Problem: No Teams meeting option in Microsoft Outlook showing on 365. Challenge: The user logged a call with us as she couldn’t use the teams meetings addin for Outlook and it didn’t exist to be added manually. Solution: We tried reinstalling Teams and checking the addins to see if it had been disabled etc. Nothing …
Problem: When pressing CTRL + Home in Excel it opens a new sheet but doesn’t go back to cell A1. Challenge: The user logged a call with us as she couldn’t press the CTRL + Home key any more to return to cell A1 in Excel. This was very strange. It would just open a …
We can help with all IT related problems and here is just an example of a small problem we resolved for one of our clients recently. Problem: Laptop wouldn’t boot up properly and gave a blank screen after login. Challenge: The user had just got home and the call came in at 17:40 as he …
At Octagon we have evolved as the years have gone by, we started repairing PC’s. We moved on to supporting servers and then on to networks and so forth. Every company has different requirements, from just an email address to an all singing and dancing network with customised software. We have been in business over …
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At this time of year the cyber criminals become a lot more active, it is their chance to get more money from unsuspecting consumers. I have seen a lot more email slipping through the cracks, as the bad actors manipulate their malicious messages to avoid detection. Over the last few days I have seen email …
It’s a Sunday morning. I wake up and there is an email on my phone. It is from our Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) system. One of the servers we look after hasn’t communicated with the system for over 15 minutes. I get up, have a cup of tea then see if I can connect …
Are your social media, email and other accounts actually secure? Passwords these days need to be more complicated than in previous times
Here is an email we have sent to our clients Hi, You may have heard that Windows 11 has now been released by Microsoft. It will be a replacement to Windows 10. Many of our clients have asked how it will affect them and I thought it would be a good idea to let you …
Over the last couple of weeks I have been working with Microsoft through one of their security articles. As part of an investigation we needed something that could identify if malicious rules or forms could have been inserted into an organisation. For instance, if an email account gets hacked and your details are …
