Most Small Businesses Have This Wrong Their email is in Microsoft 365. Their files are in OneDrive or SharePoint. Everything is in the cloud. So it must be backed up. That assumption is one of the biggest risks I see with Microsoft 365 backup for small business environments. And it is completely understandable. Microsoft is a trusted platform. The data is in the cloud. It feels safe. But there is a difference between availability and backup. And that difference matters a lot

A Law Firm Lost Access to Their Files Overnight. Here’s What Happened. A law firm called me this morning in a panic. A staff member had left. Their license got removed. And just like that, the entire team lost access to a shared folder they used every single day. No warning. No plan. Just gone. I spent most of the day digging into it. At first I thought it was permissions. Something simple. It wasn’t. The files were sitting in a personal Microsoft OneDrive. Not a shared syste

Should Small Businesses Move to the Cloud "Should we just move everything to the cloud?" I get this question a lot. And I get why. The pitch sounds great. Lower hardware costs, access from anywhere, no more dealing with servers. For a small business trying to keep overhead down, it is easy to see the appeal. I just finished helping a client make exactly this move. They were running a full on-premise environment. Servers, local file storage, everything. But their specialty sof