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Virtualizing a Server or Workstation

Rescuing the Dusty PC Under the Desk: Virtualizing Legacy Systems with Disk2VHD If you’ve worked in IT support for small businesses long enough, you’ve seen it. You’re on site getting the lay of the land and someone casually mentions: “Oh by the way, that computer under Susan’s desk runs the accounting software… we can’t turn it off.” You look down and see a ten-year-old desktop tower, covered in dust, humming away in a corner. Maybe it’s running QuickBooks 2013 or…

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Improving Cell Phone Service Signal inside Metal Buildings and Commercial Space

Nanaimo Business IT Support can take us down a variety of paths.  When a local Nanaimo and Parksville Business approached us for assistance with their cellular connectivity challenges, we were happy to assist! Our first approach was to try to get the users to use Wifi Calling while in the building.  This was NOT the easiest method as each version of Android, plus different providers, has a different flow to set up Wifi Calling.  The business has many employees coming…

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Resolving T619 T4 Submission Errors from Simply Accounting for the 2025 Tax Year

If you, like many other Nanaimo Businesses have been attempting to submit T619 forms for the 2025 tax year through the CRA but generated from Simply Accounting and encountered repeated rejections from the CRA due to missing fields or empty entries, you’re not alone. We recently provided technical support to assist a client facing exactly this scenario, and here’s how we resolved it using Notepad++ and the CRA’s XML validation tools. The Problem: CRA Rejections Due to Missing or Empty…

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