July 2013 | Let's Talk Cloud Computing & Our New Office

July 2013
In this issue:

■	Let's Talk Cloud Computing
■	Learn to use Quick Styles
■	Our New Harlan Office
■	July Certifications
■	HTS Referral Program
■	Business Continuity Tip
■	Just for Laughs and Quote of the Month

HTS Referral Program

The highest compliment you can give us is the referral of a new client. If you know of anyone who could benefit from any of the services we provide your company, please keep us in mind.

July Certifications

Congratulations to all of our engineers who have recently passed vendor certification exams! These certifications give us the opportunity to provide quality, certified services to our clients and our team puts in a lot of hours preparing for these exams.

Crystal Barngrover – SonicWall Network Security Basic Administration
Chet Cyr – Microsoft Advanced Windows Server 2012
Bryan Ferguson – CompTIA Network+
Matt Ware – MacBook Pro Retina
William Ramsey – Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Troy Anderson – iOS Qualification
Josh Mark – HP Blade Server APS
Derek Kuhr – Microsoft Advanced Windows Server 2012
Eric Vogel – LabTech Certification

"Lifelong learning" is one of our core values here at HTS, and our engineers go above and beyond to ensure they are living that value to its fullest. They do a great job of staying ahead of the curve with the latest technologies, and these certifications are important so that we can develop new solutions that allow us to better serve you!

Free Webinar: Let's Talk Cloud Computing

Is Cloud Computing Right for Your Small to Mid-Sized Business?

There is a lot of hype about the "cloud", but many business owners are still unclear on what the cloud really is and how they should be using cloud technologies.

The cloud isn't just the future of technology — it's the present, and the time to start taking advantage of it is now. This free webinar helps business owners understand the basics of cloud computing, including ways in which they can use cloud technologies to their benefit.

Topics to be covered include:

What is cloud computing?
How your business is already using the cloud
The benefits of cloud technologies
Getting started in the cloud
Making the cloud work for your business
Reviews of some of the most useful cloud applications for your business

This webinar will be presented Tuesday, July 16th, at 10:00 AM CST, by Larry Hedin, VP of Sales and Marketing at HTS.

Get a professional document fast with Word's Quick Styles
by Rachel Stancliff, HTS

Word Icon Have you ever been handed a document and been asked to “clean it up” or “change it to our branding”? It’s a contract, statement of work, or a twenty page proposal. Multiple people have modified and added to it. There are different fonts and font sizes, it’s impossible to tell where sections end and begin. . . and it will take you hours to comb through it and correct it all.

How tedious! Instead of clicking your way to carpal tunnel syndrome, take advantage of Quick Styles »

Take a peek at our new Harlan office!

At the end of June, we held an open house and ribbon cutting at our new Harlan office. We had fun -- and we invite you to check out the gallery from the event!

Harlan Ribbon Cutting

Business Continuity Tip:
Password Protection

While many organizations have these policies and procedures in place to protect themselves against hackers, the importance of using a strong password can easily be overlooked by executives and employees alike. To ensure compliance across the board, here are a few requirements you may want to consider adding to your network account settings.

Password Complexity - Set rules that ensure passwords are complex (i.e. contain one upper case letter, one number and must be a minimum of eight characters).
Lockout Policy - The ability to disable a user account if an incorrect password is entered a specified number of times (many organizations follow the '3 strikes and you’re out ' rule).
Password Age - Set guidelines that require employees to change their passwords regularly (every 60 to 90 days is good rule).
Reuse Limits - The ability to detect a certain number of old passwords preventing a user from reusing the same passwords over and over again.