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Outage in NW Calgary with Shaw, service teams are looking into it ... apparently.

Don't chat with tech support though, I think they're closed for the holiday. 🤦‍♂️

Microsoft Tells Users to Uninstall Windows 11 Update That Causes Apps to Crash...

Microsoft Tells Users to Uninstall Windows 11 Update That Causes Apps to Crash Another bug-filled Windows update—fortunately, this one likely affects only a small group of users.

If you own an Apple product, check for updates!!.

“Zero-click means that somebody you probably don’t know … can remotely target and infect your device with no interaction … you see nothing, you hear nothing and suddenly your device becomes a digital spy in your pocket.”

https://globalnews.ca/news/8189561/digital-spy-zero-click-hack-apple-explained/amp/

Outage in Valley Ridge and Cranston areas this morning.

Oct 19 – Calgary (Valley Ridge & Crestmont) | All Services - Outage (Fix in Progress) Affected Area: Calgary (Valley Ridge & Crestmont) Affected Services: Internet, Business Internet, Phone, Business Phone, Digital TV, VOD, Gateway, BlueCurve TV, WiFi Access Points Reference Number: INC0855786 Summary: Some customers in the Valley Ridge & Crestmont areas of Calgary are experiencing a...

Some customers who use Office 365 may have noticed a short outage last night.

Here is the response from MS Support, the problem has been fixed.

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Authentication errors across multiple Microsoft or Azure services - Mitigated (Tracking ID SM79-F88)
Summary of Impact: Between approximately 21:25 UTC on Sep 28 2020 and 00:23 UTC on Sep 29 2020, a subset of customers in the Azure Public and Azure Government clouds may have encountered errors performing authentication operations for a number of Microsoft or Azure services, including access to the Azure Portals. Targeted communications will be sent to customers for any residual downstream service impact.

Preliminary Root Cause: A recent configuration change impacted a backend storage layer, which caused latency to authentication requests.

Mitigation: The configuration was rolled back to mitigate the issue.

Next Steps: Services that still experience residual impact will receive separate portal communications. A full Post Incident Report (PIR) will be published within the next 72 hours.
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Todays Status is all GREEN.

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Here is a great example of someone trying to gain access to your email account. Don't get fooled, no one should ask for your password.

by clicking on that "Retrieve prevented emails" it would take me to a "login" screen that would ultimately fail.

because you are not actually logging into Office365, you are just sending them your username and password, so they can log in.

If you have any suspect emails you want us to look at for you, email them to us!

We will let you know if they are legit, or just phishing. 🐟🐟

Windows 7 update failures last night.

if you or anyone you know is having issues with windows 7 today, this maybe why.

Try rebooting into safemode and rolling back the updates.

Contacts us if you need some help!

Windows 7 update stuck configurating Hello, we installed yesterdays (9th April 2019) windows update and a bunch of our PCs are stuck configurating. The only workaround we have...

Finally, credit where credit is due.

Edge goes Chromium, and open source wins the browser wars | ZDNet Decades after starting the web browser wars, Microsoft has given up its proprietary Edge web browser in favor of its open-source based rival Chromium.

Free upgrade from Shaw for existing customers!

How to Get Your Free Shaw Internet Upgrade to 300-600Mbps Right Now Shaw announced last week a free internet upgrade for their Internet 150 and Internet 300 plan customers. Here’s how to get it today.

Great prices on HP networking equipment on Amazon.

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