Uncle Marv's IT Business Podcast (Products, stories, and tips for the MSP and IT Professional)

*** LIVE SHOW - Wednesday, October 5 at 8 PM Eastern: https://youtu.be/Of4QPgGMMbA

Join us to see Synology in action and ask questions. 

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This episodes takes a look at Active Insight, CMS (Central Management System) and the C2 Console. All of these provide portals for you to monitor and manage all of you deployed appliances.

=== Links for this show

Active Insight: https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/active-insight/overview

CMS (Central Management System): https://www.synology.com/en-us/surveillance/feature/cms

SA3200D Dual Controller Appliance:  https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/SA3200D

- Buy it here: https://amzn.to/3BZaCY1

Sign up for Synology C2: https://c2.synology.com/en-global/partner

Synology Website: https://www.synology.com/en-us

My favorite NAS is the Synology 4 Bay DS920+: https://amzn.to/3SJzvOJ

=== About Doug Rickets

Doug is a part of the Healthcare Account Management Team that works to provide deployment ideas for healthcare environments. 

=== Connect with Uncle Marv

🌐 Website: https://www.itbusinesspodcast.com/
🎙 Host: Marvin Bee
🛒 Uncle Marv’s Amazon Store (gear & tools I recommend): https://amzn.to/3EiyKoZ
☕ Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/itbusinesspodcast

If you found value in this episode, share it with another MSP, IT provider, or tech entrepreneur. Your support helps keep practical, no-nonsense IT business conversations coming every week.

*** LIVE SHOW - Wednesday, October 5 at 8 PM Eastern: https://youtu.be/Of4QPgGMMbA

Join us to see Synology in action and ask questions. 

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On this show, we discussed Synology's File Station to administer and manager shared folders and files. There is also encryption which is mandatory for a compliance environment.

=== Also mentioned 

Synology Drive which can be your own private cloud. 

C2 is Synology's suite of cloud solutions for everything starting with backup and recover solutions. It also includes password management, secure file sharing, along with identity and access management. 

=== Links for this show

Business File Server: https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/solution/business_file_server

Synology Drive: https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/drive

Synology's C2 Cloud Solutions: https://c2.synology.com/en-global

Sign up for Synology C2: https://c2.synology.com/en-global/partner

=== About Doug Rickets

Doug is a part of the Healthcare Account Management Team that works to provide deployment ideas for healthcare environments. 

Synology Website: https://www.synology.com/en-us

My favorite NAS is the Synology 4 Bay DS920+: https://amzn.to/3SJzvOJ

Synology 12 Bay Controller: https://amzn.to/3RrfcE3

=== Connect with Uncle Marv

🌐 Website: https://www.itbusinesspodcast.com/
🎙 Host: Marvin Bee
🛒 Uncle Marv’s Amazon Store (gear & tools I recommend): https://amzn.to/3EiyKoZ
☕ Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/itbusinesspodcast

If you found value in this episode, share it with another MSP, IT provider, or tech entrepreneur. Your support helps keep practical, no-nonsense IT business conversations coming every week.

For me, the answer is emphatically YES that Synology is ready for business. The addition of Synology Directory Server has turned the typical NAS appliance into a domain controller to manager users, devices, groups, and more!

Doug is a part of the Healthcare Account Management Team that works to provide deployment ideas for healthcare environments. 

Synology Website: https://www.synology.com/en-us

My favorite NAS is the Synology 4 Bay DS920+: https://amzn.to/3SJzvOJ

Synology 12 Bay Controller: https://amzn.to/3RrfcE3

=== Connect with Uncle Marv

🌐 Website: https://www.itbusinesspodcast.com/
🎙 Host: Marvin Bee
🛒 Uncle Marv’s Amazon Store (gear & tools I recommend): https://amzn.to/3EiyKoZ
☕ Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/itbusinesspodcast

If you found value in this episode, share it with another MSP, IT provider, or tech entrepreneur. Your support helps keep practical, no-nonsense IT business conversations coming every week.

