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Year 2020
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20200930 – Telstra’s Own Network Misconfiguration Brings Down Protonmail 20200704 – COVID-19, The Ultimate Control Weapon 20200620 – FaceBook’s Latest Attack On Your Privacy 20200619 – Australia Targeted – Cyber attack…
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Date Added Description of New Content & Links 20250828 XDESK – Latest Citrix Installer version 2503.7 released 20250825 XFORCE – Comparing our XACCESS MFA solution to the World’s Best and Most Popular…
Year 2021
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20211013 – 2021 Telecommunications Embargo 20210708 – COVID-19 – By The Numbers 20210708 – MSP – Industry Best Practice Report
Year 2023
NEWS – 2025 » NEWS ARCHIVE » Year 2023
20230901 – Classic Windows Vista Parody Video 20230817 – Networking Essentials Guide 20230816 – XDESK Enterprise – Official Launch Date 20230711 – Microsoft Price Hikes
Year 2024
NEWS – 2025 » NEWS ARCHIVE » Year 2024
20241121 – RSA and AES Encryption is now useless 20241001 – XDESK – Citrix Price Increases 20240509 – Microsoft 365 – Teams Removal 20240530 – Google says “Microsoft unable to protect its clients” 20240523 –…
20200615 – A Bad Year So Far for Office 365 Uptime
NEWS – 2025 » NEWS ARCHIVE » Year 2020 » 20200615 – A Bad Year So Far for Office 365 Uptime
Raise your hand if you fell victim to the recent string of Office 365 outages below✋ Don’t get me wrong Office 365 is a tremendous service that has enabled so many organizations to rapidly shift to a remote workforce. However, with such a large spike in daily…
20200610 – Widespread outage hits IBM Cloud
NEWS – 2025 » NEWS ARCHIVE » Year 2020 » 20200610 – Widespread outage hits IBM Cloud
10th June 2020 LINK: To Actual Article” LINK: To PDF Document
20240311 – Microsoft admits Cosy Bear hackers have been in its systems for three months
NEWS – 2025 » NEWS ARCHIVE » Year 2024 » 20240311 – Microsoft admits Cosy Bear hackers have been in its systems for three months
Microsoft’s cybersleuths haven’t been able to expel the Cosy Bears. Photo: Getty Microsoft says it’s still trying to evict the elite Russian government hackers who broke into the email accounts of senior company executives in November. It says the…
20210708 – COVID-19 – By The Numbers
NEWS – 2025 » NEWS ARCHIVE » Year 2021 » 20210708 – COVID-19 – By The Numbers
Updated 20210708 Many of our clients have suffered a down turn in trade, laid of workers. At XSTRA, we wanted to crunch some numbers and find out exactly what is going on, because too many people are listening to their TV’s, where the reality of what is…
Terms and Conditions of Trade
ABOUT » Legal & Finance » Terms and Conditions of Trade
Date Revision Number Details of Change 20210317 1 XSTRA’s trading terms have undergone a format change, text re-arrangements and minor legal changes to modernise the content in line with new laws and regulations.…
20241001 – XDESK – Citrix Price Increases
NEWS – 2025 » NEWS ARCHIVE » Year 2024 » 20241001 – XDESK – Citrix Price Increases
XDESK Price Change Notification (PCN) Upcoming adjustment in the pricing of our XDESK product to all Clients, will take effect starting 1st Nov, 2024. This change is necessary due to an increase in the cost of a key component used within XDESK—the Citrix…
20200325 – XVOICE – Australian Telephone Network Congestion Issues Because of Covid-19
XCARE » Service Disruption Notices (SDN’s) » CLOSED SDN’s » 20200325 – XVOICE – Australian Telephone Network Congestion Issues Because of Covid-19
