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Hosting Advice Discusses Web Hosting With Your Office Anywhere
Anyone who knows anything about the world of remote services knows that Hostingadvice.com is the place to visit if you want to learn everything there is to know about hosting including helpful how-to guides alongside reviews of hosting providers from all over the...
How to activate Microsoft 365 on a Remote Desktop server
This article sets out to explain the high-level requirements for installing Office 365 or Microsoft 365 Apps on a remote desktop or terminal server. It isn’t a step by step guide to installing Microsoft 365 on a remote desktop server, but there are links included to...
The Difference Between SQL Express and SQL Standard Explained
This article is aimed mainly at small to medium business owners/managers and IT decision makers who may find themselves in a position where they need to make strategic choices about their business software and need to understand the differences between Microsoft SQL...
The top reason why businesses look to deploy desktop as a service in 2024
Remote working looks set to continue, and who knows for many businesses it may become a permanent thing. Businesses looking to make remote working as easy and productive as office working are realising the benefits of Desktop as a Service (DaaS); and those businesses...
Is Microsoft Access going away, dying, or going end of life, and is it still relevant in the world of remote working and cloud computing?
There is a whole rumour mill about the demise of Microsoft Access, and to be honest there has been for the last 20 years. Dig a little deeper and it becomes fairly obvious that the rumours are put out there by the companies trying to sell alternatives to Microsoft...
How to Become a Successful Cloud Computing Reseller
Cloud computing has become one of the most significant market disruptors of our time. For independent IT consultants and Managed Service Providers Cloud Computing extends new business models and offers a wealth of opportunities to not only increase profit margins but...
How to enable home working for your office staff
When this article was first written back in 2020 we'd just had our first call from a business conducting contingency planning in case of a severe UK outbreak of Coronavirus (Covid-19). The customer wanted advice on whether and how we could help his team run their...
Hosting Visual Basic (VB) applications in the cloud
Hosting legacy Visual Basic (VB) applications in the cloud with no re-writing or changes to the code. Businesses are getting so used to the amazing flexibility that cloud computing can offer that there can be some frustration when it comes to legacy VB applications...
How do I move my server to the cloud?
Aimed mainly at small businesses, this article explains some of the options available to organisations who want to move away from the traditional “small business server” sat in the corner of the office and take advantage of the cost, security, and flexibility benefits...
What’s new in Microsoft Access 2019
What’s new in Microsoft Access 2019? As a leading provider of Access database hosting in the UK, we have been waiting keenly to see what the changes would be in Access 2019. Now it has been released we can provide some detail around what’s new in Access 2019 Released...