September 9, 2020 One of the most popular questions I get after completing the audit process with our customers is “We are trying to figure out your accent, where are you from?” Well, I am from Rhode Island, so my accent is a mash-up of Staten Island and Boston with a hint of Jersey Shore. […]
August 21, 2020 It’s always DNS. Where have I heard that before? While there are plenty of changes proposed for the future of how we should enhance and secure DNS further, today I will focus on the path Chrome is taking (and Firefox as well). DNS over HTTPS. DNS normally works on port 53 via […]
March 10, 2020 Can we turn off apps if teachers/faculty are not on our network? Can we make this only work when students are at school? These sort of questions probably sound very familiar. In education technology, these types of requests are frequent and most settings do have had the ability to be set granularly […]
In November, it was communicated that Google was no longer going to support Google Cloud Print. Amplified IT’s partner management team did an initial post on this news trying to get ahead of the fear which typically comes along with this type of uncertainty. After having some time to process what the next steps are […]
Long before there was Google Workspace, there was Gmail. And whether it is used for notifying staff about important events, receiving Classroom update notifications, or students communicating among themselves, Gmail is one of the most used features of Google Workspace. At the beginning of the internet, developers were just happy that things worked and that […]
As Summer projects wind down, construction and buildings get built (hopefully) and we start hearing those “I forgot my password” and “I need this right now” comments. We all know what time it is: time to transition from being “summer busy” to “school year busy.” Knowing it’s crunch time, I want to go over 5 […]
With the advent of the SmartPhone, access to a user’s data has never been easier. Teachers are able to grade papers from iPads. Students are able to turn in assignments from their phones. The nature of having an account that is persistently signed in is a key feature of the mobile platform. Whether it’s a […]
Over the summer most IT teams are eyeballs-deep in projects that couldn’t be performed over a long weekend or during the traditional school year. The focus is on high level, large projects that impact users as a whole without them knowing it. This could be the configuration of a new firewall, a server upgrade, or […]
As technology teams get ready for the new school year and the annual rollover of moving users move from one grade to the next, it is easy to keep doing things the way they’ve been done year after year. After all, if it’s working, why change it? One major argument for change is the fluidity […]