Some clients are reporting issues with CONGESTION on their phone systems. This is a symptom of additional load on lines linking all carriers as a result of staff being sent home to work. While this incident is extraordinary due to Covid-19, XSTRA is working around…
20200122 – XSTRA Supports Children with Kidney Disease
NEWS – 2025 » NEWS ARCHIVE » Year 2020 » 20200122 – XSTRA Supports Children with Kidney Disease
XSTRA is proud to be part of this year’s Kidney Kar Rally – a fun event supporting children with kidney disease. 22nd Jan 2020 Tristan Lieschke, a truck driver and farmhand based in Wagga Wagga, NSW, assembled a team and purchased the car for a…
20240510 – Google Cloud Deletes 620,000 Members Data
NEWS – 2025 » NEWS ARCHIVE » Year 2024 » 20240510 – Google Cloud Deletes 620,000 Members Data
In a significant lapse, Google Cloud’s unprecedented “misconfiguration” led to the deletion of UniSuper’s private cloud account, leaving over half a million UniSuper members without access to their superannuation accounts for more than a week.…
Immutable Backups
XFORCE » Backup and Recovery » Immutable Backups
Back up anything, protect everything — forever. XSTRA’s Immutable Backup uses Wasabi Cloud Storage and provides uncompromising long-term protection of your critical files — whether they live on Virtual Machines hosted in XCLOUD or on local PCs and servers at…
20200325 – XSTRA’s COVID19 Business Continuity Plan
NEWS – 2025 » NEWS ARCHIVE » Year 2020 » 20200325 – XSTRA’s COVID19 Business Continuity Plan
25th March 2020 INTRODUCTION As a provider of Telecommunications and IT infrastructure services, XSTRA is an Essential Business and we will operate as normal at this stage Our Customers are our primary concern at this time. Helping them through this period is…
20250210 – Major Network Outage to Internet
XCARE » Service Disruption Notices (SDN’s) » CLOSED SDN’s » 20250210 – Major Network Outage to Internet
SERVICE DISRUPTION NOTICE (SDN) NOTICE TIME ZONE Brisbane UTC +10 STATUS (Open/Closed) Closed CAUSED BY A 3RD PARTY? Yes IF YES, NAME OF 3RD PARTY TPG / AAPT START DATE 20250210…
20200413 – 500,000 Hacked Zoom Accounts Given Away For Free On The Dark Web
NEWS – 2025 » NEWS ARCHIVE » Year 2020 » 20200413 – 500,000 Hacked Zoom Accounts Given Away For Free On The Dark Web
13th April 2020 LINK: To Actual Article LINK: To PDF Document
20200524 – Apple Still Spying On Customers
NEWS – 2025 » NEWS ARCHIVE » Year 2020 » 20200524 – Apple Still Spying On Customers
24th May 2020 LINK: To Actual Article LINK: To PDF Document
20200619 – Australia Targeted – Cyber attack targeting Australian networks
NEWS – 2025 » NEWS ARCHIVE » Year 2020 » 20200619 – Australia Targeted – Cyber attack targeting Australian networks
19th June 2020 Earlier this morning the Australian Government announced that it was currently aware of, and responding to, a sustained targeting of Australian governments and companies by a sophisticated state-based actor. That is, someone backed or employed by a…
20200704 – COVID-19, The Ultimate Control Weapon
NEWS – 2025 » NEWS ARCHIVE » Year 2020 » 20200704 – COVID-19, The Ultimate Control Weapon
7th July 2020 Many say that Covid-19 is not strictly an IT subject, so why are we adding this to our site. We have a right to share some information we feel may be of interest to others whose businesses have been affected by this COVID-19 situation. LINK –…
20200529 – XSTRA Protects XCARE Clients From Faulty Windows 10 Version Update
NEWS – 2025 » NEWS ARCHIVE » Year 2020 » 20200529 – XSTRA Protects XCARE Clients From Faulty Windows 10 Version Update
XSTRA provides end-point management for Clients who subscribe to our XCARE products. 29th May 2020 Today XSTRA has taken steps to halt the spread of the Microsoft Windows 10 Version 2004 is causing huge issues for Clients around the world. XSTRA, through its XCARE…
