External WiFI – weatherproof / waterproof antenna and access point.

BCS also specialise in outdoor solutions for WiFi.  One of our clients, a property developer, owns a group of properties situated around a main campus.  One of the buildings is a holiday cottage across the road from a main building.

We’ve developed a solution to give that building low cost WiFi.  We are going to connect an external WiFi antenna/access point to give the cottage access to the WiFi network, without having to pay for a monthly phone line or an ADSL connection.

The cable is weather proof, being external Cat5, and the access point is a sealed Power Over Ethernet device, so is powered from the main office.

If you need this kind of solution, please call to discuss….Matt Clark 07966 497090.

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Microsoft Quotes – can’t see where to get a quote going?

If you’re struggling to find your login to generate a partner quote or to carry out general admin on your account, then the URL below take you there.

https://portal.office.com/Partner/Default.aspx

Login with you first account, the xxxx@xxxx.onmicrosoft.com account.

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Invoices attached as word documents

We’ve had a surge of PCs being infected by people clicking on “word document” invoices.  These invoices have come from email addresses that are new to the person, but if you think about, you are just as likely to get an infected email from someone you know.  Probably more so!

Your Antivirus will not always pick on on this “macro” malware and then your PC can get issues.

The simplest was to avoid trouble is never to click on the word attachments.  Ask your suppliers to send you the invoice using PDF – I have not yet seen malware be transferred with a PDF.

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Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services for Small Businesses

BCS are resellers of all the Microsoft online/cloud services.  The main items that people are interested in are the replacements for Small Business Server, commonly called SBS.  Small businesses no longer need to purchase expensive hardware, but will have to purchase mailboxes that are hosted by Microsoft.

(1) Small Business with Office (currently 2013) with the hosted Exchange server, and (2) Small Business with Online Office and Exchange server.

With Office – £100.80 per mailbox per year.  £8.40 per month.
With Online Office – £37.20 per mailbox per year. £3.10 per month.

Each mailbox has 50Gb space, and you can link your iPhone, Andriod phones, iPads, tablets, laptops and so on.

BCS will help set everything up, so that all your email/contacts/calendars are available from day one.

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