SharePoint and DocuSign Integration
Did you know that DocuSign can be integrated into SharePoint? With DocuSign for SharePoint Online, the application becomes an option on SharePoint’s menu. You can securely send, sign and track documents directly from within any SharePoint library. The signed documents...
The longest password ever
During a recent password audit by a company, it was found that an employee was using the following password: "MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento" When asked why she had such a long password, she rolled her eyes and said: "Hello! It has to be at least...
New Microsoft Teams Calling features
Earlier this year, IT leaders around the globe were forced to reprioritize their roadmaps, resources, and budgets to equip employees for remote work practically overnight. Suddenly, the use of video communications skyrocketed. People adjusted quickly to moving...
Skype for Business Online Retirement
In July 2019, we announced Skype for Business Online will be retired on July 31, 2021, giving our customers two years to plan their transitions to Microsoft Teams, the hub for teamwork in Microsoft 365. With less than a year remaining, we want to ensure customers have...
What’s new with Microsoft Teams in 2020
What’s new with Microsoft Teams in 2020 Microsoft is coming out with its 2020 updates to Microsoft Teams, announced at the latest Microsoft Ignite conference. These fantastic updates will help improve team collaboration and communication. They will also help...
7 ways to Celebrate Memorial Day 2020 at Home
Memorial Day is an annual day meant to honor and remember military personnel who died in service to their country. Celebrations for the holiday, which occurs on the last Monday in May, won’t look like they have in prior years, however, due to the ongoing coronavirus...
Tech Tips for Working Remotely During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Amidst the coronavirus pandemic, many governments are moving into the “delay” phase of their strategy to fight the virus. This includes social distancing techniques including closing schools and asking people to work from home. Elsewhere, people are having to or...
Funny Conference Calls Video, for those working from home.
Conference calls can be excruciating. If you’re the first one in, you have to make the most awkward of small talk–yes, it sure is cold–and if you’re last then you’re a jerk. They’re like meetings, only worse. This video from comedians Tripp and Tyler perfectly...
Tips for Working From Home
The global spread of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, is keeping people at home. Major conferences, including Mobile World Congress and Google I/O have been canceled to decrease the risk of infection. Some employers are encouraging or requiring people to work from...
Smartphones Hackers
While emails continue to be the primary vector that hackers use to compromise systems, a new technique is emerging that uses the same basic concept but with a twist. Our smartphones have increasingly become juicy targets for hackers as that is where most people forget...
Tech Support or Tech Scam?
Have you ever received a phone call from someone claiming to be a computer technician associated with a well-known company like Microsoft claiming they have detected viruses or other malware on your computer and can help you to remove it? Before responding, ask...
Do you want to become a paperless organization this year?
BeforeAfterOur customer, a law firm in Cleveland, OH, came to us asking if we could help them find a solution to help retain a room full of documents digitally. They needed to remove all the filing cabinets from the building so they could move forward with their...
Spoofing of Emails
Spoofing of emails has gotten very prevalent in the last number of months. I suspect many of you have seen or heard the news about the church, St. Ambrose, getting spoofed for over 1.75 million dollars. This is, unfortunately, one of many occurrences of companies...
Cyber criminals caused over $1 trillion dollars in damages
As we prepare for the upcoming year, it helps to look back over 2018 and put hindsight to good use. Cyber criminals had a remarkable year causing over $1 trillion dollars in damages related to downtime, lost productivity, identity theft, and intellectual property...
2019 RJT Cybersecurity Packages
With cyberattacks on the rise, many IT departments are scrambling to secure their networks from known attacks and imminent threats. For large enterprises, the solution is simple: invest in skilled cybersecurity experts. That works for large organizations but...
Meet Curtis LeQuyea
Curtis is one of our expert technicians, specializing in networking and infrastructure. He’s one of the guys that will connect you with the world and leads the projects on many jobs. He went to Lakeland for business management and Kent State for computer science;...
Streamline your Forms
We can take your forms whether they are online already or not, redesign them if desired, then make them fillable and able to be submitted electronically. Link the forms from your website so that users can easily go to your website to complete them and send them in. If...
Beware of incorrect email addresses
Hackers and spammers are using your contacts to send you email with dangerous links for viruses or spam. So you may get an email from your friend Judy, but when you open it, be very careful, if there is a link inside of it, before you click on that link make sure you...
Work Smart, Not Hard: 9 Signs that It Might Be Time for CRM
Introducing a new Business Partner of RJ Technologies: We’ve all heard of the saying “work smart, not hard”. But when it comes to managing your entire organization, how does your company work? Many small businesses have decided to “work smart” by capitalizing on their...
Crypto Virus-MUST READ!!
In mid-February a California hospital paid $17,000 for ransomware crypto key. That is just one story of how the proliferation of the Crypto Virus is affecting many organizations. It unfortunately has happened to a couple of our clients in the last couple of months. We...
Windows 10 – Have you upgraded yet?
There are great new features and a new look The new Start menu is colorful, resizable, and ultimately configurable. Best of all, you’re not stuck in one mode or the other, if you use a touchscreen or simply prefer the old Windows 8.1 style, you can still use the new...
Major infrastructure upgrade opens up collaboration for 35 sites spread across the US and Canada.
