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Here is a quick round up of where Barton Technology have been mentioned in the media during July.

A brief outline of the topic and the link to the location is below:

Article written on IT Industry Today and TMC.net regarding our free jargon buster guide:

http://www.industrytoday.co.uk/it/it-support-firm-releases-jargon-busting-guide/6161

http://next-generation-communications.tmcnet.com/news/2011/07/25/5659157.htm

If you would like to download your own copy of our jargon buster please click here.

If you would like any further information on Barton Technology in the media, please contact us here.

The following new System Status notice has been posted regarding a new event on the SureDSL ADSL2+ Network.

Latest News:

The following applies only to the installation of SafeGuard Disk Encryption for Mac 5.50.1 on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion).

Advisory:
If you install SafeGuard Disk Encryption for Mac 5.50.1 on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), Mac OS X 10.7 will no longer start. Instead the computer boots up into the Mac OS X Recovery partition.

Although it is possible to run the installer for SafeGuard Disk Encryption for Mac 5.50.1 on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), SafeGuard Disk Encryption for Mac 5.50.1 has been released and tested only for Mac OS X 10.5.x (Leopard) and 10.6.x (Snow Leopard).

For further information and detailed links refer to the Sophos knowledgebase advisory:
http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/113901.html

You may be aware that Apple released their new operating system for Intel based Mac’s yesterday called Lion. The new software boasts some really good new features such as autosave, versions, airdrop and full screen apps to name but a few. It is also reasonably priced at £21.00 and is available via the Mac App Store (USB Key delivery coming later in the year).

As with all new software we urge our customers to not race to upgrade immediately as not all of your software may be compatible with Lion. Some hardware such as printers and scanners will certainly not yet have the software drivers ready for a brand new operating system. We have also heard that some issues are being found in popular software suites such as MS Office 2011 and Filemaker Pro 11.

We will be testing Lion for the next few weeks and speaking to software manufacturers to get an idea of when they will be making their products Lion compatible. As soon as we have further information and feel it is prudent to upgrade we will let you know via the blog.

On 23rd June, Sophos released a technical alert in regards to Endpoint and Small Business Products.

The advisory email was as follows;

Since this alert, we at Barton have been checking through our records to ensure that none of our clients are affected by this vulnerability. As stated above, in order to be affected, all 3 of the criteria must be true. To date, we have no records of any customers that have had a PUA detection (potentially unwanted application) that has had a cleanup action run on it between the 2nd and 10th of June.

Any clients who may have run a cleanup action on any Sophos detection between the dates of the 2nd and 10th June 2011 WITHOUT notifying Barton (i.e not included in our records above), and HAVE NOT REBOOTED the machine since June 10th (normally only server systems) should immediately contact Barton to have thier machine checked at thier earliest convinience. You may also do this yourself, by following the below link:

http://email.sophos.com/r/?id=h34b6860,35d9c8b8,35d9c8be 

If you would like any further information in regards to this, please contact me directly on richardh@barttech.co.uk

Many Thanks,

Richard Ham

Engineering Manager

Another welcome positive comment from one of our clients received today:

“Off the top of my head I would describe Barton as courteous, helpful, prompt in their response and very patient with non-techy clients in analysing and solving problems. I would also add ‘good value’ to that list!”

Tudors Professional Services Ltd

Wartski, royal jewellers and designer of the recent Royal Wedding jewellery, have kindly sent us a personal thank you for assistance with their Managing Director’s computer system. Mr Munn’s note reads:

Wartski produced the wedding ring for Catherine Middleton and the ring was fashioned from a piece of Welsh gold. It was given to Prince William by The Queen shortly after the engagement was announced.

Wartski also supplied the engagement and wedding rings to Queen Elizabeth’s grandson Viscount Linley when he married The Hon. Serena Stanhope in 1993. They also made the wedding rings (also of Welsh gold) for The Prince of Wales and Mrs. Camilla Parker-Bowles for their wedding in 2005.

More information on Wartski can be found on their website www.wartski.com