Emily and Ian reviewed more of the recent changes with Syncro and mentioned some great things to come such as custom reporting. 

Some questions answered tonight:

• Why is your octopus named Eight?
• When can we expect an upgrade to the 1990s looking UI?
• When can we expect single sign on and IP whitelisting?
• Marvin, why aren't you switching to Syncro (paraphrased question from Paco Lebron to me)

Syncro Priorities mentioned in tonight's show: https://community.syncromsp.com/t/syncro-s-priorities-for-q4/7645

===== Other Links

Use my referral link and earn $500: https://refer.syncromsp.com/l/ITMARV/

Syncro Website: https://syncromsp.com/

=== Connect with Uncle Marv

🌐 Website: https://www.itbusinesspodcast.com/
🎙 Host: Marvin Bee
🛒 Uncle Marv’s Amazon Store (gear & tools I recommend): https://amzn.to/3EiyKoZ
☕ Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/itbusinesspodcast

If you found value in this episode, share it with another MSP, IT provider, or tech entrepreneur. Your support helps keep practical, no-nonsense IT business conversations coming every week.

=== Items mentioned in tonight's show

Synology  6 bay NAS DS1621xs+: https://amzn.to/3xWO3BS

NEXPOW Portable Power Station: https://amzn.to/3DZDr9f

Magnus Box Backup: https://magnusbox.com/

Windy Weather App: https://www.windy.com

Max Mayfield's Hurricane Tracker: https://www.local10.com/weather/2013/07/10/max-mayfields-hurricane-tracker-app/

=== Connect with Uncle Marv

🌐 Website: https://www.itbusinesspodcast.com/
🎙 Host: Marvin Bee
🛒 Uncle Marv’s Amazon Store (gear & tools I recommend): https://amzn.to/3EiyKoZ
☕ Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/itbusinesspodcast

If you found value in this episode, share it with another MSP, IT provider, or tech entrepreneur. Your support helps keep practical, no-nonsense IT business conversations coming every week.

Emily and I discuss her first year with Syncro and some of the exciting news coming soon. Syncro has rebranded.

We also talked about some of the recent new features like OS patching and the growing list of integrations. 

Emily's Core Value: Learning Things.

Listen to why she calls me her number one stalker: Scrum Master. Seven Years and Nine Months.

Do Something: https://tinyurl.com/2h8fcjar

Join the Movement: https://www.racialhealingallies.com/

===== Links

Use my referral link and earn $100: https://refer.syncromsp.com/l/ITMARV/

Syncro Website: https://syncromsp.com/

=== Connect with Uncle Marv

🌐 Website: https://www.itbusinesspodcast.com/
🎙 Host: Marvin Bee
🛒 Uncle Marv’s Amazon Store (gear & tools I recommend): https://amzn.to/3EiyKoZ
☕ Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/itbusinesspodcast

If you found value in this episode, share it with another MSP, IT provider, or tech entrepreneur. Your support helps keep practical, no-nonsense IT business conversations coming every week.

Khadirah and I met after her first appearance on the podcast to review productivity tips using Zapier. Instead, we ended up talking about a CRM platform that I could use to combine several items in my IT business and podcast . 

Khadirah also talked about the first steps any of us can take to get our head out of the weeds. Take one week and document (write down) everything that you do. Then figure out which things on the list fall within your "Zone of Genius" and which ones don't. 

