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Debian: bye Jessie, hello Buster

At the end of last year we migrated the last 1A-server from Slackware to Debian 8 “Jessie”. Support for this version will stop on June 30, 2020. That is why we started preparations for upgrading to the newest version, Debian 10 “Buster” earlier this year.

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Concerns about downtime more important than security

For the first time, IT managers are more concerned about downtime than security of systems. This is evident from the report Masters of Machines, published by research firm Quocirca for the third year in a row.
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Faxing in the digital era

For a long time the fax machine was inseparable from businesses. With the advent of the digital age that has changed. Almost all transmissions of documents takes place via email or some other form of file sharing (eg sharing with Nextcloud).
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Various improvements to the 1A-manager

With the 1A-manager customers can easily perform the functional management of the 1A-server, without requiring any technical knowledge. Therefore, we regularly improve this critical piece of software.
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Congratulations!

Developments in ICT follow each other rapidly. Many companies therefore need to invest regularly to keep up. To the contrary, SMEs who opted for the solution of 1A First Alternative have saved more costs than usual in the past six months.
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Important update: intranet & extranet

Soon PHP, the web programming language for intranet and extranet applications, will be updated. As a result, it is possible that one or more of these applications will no longer function properly.
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Safer connections with your 1A-server

Companies with a 1A IT environment enjoy all the benefits that this solution entails. For example, connections can be made from the outside world to the different services, just as with the cloud. It is of course important that these connections are as safe as possible. Therefore, recently a major security upgrade has been conducted.
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Permissions fully supported

1A is dedicated to providing you with the best experience with your ICT environment. Therefore, we aspire to be as compatible as possible with other technologies. One aspect is managing permissions within the shares. They can now be set just as you could on a Windows server.
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Farewell MySQL, hello MariaDB!

One of the main components of an IT system is the ability to store data. This often occurs in a database. The 1A-server has used with the dominant open source database server MySQL since the beginning. However, in recent years reasons have arisen to replace it. We have now made the switch to MariaDB.
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Network traffic to and from virtual machines improved

Since the 1A-server runs on the extremely stable and secure Linux operating system and some customers are bound to (industry-specific) Windows applications, we offer the ability to run virtual Windows application servers, so no additional hardware is required. Recently we have improved the network traffic to and from virtual machines.
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