20200826 – PostGreSQL Service Restarted
XCARE » Service Disruption Notices (SDN’s) » CLOSED SDN’s » 20200826 – PostGreSQL Service Restarted
NOTICE TIME ZONE Brisbane GMT+10 STATUS (Open/Closed) Closed INCIDENT START DATE 20200826 INCIDENT START TIME (HH:MM) Approx: 18:00 ESTIMATED TIME TO RESOLUTION N/A INCIDENT END DATE…
20200930 – Telstra’s Own Network Misconfiguration Brings Down Protonmail
NEWS – 2025 » NEWS ARCHIVE » Year 2020 » 20200930 – Telstra’s Own Network Misconfiguration Brings Down Protonmail
Ticket – Information
XCRM » Ticket – Information
…….. XCRM ticket updates, will be emailed to you, as the ticket progresses If you would like to add additional information to a ticket, you have 3 options: Reply to any ticket related email you receive from us and your reply will automatically…
20200606 – XNET – Philippines – GA Towers – Network Outage
XCARE » Service Disruption Notices (SDN’s) » CLOSED SDN’s » 20200606 – XNET – Philippines – GA Towers – Network Outage
NOTICE TIME ZONE Philippines GMT+8 STATUS (Open/Closed) Closed INCIDENT START DATE 20200606 INCIDENT START TIME (HH:MM) 19:49 OUTAGE DURATION 8 ESTIMATED TIME TO RESOLUTION 8 AM …
XNET Rural Fiber – Technical Brief
XNET » XNET Rural Fiber » XNET Rural Fiber – Technical Brief
This document contains important information for all participants in this Research & Development Proof Of Concept (POC). Please read carefully. It is also a long document with many details and there are likely to be errors so please let us know of these errors by…
20200706 – XRACK – Missing Virtual Machine (VM)
XCARE » Service Disruption Notices (SDN’s) » CLOSED SDN’s » 20200706 – XRACK – Missing Virtual Machine (VM)
NOTICE TIME ZONE Brisbane GMT+10 STATUS (Open/Closed) Closed INCIDENT START DATE 20200706 INCIDENT START TIME (HH:MM) Approx: 06:15 ESTIMATED TIME TO RESOLUTION N/A INCIDENT END DATE…
Legal & Finance
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Terms and Conditions of Trade Credit Policy Financial Hardship Policy Invoicing Explained Invoicing Explained – Legacy Invoicing Formats Other
Overview
XFORCE » XACCESS » Overview
XACCESS IS A, WEB BASED, MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION SERVICE Cyber Threats are the No. 1 technological challenge facing the global business community today. At present, the global business community is grappling with its foremost technological…
XNET Rural Fiber – CIS
XNET » XNET Rural Fiber » XNET Rural Fiber – CIS
Critical Information Summary (CIS) Service To Be Provided Uses fiber and complementary technologies to deliver a Premium broadband experience to your home. Download Speed 50 Mbps Upload Speed 50 Mbps Latency …
Sites Used For XDESK Development
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What Do We Do
ABOUT » What Do We Do
XSTRA IS YOUR GLOBAL 24 Hour IT Department We are your ONE-STOP SHOP for: 24/7 Help Desk Services Foundational Cybersecurity Solutions Virtual Desktops – (DaaS – Desktop as a Service) Backup & Disaster Recovery Services (BaaS & DRaaS) Virtual…
Credit Policy
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1. MANDATORY NAB DIRECT DEBIT FACILITY FOR ALL AUSTRALIAN CLIENTS XSTRA strives to offer great value to our customers through fantastic service and realistic pricing. Requiring all Clients to have a Direct Debit Facility allows us to keep our costs and…
Rates & Charges – Schedule 1
ABOUT » Rates & Charges – Schedule 1
XSTRA’S SERVICES RATES & CHARGES – (EXCLUDING TAXES) Standard Working Hours – Definition Mon to Fri, Non-Public Holidays, between 7:00 am and 7:00 pm Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC +10 AEST) at the rates shown below…
