July 12, 2024
With the Labour Party now in power, there is a renewed emphasis on flexible working arrangements, particularly remote working. At F8 IT Solutions Ltd, we understand the importance of getting the working from home setup right. Ensuring that your business remains productive, engaged, and collaborative, regardless of where your employees are located.
Creating a Seamless Remote Work Environment
The shift to remote work can be challenging, especially when it comes to maintaining seamless communication and collaboration. Our role at F8 IT Solutions is to provide the tools and support necessary to create an efficient and connected remote work environment.
How We Help:
VPN and Secure Access Solutions: We set up Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to ensure your team can access company resources securely from anywhere.
Cloud Services:** We help migrate your data and applications to the cloud, providing reliable and flexible access to essential tools and files.
Collaboration Tools: Implementing platforms like Microsoft Teams, Sharepoint, and other MS 365 apps, we ensure your team can communicate and collaborate effectively, with integrated video conferencing, chat, and file sharing capabilities.
Enhancing Employee Engagement
Remote working can sometimes lead to feelings of isolation and disengagement among employees. Our solutions aim to foster a sense of community and keep your team engaged.
How We Help:
Interactive Training Sessions: Our IT training programs are designed to be interactive and engaging, ensuring that remote employees remain involved and interested in their professional development.
Improving Collaboration Quality
Quality collaboration is crucial for productivity, especially in a remote setting. At F8 IT Solutions, we focus on implementing and optimizing tools that enhance collaborative efforts across your team.
How We Help:
Document Collaboration: We set up cloud-based document collaboration tools, such as Sharepoint, OneDrive and Microsoft Teams, allowing multiple team members to work on documents simultaneously, with real-time updates and version control.
Secure File Sharing: Ensuring that your team can share files securely and easily, we implement robust file-sharing solutions that protect sensitive information while facilitating collaboration.
Ensuring Robust IT Support
Reliable IT support is the backbone of a successful remote work strategy. Our team at F8 IT Solutions is dedicated to providing ongoing support to address any technical issues that may arise and to keep your remote operations running smoothly.
How We Help:
Helpdesk Support: Our helpdesk is available to assist with any IT issues your team may encounter, ensuring minimal downtime.
Proactive Monitoring: We monitor your IT infrastructure proactively, identifying and resolving potential problems before they impact your operations.
Training and Resources: We provide continuous training and resources to help your employees make the most of the remote working tools and technologies available to them.
As remote working becomes a more permanent fixture in the UK workplace, it is essential to have a reliable IT partner to help you navigate this transition. At F8 IT Solutions Ltd., we are committed to enhancing your remote work environment by providing the tools, support, and training necessary to improve engagement and the quality of collaboration.
Partner with F8 IT Solutions to ensure your remote workforce is connected, productive, and engaged.
February 15, 2024
We are pleased to announce another job posting for IT Support role. Casting a wide net for 1st line through to 2nd line support capabilties.
Please see job posting here for more information.
November 27, 2023
We are seeking an experienced technical support expert to fill a managerial position. The role will encompass 80% technical leadership and 20% general management, assuming some responsibilities of the Managing Director to allow them to concentrate on key accounts. Exciting oppertunity.
Job posting here
April 4, 2022
Chap who we recommended for web design work has switched from freelance to full time with a company local to him. Wish Nathan and his family every success in the future!
This leaves an opening for approx. £150-£400 worth of little bits and bobs work our customers need and we wish to outsource. Please let us know if you have portfolio we can look through and interested in the work.
October 15, 2021
Windows 11 is out and ready for business. We have been running it on all our compatible computers all week, and nothing that stands out as a step backwards. Few things to consider, if you are keen to install.
- Microsoft will tell you if your hardware is compatible through Windows Update. The specification that is challenging some, is the TPM 2.0 chip required inside the computer. This is used to encrypt data and validate the data drive and motherboard are undisturbed. Sadly even some of our workshop machines are without and will be stuck on Windows 10.
- You might just need to enable TPM 2.0 in your BIOS, if you have a modern gaming PC or enthusiast machine, as those are often disabled by default. If your machine was over £700 and less than 2 years old, your odds are decent you will be compatible.
- It’s not really that different, just looks more modern. Unlike a few previous OS updates, there are no killer features, but more about the user experience. Gamers might be the exception, with DirectX 12 support, but other than us lot, not sure any gamers read these posts :).
- If you believe you have compatible hardware, you might still need to wait a few weeks before Microsoft has certified the hardware and is ready to support Windows 11. Windows Update will keep you posted on this front.
If you need any help, determining if you can run Windows 11, please give us a call or drop us an email.
June 8, 2021
Huge global outage occurred just before 11 today (GMT) affecting large amount of the internet, particularly solutions hosted by Amazon AWS. Microsoft 365 is hosted by themselves and unaffected.
We recommend avoiding any transactions or posting to cloud systems hosted on AWS from applications, until this is resolved.
Useful link for identifying and logging issues from cloud based services: https://downdetector.co.uk/
March 12, 2021
Microsoft has a free to use voice to text and translator app for web browser or phone. What is particularly cool, is you can have it running at the same time as a Teams meeting, and the non native speaking attendees can join to get a transcript of the meeting in their native language. Great for breaking down language barriers. Especially useful for fast talkers like me, who often forget to slow down 😁.
Conversations – Microsoft Translator
Can’t imagine it will be long before this becomes a killer feature within Teams, as a native solution.
August 12, 2020
Microsoft Teams Rooms is the solution for meeting rooms using the popular Microsoft Teams communication system.
For any Marie Kondo fans out there, this is sparking a lot of joy! From the cool way Teams knows I sitting in the meeting room with my laptop, so offers to mute my audio during the meeting so the meeting room audio doesn’t get feedback, to the dual screen presentations where one screen displays lovely faces, and the other a crystal clear picture of the presentation. 
July 1, 2020
Just a little update from us. Everyone at F8 is in good health and spirits, productively working from home. We would all like to thank our clients for adapting to these strange times, mucking in and doing some of the unboxing, initial setting up and general setup steps we normally would come out and do.
We are fully staffed and answering the phones as normal, so just get in touch if there is anything we can do to help!
Not clear yet when we will be back to normal service, attending site for maintenance visits etc, but we will email when getting closer to the time to ensure it is in line with the site’s requirements.
December 24, 2019
Wish to thank all of our valued customers for the ongoing support they have shown us this year. We are love what we do and it is all possible thanks to you placing your trust in us.
As always, we do take time off for Christmas and will be short staff (see below: proud dad, sorry-not-sorry) on the 27th, 30th and 31st of December. Michael is manning the helpdesk email, which all our voicemails arrive to, if you have anything urgent, please try my mobile number, if not, please queue up on the helpdesk email address. We are back on 2nd and fully staffed again on 6th.
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
