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  • Microsoft 365 & Workspace

    Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 Migration: A Small Business Guide

    ByJohn Farmer September 9, 2026

    This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through our links we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Deciding to move from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 is the easy part — our comparison guides cover that decision. Actually executing the migration without losing email, breaking calendar invites, or locking…

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  • Backup & Disaster Recovery

    Immutable Backups for Small Business: Object Lock, WORM, and What It Costs

    ByJohn Farmer September 9, 2026September 9, 2026

    This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through our links we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. A backup that ransomware can encrypt or delete isn’t much of a backup. Immutable backups — copies that literally cannot be altered or deleted for a set period, even by someone with…

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  • IT Operations

    What to Do With PCs That Can’t Run Windows 11

    ByJohn Farmer September 9, 2026September 9, 2026

    This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through our links we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Windows 10 support ended October 14, 2025, and a real share of small business PCs still can’t run Windows 11 — no TPM 2.0, an 8th-generation Intel chip or older, or an…

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  • Software Buying Guides

    QuickBooks Desktop 2023 Lost Support in May 2026: What Small Business IT Needs to Do Now

    ByJohn Farmer September 9, 2026

    This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through our links we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. If your business is still running QuickBooks Desktop 2023, the support clock already ran out — payroll, bank feeds, and security updates for that version stopped on May 31, 2026. This isn’t…

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  • RMM & Device Management

    Microsoft’s Record September 2026 Patch Tuesday: What It Means for Your Small Business Windows Fleet

    ByJohn Farmer September 9, 2026

    This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through our links we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Microsoft’s September 2026 Patch Tuesday is the largest security release the company has ever shipped: 966 flaws fixed in the main release, 974 counting patches issued earlier in the month, 105 of…

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  • IT Operations

    New Hire IT Setup: The First-Day Checklist for Small Businesses

    ByJohn Farmer August 24, 2026August 24, 2026

    A new hire’s first day sets the tone for how they see the company’s operations — and nothing undercuts that faster than a new employee sitting at a desk for two hours waiting on account access. IT set

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  • IT Operations

    IT Asset Inventory: How to Track Every Device in a Small Business

    ByJohn Farmer August 24, 2026

    You can’t secure, budget for, or troubleshoot what you don’t know you own. Most small businesses discover this the hard way — during an audit, a cyber insurance application, or a break-in where nobody

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  • Backup & Disaster Recovery

    How to Test a Backup Restore (and How Often to Do It)

    ByJohn Farmer August 24, 2026August 24, 2026

    Every small business has a backup. Far fewer have ever actually restored from one. Backups fail silently more often than people expect — a job that’s been “completing successfully” for months can stil

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  • Networking & Wi-Fi

    UniFi vs Omada vs Aruba Instant On: Small Business Network Ecosystems Compared

    ByJohn Farmer August 24, 2026August 24, 2026

    Picking a small business Wi-Fi platform used to mean picking a single access point. It doesn’t anymore — UniFi, Omada, and Aruba Instant On are ecosystems, and once you buy into one, your switches, ac

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  • Networking & Wi-Fi

    Internet Failover for Small Business: Dual-WAN and 5G Backup That Actually Works

    ByJohn Farmer August 24, 2026August 24, 2026

    A single ISP outage can shut down phones, card readers, and cloud logins for hours. For a small business running everything through one internet connection, that’s not an inconvenience — it’s a full s

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