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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.

How to Enhance Your Collaboration

How to Enhance Your Collaboration

Businesses are rarely successful with just a single individual doing all the work; rather, businesses are largely successful when a group of people are working together toward the same goal. To promote this kind of collaboration within your business, we suggest you keep the following tips in mind.

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How to Download Google Workspace Files

How to Download Google Workspace Files

Google Workspace is a solid tool that helps you get a lot done, but sometimes you may find yourself in a position where you need to download the files and take them with you or send them to someone. In these instances, you might not want to share the link. Instead, you can simply download them as whatever file format you require!

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How to Overcome Resistance to Change

How to Overcome Resistance to Change

Change, whether you’re referring to that of your technology or any other business process, is usually a point of contention between management and the rest of the business. Let’s explore this resistance to change that so many feel, and how you can help them overcome it.

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Tips to Minimize the Risk of Overworking

Tips to Minimize the Risk of Overworking

Remote work has become a significant part of today's business operations for many companies, but there is also a difficulty that frequently comes into play with remote work: the phenomenon of overwork. Listed below are some tips to help reduce the risk of overwork as people continue remote work.

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New Year's Resolutions to Make Regarding Your Organization's Technology

New Year's Resolutions to Make Regarding Your Organization's Technology

The new year has begun, and many of us have undertaken the traditional resolutions as a means to improve ourselves by kicking bad habits and adopting good ones. Why shouldn’t your business join in the fun? Listed below are a few resolutions that could benefit your business if your team were to adopt them.

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How to Find Your Printer’s IP Address

How to Find Your Printer’s IP Address

Having a network-connected printer is good, but there might come a time when you must know what the IP address is. Listed below is how you can find your printer’s IP address in the settings for Windows 10 and why you might need to know this information.

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Headphone Cleaning Tips

Headphone Cleaning Tips

A lot of people spend the modern workday with headphones on or earbuds in, listening to music as they work or communicating via a headset; it's inevitable that these devices will get dirty. Listed below are tips on how these devices can be safely cleaned to get rid of the grime that nobody wants to be wearing on their head.

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How to Reduce Employee Burnout

How to Reduce Employee Burnout

Workplace burnout is a serious problem that can have far-reaching effects in your business. Thus, it is imperative that you can identify when one of your team members is starting to feel it, and know what you can do to help reduce it. Listed below are factors that can lead to burnout, as well as a few ways to remediate it.

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A Breakdown NIST’s Definition of Zero Trust

A Breakdown NIST’s Definition of Zero Trust

How many people do you fundamentally trust? In a zero trust network, that number is reduced to zero. The idea of such a network is that everyone, whether they’re operating inside of the network or out, needs to be verified… and as you might imagine, it has proven effective in preventing data breaches. 

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How to Emulate Enterprise Networks

How to Emulate Enterprise Networks

The significant difference between an enterprise and a small or medium-sized business is just its size. As a result, many of the tools that the enterprise takes advantage of can easily be used by their smaller counterparts. Listed below are a few of these processes and technologies.

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Explaining CC and BCC in Email

Explaining CC and BCC in Email

We’ve all seen the fields CC and BCC in our email, and most of us have probably used them before. Where did we get those terms, and how is each of them properly utilized?

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What You Need to Know About Scaling Your Wi-Fi Network

What You Need to Know About Scaling Your Wi-Fi Network

Most of today's businesses rely on wireless internet connectivity in their day-to-day processes. Naturally, this means that their potential productivity is tied to the quality of their internet and its capability to serve the entire workforce. As a business grows it becomes more critical that its Wi-Fi setup can support it. Listed below is the process of properly scaling your network to your needs.

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How to Delete Temporary Files in Windows

How to Delete Temporary Files in Windows

We’ve all probably had the storage on our computer fill up a little too quickly for our liking. While you could delete or store unused files in the cloud, there is another method that you can use to quickly free up a little extra space that you might not have realized is there. If you can delete temporary files, you might find that you suddenly have a lot more storage space on your computer.

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How to Enhance Productivity via Google Chrome

How to Enhance Productivity via Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a very popular browser. For example, in June of this year, about 65 percent of the overall browser market share was attributed to Chrome. Because so many people use Chrome, we put together a few tips that can help make Chrome even more productive for the user.

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Strategies to Catch Potential Hacks

Strategies to Catch Potential Hacks

“Hackers are a serious threat to modern businesses” isn’t exactly a novel statement, is it? On the other hand, if a hacker was lurking on your network, would you know the signs to help you catch them? Just in case, we wanted to share a few strategies that can help highlight these warnings so you can more effectively catch any threats present on your network, especially when your workforce is accessing it remotely.

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What Your Business Should Know About the Collaboration Platform Discord

What Your Business Should Know About the Collaboration Platform Discord

While it isn’t officially a business solution, the collaboration platform Discord has seen some popularity as a means of facilitating a business’ internal communications. Listed below are some tips to enhance your use of the platform, in case you are part of a company that does so. 

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How to Prevent Your Emails from Being Caught in Spam Filters

How to Prevent Your Emails from Being Caught in Spam Filters

While spam filtering can be a great tool for your business’ own defenses, the spam filtering that your contacts have in place could prevent your messages from reaching them. Listed below are a few ways that you can help prevent your emails from being caught up in these filters before your contacts or prospects can read them.

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11 Ways to Ensure Your Team is on Their Guard Against Cyberattacks

11 Ways to Ensure Your Team is on Their Guard Against Cyberattacks

Unfortunately, there is no single tool that allows you to avoid any and all cybersecurity issues for your business. On the other hand, there is one way to help make most threats far less likely to be successful: building up your organization's internal security awareness amongst your employees and team members. Listed below are eleven ways that you can help ensure your business is properly protected, simply by encouraging your employees to take a more active role in guarding it.

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How the Most Popular Browsers Integrate Password Management

How the Most Popular Browsers Integrate Password Management

Most accounts these days require a password and, as such, the average user has countless of these codes that need to be kept secure. Some web browsers have built-in password management tools to help make them more user-friendly, but with so much convenience involved, one has to ask whether or not these built-in management tools are as secure as they should be.

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Is Your Backup Trustworthy Enough?

Is Your Backup Trustworthy Enough?

Because of the protection it can offer your business, data backup is a necessary tool for you to have; that is, provided it has the requisite security and reliability you’ll need should you ever have to lean on it. Listed below are a few guidelines to help you be sure that your backup is trustworthy enough to stake your organization's future on.

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