20201117 – Philippines – Converge ICT Outage
XCARE » Service Disruption Notices (SDN’s) » CLOSED SDN’s » 20201117 – Philippines – Converge ICT Outage
NOTICE TIME ZONE Brisbane GMT+10 STATUS (Open/Closed) Closed INCIDENT START DATE 20201117 INCIDENT START TIME (HH:MM) Approx: 15:00 ESTIMATED TIME TO RESOLUTION N/A INCIDENT END DATE…
Price List
XNET » Price List
XNET – GENERAL SERVICES PRICE LIST XNET Product Description Price Monthly XNET – Virtual Router Unlimited Public Bandwidth Up and Down 24×7 Help Desk Priority Support from certified Mikrotik technical experts Get Setup Fast – The…
20250217 – 2025 Microsoft Office 365 – Price Changes
NEWS – 2025 » 20250217 – 2025 Microsoft Office 365 – Price Changes
Price Change Notification (PCN) Upcoming Microsoft 365 Licensing Changes and Options Dear Clients, XSTRA is required to inform you of upcoming changes to Microsoft 365 licensing and pricing that may impact your…
20200620 – FaceBook’s Latest Attack On Your Privacy
NEWS – 2025 » NEWS ARCHIVE » Year 2020 » 20200620 – FaceBook’s Latest Attack On Your Privacy
20th June 2020 NameCheap highlights FaceBook’s latest tactic to create an end-run on not only your privacy but the GDPR itself. Instead of GDPR being the hardest legal standard to meet, “legitimate interest” becomes the free pass for anyone who wants to…
Equipment Procurement Service
XPARTS » Equipment Procurement Service
XSTRA offers Clients a procurement service for the acquisition of products and services This is a co-operative activity where XSTRA acts as the technical adviser and trusted negotiator to the Client, ensuring a value-driven outcome is achieved for the Clients next…
Who Are We
ABOUT » Who Are We
XSTRA – IT & Communications Leadership For almost 25 years, the team at XSTRA have been global leaders in the IT & Communications sector. Our expertise encompasses a wide spectrum of skills, including managing accounts…
Financial Hardship Policy
ABOUT » Legal & Finance » Financial Hardship Policy
What is financial hardship? The Telecommunications Consumer Protection Code defines financial hardship as: “A situation where a Client is unable, reasonably, because of illness, unemployment or other reasonable cause, to discharge their financial obligations…
Dooms Day Backups
XFORCE » Backup and Recovery » Dooms Day Backups
Overview Although our XRACK Backup and Recovery solution provides excellent protection, we recognise the need for a truly air-gapped backup option for extreme scenarios. The Dooms Day Backup service is designed for clients who want to take data resilience to the next…
Contact Information
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Global Phone Numbers Australia: 1300 555 920 – (I) +61 7 3123 4111 – (I) +61 401 777 475 – (Outbound SMS Service) – (T) Important Email Addresses General Information: info@x.direct To reach our service desk…
20200615 – X365 – Microsoft Error when attempting to access Microsoft 365 services
XCARE » Service Disruption Notices (SDN’s) » CLOSED SDN’s » 20200615 – X365 – Microsoft Error when attempting to access Microsoft 365 services
NOTICE TIME ZONE Brisbane GMT+10 STATUS (Open/Closed) Closed INCIDENT START DATE 20200615 INCIDENT START TIME (HH:MM) 09:42 INCIDENT CAUSED BY A 3RD PARTY? Yes IF YES, NAME OF 3RD PARTY…
20200831 – C-40-7 – No Internet Connectivity Via Fiber 1000
XCARE » Service Disruption Notices (SDN’s) » CLOSED SDN’s » 20200831 – C-40-7 – No Internet Connectivity Via Fiber 1000
NOTICE TIME ZONE Brisbane GMT+10 STATUS (Open/Closed) Closed INCIDENT START DATE 20200831 INCIDENT START TIME (HH:MM) Approx: 08:30 ESTIMATED TIME TO RESOLUTION N/A INCIDENT END DATE…
20240627 – Microsoft Office 365 Issues
