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# Omega Technical Solutions Blog

Omega Technical Solutions has been serving the Haymarket area since 2007, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support, and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

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##  [Tip of the Week: Activating Two-Step Verification on a Microsoft Account](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/tip-of-the-week-activating-two-step-verification-on-a-microsoft-account)

  Wednesday, 19 February 2020

  [Steven Holmes](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/blogger/steven-holmes)

  [Omega Technical Solutions Blog](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/categories/blog)   [Tip of the Week](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/categories/tip-of-the-week)

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Two-step authentication/verification has seen considerable popularity as a means of securing an account. To help you boost the protections surrounding your Microsoft account, we’re offering a few tips on how to use two-step verification, as Microsoft refers to it.

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##  [Tip of the Week: Controlling Your Text in Microsoft Word](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/tip-of-the-week-controlling-your-text-in-microsoft-word)

  Wednesday, 08 January 2020

  [Steven Holmes](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/blogger/steven-holmes)

  [Omega Technical Solutions Blog](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/categories/blog)   [Tip of the Week](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/categories/tip-of-the-week)

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If you have used Microsoft Word, there’s a very good chance that you’ve become irritated at the occasional insistence that when you type, sometimes Word will make seemingly random adjustments to the formatting of dates, hyphenated content, and other elements. Here, we’re offering some tips to help you put a lid on these irritating changes.

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##  [At Long Last, Windows 7 Users Have to Switch to Windows 10](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/at-long-last-windows-7-users-have-to-switch-to-windows-10)

  Monday, 02 September 2019

  [Steven Holmes](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/blogger/steven-holmes)

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It wasn’t too terribly long ago that Windows 10 was offered for free to users of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. While this offer was constrained to a limited time, the response was surprisingly stagnant. Why didn’t more people jump at the chance to snag the latest version of the operating system - especially when it would come at no cost to them?

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  [Microsoft](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/tags/microsoft)   [Upgrade](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/tags/upgrade)   [Windows](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/tags/windows)

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##  [OneNote 2016 is Dead, Long Live OneNote for Windows, Part II](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/onenote-2016-is-dead-long-live-onenote-for-windows-part-ii)

  Wednesday, 03 July 2019

  [Steven Holmes](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/blogger/steven-holmes)

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Microsoft is saying goodbye to OneNote 2016. Although the handy note-taking app will still be supported until October 2020, with extended support for a few more years after, Microsoft has decided to no longer add features to it, and instead, they are focusing on the new version of OneNote that comes bundled with Windows 10.

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  [Microsoft](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/tags/microsoft)   [OneNote](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/tags/onenote)   [Office 365](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/tags/office-365)

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##  [OneNote 2016 is Dead, Long Live OneNote for Windows, Part I](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/onenote-2016-is-dead-long-live-onenote-for-windows-part-i)

  Monday, 01 July 2019

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Microsoft’s handy little note-taking app, OneNote, is gearing up to hit the old dusty trail and retire. At least, that’s the plan for OneNote 2016, whose end of life coincides with the rest of the Office 2016 suite in October, 2020. Fortunately, most of us already have OneNote 2016’s successor installed. Wait, what?

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##  [Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Approaching End of Life](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/microsoft-sql-server-2008-and-2008-r2-approaching-end-of-life)

  Friday, 28 June 2019

  [Steven Holmes](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/blogger/steven-holmes)

  [Security](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/categories/security)   [Omega Technical Solutions Blog](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/categories/blog)

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A decade-old version of Microsoft’s popular database software SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 is losing support on July 9,2019. If your business hasn’t moved away from the software, you are looking at a few real pressing problems. Let’s take a look at the software and what options businesses that haven’t moved on from SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server R2 have going forward.

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  [Security](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/tags/security)   [Microsoft](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/tags/microsoft)   [Upgrade](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/tags/upgrade)

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##  [Tip of the Week: 5 Handy OneNote Features](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/tip-of-the-week-5-handy-onenote-features)

  Wednesday, 22 May 2019

  [Steven Holmes](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/blogger/steven-holmes)

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On the surface, Microsoft OneNote seems to be a pretty basic program - it’s just a quick place to jot notes, right? In actuality, OneNote offers functions far beyond that of a digital scratchpad. For this week’s tip, we’ll review some of these functions.

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  [Microsoft](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/tags/microsoft)   [Productivity](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/tags/productivity-1)   [Tip of the Week](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/tags/tip-of-the-week)

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##  [A Brief History of Microsoft Word](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-microsoft-word)

  Friday, 05 April 2019

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  [Omega Technical Solutions Blog](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/categories/blog)   [Technology](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/categories/technology)

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Microsoft Word is one of the most popular software titles in the world. It wasn’t always so. Despite competing with a myriad of separate word processors over literal decades, Word has sustained and is now more powerful than ever. Today, we’ll take you through the history of the world’s most recognizable word processor.

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  [Microsoft](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/tags/microsoft)   [Word](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/tags/word)   [Office 365](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/tags/office-365)

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##  [Tip of the Week: Building a Knowledge-Based Wiki in OneNote](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/tip-of-the-week-building-a-knowledge-based-wiki-in-onenote)

  Wednesday, 27 March 2019

  [Steven Holmes](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/blogger/steven-holmes)

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Despite its name, Microsoft OneNote can serve as far more than a basic note-taking application. One of these uses is as a rudimentary, but effective, wiki system. This week, our tip will go over how you can set up an internal wiki in OneNote.

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##  [Security Is a Big Component of Windows 10](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/security-is-a-big-component-of-windows-10)

  Friday, 22 March 2019

  [Steven Holmes](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/blogger/steven-holmes)

  [Security](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/categories/security)   [Omega Technical Solutions Blog](https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/categories/blog)

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With Microsoft betting on Windows 10 to be their #1 OS for the foreseeable future, it is important for them to be able to sufficiently protect their users from the growing threats looking to make life difficult for businesses from all over the world. Today, we will take a look at Windows 10 Enterprise Security, and how it works to protect businesses from harm.

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