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  • Build vs Buy

    Hardware Refresh Cycle: How Often Should You Replace Business PCs?

    ByJohn Farmer September 28, 2026September 28, 2026

    This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through our links we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Replacing business PCs is a cost you can either plan for or get surprised by — and the businesses that get surprised almost always pay more, either in emergency purchases when a…

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  • IT Operations

    Software License and Renewal Tracking: How to Stop Paying for Shelfware

    ByJohn Farmer September 28, 2026September 28, 2026

    This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through our links we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Shelfware is software you’re still paying for that nobody’s actually using — a seat provisioned for someone who left eight months ago, a tool the team tried once and abandoned, a plan…

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  • RMM & Device Management

    Corporate Laptop Imaging and Deployment for Small Business

    ByJohn Farmer September 28, 2026

    This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through our links we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Manually setting up a laptop — installing the OS, joining it to the domain or tenant, pushing every app, applying every security setting — takes hours per machine and produces a slightly…

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  • RMM & Device Management

    BYOD Policy Setup for Small Business (IT-Ops)

    ByJohn Farmer September 28, 2026

    This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through our links we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Employees are going to use their personal phones and laptops for work whether there’s a policy or not — checking email on a personal phone at a red light is the default…

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  • Backup & Disaster Recovery

    Disaster Recovery Plan Template for Small Business

    ByJohn Farmer September 28, 2026September 28, 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 solution tells you data is being copied somewhere. A disaster recovery plan tells you exactly what to do when you actually need to restore it — who acts first, what…

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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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