Announcement

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I-75 Fire

Harbor Computer Services was affected by the fire on I-75 last night. Our servers and other network equipment still reside in Hazel Park. After the bridge collapsed last night, I got a call from our monitoring service letting me know that the server was unreachable. Sure enough. Power is out. […]

Office for Home

A couple of people recently asked me where to buy Microsoft Office for their home computer. My stock answer is always CostCo or BestBuy because they will consistently have the best price on any random day. But I wanted to point out an special advertisement that I got today from […]

IT Training for the Unemployed

This is an announcement because it seems like a good opportunity. So if you’re an unemployed IT person and need to update your learning to current versions, or want to become one then please read on. If you know someone that could use this information please forward it on to […]

Request for Assistance

We need you to help test a new extremely economical backup system. We are looking for volunteers. There is no risk and it will not disrupt you current backup. If you are interested please contact either Amy or your technician. Harbor Computer Services has entered into a beta testing agreement […]

New Remote Support Connection

Harbor Computer Services has changed remote support products. We will now be using NTR Global. NTR Global provides the same support opportunities that the previous solution did, plus a few additional features on the management end. We have also taken in some feedback from clients that the previous URL for […]

Mainstream Support Ends

This month, we pass a significant milestone for the 2002-2003 era products. Microsoft offers mainstream support for its products for 5 years. At the end of 5 years, the support scales back; at the end of 10 years support scales back again to almost nothing. This is not unique to […]