Weekly Guilt-free IT Maintenance
Regular maintenance for a better computer!
As always, I continue to assess and improve the maintenance process on my client's computers. There are three goals I've been working this past month to achieve:
- Transfer some maintenance tasks to the middle of the night to reduce maintenance duration at peak usage times (evenings). I'm paying some money for each of my client's computers to automate certain weekly maintenance tasks. It's pretty cool stuff! :)
- Provide the computers with the maintenance they need at the frequency that is best for reliability and performance. Some tasks are best performed monthly with my hands and eyes, while others are best performed weekly and can be automated. So there are really two frequencies. Before now, I didn't have the capability to do this.
- Provide better reporting about maintenance tasks, their status, and any problems identified.
As a technology consultant / IT support professional / computer enthusiast, I'm always looking for ways to utilize technology to improve processes. Efficiency AND improved quality are usually the result.
I can't wait to see how our lives are improved by technology in the future. Hopefully the Terminator version of our future won't happen. But I know one thing for sure, there's no stopping the advancement of information technology.
