How to Prevent Outlook Connecting to Office 365 Account
Outlook and Windows is now set to connect to Office 365 instead of your on-premises or PIP hosted Exchange server due to Microsoft’s changes to the Autodiscover service. The Autodiscover service is the feature that tells your Outlook Client where … Continue reading →
Microsoft 365 SMTP setup – WordPress, Faxes & Scanners – How To
SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, which is a standard for sending and receiving emails over the internet. Conceived in 1980, it has become the primary Email transport protocol worldwide. All manufactures of network attached devices use the SMTP … Continue reading →
Migrating from Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 – Full Steps
Microsoft 365 is how your Microsoft Office Productivity Suite of products is now delivered to most clients. The Microsoft 365 Suite of products reside on a single cloud platform, combining best-in-class applications, with intelligent cloud services, advanced security, multi-factor authentication … Continue reading →
Medical Cloud Hosting – The PIP Advantage
Our Medical Portable Practice is tailored private cloud solution targeted at Australian Healthcare Providers. We rollout dedicated Enterprise grade servers and server infrastructure for healthcare providers. This infrastructure has its own security servers, database servers and client access servers all … Continue reading →
Migrate to Microsoft 365 Overnight – Full Checklist
Migrating from on-premise Microsoft Office suite of products, including on-premise Exchange Server or other IMAP Email services can be achieved overnight with careful planning and performing the required steps the previous days or weeks in advance. Below is a comprehensive … Continue reading →
Android vs Windows tablets – Which tablet to buy ?
Which is better? … As usual the depends!…. Read on for a deep dive into Android vs Windows Tablets. Tablets have filled that niche market in mobile devices, between laptops and mobile phones. Tablets are a better choice for portability … Continue reading →
Guide: how much does the average laptop weigh ?
With many of our business users being mobile in this new age of portable computing, one of the biggest questions is – How much does the average laptop weigh ? Of course, as the old adage goes….. This depends! When … Continue reading →
Backup OneDrive/SharePoint – PIP Drive
PIP has services to provide its clients with a Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) for Microsoft 365 One Drive and SharePoint. This backup Service will provide our clients with a – 7 Day Backup 6 Week Backup 12 Month Back 7 year Backup … Continue reading →
Host Genie Medical Software – Scanning How To
PIP has been hosting Genie Medical Software for specialist medical practices, for over 20 years. Two cloud-based solutions are provided for – PIPs private Datacenters (private cloud) or Microsoft AZURE platform (public cloud). During this extended period we have developed many … Continue reading →
Microsoft 365 on the way to Cloud.Microsoft
Just as complicated as the product offerings under the Microsoft Suite of products were, which has now been culminated under the Microsoft 365 banner, so was the multitude of domains and subdomains that represented these This is all about to … Continue reading →
Genie Software Solutions Rebrands as Magentus
From today, Genie solutions will now be know as Magentus. If you recall the Citadel Group bought Genie Solutions in late 2021 through its private equity group – Pacific Equity Partners. This equity group also acquired UK based medical software … Continue reading →
Cloud Growth Slows
The quarterly results form the big three public cloud providers, Azure, AWS and Google have reported slower growth. The era of exponential growth and huge digital footprints may be over for these mega datacenters…. At least for now. Many cloud … Continue reading →
Setup Microsoft Team Avatar
The latest update for Microsoft Teams is the creation of your own personal Teams Avatar in 3D. No longer will you need to make sure your presentable for those early morning Monday teams meetings. Just have your very own personally … Continue reading →
PIP Cloud Storage & Backup
With the return of most workers to the office and the economising of many offices in this climate, PIP has moved many of its clients applications and particularly storage either out of the cloud or to a hybrid – On … Continue reading →
Citadel Group Buys Genie Solutions
Just as we where about to see Genie Solutions debut on the Australian Stock Market (ASX), The Citadel Groups, Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) has made a bid higher than the expected IPO price to purchase the Medical Practice Software Management … Continue reading →
HP 250 G6 Notebook PC – $499
Special – $499.00 until 31/10/18 Get connected with the sleek HP 250 G6 Notebook! Complete business or personal tasks with Intel technology, essential collaboration tools and Windows 10 pre-loaded on to get you started right away. The durable chassis helps … Continue reading →
PIP – Polycom Partnership
PIP has become a Polycom partner. This is to ensure PIP is up to date with the latest info and pricing for Polycom Phones, Video Conferencing and collaboration devices. Speak to your account manager about the full range of home … Continue reading →
ACCC – Broadband Speed Complaints
It is always a struggle to explain to our customers how our network differs substantially form other IPS’s especially the cheaper, residential targeted providers. It is not until a customer leaves the PIP network that they realize that PIP is … Continue reading →
All Flash Storage – EMC Unity
This year at EMC world, EMC has released a new storage solution aimed at small to medium sized business. These units are simple to use with a modern HTML5 interface that provides users with simple yet effective management and monitoring. … Continue reading →
Microsoft Continuum
Microsoft Continuum for phones allows you to connect your phone either wired or wirelessly to a monitor or TV. This allows the user to view their information on the big screen. Not such a big deal. But what if this … Continue reading →
Wave 2 – 802.11ac
What is Wave2 ? Wave2 or 802.11ac is a new Wi-Fi standard offering up to 2167Mbps of wireless connectivity on the 5Ghz frequency band. This new standard was first introduced in 2012, but only really started to be adopted by … Continue reading →
End of Life IE 8, 9 and 10
This Wednesday (13/1/2016) is the final day o business for Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 and 10. Anyone still using these version of IE are advised to upgrade to either Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7 and 8.1, or use … Continue reading →
NBN V’s Mobile
The national broadband builder is tracking well ahead of its service activation targets, seemingly defying concerns that a growing number of mobile-only households will undermine its business plan. Although the NBN builders are tracking ahead of schedule to the activation … Continue reading →
Windows 10 First Vulnerabilities
This week saw Microsoft release major patches for Windows 10. These have been listed as taking care of multiple vulnerabilities which have been rated as critical. No known exploits are available for the vulnerabilities, but Microsoft recommends that users apply … Continue reading →
Hacked – Kmart and David Jones
Within 24 hours of each other, two of Australia leading and most trusted retailers where hacked. Both retailers where utilising IBM’s e-commerce Web Sphere Platform that allowed the companies privacy to be breached and customers personal information stolen. No financial … Continue reading →
Windows 10 – 1 Billion Devices
This is the target Microsoft has set for its latest operating system Windows 10. Windows 10 which we will see released to the public in the coming months is the first in a radical change in the design and philosophy … Continue reading →
Is your Mobile Web Site Google Ready ?
Today Google as deployed new algorithms in an aim to provide users with more relevant information and ease of use when searching using a mobile device. “As people increasingly search on their mobile devices, we want to make sure they … Continue reading →
Internet Explorer R.I.P!
That’s right its been at the centre of controversy now for almost 20 years. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was launched in 1995, and has had a long and eventful life taking out many competing browsers during this time. At one stage … Continue reading →
Microsoft Remote Desktop – Goes Anywhere
A lot of people still aren’t aware that Microsoft has a Remote Desktop Client that is compatible with just about all devices a user currently has. From the PC on your desk, to the Smart Phone in your pocket, Microsoft’s … Continue reading →
Apple to take bite of office
Just when the Google/Microsoft war on desktop applications was heating up Apple has decided to increase its presence by allowing non-Apple hardware users access to their iWork for iCloud service. In the past these services required users to own a … Continue reading →