{"id":11324,"date":"2019-01-04T07:56:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T20:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/?p=11324"},"modified":"2019-01-04T07:56:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T20:56:24","slug":"great-new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/great-new-years-resolutions","title":{"rendered":"Must-Have New Years IT Resolutions for 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the New Year, and a great time to resolve to do things better than the year before. Here&#8217;s some tasks you should add to your 2019 to-do list, if you haven&#8217;t already.<\/p>\n<h4>1. Automate Your Tedious Tasks<\/h4>\n<p>It takes some work to set up, but your life could be a whole lot easier if you stop doing things manually. Not only is it boring for you, it means you&#8217;re spending time on maintenance rather than service delivery and improvement (including, for your career, self-improvement).<\/p>\n<p>Some things you could look at automating include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Patching<\/li>\n<li>User and Group Maintenance<\/li>\n<li>Security Sweeps<\/li>\n<li>Disk Usage Scans<\/li>\n<li>Performance Monitoring<\/li>\n<li>Malware and Security Scans<\/li>\n<li>Backups<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2. Train and Retrain Yourself<\/h4>\n<p>IT is one of the few fields where you need to relearn your job every three to five years to stay on top of the curve. It&#8217;s good for you and good for your business. Don&#8217;t skimp on it!<\/p>\n<p>Set time aside to engage in paid or free training, even if it&#8217;s reading some online training resources, wikis, or blogs. You should do this at least two hours each week on either learning a new skill or improving an old one. Keep yourself relevant!<\/p>\n<h4>3. Enable Spam Filtering<\/h4>\n<p>Let&#8217;s face it, users are only going to absorb so much anti-phishing training. Keeping the junk out of users&#8217; inboxes is a way to keep them from being compromised. A layered defense combined with user education is the best approach.<\/p>\n<h4>4. Inventory Management<\/h4>\n<p>It sucks, but having an up-to-date hardware and software inventory is critical to keep track of what&#8217;s going on in the workplace environment. This is valuable data that will let you know if you&#8217;ve got to do workstation upgrades for your users, need more VM capacity, or any other requirements in 2019. There are systems management apps that can make this easier.<\/p>\n<h4>5. Have an Outage Plan in Place<\/h4>\n<p>Don&#8217;t leave it until an unplanned outage occurs to figure out what to do. If you don&#8217;t already, have a well-written plan for both your unplanned and planned outages in place. If you don&#8217;t know how to write one (or want to see if your existing one is up to scratch), read our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/downloads\/it-outage-best-practices-guide.pdf\">IT Outage Best Practice Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>6. Have a Backup Plan in Place<\/h4>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t already, have a best practice backup scheme in place. Make sure that you&#8217;re making at least three backups on two different types of media, and storing at least one of those backups off-site. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/support\/en\/references\/best-practice-backups.htm\">Read more<\/a> about performing best-practice backups with BackupAssist.<\/p>\n<p>Haven&#8217;t heard of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/backupassist.html\">BackupAssist<\/a>? It&#8217;s the number one software for Windows Server backups, made affordable for SMBs.\u00a0The free fully featured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/BackupAssist\/download2.php\">30-day trial<\/a> is available here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been slacking off with the servers? Here&#8217;s some must-have IT tasks to add to your list for 2019. 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