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The jury is still out on the future of the U.S. economy. Some predict that we are on the edge of the normal business cycle and should start to see a significant decline in profits, precipita… Read More

  It has been one year since Windows 10 was released, and Microsoft is giving it plenty of polish and new features on the new “Anniversary Update” which is available August… Read More

For 13 years, TecFac has provided managed services including help desk, monitoring & maintenance, change management, and etc. To learn about the five P’s for an effective mana… Read More

  On July 12th Facebook announced that they have implemented Office 365 for their 13,000 employees world wide.   This announcement is a great win for Microsoft and their Offic… Read More

There is an ongoing conversation within the commercial real estate industry and its ‘Everything as a Service’ (EaaS) model for IT service delivery. This was a topic at several Re… Read More

  I’ll never forget the day that my co-worker had to IM me during a meeting that I was breathing too heavy into my mic. We were, of course, on a Skype for Business meeting, with o… Read More

In the last few weeks, Microsoft has begun to roll out the early versions of the Skype for Business for Mac application. Microsoft intends to do a staged release process, releasing one featu… Read More

Skype for Business has a simple user interface that is easy to navigate and most first-time users can learn it within minutes and begin communicating, but it also has a large feature set and… Read More

TecFac’s TeamWorkAnyWhere solution provides competitive pricing and turnkey high-touch migrations to Microsoft Office 365, Citrix ShareFile, and a hosted Skype for Business platform wi… Read More

  I’ve been spending some time considering the term “cloud migration”.  To me, migration connotes a large one-way traveling event, with varying degrees of prepara… Read More

In previous posts, I explained Why Businesses Should Choose ShareFile for Cloud File Storage and how ShareFile was Named a Leader for Enterprise File Synchronization and Shari… Read More

Joe Rich, CIO at Tishman Speyer and Tom Taddeo, CIO at Kimco Realty are this year’s Realcomm Advisory Council Co-Chairs. They join us for our first video Out Of The Trenches in which w… Read More

Last blog we talked about several features that were released in the Windows 10 Anniversary update.  We will be covering several more features in the update, as well as things we didn&r… Read More

Gartner has named Citrix ShareFile a “Leader” again in its Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing Magic Quadrant. As Citrix noted in their blog post on the news, &ldquo… Read More

  Crazy: doing the same thing and expecting a different result.   Last September, I embarked on a journey towards getting out of personal debt. It led me to make some unfamiliar de… Read More

Microsoft continues to make waves in the hardware market. Today, they announced the Surface Studio, a whole new all-in-one computer to compete with Apple’s iMac. Starting at $3000… Read More

Overuse of email is rampant in American business and culture and many believe it degrades efficiency and effectiveness.   It prolongs decision making and execution because it fosters tr… Read More

  Skype for Business is the ultimate phone system for telecommuting for several reasons.   Unified Communications   Skype for Business is a single application from which you c… Read More

  As 2016 draws to a close, I’ve been checking in with some of our colleagues in the industry about how the year has gone and how they see 2017 shaping up. Three distinct areas ha… Read More

    Volvo recently announced that they have integrated Skype for Business directly into the dashboard of their high end 90 Series vehicles.  This allows drivers to be able to… Read More

Auto Attendant is one of the most important features of an enterprise phone system.  For people calling into your business, the auto attendant’s ability to route calls to the corr… Read More

  A study published this week in the medical journal, BMJ, concluded that the world is “grossly underprepared” for future disease outbreaks. The study was based on data coll… Read More

  The latest version of Skype for Business was released to the Office 365 Insider Preview Branch and we have been testing its two newest features.   1. Consult and Transfer:  … Read More

1. Unified Communications   Skype for Business is a Unified Communications platform that combines: Instant Messaging Phone Calls (Full Enterprise PBX functionality) Video Calls Conferen… Read More

One of the hardest personal decisions a business leader makes is whether to allow telecommuting or liberal leave when snow and ice make commuting dangerous. The need to keep employees safe a… Read More

On Monday and Tuesday last week, Microsoft held their Washington DC Tech Summit. I attended 4 sessions:   The Future is Closer Than You Think; Broadly Deploying Windows 10 for Business… Read More

Has OneDrive for Business Improved Enough? Microsoft’s entry into the Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) software market has made huge improvements over the past few years. OneDrive… Read More

It’s true, right? Together we can do what we can’t do on our own.   It’s true on every level – from being paramount to our survival   • To having a wor… Read More

WannaCry shook the world on May 12th infecting more than 230,000 computers in over 150 countries in the first 24 hours. Malware attacks like this have become commonplace, unfortunately. In f… Read More