High Level CRM: https://www.gohighlevel.com/

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The Space Force unveils their  own marching music: https://youtu.be/zSV3Q4ztGaA

Florida Man Accused of torturing bird on threatened species list: https://tinyurl.com/2p8w4rw5

===== Khadirah's Links

Website: https://succeedingwithsystems.com/

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/servicetimefreedom

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khadirah/

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Techcon Unplugged presented by MSP Unplugged: https://www.mspunplugged.com/

Vendor Awards:

Best Partner: https://www.huntress.com/

Best Presentation: https://www.galacticadvisors.com/

Best Swag: https://magnusbox.com/

=== Connect with Uncle Marv

🌐 Website: https://www.itbusinesspodcast.com/
🎙 Host: Marvin Bee
🛒 Uncle Marv’s Amazon Store (gear & tools I recommend): https://amzn.to/3EiyKoZ
☕ Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/itbusinesspodcast

If you found value in this episode, share it with another MSP, IT provider, or tech entrepreneur. Your support helps keep practical, no-nonsense IT business conversations coming every week.

Now celebrating 10 years in business, Ian is looking to grow and expand even more by designing and building highly functional, collaborative web apps for businesses that are not happy with their current software.

Website: https://enlivenhq.com/

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Anyone headed to Dallas for the ASCII MSP Success Summit in October? Let me know so that we can meet up. If you're near Oklahoma City, let me know that too. 

You're not signed up?  Sign up here... https://asciievents.com/

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Join us in Chicago for Techcon Unplugged: September 16-18, 2022

Tech Marketing Engine was last year's Swag Winner. Can they defend their title? 

Techcon Unplugged: https://techconunplugged.com/

Use discount code ITBP75OFF and save $75 off the ticket price.

=== Connect with Uncle Marv

🌐 Website: https://www.itbusinesspodcast.com/
🎙 Host: Marvin Bee
🛒 Uncle Marv’s Amazon Store (gear & tools I recommend): https://amzn.to/3EiyKoZ
☕ Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/itbusinesspodcast

If you found value in this episode, share it with another MSP, IT provider, or tech entrepreneur. Your support helps keep practical, no-nonsense IT business conversations coming every week.

Guests: Diana Giles, Tom Bull, Jason and Rachel Miller 

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Synology: https://www.synology.com/en-us

Drobo Data Storage: https://www.drobo.com/

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Diana Giles, Skyline IT Management: https://skylineitmgmt.com/

Tom Bull, Two River Computer: https://www.tworivercomputer.com/

Jason and Rachel Miller, Unbound Digital: https://www.unbounddigital.net/

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Join us in Chicago for Techcon Unplugged: September 16-18, 2022

Tech Marketing Engine was last year's Swag Winner. Can they defend their title? 

Techcon Unplugged: https://techconunplugged.com/

Use discount code ITBP75OFF and save $75 off the ticket price.

=== Connect with Uncle Marv

🌐 Website: https://www.itbusinesspodcast.com/
🎙 Host: Marvin Bee
🛒 Uncle Marv’s Amazon Store (gear & tools I recommend): https://amzn.to/3EiyKoZ
☕ Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/itbusinesspodcast

If you found value in this episode, share it with another MSP, IT provider, or tech entrepreneur. Your support helps keep practical, no-nonsense IT business conversations coming every week.

Cramer owns and operates Cascade Technologies, an IT consulting firm and managed service provider in South Carolina. He is also on secret assignment at the most comprehensive cybersecurity risk management platform, SimSpace. 

Big takeaway... your stack should be always evolving.

Acronis: https://www.acronis.com/en-us/

Cascade Technologies: https://www.cascadetechusa.com/

SimSpace: https://www.simspace.com/

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Join us in Chicago for Techcon Unplugged: September 16-18, 2022

Tech Marketing Engine was last year's Swag Winner. Can they defend their title? 

Techcon Unplugged: https://techconunplugged.com/

Use discount code ITBP75OFF and save $75 off the ticket price.

=== Connect with Uncle Marv

🌐 Website: https://www.itbusinesspodcast.com/
🎙 Host: Marvin Bee
🛒 Uncle Marv’s Amazon Store (gear & tools I recommend): https://amzn.to/3EiyKoZ
☕ Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/itbusinesspodcast

If you found value in this episode, share it with another MSP, IT provider, or tech entrepreneur. Your support helps keep practical, no-nonsense IT business conversations coming every week.