- February 23, 2023
IPSOFACTO, brings to life technologies for a $35m home
By tsteffenThe owner called us describing slow wifi, a bad sound system, broken gate buzzers, hacked consoles, buggy home intercom system, intermittent phones. Two years ago, this homeowner trusted a vendor to install several technologies, but the vendor could sell tech, but couldn’t correctly install it. Here...
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- January 5, 2023
Perimeter 81 and Meraki Networks; Integration Challenges
By Steve BoullianneOne of the failures of a Perimeter 81 roll-out via Meraki firewall equipment is in VPN Routing. You will need to create each individual tunnel on Perimeter 81 for all offices/sites and then configure each of these tunnels using unique point information accordingly. This information would...
- December 27, 2022
Veeam Security
By Steve BoullianneBelow is a checklist for Veeam Security Systems at a client with 80 employees, 12 virtual servers, 8 offices in California, family owned. Checked in with IT Director to discuss Veeam Security Reviewed Synology NAS and SAN storage health all OK for Veeam Security. Noted NAS...
- December 6, 2022
RACKSPACE OUTLOOK EMAIL IS DEAD
By Steve BoullianneRackspace is dead. Microsoft killed it to take the $$$millions$$$ that Rackspace made reselling OUTLOOK EMAIL. IF you are a RACKSPACE client, you NEED to migrate to Gmail or O365 NOW. RACKSPACE will shake the ransomware trap that Microsoft dropped them into. Migrate now. Don’t wait...
- November 5, 2022
Your Outlook O365 Mail stopped working on OCTOBER 27, 2022
By Steve BoullianneRevised 11/10/2022 And the 0X800 error message. That’s it, gang. No more email with Outlook. October 27 was the date. Why? Since 2015, most laptops (90%) have been built with a TPM Chip. And Microsoft REQUIRES the TPM chip to manage internal security for Multi-Factor Authentication...
- November 1, 2022
To Connect, or NOT connect?
By Steve BoullianneThat is the question, young padawan. Here in Downtown San Francisco, literally MONTHS after Covid paranoia, our office buildings are still empty, our streets are still filled with drug addicts and car-jackers, and Fridays between 3pm and 7pm is a zombie shit show of welfare free-cash-handouts...
- August 31, 2022
My name is Tracy and I’m a PROJECT MANAGER at IPSOFACTO IT SERVICES
By Steve BoullianneAs a PROJECT MANAGER at IPSOFACTO IT Services, I oversee Tech Roll-outs and Cost Accounting for clients. I manage technical projects in: HOMES and OFFICES Ordering and delivery of software and hardware All backed by financial reports Projects can take months to finish due to Scale...
- June 27, 2022
What to do with the iPhone of a Deceased Person (yours too…)
By Steve BoullianneFor this subject, the Apple term is Legacy Key. The Legacy Key is a code that you give a Holder, that special someone who will see everything on your iPhone after you’re dead; allowing them to recover documents, pictures, emails, texts, anything on your cell phone,...
- June 10, 2022
What to do with the Android phone of a Dead Person (yours too…)
By Steve BoullianneFor this subject, the Google term is Inactive Account Manager. Google has a system in place for when you, or someone you are close to, dies and the account data needs to be recovered, usually for legal reasons or to know what was going on up...
- May 20, 2022
Ongoing IT for Extraordinary Homes (and more!)
By Steve BoullianneExtraordinary Homes require ONGOING care. A homeowner asked us to start managing their Atherton estate; At first to have us on site to fix cameras in the boiler room. After we replaced the broken cameras, the owner said, “and I can’t scan either”. After we fixed...
- January 17, 2022
The hackers punish Lazy-bones Jones
By Steve BoullianneHe said, yawning…. “I like my 20 year old password! I’m a nice guy and not a tech billionaire. They’ll ignore me. I’m immune to hacks and my dog-name password is superhard to guess.” Cybercrime; one computer can hack 120,000 computers per day; every day. Now...
- December 10, 2021
Extraordinary Home Networking Security Sensors
By Steve BoullianneIT’S NEW STUFF. Our dreams finally come true. Our partners say that IPSOFACTO builds and manages the best home networks in the world: the things that go beep, the things with a green light, and the things that protect you at night. And now, at last,...