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01/10/2026

We are at the Chamber Business Expo today!

Come and find Adrian and Sam on Stand 18 at the University of Worcester Arena. Try our new 60-second Cyber Risk Score, grab a sweet, and claim your free Cyber Security & IT Health Check (worth £495) while you are there.

No jargon, no hard sell - just friendly, local IT advice.

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The System Force I.T. team is at the Chamber Business Expo today, Thursday 1 October 2026, and we would love to see you....
01/10/2026

The System Force I.T. team is at the Chamber Business Expo today, Thursday 1 October 2026, and we would love to see you. You will find us on Stand 18, just inside the entrance, with Adrian and Sam ready to talk through anything to do with your IT, cyber security or phone systems.
If your business runs on IT, and almost every business does, this is a relaxed chance to get an honest second opinion from a local team. No jargon, no pressure and no commitment. Pull up a chair, grab a sweet and let us take a look.
Where to find us: Stand 18
The Chamber Business Expo is run by the Herefordshire & Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce and takes place today at the University of Worcester Arena. Entry is free and you do not need to register in advance, although the Chamber recommends it. We are on Stand 18 from 09:00 to 15:00.
There is free parking at Worcestershire Racecourse (WR1 3EH), free tea and coffee, and a programme of free seminars and workshops through the day.

Meet System Force IT at the Chamber Business Expo on 1 October 2026. Visit Stand 18 to try our Cyber Risk Score and claim a free IT health check worth £495.

If your business still uses traditional phone lines, something important changed on 1 July 2026: the wholesale cost of t...
28/09/2026

If your business still uses traditional phone lines, something important changed on 1 July 2026: the wholesale cost of those lines went up again. And another price rise is scheduled for October. By the time the UK’s old phone network finally switches off on 31 January 2027, businesses that have not moved will be paying roughly double what they were in 2025 – for a service that is about to disappear entirely.
This is not a distant problem. It is six months away.
What Is the PSTN and Why Is It Being Switched Off?
The PSTN stands for Public Switched Telephone Network – the traditional copper wire telephone network that has carried calls in the UK for more than a century. Many businesses also use ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network), a digital upgrade to the same copper infrastructure that has been the backbone of office phone systems for decades.
Openreach, BT’s network arm, is retiring both systems permanently on 31 January 2027.

The UK PSTN and ISDN phone network switches off on 31 January 2027, and prices have already doubled. Here is what your business needs to do before the deadline.

If your business relies on an IT support provider, this story is worth a few minutes of your time even if you have never...
27/09/2026

If your business relies on an IT support provider, this story is worth a few minutes of your time even if you have never heard of N-able or N-central. Over the past fortnight, attackers exploited a serious vulnerability in one of the most widely used remote management platforms for IT firms, gaining access not just to the provider’s own systems, but in many cases to the business systems of every client on their books.
What is N-able N-central?
N-able N-central is a remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform used by thousands of managed IT support providers worldwide. RMM tools are what allow your IT provider to monitor your servers, push software updates, and fix problems without needing to visit your office. They are, in effect, the backbone of modern IT support. Without them, most outsourced IT firms could not operate at the scale they do.
What happened
On 31 July 2026, N-able began investigating reports of unusual activity on its N-central platform.

Attackers exploited two authentication bypass flaws in N-able N-central to reach managed business endpoints. Here is what the attack looked like, and what to ask your IT provider.

A critical security vulnerability in VMware vCenter Server is being actively exploited by sophisticated attackers, who a...
26/09/2026

A critical security vulnerability in VMware vCenter Server is being actively exploited by sophisticated attackers, who are using it to plant persistent backdoors inside businesses’ server infrastructure. If your organisation runs VMware for its virtualised servers, this needs your attention today.
What has happened
On 29 July 2026, Broadcom, which now owns VMware, published security advisory VMSA-2026-0006, patching five vulnerabilities across multiple VMware products. The most serious is CVE-2026-59310, a directory traversal flaw in the vCenter Server Syslog component, rated 9.8 out of 10 under the industry-standard CVSS scoring system. That puts it in the highest critical tier.
In plain terms: vCenter Server is the management console used to oversee virtualised server environments, where multiple virtual machines run on shared physical hardware.

A critical flaw in VMware vCenter Server (CVE-2026-59310, CVSS 9.8) is being actively exploited to plant backdoors. Find out which versions are affected and what to do now.

