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“Colling-wood…Colling-wood… Colling-wood…” The atmosphere is euphoric, and the crowd is pumping.  The Pies lead by 6 goals deep in the third quarter. It's been scrappy, but it's great to have footy back at the 'G. Melbourne is back…well, the traffic certainly is…as it was gridlock on Punt Road trying to get the ground. So maybe it was easier to sit back watching Fox Footy instead sitting high in the sky in the Ponsford Stand with ...

Finding a seat on the 7.19 am city loop service to Ringwood seems to be a distant memory for most workers.  Once, you struggled to find car parking at the station.  And hurried towards the platform.  Hoping the heavens didn't open on you in your suit. Of course, if you did find a seat, you'd share the next hour in the packed carriage as the train lurched towards the city.  You would wrestle to open ...

Is there anything more Melbourne in the summer than the Australian Open? Balmy summer nights, roof open on Rod Laver Arena and watching the worlds best go head-to-head.  Melbourne Park is renowned for hosting the best grand slam globally. But it hasn't always been that way. When premier John Cain moved the Aus Open to Flinders Park, he faced fierce opposition. He turned a public park into a place for a tennis tournament. However, the ...

This month we're discussing how you can save money on Azure cloud hosting, literally saving thousands of dollars, our website and new domain watch list service. August sees Melbourne emerge from lockdown (and then head straight back in), Queensland extends theirs and NSW continue with theirs. Having been there now six times already, our hearts go out to all of you in lockdown and homeschooling or even isolating. It’s a tough road. On the plus ...

Last Updated: November 11, 2024 Understand what goes into pricing a Microsoft 365 migration Please note: Office 365 is now called Microsoft 365 and that’s how we’ll refer to it here on in How much does it cost to migrate to Microsoft 365? Many factors go into determining the price of a Microsoft Office 365 migration that will work for your business. Costs can vary based on your current email hosting, the number of users, ...

Do you have these systems in place? Hi everyone, Hope you all had a good long weekend and thanks to all of you who took the time to respond to my email last month about ‘clean-desk’ security - I’d recommend providing something similar for your staff to get the message out there! Continuing with the security message - last week saw two major cyber incidents. One on the Nine Network which prevented live TV broadcast ...

Can your business continue if staff can't come into the office? I wish I could tell you what is a beat-up and what is legitimate at the moment when it comes to the Corona virus, and without adding to unnecessary panic, it is a good time to consider some important Business Continuity questions for your organisation. COVID-19 has highlighted the need for businesses to consider their Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) and Business Continuity Plan (BCP). ...

It’s already the last monthly email of the year - it feels like it has gone in a blink. I just want to thank you for making what we do here at Intuitive IT possible, without you and your staff we wouldn’t be here! Have a wonderful break, and best wishes for the new year. Now onto serious matters - if you use Office 365 you need to back it up! Please watch this short ...

Manual procedures around backups are a risk to your business data Hi everyone, Last month I touched briefly on backups, and this month I’m going to go into a little more detail as to why you should have them for all business-critical services. I’ll start by telling you a story - this happened last month to a company (they aren’t a customer of ours) who called us for help. They had their company files stored ...

Hi all, Welcome to April - the days are getting shorter, the mornings are getting colder, and the data breaches are getting more frequent. Coincidence, or something more sinister? In any case, last month I wrote about data breaches at MyFitnessPal and MyHeritage - this month we have 8fit and Houzz - they just keep on coming! And there are many, many more. These are the ones that have affected our client base. We can’t ...