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Macro Systems has been serving the Metro Washington, DC area since 1997, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

Why a VPN is a Potent Security Tool

Why a VPN is a Potent Security Tool

Remote employees are in a conundrum when it comes to data security. While you might be able to protect data stored locally on your company’s in-house network, securing data in use by employees while out of the office is another matter entirely. How can you guarantee that your organization is protecting its data and other sensitive resources from prying eyes?

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Steps to Policing Your IT Policies

Steps to Policing Your IT Policies

Small businesses are presented with the challenging prospect of monitoring and policing various IT-related policies that you might have for your network infrastructure and workplace technology use. The difficulty of this notion does little to lessen its importance. You need to take action to protect your assets, data, and reputation from the countless threats out there, and ensuring that your employees are properly using technology is paramount to this endeavor.

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Automating Management Tasks Can Enhance Productivity

Automating Management Tasks Can Enhance Productivity

In business technology, automation reigns supreme, especially for tedious tasks that offer little to the individual performing them. Remote management epitomizes such tasks, and strategic automation can greatly improve organizational productivity. Listed below is how automation can help you stay proactive. 

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4 Ways to Save on IT Solutions

4 Ways to Save on IT Solutions

Are you paying attention to where you spend your IT dollars and whether or not you are making the most of your budget? It’s imperative to assess your needs before making any major technological purchase, including the goals, challenges, and pain points you are trying to solve. With the right approach, you can increase the value you get out of your IT, especially with the following strategies.

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3 Advantages of Adding Help Desk Support

3 Advantages of Adding Help Desk Support

Do you have employees who struggle with their technology? Chances are that there will always be individuals who are not as proficient with it as you might expect, and without a dedicated IT resource to ask for assistance, they might get frustrated and disengage with their work. You need to provide the right support to your employees. Fortunately, Macro Systems has just the right solution to your problems: a help desk!

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Explaining Network Drives

Explaining Network Drives

You often hear about “drives” when working with technology, but there are many different types that a computer might use in your business's day-to-day operations. Listed below is an explanation about some of these drives do and why you should know where they are and what they stand for.

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Is Your Business Prepared to Invest What is Needed into Cybersecurity?

Is Your Business Prepared to Invest What is Needed into Cybersecurity?

Safeguarding your business' infrastructure from various threats is a well-known imperative. In discussions about network security, the term "endpoint" frequently arises. Exploring the significance of securing all endpoints is the focus of today's article.

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Three Questions You Need to Ask About Your Organization's Technology

Three Questions You Need to Ask About Your Organization's Technology

Technology is an essential component for most businesses. Strategic integration of technology has been proven to address significant operational challenges that often elude smaller businesses and startups. In this context, we'll explore three imperative questions about business technology that every tech-savvy individual should be acquainted with and make clear the importance of such knowledge.

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How to Make and Edit a PDF File

How to Make and Edit a PDF File

PDF (Portable Document Format) is a type of file that business professionals are all too familiar with. While most are aware of and appreciative of this file type, they likely are not aware of some of the more fun and useful features afforded to them. Listed below are what PDFs are capable of, including how to make and edit them.

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Four Tips to Keep Your Tech Clean and Efficient

Four Tips to Keep Your Tech Clean and Efficient

From smartphones to laptops and everything in between, our devices are constantly exposed to dirt, dust, and germs. Keeping your technology clean ensures a longer lifespan for your devices and promotes a user’s health. Listed below are four practical tips to help you keep your technology clean and functioning at its best.

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How to Make the Best of Video Conferencing

How to Make the Best of Video Conferencing

Video conferencing has become more popular in recent years, due in no small part to the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced remote work on most businesses worldwide. However, businesses see the benefits of video conferencing, and it has now cemented itself as a go-to communications solution for all businesses. Listed below are some tips on how to make virtual meetings and video conferencing more productive and more engaging.

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Steps for Implementing New Technology Solutions

Steps for Implementing New Technology Solutions

Businesses will often go into the process of self-improvement with unrealistic expectations for how much they can significantly improve their functionality. This simply is not true, and sometimes business owners need to realize that real change—the kind that yields real results—takes time. Fortunately, there are some actionable steps you can take to ensure that your business is moving in the right direction.

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How to Transition to a New Office Location

How to Transition to a New Office Location

It’s always exciting when you can expand your business’ influence with a new location, but that excitement also brings with it all kinds of complications. There’s always something, whether it’s the technology for the new location or the logistics surrounding the opening. Listed below is a look at how you can make sure that technology is not the thing that holds your business back from opening a new location.

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4 Pragmatic Uses for Blockchain Technology

4 Pragmatic Uses for Blockchain Technology

With the blockchain becoming more popular as a technology, we thought it would be good to discuss how it works and why you should be aware of it. The zeitgeist usually portrays it as a nefarious tool utilized by cryptocurrency and scams, but at its core, it is far from this; in fact, the applications of such a decentralized and transparent technology make it perfect for certain tasks. 

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The Technology That Got Us Here

The Technology That Got Us Here

Think about all the experiences you've had thanks to the rapid innovation of technology. We can all agree that technology is cool. These we have $10 drones, mugs that keep your coffee warm, and LEDs everywhere. 

So what’s next? 

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Inventory Management can Help Your Business

Inventory Management can Help Your Business

Managing the large number of devices in today's office requires effective tracking and monitoring. The challenge lies in keeping tabs on each device, identifying users, and monitoring usage patterns. If your technology isn't currently being tracked, it's imperative to start doing so. The implementation of an inventory management system offers a more efficient and streamlined approach to this task.

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Why Your Laptop’s Battery is Dead

Why Your Laptop’s Battery is Dead

Laptops have become the most used workstations in business. Laptops are great, but their batteries are seemingly getting worse all the time. This is influenced by several factors, and it can vary significantly depending on the specific model and usage patterns. Listed below are some of the reasons why laptops seem to die quickly. 

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Advantages of Utilizing Mobile Device Management for Your Business

Advantages of Utilizing Mobile Device Management for Your Business

Mobility has become a key contributor to many businesses’ productivity plans. As a result, Mobile Device Management (MDM) has become an essential tool for organizations to manage and secure mobile devices within their networks. Listed below are five vital benefits of Mobile Device Management.

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Four Technologies You Can Utilize to Better Secure Your Data in Transit

Four Technologies You Can Utilize to Better Secure Your Data in Transit

A lot of business is done via the Internet, so securing transactions is imperative to protect sensitive information and prevent unauthorized access or even fraud. There are multiple things you can do to improve your data while it is in transit.

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Five Controversial Uses of Technology

Five Controversial Uses of Technology

Modern businesses grapple with a myriad of ethical challenges, necessitating responsible decision-making to keep the data they store secure. Some decisions that are made straddle the ethical line of right and wrong. Listed below is a look at five uses of technology that are controversial.

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