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Octagon at Work

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Today’s photo is for a blog post Kamila is writing for Octagon Technology about remote working and IT systems.

Remote working Octagon Technology IT Support Lincolnshire 01522 797520

Martin is fixing an issue for a client, remotely over the Internet. Kamila is updating our Twitter account and it is Connor’s turn to pour the tea!

We had all met up for our weekly staff meeting at The Food Bar, in Lincoln. Good coffee, sausage in a bap and wifi. The meeting notes and agenda had been distributed beforehand using our hosted exchange and OneNote.

Watch out for the full article tomorrow on the Octagon blog.

The article has been produced in association with B&G HR.

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Tea – Remote Working – OneNote

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Today’s photo is for an article Kamila is writing for Octagon about the way we are a company that fully embraces remote and home working.

Home working and remote working Octagon Technology Lincolnshire

The shot was not staged. I had stopped off in Octagon’s current favourite wifi cafe to write up some notes in Microsoft OneNote on my iPod Touch. Once synchronised other members of the Octagon team can quickly be using my notes.

Being able to work where ever I am is good for my time management. I can work on and share files in the cloud between meetings and appointments without wasting time travelling back to a fixed office.

Battery life

When working on the road, keeping things charged is always a priority. By using my iPod Touch it saves the battery life of my iPhone and iPad. The owners of this cafe have allowed me charge my phone whilst having lunch.

At Octagon we are helping our clients to take advantage of the benefits of home and remote working, saving money and creating a happy teams.

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IT Support today

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With some of our team on annual leave today I had to cover the support:

  • find and fix a network issue and then add a wifi point
  • supply a new larger monitor
  • add some new users to our hosted exchange servers
  • and carry out our regular server and backup checks, but I did that from my iPad over breakfast!

    • I also met with a client to finalise a project to replace a Windows 2003 server.

    Behind a computer

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    Tracks in the snow

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    Tracks in the snow Snipe Dales Lincolnshire

    This morning I have been helping some clients with their IT support in Spilsby Lincolnshire. They needed to update their backup to an image based/automatic cloud backup and we can help with that. No more days of “no off site backup” because someone forgets to take the tape home with them.

    However the one benefit this client really liked was that we would be checking that every day they had a good backup that could save their company if the worse happened.

    Read more about how Octagon Technology can help your business.

    On the way home I stopped off at Snipes Dales Country Park to eat my lunch and get a “photo of the day”.

    Sun through the trees with snow Snipes Dales Country Park
    Sun through the trees with snow Snipes Dales Country Park

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