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NIRAS Opts for CapaInstaller—Again

Danish engineering company NIRAS has opted yet again for CapaInstaller and signed up for Device Management from CapaSystems for 5 more years

DevOps: This Is Why Coding Quality Is No (Longer) a Lucky Punch

DevOps: If you have any experience with coding and were on the IT development team only 5-10 years ago, you will know there were some lucky punches we landed.

Get Ready for Android Zero-Touch

This article describes what Android zero-touch (ZT) is and how you get started with it.

A Permanent After-Effect: Closing Home Office IT Security Holes

Security holes: So now we have seen this too: the world in chamber arrest. The old dictionary came to use again—this time in the form of a makeshift adjustable height table so the home office did not end up generating any additional work for our country’s ergonomists and…

Sorting Out the Home Office

Home office: When Covid-19 burst onto the world stage in March 2020, attention to employee home offices suddenly shot through the roof. With the entire or large parts of the workforce working from home, IT departments were in dire need of keeping up with developments in IT.…

3 Reasons Why Your Scrum Is Failing

Scrum: Time was when IT developers could work on a solution for half or even an entire year before sharing a single screenshot with the outside world.

Android 10 — Device Admin Deprecation

Google has announced that the Device Admin (DA) Device Management method will be deprecated in Android 10 and removed entirely in Android 11. Check this blog from Google.

Deploying Microsoft Store Apps

Store Apps: The primary purpose of this article is to provide you with a solution on how to install Microsoft Store apps through CapaInstaller. However, much of the content can also be valuable, if you are managing another client management tool. Challenge If you want to…

3 Reasons to Check Out PG 8.0

Do you want to be able to see what is happening in your IT infrastructure — before it all goes down in flames? As a matter of fact, it does not have to be that hard! There is no reason why you have to spend hours every day trying to find the applications and processes […]

Active Directory-Based Activation

The goal is to have your servers and clients activated, as simple as possible, with no maintenance for the IT department.

How to Future-Proof Your New Software Purchases

Software Purchase: If you are an IT manager, I have some sad news for you. Perhaps you know already, but you keep pushing the thought to the back of your head, putting the decision off for another day, when you have more time.

How to Distribute Software Packages

Distribution Server: In this brief document, I’ll discuss the problem arising when 1000 clients try to download a 4 GB software package from the same server at once, and what it takes to make it tolerable for the network administrator.

State-of-the-art Base Agent

Base Agent: CapaInstaller 5.8 is released today Things are now more and most important of all — your need for network bandwidth from clients to front-end servers is radically reduced. You know what we are talking about, as it is some quite specific day-to-day challenges IT…

Enable Windows 10 1903 in WSUS

Windows 10 1903: This blogpost will help you enable the new product category called Windows 10 1903 and newer in your WSUS environment.

Covid19: We Continue to Take Care of Your IT Infrastucture

CapaSystems is no further away than a call or one click on the CapaOne Portal Right now, Denmark is dependent on well-functioning IT. More than ever… We, therefore, want to assure you, that as a customer of CapaSystems you will not experience any changes in our deliveries to…

8 Very Good Reasons So Welcome CapaOne Portal

Starting today, it has become much easier to be a customer of CapaSystems. CapaOne Portal has seen the light of day and is CapaSystems new customer service area that will gather all contact between us and our customers. Use a single login to: Customer Services Order of…

What Is IT Change Management (and Why Is It Important)?

Change Management: Before we get started, I need to make the following disclaimer: this article is not a hard-core change management article in which we discuss procedures and processes. Instead, this article is aimed at people who want to know about change management in…

Release: PerformanceGuard 7.6

We have improved the navigation and today we release PerformanceGuard 7.6. What new: #1 Chromium-Based Web Measurements#2 Relational Dashboards#3 Fullscreen Widgets#4 Dashboard Edit#5 And other improvements Read more about the new features To get the most out of…

Yes, You Need to Update Windows Security

Windows security: Let me start by drawing a picture for you… Carsten from IT suddenly comes rushing in during the planning of next year’s development projects. “Turn the computer off! Turn the computer off!!” he shouts and charges across to the open laptop on the table. Turn…

We Welcome CapaSystems Technical Blog

This year’s Christmas gift from CapaSystems to visitors of our website is the exciting release of the CapaSystems Technical Blog. We are thrilled to introduce this new platform, which is designed to be a valuable resource for IT professionals and anyone interested in the…

Using Windows Toast Notifications to Help Users

Toast Notifications: This blogpost will help you to educate your users through Windows Toast messages, but the focus of this blog is to teach users to reboot more often — since that still is the way to install big critical updates in Windows 10.

Receive Side Scaling on VMware

Receive Side Scaling: This is “just” a little tip with a huge impact on your daily operation.

Efficient IT Service

Efficient IT service: If you have ever sat at the end of the Service Desk telephone, then you know that the words “my computer is slow” can mean 1000 different things. You know that it can be like looking for a needle in a haystack when you need to find the cause, or rather…

Android: How to Install Outlook App on an Android Device and Configure Outlook Using AppConfig

This article describes how to install the Outlook App and use AppConfig to setup Outlook for the linked user. It will setup email, calendar and contacts. It will also sync the contacts to the local phone book app.

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