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Cyber Security. Best in breed or single source?
Cyber Security. Best in breed or single source?
By Amy Babinchak
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Why Microsoft Copilot doesn't always behave the way you expect it to
Why Microsoft Copilot doesn't always behave the way you expect it to
By Amy Babinchak
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Activity
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This is the second of a series. Yesterday I pitted Outlook’s Copilot against Bing Chat Enterprise. Today I’ve done the same with Word. And I gave…
This is the second of a series. Yesterday I pitted Outlook’s Copilot against Bing Chat Enterprise. Today I’ve done the same with Word. And I gave…
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Ru Campbell has a new course on Defender deployment. Check this out on LinkedIn Learning: https://lnkd.in/gqhdueWg and then sign up for our course…
Ru Campbell has a new course on Defender deployment. Check this out on LinkedIn Learning: https://lnkd.in/gqhdueWg and then sign up for our course…
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At this point in time, the big Copilot for 365 isn’t available to most businesses because of the 300 user minimum for purchase and other restraints…
At this point in time, the big Copilot for 365 isn’t available to most businesses because of the 300 user minimum for purchase and other restraints…
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Experience & Education
Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Director
Great Lakes Cruising Club
- Present 9 months
Environment
Elected to the Board to help guide this long standing organization in its support of the safety and education of boaters on the Great Lakes
Publications
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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 authorsSee publication
Honors & Awards
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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.”
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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
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Organizations
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CompTia
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Australia and USA time zones! We're going to be holding class for 20 hours over the course of 6 months to learn, test and develop SOPs. Plenty of…
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