Announcing our digital preservation and imaging practice
A new chapter for the company. Drone imaging, document and photo scanning, map digitization, fragile-document handling, and legacy media migration are now formally part of what we do.
— Field notes
Stories from the workshop.
Real lessons from the field. Project breakdowns, technical deep dives, and the occasional opinion about why your network is slow.
Security
Microsoft 365 hardening: the seven settings most tenants get wrong
Default Microsoft 365 settings are not a security baseline. Seven specific changes that take an afternoon and meaningfully reduce risk.
Cloud
Disaster recovery is not a document. It is a drill.
A DR document that has never been tested is a wish. Here is how to run an actual DR drill, who should be in the room, and how to grade the result.
Public Sector
CMMC for the contractor who just won their first DoD subcontract
You won the contract. Now you need to be CMMC compliant. Here is what that actually means, scoped for a small contractor.
Engineering
Why we standardized our entire MSP stack on Laravel
From ticketing to quoting to client portals, every piece of internal tooling now runs on one framework. What worked, what did not, and why we will not regret it.
Managed IT
The case for documenting the obvious
The most expensive knowledge in an organization is the kind nobody wrote down because everyone knew it. Until they did not.
News
Welcome to the team: three new hires across the Mountain West
We grew the team this quarter. Three new colleagues join us across our service area, bringing depth in network engineering, government IT, and full-stack development.
Networking
Wireless that works: ten lessons from a hundred deployments
Wireless is the most-used and least-understood part of most networks. Lessons from a hundred deployments across offices, warehouses, and government facilities.
Engineering
Building an internal tool with Laravel and HTMX
A walkthrough of building a small internal tool with Laravel and HTMX. Why HTMX often beats a full SPA for line-of-business apps.
Security
Endpoint detection on a small budget
EDR no longer means "enterprise only." A practical look at endpoint detection options for organizations under 100 seats.