XCARE » Service Disruption Notices (SDN’s) » CLOSED SDN’s » 20240627 – Microsoft Office 365 Issues
NOTICE TIME ZONE Brisbane UTC +10 STATUS (Open/Closed) Closed INCIDENT CAUSED BY A 3RD PARTY? Yes IF YES, NAME OF 3RD PARTY Microsoft INCIDENT START DATE 20240627 INCIDENT START TIME…
20200929 – Delays relaying email through mail.voipstra.com.au
XCARE » Service Disruption Notices (SDN’s) » CLOSED SDN’s » 20200929 – Delays relaying email through mail.voipstra.com.au
NOTICE TIME ZONE Brisbane GMT+10 STATUS (Open/Closed) Open INCIDENT START DATE 2020929 INCIDENT START TIME (HH:MM) Approx: 08:15 ESTIMATED TIME TO RESOLUTION N/A INCIDENT END DATE …
Site Key
XFORCE » XACCESS » Site Key
XACCESS Site Key: Secure Your Locations with IP-Restricted Access What is the XACCESS Site Key? The XACCESS Site Key is a small hardware device equipped with an Ethernet port, designed to be installed on a client’s network. Once deployed, it designates the site as…
Our Mission
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Interested in Partnering with Us? If our vision, mission, and values resonate with you and you believe we could be the right fit for your business, we can’t wait to meet you. Let’s discuss how we might collaborate to meet your IT and communications needs…
20200520 – XRACK – Unplanned Server Restart
XCARE » Service Disruption Notices (SDN’s) » CLOSED SDN’s » 20200520 – XRACK – Unplanned Server Restart
NOTICE TIME ZONE Australia Brisbane GMT+10 STATUS (Open/Closed) Closed INCIDENT START DATE 20200520 INCIDENT START TIME (HH:MM) 15:50 OUTAGE DURATION 8 Minutes ESTIMATED TIME TO…
20200929 – Office 365 Outage
XCARE » Service Disruption Notices (SDN’s) » CLOSED SDN’s » 20200929 – Office 365 Outage
NOTICE TIME ZONE Brisbane GMT+10 STATUS (Open/Closed) Closted INCIDENT START DATE 20200929 INCIDENT START TIME (HH:MM) Approx: 07:15 ESTIMATED TIME TO RESOLUTION N/A INCIDENT END DATE…
20200604 – Think Your Data In The Cloud Is Safe?
NEWS – 2025 » NEWS ARCHIVE » Year 2020 » 20200604 – Think Your Data In The Cloud Is Safe?
At XSTRA, we are often asked: “is my data safe in the cloud?” 4th June 2020 . We feel we would not be doing our job as advocates for our Clients if we didn’t bring the information below to your attention. Here are some of the terms and conditions…
20200625 – XNET – Fiber Link Down Between ECN and NEXTDC B1
XCARE » Service Disruption Notices (SDN’s) » CLOSED SDN’s » 20200625 – XNET – Fiber Link Down Between ECN and NEXTDC B1
NOTICE TIME ZONE Brisbane GMT+10 STATUS (Open/Closed) Closed INCIDENT START DATE 20200615 INCIDENT START TIME (HH:MM) 05:15 ESTIMATED TIME TO RESOLUTION N/A INCIDENT END DATE …
XNET NBN Plus – CIS
XNET » XNET NBN Plus » XNET NBN Plus – CIS
Critical Information Summary (CIS) Service To Be Provided Business Grade Broadband supplied by AAPT care of NBN Co. Download Speed 50 Mbps Upload Speed 20 Mbps Are Faster Speeds Available? Yes %…
Overview
XCRM » Overview
The Managed Services Provider (MSP) market is forecast to reach $329.1 Billion dollars by 2025 – Ref. Targeted at this MSP market, CIOCTO is a multi-tenant cloud-based Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) platform and control plane, that is fully…
XDESK vs XDEVICE
XDESK » XDESK vs XDEVICE
GENERAL FEATURES XDEVICE XDESK Remote Work Compatible – Work from home and anywhere Yes Roam and Work on any device – Computer Hardware Independence Yes Persistent Desktop – start your day with your desktop exactly…
Terms & Conditions
XNET » Terms & Conditions
DEFINITIONS Consumer – XSTRA provides all Clients with a genuine and reasonable opportunity to negotiate the terms of their contract and obligations to XSTRA, before and during the term of any active service. Telecommunications Consumer…