Office Document Strategies Blog

10 Steps To Your Business Covid-19 Relief Plan

Posted by Ian Leppert on Wed, Apr 1, 2020 @ 07:04 AM

Need to setup your remote office?

Working from home and wondering how to get access to your PC?

You can use the technology used by our IT to remotely support our clients. - get unattended access to key computer resources - flat rate setup and remote assistance to connect to the computers that are key to running your organization remotely, while you work from home - your bookkeepers, controllers, or production system or control PC's -
    1. up to 150 PC's can be set for unattended access and remote control per user account (only 1 can access at a time but you can purchase additional concurrent seats if needing more) $69.95 /mo including ongoing help desk support plus one time remote setup fee of $95.

Give remote access to your users to their PC's or company network servers or resources:

We can create and configure a VPN (Virtual Private Network) and show you how to connect and enable Remote Desktop access to your Windows PC's using free RDP tools (Remote Desktop Protocol) - control your PC as if sitting right at your desk - We configure your router and up to 10 users and Desktops for $495.

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Topics: office technology, digital filing, IT connectivity, Microsoft

Fax Not Dead Yet

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, Feb 5, 2020 @ 06:02 AM

Fax is the digital leading technology of the 80s and 90s of the last century.  In today's environment of instant communication in multiple forms it is hard to remember how revolutionary and process changing the popular use of fax became.

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Topics: workflow processes, Fax, office technology

Entering The Third Decade Of The Century

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, Jan 8, 2020 @ 06:01 AM

For many of us it is hard to imagine that we are now into the third decade of the 'New" century.  If your career started prior to 2000 a lot of your ideas, systems and processes mentally were probably shaped by a very different way of doing things than we now experience.  For those who only know the world of the 21st century the contrasts are not as great but even for them much has changed in the last 20 years.

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Topics: business processes, Canadian Legislation, office technology, Canadian IT

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

Take Time To Plan To Avoid Emergencies

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, Apr 3, 2019 @ 07:04 AM

Business is always a challenging contest of dealing with the urgency of each day while keeping an eye on the future to ensure that problems do not occur because important decisions are put off. 

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Topics: office technology, it security

Kycoera PinPoint Scan Enhances MFP Scanning - Leppert blog

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, Sep 14, 2016 @ 08:09 AM

If you need to improve productivity and find a simple way to Scan to your PC, Mac locally or in Cloud Apps like Microsoft 365 (Office 365) OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox or others, then this could be the App you have been looking for.

Most modern MFPs (multi-function printers) include the capability of basic network scanning in their setup. Using simple scan to email, or scan to folder systems, they make it possible for users to send and convert paper documents to images like PDF format. This capability provides many benefits to your users in the 'war on paper' but still leads to manual steps for filing or renaming, making the systems not as efficient for frequent work.

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Topics: Scanning, document management, MFP, Kyocera copier, Paperless office, office technology

Microsoft Announces New Security Features For Windows 10

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, Apr 29, 2015 @ 08:04 AM

Microsoft is planning to release the commercial version of Windows 10 this fall.  Two days ago they released the Windows 10 Preview which will permit some users to test out the new system.

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Topics: data security, Windows 10, office technology