With the lockdown in place and all staff working remotely, we've had to postpone our sponsored spin for YPACF. We will rearrange this later in the year when some sense of normality is resumed. We will however all be doing at least 1 hour of vigorous exercise tomorrow (by... read more →
Mar
30
Mar
19
Yes, a very long-winded title! Our Principal Consultant Toby Skerritt takes a look at AD authentication over SMB for Azure file shares. The ability to set Active Directory based permissions on Azure Storage Account file shares has been one of the most heavily requested features of the platform. It’s now... read more →
Mar
18
A lot of organisations are establishing or have already established methods for staff to work from home. For some people working this way is second nature, for others its rather alien, both in terms of the tools you might use and how it feels to work in a different environment. ... read more →
Mar
16
We want to help people as we go through this challenging time, our technical capability is probably our strongest asset. Our MD Andy Sellers posted this today on LinkedIn. If you need any support, feel free to give us a call on 01635203700 and the team will help you. Did... read more →
Mar
13
Reminder that the End of General Support (EOGS) for vSphere 6.0 and the below listed products was yesterday - March 12, 2020. This includes the following releases: vCenter Server 6.0 vCenter Update Manager 6.0 ESXi 6.0 Site Recovery Manager 6.0 and 6.1 vSAN 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2 vSphere Data Protection... read more →
Mar
04
Not a blog intended on creating blind panic or sensationalising this subject, merely collating some of the recent news updates from multiple sources including the technology vendors themselves about the impact that Coronavirus is having on their supply chain. A lot of the worlds consumer and enterprise tech is either... read more →
Mar
04
Here at Foundation IT we are raising money for a charity who we work with very closely, Young People and Children First. Throughout the year we are completing a handful of different charity events. On the 31st March we are getting on our bike once more and doing a sponsored... read more →
Feb
18
This question gets posed frequently and there is some confusion about who has responsibility for data protection in O365 environments. Microsoft's documentation is a little.... vague in some areas which doesn't help matters. Lets break this down a little. Some background - who's doing what? Microsoft take care of the... read more →
Jan
16
Microsoft announced on its January patch Tuesday (14/01/2020) that a new exploit has been identified and resolved. A spoofing vulnerability exists in the way Windows CryptoAPI (Crypt32.dll) validates Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificates. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by using a spoofed code-signing certificate to sign a malicious executable,... read more →
Jan
13
On the 14th January 2020, Microsoft will end extended support for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008R2 as well as Windows 7 Operating Systems. After that date there will be no:- Security Updates Non-Security Updates Online/Telephone based support Further updates to technical content online If you haven't already built... read more →