Spring Clean Your IT: A 60-Minute Checklist for Adelaide Businesses

September in Adelaide means longer days, footy finals, and — hear us out — the ideal moment for an IT spring clean. None of these seven checks needs a technician. One quiet hour is enough.

The 60-minute checklist

1. Updates (10 min): check for pending Windows or macOS updates on your own machine and restart it. If yours has been nagging for weeks, your team's have too.

2. Passwords (10 min): change the passwords on your email, banking and accounting logins — the three that hurt most if compromised. Long phrases beat complicated gibberish.

3. Multi-factor authentication (5 min): open your email account's security settings and confirm MFA is on. Then check your accounting software. Two minutes each, enormous protection.

4. Backups (10 min): find your last backup and — this is the important part — restore one file from it. A backup you've never restored from is a hope, not a plan.

5. Old accounts (10 min): list everyone who has left the business this year. Do they still have logins? Former-staff access is one of the most common gaps we find.

6. Shared drives (10 min): is client data sitting in personal desktops or someone's Downloads folder? Move it to the shared, backed-up location.

7. The paper trail (5 min): could you rebuild your IT from scratch if you had to? If the passwords and setup notes live in one person's head, write them down — securely.

Found more mess than expected?

That's normal — and it's exactly what an IT health check is for. UMI's free consultation turns this hour into a plain-English action plan for your whole business, not just your laptop.