Amy Babinchak

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  • Ransomware Prevention Kit

    ThirdTier

    Beginning in 2013 we published Harbor Computer Services, ransomware prevention strategies for free use by other IT firms. In 2016 those strategies became a full kit of best practices. Over 4000 IT firms world wide are now using our kit to protect their clients.

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  • SBS 2008 Unleashed

    Sam's Publishing

    A cooperative endeavor by a number of Microsoft Small Business Server Most Valuable Professionals to provide administrators with a book to help with installing and managing their servers on a daily basis

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  • SBS 2008 Unleashed

    Sam's Publishing

    A cooperative endeavor by a number of Microsoft Small Business Server Most Valuable Professionals to provide administrators with a book to help with installing and managing their servers on a daily basis

    Other authors
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Honors & Awards

  • Top 100 Firms

    Channel E2E

    Harbor Computer Services has made the top 100 list of IT firms with a vertical focus. We are one of 12 in the nation supporting the Manufacturing industry. We are one of only 2 such listed firms in the State of Michigan. “The Top 100 Vertical Market MSPs rankings are based on ChannelE2E’s Q1 2016 readership survey. MSPs featured throughout the list and research leverage deep vertical market expertise to drive annual recurring revenues (ARR) in specific market segments.”

  • 20/20 Visionary

    ChannelPro Magazine

    Trust us when we say this, because we know here at ChannelPro: There are a lot of smart people in the SMB channel. Yet for the second year running, we’ve set ourselves the exceptionally difficult task of identifying the 20 wisest channel players in the vendor, analyst, and consulting communities and the 20 most farsighted channel pros in the partner community

  • Microsoft Silver Cloud Solutions for Small and MidMarket Certification

    Microsoft

    We recently completed the necessary requirements for achieving our cloud certification with Microsoft. It required us to submit 3 case studies and have over 150 seats of successful installations plus customer references to verify it all. The benefit to this is that we now have additional support options available to us and we’re one of few firms in the area that have this certification. It’s one thing to say that you’ve deployed Cloud solutions to businesses and another to be able to say that a…

    We recently completed the necessary requirements for achieving our cloud certification with Microsoft. It required us to submit 3 case studies and have over 150 seats of successful installations plus customer references to verify it all. The benefit to this is that we now have additional support options available to us and we’re one of few firms in the area that have this certification. It’s one thing to say that you’ve deployed Cloud solutions to businesses and another to be able to say that a third party has verified that the solutions you’ve deployed were successful. We carefully chose our solutions to represent our clients needs.

  • Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional)

    Microsoft

    For the past 10 years Amy has been awarded Microsoft's highest individual award of technology excellence. She is currently in the Cloud and DataCenter group. Her awards have been given in Small Business Server, Essentials Business Server and ISA (firewall security).

  • 20/20 Visionary

    ChannelPro

    There are plenty of bright minds in the SMB channel, but some shine just a little brighter than the rest. Here are ChannelPro-SMB’s picks for this year’s 20 influential luminaries from the vendor, analyst, and consulting communities, as well as 20 of the most farsighted VARs and MSPs from the SMB partner community.

  • SMB 150 Top Influencers

    SMBTN and SMBNation

    SMB technology channel's annual list of its 150 most influential members. Have received this award in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

  • Top 100 IT Professionals

    MSP Mentor

    Amy was recognized as one of the top 100 IT professionals by MSP Mentor. MSP Mentor is an organization providing news and information to IT firms.

  • M365 Defender Champion

    Microsoft

    This award is in recognition of my sharing of knowledge and helping others increase their knowledge in computer network security using Defender for Business

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