Email is the preferred way of business to now communicate. It's wonderful, since important documents are transferred almost immediately, and business isn't affected by long waits for document exchanging. There is a problem: email servers don't always play nice.
Too many times, I've sent something via email, with an attachment, and the recipient doesn't receive the documents. The reason? The email server rejected the email. Otherwise, the computer, thanks to the IT protocol, thinks it's dangerous, or spam, or the IT on staff thinks it's a good way to play with the heads of the usually thankless people he deals with with daily.
Is there a solution? Of course, but the usually thankless people probably don't have a clue, or know they'll have to attempt to not appear as condescending to the nerd that controls their existence. They haven't forgotten the ugly confrontation after they downloaded a virus, and the IT guy missed Thanksgiving to rid the server of the electronic puke scattered through the system
So, the modern way introduced things that are not only problematic, the solution may disappear, when the IT guy quits, and locks the server with a password with seventy billion possible combinations of numerals, with letters.
Ain't technology grand?
Yep. Where I work, if the computer goes down, we are effed. Literally, if one program fails, we are out of business.
ReplyDeleteWe depend on our file server for important company documents. We almost lost it after Harvey, which flooded the office.
DeleteAfter we were ready to place everything back on line, I had to replace the ends of a few of the network cables, and install a new network hub. As opposed to the past, I set the network back up, and made sure all the computers were configured. It was fairly easy, since windows is now pretty user friendly.
It all worked, and oddly enough, we haven't been plagued with the usual network problems of the past. That, and we haven't had to pay for a guru to come take our money, so they could perform their special magic on the network.
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