Microsoft’s MyApps portal (a.k.a. the access panel) is a web-based portal for users of Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory account to launch applications. Think of it as a set of… Read More

In my last blog, I explained what the Microsoft MyApps Portal (aka the “access panel“) was and listed some end user and IT benefits. In this blog, I will explain what Microsoft m… Read More

To our valued clients, business partners and colleagues: The US citizens of the Virgin Islands are in urgent need of basic supplies following the devastation of hurricanes Irma and… Read More

What is Microsoft Teams? Microsoft’s recently announced that it would eventually be replacing Skype for Business with Microsoft Teams. This announcement is not the same as the rebrandi… Read More

Looking for Ways to Help Your Business Go Green? Everyday energy is wasted while pollutants and trash are accumulating in our environment. Perhaps TecFac’s methods could help your orga… Read More

Changing Your Telecommuting Policy: Working Remotely As someone who works solely from home I get into a lot of interesting conversations when I tell people I work for a company whose headqua… Read More

TecFac Announces Partnership with Bespoke Real Estate Advisors; Welcomes Kirk White as Strategic Consultant (REALCOMM 2018 – LAS VEGAS) – TecFac Business Services Group… Read More

Technological advancements like the cloud are not only changing the ways we communicate and store data, they are also evolving how businesses function as a cohesive unit. However, the cloud… Read More

The security of sensitive data is an on-going concern for any business large or small. In the context of the cloud, business may harbor their doubts as to whether an entirely digital system… Read More

There are many reasons why your company might want to move to the cloud. One of the biggest reasons to consider moving workloads to cloud-based platforms is to reduce costs. It can refer to… Read More

Information technology is an essential element to operating an efficient and successful business in today’s markets. With an increasing amount of business connectivity and transactions… Read More

Safe, Secure, and Accessible Data Storage and Sharing One of the largest concerns businesses have when considering a transition to cloud solutions is the fear that storing sensitive data on… Read More

Skype for Business Meetings can be used to create any kind of online meeting you need for your particular use case.  Whether you need a simple audio conference call or a large online me… Read More

Why Microsoft Teams Going Forward Will Be Huge Communication platforms are critical to the efficient and competitive operating of businesses today. There is a huge variety of different platf… Read More

Every business is searching for new ways to maximize their efficiency and collaboration. Skype for Business is one of the best tools available for any sized business. It combines various com… Read More

Funny how the budget isn’t there until it’s too late… Recently my friend’s apartment burned down while he was at work. Unfortunately, he did not have rental insuranc… Read More

Fifteen months have gone by since hurricanes Irma and Maria ravished through the U.S. Virgin Islands and left massive destruction in their wake and the recovery is far from over. The region… Read More

In 2017, Microsoft announced they would be phasing out their Unified Communications Platform, Skype for Business, and replace it with a new system, Microsoft Teams. Microsoft is now beginnin… Read More

How Microsoft Teams Turns Instant Messaging and Email Chains into Intelligent Communications Microsoft Teams is the latest iteration of their Unified Communication platform.  We have se… Read More

Though you may not be familiar with the term, technical debt is a very serious IT issues afflicting some companies. Technical debt is the liability created when a company allows its technolo… Read More

Navigating Microsoft Teams’ features and your deployment of them can be quite a burden. We have compiled all the best Teams resources for getting the most out of Microsoft’s ente… Read More

WHY DO YOU NEED CLOUD STORAGE? As companies move forward in this mobile and cloud-first world, where associates store their files is a major obstacle to progressing towards that future.Conte… Read More

Microsoft Teams is now two years old and the calling roadmap which detailed all the telephony features of Skype for Business to Teams is now complete. Teams already works with most of the he… Read More

We’ve all heard that using the same password across multiple platforms that guard sensitive information is unwise. But even with varied passwords, failing to change them enough can pro… Read More

The TecFac Team is pleased to announce the on-boarding of its newest client, Centennial Real Estate. Centennial is leveraging its 50 year heritage in the industry to shape the evolution of A… Read More

Microsoft Teams is the predecessor to Skype for Business, Microsoft’s Unified Communication platform. Teams has taken many of the same elements of Skype for Business and expanded upon… Read More

As Microsoft rolls out Teams, one thing the application challenges is the idea of what a phone is. The Poly Elara 60 is Polycom’s 2nd device that they have released for Microsoft Teams… Read More

After talking to a dear friend of ours in China about how he and his family are doing with the concerns and spread of the Coronavirus, we learned that his company and many others are trying… Read More