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    Backing up one particular folder on C:

    Hi, It depends on how you use your file, OneDrive or to be honest most cloud storage services aren't ideal for backups as they simply synchronise what you have. When potentially you may want to go back to yesterday's or last weeks version. You may think this unlikely but if your current...
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    Small Business Storage/Back-Up Options?

    Hi, It may be useful to separate out your two requirements. One requirement is to share data with colleagues. The second is backing that data up to protect it, either from accidentally deleting a file you wish you hadn't, to recovering everything you've ever saved in the event your data is...
  3. Ian Sutherland

    Field Management software

    Hi Vicky, We have a couple of customers who use Clik Remote on our remote desktop platform. We've not used it ourselves but its certainly worth checking out. https://www.cliksoftware.com/products/clik-remote Cheers Ian
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    Making Tax Digital, Sage 50, what are your options?

    I've not posted this article on UKBF to try and sell on this forum, just to point the way to some hopefully helpful advice
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    Making Tax Digital, Sage 50, what are your options?

    As a company who hosts Sage 50 Accounts on remote desktops we've been getting a lot of questions from our customers about Making Tax Digital (MTD). There is a lot of confusion about whether Sage 50 supports MTD, what version you need to be on? do you really have to upgrade to subscription? can...
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    ERP Systems

    One of our resellers develops an ERP system called Encore which is aimed at small to medium manufacturers. They are Anagram Systems they also host the application on our remote desktop service so providing a cloud version to save investing in local IT. Certainly worth giving them a call...
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    Does this exist?

    Hi Simon, As dotcomdude mentioned, a custom solution would be a good choice, then you have software that works around your business process rather than the other way round. Why not look at an Access database application as this can be a much lower cost than other options. From personal...
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    Running laptop 24/7

    It would probably be closer to the latter for a managed solution
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    Running laptop 24/7

    Hi, I can probably give you some idea of costs for this as it's a service our company provides. Do you mind me asking what the software is or what its for, how you use it, and why it needs to be running all the time? There may be some other benefits that running a virtual machine may provide.
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    Office 365 Access

    As an Office 365 subscriber you'll find that the versions become less apparent or relevant, a bit like Windows 10 you will just continually get new updates as features are released. Unlike perpetual licences where you have 2013, 2016, 2019 etc. Although the suspicion is that after 2019 you may...
  11. Ian Sutherland

    What sort of cable do I need (Ethernet?)

    Yes, Ethernet is what you need. often called Network Cable, or CAT5 cable or CAT5e cable or now CAT6 all will work but like anything get the latest spec i.e. CAT6
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    Website blogs, are they useful ?

    Blogs or news articles have been real winners for our site. We started off making the usual mistakes of writing "adverts" in the form of a blog but soon realised that writing useful, interesting articles relating to our industry or service had the double effect of a) bringing people to our...
  13. Ian Sutherland

    Do you really need a privacy policy on website?

    I think it depends on what you and your website do. Our company deals with other companies' data, including personal data, so a privacy statement is really important, and we have a link to it on the bottom of our home page: http://www.yourofficeanywhere.co.uk/privacy/ I couldn't tell you...
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    Difference Between VPS and Cloud Servers?

    Hi Alice, What are you wanting to use the servers for?
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    Business Broadband

    I would recommend these guys http://www.gconnect.net/ they are specialist consultants and will be able to properly asses your requirements and put you on the right connection We use them and recommend them to our customers.
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