Office Document Strategies Blog

Collaboration Software Can Change Work Processes

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, Dec 4, 2019 @ 06:12 AM

Most businesses operate with the need for multiple people to participate in many areas of the operation and to share documents, data and procedures.  In many offices the tool for sharing info and documents is email. We are all familiar with long email trails where notes or documents get circulated, commented on and sent on to others or worse still replied to "all". 

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Topics: business processes, office technology, Microsoft

Microsoft Security Patch Breaks SMB Scanning On MFPs

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, Feb 6, 2019 @ 06:02 AM

Reports are coming in that many older functioning MFPs from virtually every brand are having difficulty with SMB scanning due to an upgrade that Microsoft has released which affects the older versions of SMB (V0 & V1).  The upgrade corrects a security problem which is a good thing but for networked MFPs from Kyocera, Ricoh, Konica Minolta, Canon, Toshiba, Sharp, Samsung and other brands, it can interfere with the functioning of their scanning operations. 

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Topics: Multifunction Printer, Scanning, MFP, photocopier, Multifunction Printer support, Windows 10, Microsoft, it security