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In fact, the more your business grows, the more you may find yourself wearing a wide range of hats. With the rapid changes today in information technology (IT), staying abreast of industry trends and knowing how they impact your business can be intimidating.

Does this challenge sound familiar to you?

If it does, you know the stress of managing your IT systems is magnified when it comes to the decisions and logistics involved with moving your business.

As your business grows, you may find that you have to change offices frequently. If you have experienced this with your organization-congratulations! It means your business is a success.

However, the success of your office move will be impacted heavily by the effective transfer of your information technology to your new location. This is an area of critical importance, and also an area where many small business owners lack experience and confidence.

Based on our experience managing the technology needs of hundreds of small businesses in a wide variety of industries, we have developed recommended practices that will help small businesses conduct a smooth and cost-effective move to a new location.

All of our recommendations are simple. So simple in fact, that most businesses tend to neglect them.

Tip #2: Plan well in advance

Planning a business move takes time. A lot of time. It can be years from the day you decide to move until the day you begin working in your new office.

A critical part of your move is planning. Failing to plan means planning to fail. So its important that you engage everyone involved in your move at the right time to keep everything on track.

Your first step should be to contact a commercial real estate broker. Brokers are critical because they have a depth of knowledge that only comes with being involved in the field every day. When selecting a broker, choose one who is willing to be your top ally in the moving process.

Brokers will not only be able to help you find space, but they will also:

Help you negotiate the best price and terms
Introduce you to key vendors
Steer you away from roadblocks theyve encountered in other client relocations

When you are within six months of your move, it is very important that you begin to plan your transition from a technology perspective.

There are several key milestones you must hit to make your technology transfer a smooth one. Failure to do so can bring your move to a screeching halt-and thats not what you want to have happen. If you want to make sure it doesnt, we encourage you to consider the remaining key points in this report.

Nowadays it is almost impossible to run a business without technology. It has become part and parcel of every business. It is a tool that is designed to make your work easier so that you are able to concentrate on other matters involving the business. It also helps you save time and money. When you use technology in your small business, you will also be in a position to work competently and effectively. It is all about working smarter not harder.

Whatever piece of technology you choose to apply in your business has to be stable. It should be able to work with minimal support which is excellent and readily available. Small business technology has to be easy and accessible. This empowers the employees to focus on your business since they can easily access any company information.

The software that you use should be helpful to your employees needs. When you are looking for the technology, ensure that it comes with a reliable support system. There will always be times when technology will fail and it will need support. This support includes qualified technicians who can help solve any problems. You need to be assured by the company that you are purchasing technology from. The way for these companies to do this is to refer you a team of experts should any obstacles arise. If there are any on site technicians in your company, then they should charge reasonably, be of good character and also be punctual.

When you invest in small business technology, you have to be ready to train your employees. A few hours of training will ultimately improve your business for many years to come. So do not hesitate to enlighten them about any new advances in technology since it is constantly changing.

Linux operating system uses a permissions schema to define user rights for each file. These permissions establish:

-who can read the file. If the file is a directory, read means list the contents of the directory.
-who can write/modify the file. If the file is a directory, this permission defines if you can make any changes to the directory contents, for example create or delete files.
-who can execute the file. If the file is a directory, this permission defines if you can enter the directory and access its contents, for example run a search in the directory or execute a program in it.

Permissions are assigned to the file owner, to the file owner group, and to all users. For example, you can set a document to be readable and writable by the owner only, and just readable by everybody else.

When you issue an ls –l command, to list all contents of a directory, you will see file permissions like this next to each file:

-rwxrwxrwx

This means this file can be read, written and executed by anybody. The first dash means this file is not a directory. For directories, there will be a d letter instead of a dash.

The first set of “rwx” refers to the file owner. The second set, to the owner group. The last set, to all other users. Let’s look at some examples:

-rwxr – - r – -
This file can be read, written and executed by its owner. It can only be read by other users. When a permission is not set, you see a dash in its place.

-rw-rw-r- -
This file can be read and written by its owner and the owner group. It can only be read by other users.

You can set these permissions using the chmod command. For example, this command:

chmod ugo=rwx filename

assigns read, write and execute permissions to file owner user(u), group(g) and others (o). This other example:

chmod ug=rw,o=r filename

assigns read and write permissions to user and group, and only read permission to others.

Permissions can also be expressed and set using the octal numeric system. Each permission is associated to a number:

Read = 4
Write = 2
Execute = 1

You need to come up with a number for the file owner, another number for the group and a last one for the other users. If you want to assign read, write and execute permissions to file owner, you add up the three values, thus getting a 7. If you want to assign same permissions to group and others, you come up with three sevens. You can set these permissions like this:

chmod 777 filename

If you set permissions for a file with the following command:

chmod 764 filename

then you’re establishing these permissions: read, write and execute for file owner (4+2+1=7), read and write for group (4+2=6) and only read for others (4).

The following commands are equivalent:

chmod ug=rw,o=r filename
chmod 664 filename

The file permissions schema lets you implement security policies. It is not a good idea to set file permissions high (e.g.: 777) for all files. It is important to think about it and assign the right permissions to the files, so users can do their job, and we are sure each file is accessed only by the right people.