P.S Don't try to be a hero try to be someone who they can rely on for the decisions you make today.Ģ. I don't know if they are ready to spend $$$ on E1 or E2 Licenses but O365 generic products are of course in their needs so let them use O365 and carry on using google or yahoo generic email accounts. It is one kick a** firewall for small business like them.įor email. Get Sophos trust me you will thank me later. Setup firewall in place, why? Because it is all about Data security anyway. I bought couple in few hundred $$$ with 2TB HD and 80GB RAM so yeah go for it.
Second Ebay has plenty of used G8 / G9 servers. I don't have any idea about QB so I will remain quite here. If I were you I would go with putting the domain in play get atleast server 2019, have every pc centralized and monitored. Start planning and executing things that would benefit them not only for months but for coming years so that they don't have to call somebody else to clean the mess we might create today. That's why you need to start looking at this mess in a bigger context. 5 years later it may be 20 or 30 who knows. Probably company started with two guys initially and right now it is 10. The mess they currently have is because of the last guy who never thought about that someday company might grow in number. It's a mess, and I'm trying to look like a hero without any passwords or documentation. It looks like he's got a Unifi UDM maybe as a firewall/router? But I have no password for that either. He's also got their email tied up in a Microsoft account I can't find. He also hosted their 3CX phone system, which I'm trying to figure out how to migrate or gain access to or something. Would you do a Windows Server with a domain and try to rope in these 10-12 machines? Would you use something like JumpCloud for security and skip the VPN, just running what? A Windows box with Hyper-V? I don't know what this guy was doing. So, where do I start with these guys? I recommended getting a server again and hosting QuickBooks locally, using Splashtop (which I provide) to connect to a couple of virtual machines when they're working from home. I immediately had them remote into their QuickBooks and back up everything to their Dropbox. I am aware of 10 PC/laptops that are completely stand-alone-no domain, no passwords, nothing.
The previous guy set up his own server somewhere, hosting the QuickBooks files, and they used RDP to get into it. I'm not sure what it was used for except hosting their QuickBooks files. From what I can tell, this client's server died about a year ago. They hadn't been able to reach him for a month.
I got a call from a place whose previous MSP completely disappeared.
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