If your business is still running Microsoft Office 2016 or Office 2019, this is worth two minutes of your attention toda...
25/09/2026

If your business is still running Microsoft Office 2016 or Office 2019, this is worth two minutes of your attention today.
Over the past few days, IT teams and users have reported that a Microsoft update, KB5002907, is removing the licence from perpetual Office 2016 and 2019 installations. Affected machines suddenly show “Unlicensed Product”, drop into read-only mode, and in some cases Office is removed altogether. It has been reported across Professional Plus, Home & Business and workplace-discount licences, on both personal and organisation-managed devices.
A couple of important caveats, because the facts still matter:

- Microsoft’s own documentation describes KB5002907 as an optional update for out-of-date Microsoft 365 Apps, not as a deliberate switch-off of Office 2016 or 2019.
- At the time of writing, Microsoft has not officially acknowledged the impact on 2016 and 2019 licences.

Reports say Microsoft update KB5002907 is unlicensing Office 2016 and 2019. What is confirmed, what is not, and how to protect your business now.

Getting cyber insurance used to mean ticking a few broad boxes on a proposal form. Those days are over. UK insurers have...
25/09/2026

Getting cyber insurance used to mean ticking a few broad boxes on a proposal form. Those days are over. UK insurers have quietly but significantly tightened their underwriting rules, and in 2026 the distance between what a policy appears to cover and what it will actually pay out has never been greater. If your business holds a cyber policy, or is thinking about taking one out, this is worth reading before your next renewal.
What cyber insurance actually covers
A cyber insurance policy is designed to help a business survive a serious digital incident: a ransomware attack, a data breach, business email compromise, or a prolonged system outage. At its best, it covers the cost of forensic investigation, data recovery, legal fees, regulatory fines, customer notification, and the loss of income while systems are offline.
Many policies also include access to an incident response team.

UK cyber insurers now require MFA, Cyber Essentials and endpoint protection before they will pay out. Here is what your business needs to qualify for cover and what it costs.

If your business uses Microsoft Project Online to plan and track projects, you need to act before 30 September 2026. Aft...
24/09/2026

If your business uses Microsoft Project Online to plan and track projects, you need to act before 30 September 2026. After that date, Microsoft will permanently close the service — and every project, task, timeline, and document stored within it will become inaccessible, with no recovery option and no grace period.
Microsoft Project Online is a cloud-based project management service available as part of certain Microsoft 365 and standalone Project subscriptions. It allows teams to plan work, track progress, allocate resources, and report across a portfolio of projects through a web browser. If your organisation uses the Project app within Microsoft 365, or accesses project.microsoft.com, you are likely using Project Online.
What happens on 30 September 2026
On the retirement date, Microsoft will shut down all Project Online environments. There is no read-only mode afterwards. There is no archive period. There is no way to retrieve your data after that point.

Microsoft Project Online retires on 30 September 2026. All data becomes permanently inaccessible with no grace period. Here is how to migrate your projects before the deadline.

Most of the businesses we look after do not have an IT department. They have someone who is good with computers, a drawe...
23/09/2026

Most of the businesses we look after do not have an IT department. They have someone who is good with computers, a drawer full of subscriptions nobody quite remembers signing up for, and a quiet worry that something important is being missed.
That worry is fair, because the people who do have IT departments are busy this year. New research into how UK IT leaders are spending, saving and prioritising in 2026 reads like a to-do list, and it happens to be the same to-do list we work through for you. Because that is the point of System Force IT: we are your IT department.
Does any of this sound familiar?

- No one whose actual job is your technology and security?
- Not sure whether you are paying for software you barely use?
- Cyber keeps making the news and you are not certain you are covered?

If so, 2026 is the year to have an IT department, without hiring one.

What UK IT leaders are prioritising in 2026, from cyber spend to cutting software waste, and how System Force IT delivers it as your outsourced IT department.

What has happenedOn 14 July 2026, Microsoft ended extended support for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 and Dynamics GP 2016 R...
23/09/2026

What has happened
On 14 July 2026, Microsoft ended extended support for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 and Dynamics GP 2016 R2. From that date, there are no more security patches, no more bug fixes, and no Microsoft technical support for those versions. If your business still runs GP 2016, you are now operating on officially unsupported software.
Microsoft Dynamics GP, which many people still know under its original name Great Plains, is a business management and accounting system that has been a mainstay for many UK and international SMBs for decades. It handles financial ledgers, payroll, stock and inventory, purchasing, and reporting at the core of day-to-day business operations. For many businesses it sits quietly in the background, running critical processes without much attention, which is exactly why an end-of-support date like this can catch organisations off guard.

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 lost all security updates on 14 July 2026. If your business still runs this version, here is what the deadline means and what your three options are.

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