Category: Matthew’s Blog
Matthew’s Blog – My Busiest Week Yet!
This week was most likely the busiest I’ve ever had, especially in terms of travel and variety. It started at 6:30am on the Monday morning, today we had a visit to one of our clients in Oban. There was no plan set for the day but we definitely wanted to give them a bit more …
Matthew’s Blog – Webroot Installs
I mentioned the anti-virus we will be offering to customers, Webroot, in the last blog post. This week I had two tasks around this, to get it installed on every computer our client has and to standardise our pricing in an Excel spreadsheet so we can give businesses a quote easily. Our client didn’t have …
Matthew’s Blog – CIG Meeting
After much research, talking to others in the IT industry and discussion The Apprentice Store has decided on Webroot as the anti-virus we will be offering. This week was exciting for me, I got to see it in action. The computer I mentioned in last week’s blog post was going to be picked up on …
Matthew’s Blog – Problem Solving
The Windows course was now over and I was back at work glad to be getting back to the usual routine of things. However I don’t know if I can describe my job at The Apprentice Store routine as there’s a lot of variation in my work, another thing I’m glad about. The first problem …
Matthew’s Blog – The Course Continues
The second week of the Windows course is here, not much had changed but since I mainly talked about the course contents in the last blog post I thought I would talk about the areas outside of that a little more. When it comes to other people on the course, there was about six of …
Matthew’s Blog – Back to Glasgow!
This week was the start of the “Windows 7 Configuring and Installing and Configuring Windows 10” course. Everything was very similar to before, I was going to the same building, the same hotel and getting there the same way so I found myself looking forward to it and my nerves were kept at bay. The …
Matthew’s Blog – Clear the desk
There was one more week to go until I went away on another training course, this time around it was all about “Windows 7 Configuring & Installing and Configuring Windows 10” it was again in Glasgow so I was nowhere near as apprehensive as before, I was simply just looking forward to going. I’m sure …
Matthew’s Blog – 3 month milestone
I have gone past my 3 months at the Apprentice Store and it’d been great so far but the workload was about to increase. Number 1 on the list was daily server checks for a client while they were on holiday, I really was clueless about this but looking forward to learning. Thankfully I wasn’t …
Matthew’s Blog – Meeting the Clients
The main event for this week was a session on Office 365 for the client that we most recently did an Office 365 migration for. I was quite heavily involved with this migration so I was looking forward to meeting all the people I had spoken with on the phone for the last couple months. …
Matthew’s Blog – More Travel, More Training
This week was the week of my Information Security Fundamentals course. While I had mentioned in previous blogs I was apprehensive, when it actually came to it I found I was more excited. I arrived in Glasgow late on Sunday night and headed to the hotel. It was called “Point A”, it was very modern, …
