If your laptop doesn’t last as long on a charge as it used to, Windows has a built‑in way to show you exactly how your battery is performing. It can generate a detailed report that tracks usage, capacity, and overall…
If you're using Microsoft 365, you're probably already familiar with the big name apps: Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel. But there's one app that often goes unnoticed - and it might just be the simplest way to get more done. What…
Microsoft has announced that, from 1st July 2025, it will discontinue its free Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Office 365 E1 licences for eligible non-profits. If your organisation currently benefits from this grant, it's important to plan ahead to avoid…
We are regularly deploying Veeam Backup & Replication at some of our medium/larger sized clients who have multiple virtual servers to backup. Veeam is a very powerful and flexible backup solution which has numerous advantages over the built-in Windows Server…
In the days of tape backup it was easy to tell when a backup had completed because the tape could be configured to eject from the drive. A lot of our clients use a pool of USB backup drives which…
Microsoft’s Office 365 Exchange Online service is great, but some organisations cannot afford to pay the monthly costs that Microsoft asks. Thankfully there is an alternative in the form of Hotmail using a custom domain. This will allow you to…
We support several charitable organisations and have just completed a complete network installation for once such client. We have saved them hundreds of pounds by suggesting to them that instead of purchasing full retail copies of Windows and Office they…
At Focused IT we deal with all sizes of business - from hundreds of users across multiple sites, to small offices with a couple of users. For the smaller businesses we have been installing Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials…
We recently replaced a client's aging Windows 98 PC which was running an unsupported version of Quicken 2000. The client still had the Quicken installation CD, but had unfortunately lost the registration details. After installing Quicken on the new Windows…
Following on from my previous post, here is another bit of software that we have recommended to a client. The client wanted to set up a couple of PCs that members of the public could use to access the internet…