If This Screen Feels Familiar, We Should Talk

Something in most buildings is older than the person who has to use it. It usually still works, which is exactly why nobody has dealt with it. Here is what dealing with it actually looks like.

What an aging environment quietly costs you

• Software that stopped receiving updates is a gap your insurer, your auditor, and your customers can all see.
• The machine everyone works around is a machine nobody has priced a replacement for.
• One old application holding the whole estate back is a problem with a plan, not a permanent condition.
• Replacing equipment on a schedule costs less than replacing it on the morning it stops.

On this desktop

My Old Server

Nine years in service, and the only person who knew how it was configured has left.

Shared Folder

Everyone has access to everything, because sorting that out was always next quarter.

Recycle Bin

Where the backup restore test went, assuming anyone ever ran one.

Line of Business

The application the whole company depends on, running on the machine nobody may reboot.

System Properties

What replacing it on a plan looks like

1. We write down what you are running

Every machine, what is on it, how old it is, and what still depends on it. You keep that document whatever you decide.

2. You get it ranked

What is fine, what is near the end of its life, and what we would deal with first, with the reason next to each one.

3. It gets replaced on a plan

A written refresh schedule with a number against each year, so this never becomes an emergency purchase again.