ACS Convention: IT Roundtable

It’s midnight, and I’m finally getting around to blogging about the day. It was a profitable day, having the opportunity to network with a group of other church IT professionals as well as the IT-curious. One lady was completely blown away that any church had even one full-time IT...

Upgrade to AVG 8.0

Last week, I upgraded our network from AVG 7.5 to AVG 8.0.  It was a mostly painless process.  The 8.0 version of the software looks slick and seems to be using less resources than the previous version.  I haven’t noticed any slowdowns on machines because of it. I was able to easily push the...

Protecting your network from outside invaders

For my inaugural post on my fancy new church IT blog, I want to talk about the necessity of protecting your church members’ information, your church-owned computers, and each network user. I was reading Nick Nicholaou’s post about Biometrics, and I was inspired to post on network security. He...