Major infrastructure upgrade opens up collaboration for 35 sites spread across the US and Canada. RJ Technologies coordinated and implemented the upgrades and installs of new Netbooks, desktops and Hosted servers for a K-12 Charter education system, as well as...
Spear Phishing
“Larry Nelson” is probably not who he says he is. Larry’s polished LinkedIn picture, and the vague profile that goes with it, were the first clues that led Jay Mellon to believe he was being targeted by a hacker trying to connect with people at local information...
RJ Technologies Announces our New Web Site!
“The new website has less verbiage, clutter,” said Ron Horning, owner of RJT. “The new website has been simplified to communicate how RJT can help a company with any IT related needs. We want our customers to have the confidence to pass our site on to their business...
HIPAA compliance
We have recently been working with several medical professionals on ensuring their systems are HIPAA compliant. HIPAA helps ensure that all medical records, medical billing, and patient accounts meet certain consistent standards with regard to documentation, handling...
Design your own custom ERP system add-on
Your current Enterprise Resource Planning systems may store the data that you need, it might not have all the bells and whistles you need to fully manage that data. We can pull the data from your current ERP system and provide features such as the following and more…....
Outlook Forms and Voting
Outlook forms can streamline your email chores — especially when they’re designed with your needs in mind. You can create an email form that has more fields on it than the standard To, From, and Subject. Creating a custom Outlook form is easier than you might think....
Phil Brigido
An expertise in computer information systems is what led Phil Brigido, a Warren native, to RJ Technologies a little more than a year ago. He graduated from Kent State University in 2003 with a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems. Phil’s expertise lies in...
Application Development
Development of custom applications has become quite popular with many companies. Users are finding that the off-the-shelf applications just aren’t meeting their needs or they are so complicated and include so many features that they feel they shouldn’t pay for...
ShareFile – Easy, professional and secure file
Some of our clients are hopping on the band wagon and sharing files via ShareFile with their customers or vendors, taking the burden off of their email system by sending large files to multiple people. ShareFile allows you to create a custom-branded,...
New User Form Online Now!
Some of our clients have Client Specific User Forms, now for those that do not, we have a “New User Setup form” located on our website, this form can be filled out electronically and emailed to us. Use this when you have a new employee or change of employees within...
Meet Jake Kirkbride
A love of computers at a young age is what has led Jake Kirkbride to pursue a career in computer technology. Jake, who is a Programmer/Analyst at RJ Technologies, is currently attending Kent State University to earn a bachelor’s degree in computer technology with...
OneNote or EverNote
These applications are extremely useful in collecting all of your thoughts in one place then accessing those same notes from any device, from your laptop to your desktop. You can keep notes in here with pictures, hyperlinks and text, tag items that need attention and...
iPad for Business Use
We are getting more and more mobile…. Whether we like it or not, it’s happening and the better we understand how to use the technology and the available uses, the more efficient we will be. If you have an iPad or are thinking of getting one, we can come in for short...
Meet Ryan Klingensmith
Ryan has been technology minded for as long as he can remember, if something broke, he tried to fix it, of course not so successfully when very young, but certainly was a quick learner at an early age. He got his first computer when he was very young, and would take...
Windows 7 Tips
Snipping: The new Snipping tool is a great new feature for grabbing a screen shot of a selected portion of your screen, you can save, email or copy that image. To Snip a screen: Have the screen open that you want to snip Select Start/Snipping Tool All of the screen...
Outlook-Offiline Fix
One of the most common issues for users who are unable to send or receive mail is that outlook is currently “offline”. If Outlook loses its connection to the Exchange server for a while, it may go into Offline mode. As long as Outlook is set to work offline, you will...
Making the Move to Microsoft Office 2010
If you are upgrading from 2007 to 2010, it might not seem very different, but there are many new features that are very helpful including: The File Menu is back, instead of having the Office Button that no one really knew was a button, we now have the file menu again,...
Syncing Devices
Do you have an IPAD, IPhone, Smartphone, laptop and or desktop, or all of the above? All of these devices can work seamlessly with each other with the right tools and setup. There are many tools or applications that you can use to connect them all together to make...
Meet RJ Horning
RJ is one of the main programmers at RJ Technologies. He works on application development, maintains all current applications and performs the analysis for new projects. RJ specializes in C-Sharp and is an expert in SQL. RJ grew up in Olmsted Falls, Ohio and then...
Adobe Reader
If you have updated your adobe and are now having issues printing or opening certain PDF files, below we have a quick fix that should take care of these issues. Open Adobe Reader X. Go to edit tab at the top, select preferences In preferences select the general...
Meet Josh Gregory
Growing up, Josh was a self-starter and self-motivator, when he wanted something; he found the means to get it. As a child, whatever he knew how to do, he would expand on that to find people that needed his service and get paid to do it. Eventually his talent and love...
Microsoft Outlook’s Business Contact Manager
Looking for a good contact management tool, if you use Outlook already, it looks and feels just like it, BCM is a very user friendly tool that can be used as a standalone application or in an Exchange setting, shared by many. Many of our clients are using it and...
Lets talk about US (Updating Software)
While technology is becoming more powerful and user-friendly, various subjects like cyber security are often overlooked during development of applications and devices that make up the Internet-of-Things. (IoT) The most overlooked aspect is making sure that all...