Search our Tech Blog for news and troubleshooting tips.If you can’t find what you’re looking for, click here to get in touch Featured posts Data breach response plan This page could save your business Create a data breach response plan customised to your business. Suitable for private medical practices or other small businesses with a…
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Backup, VirtualBox, what else? Improving performance of the Virtual Machine using this tip When virtualising a Datto backup, the system has already had Virtualbox drivers installed, and will detect and install these. However it may also want to install a disk driver for the Intel chipset and fail to find this driver. Point it to…
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Tyro ports and your POS system Telnet, Tyro, Terminals, oh my! You should get a response from the following: telnet merchant.tyro.com 80 telnet merchant.tyro.com 443 telnet terminaldownloads.tyro.com 10443 To allow your Tyro terminal and Point of Sale (POS) system to access Tyro’s network, please enable outbound connections on your firewall to the following TCP ports:…
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Connecting with encryption Creating accounts and linking services This is current as of Pidgin 2.10.7 Steps (4 total) 1 Add account Expand Click on ADD 2 Configure BASIC settings Expand Set PROTOCOL to XMPP Username is your userID for the Google Apps Domain Domain is the Google Apps domain Resource is “gmail.com” without quotes Password…
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Putting a Netgear modem into bridged mode Use this link to access a hidden page on your Netgear modem/router To put a Netgear Modem / Router into Modem (Bridged) mode. http://192.168.0.1/setup.cgi?next_file=mode.htm Where, of course, 192.168.0.1 is the internal IP of the router. Once in bridged mode, you can still use this IP to connect to…
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Using Windows domain controller with Active Directory adprep and dcdiag! Upgrading Active Directory to include a Windows 2008 R2 domain controller in an existing domain where the DC is 2003. This can be a real challenge. Let’s try to document the process so we can get them right every time. First check your 2003 DC…
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Protect your practice against attack Taking simple steps to secure your business and keep your patients safe Sydney Morning Herald: Ransom racket hits Brisbane businesses ABC News: Russian hackers hold Gold Coast doctors to ransom Media reports have spread of a so called “Ransomware” attack on a Gold Coast medical centre. In this case an…
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Port Redirection through Draytek Set up your Draytek router to Port Forward, or filter WAN IPs It’s easy enough to restrict RDP access to one external IP Step 1: NAT >> Port Redirection click on a profile. Enable: Tick Mode: Single Service name: RDP Protocol: TCP WAN IP: All Public port: 3389 Private IP: LAN…
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Setting up Mail Basic set up to remember when dealing with Windows Live Mail You may need to login to webmail to create the standard folders first. Drafts Sent Trash Junk Then in the account setup, set Inbox as the root folder path.
RAID BIOS and rebuild drives Replacing drive 0 the correct way Thankfully we use “real” RAID in all our servers now – IBM branded LSI cards with batteries. I had to replace a drive 0 in an Intel RAID 1 today, and have the site up and running (if slowly during rebuild) right away. I…
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