog digest. For starters, there have been a few isolated incidents where clients are having difficulties installing patch KB2956128. It appears to have conflicts with Microsoft office 2010. While this isn’t widespread, the issues…

8 Security Bulletins were released – 3 Critical, 5 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief 8 Security Bulletins were released – 3 Critical, 5 Important We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of the 8 Security Bulletins and are releasing all of them. MS14-056, MS14-057 and MS14-058 are rated Critical. After…

4 Security Bulletins were released – 1 Critical, 3 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief 4 Security Bulletins were released – 1 Critical, 3 Important (Security Bulletin MS14-045 rereleased – see below) We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any security bulletins and are releasing all of them. Note: Non-security update KB2889866…

Yesterday we wrote an article about a new Microsoft Vulnerability in Internet Explorer. While we were initially lead to believe that this was a flash issue, it was brought to our attention that the issue goes deeper than that. While we’re working on a script which can solve damage from this vulnerability, right now it…

One of the most complimentary offerings to managed services is VOIP. By offering monthly phone services to companies you can increase the income from your clients, sometimes by up to double what a standard managed services contract provides. Also by controlling the phones, you increase your company’s stickiness and make it very hard for clients…