National Preparedness Month Ideas: How to Strengthen Your Business’s Disaster Recovery Strategy

Folders in a filing system with labels that say Disaster Recovery Plan.

September is National Preparedness Month—a timely reminder for businesses to review their disaster recovery and business continuity plans. This year, the urgency is even more apparent following the Texas floods or the destruction caused by Hurricane Helene last year. As the strongest hurricane to hit Florida’s Big Bend region, Helene left communities devastated, highlighting the … Read more

PCI DSS Gap Analysis: A Complete Guide to Identifying and Closing Compliance Gaps

PCI Compliance

Meeting PCI DSS requirements starts with understanding where your organization stands today. That’s where a PCI DSS gap analysis comes in. It’s a diagnostic process that pinpoints which controls are already in place, which ones are missing, and what actions are needed to achieve full compliance. If your organization stores, processes, or transmits payment card … Read more

Microsoft BizSpark FAQs

AIS Network has participated in the Microsoft BizSpark program since it began about 5 years ago. We love our BizSpark friends, the program and everything that it represents. The program has supported more than 100,00 startups in more than 165 countries. So, why didn’t we designate a page for BizSpark? Well, when we redesigned our website … Read more

Cleaning Out the SharePoint Site Recycle Bin

By Terry EngelstadMCP, MCSE, CCNA, MCDBA, MCTS, MCITPAIS Network Operations Manager Recently, a SharePoint hosting customer asked us to perform routine maintenance on his SharePoint site. As part of that, he asked us to clean out the SharePoint Site Recycle Bin and have the automatic deletion mechanism disabled for the Recycle Bin. He said that his … Read more

What Is Microsoft Office 365? What Is SharePoint Online? (Part 1 of 2)

What Is Microsoft Office 365?

What is Microsoft Office 365? In June 2011, Microsoft released Office 365, essentially bundled online software hosted in the cloud. Office 365 replaced Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) and bundled the latest upgrades of its SharePoint, Exchange, and Lync Server solutions. So, when you hear “SharePoint Online,” that means SharePoint as it is presented … Read more