Headquarters IT in Kennedy Township, PA
A commercial construction company we support has its headquarters in Kennedy Township, west of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County. The servers, firewalls and accounts that its other locations rely on are run from that office, and we look after all of it.
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One headquarters, two place names
The office uses a McKees Rocks mailing address, so it also appears on our McKees Rocks page.
When the main office is also where the core systems live, a fault there reaches every site at once. Most of our work for this client is keeping that center steady:
- Servers: the on-site servers and the virtualization cluster they run on, patched and monitored.
- Firewalls: the headquarters firewall and the firewalls at the company's other locations, maintained as one design.
- Microsoft 365: the whole company's tenant, from mailboxes and shared access to mail filtering.
- Backups and cameras: backups looked after, and camera footage retrieved when the office needs it.
Crews in the field use tablets and a custom daily-report app. Keeping both working is part of the job, because a report that cannot be filed from site has to be chased later. New staff get their accounts, email and a configured laptop ready on their first day. Staff reach us by phone, text or remote session.
One of the company's other locations is a branch office in Sharon, linked to headquarters by VPN. Nearby, we also support a construction operations site in Imperial.
IT services we provide in Kennedy Township
For other Kennedy Township businesses, these are the services that come up most for an office that other people depend on.
Servers and virtualization
Proxmox VE clusters with high availability and Proxmox Backup Server, including moves off VMware or Hyper-V.
Firewalls between sites
OPNsense firewalls, available as a high-availability pair, with site-to-site VPN to each branch or yard.
Microsoft 365
Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint and Intune in one tenant, with mail filtering and accounts that close when someone leaves.
Cameras
IP cameras on their own network segment, network video recorders, and remote viewing through VPN.
Getting to Kennedy Township
Kennedy Township is near McKees Rocks and Robinson, on the same side of Pittsburgh as our Coraopolis office. Most requests are fixed remotely. An engineer comes out by appointment when the work needs hands on a rack or a switch.
If you are choosing a firewall for a main office and its branches, our firewalls guide covers the options, and the Proxmox guide explains the platform we run our own servers on.
Questions about IT in Kennedy Township
Can our servers stay in our own building?
Yes. We run on-site servers and virtualization clusters for clients and back them up offsite. Microsoft Azure or a hybrid setup is an option where it makes sense, and the written scope says which.
Our crews use a custom app on tablets. Will you support it?
Yes. We already keep a custom daily-report app and field tablets running for a construction client. For yours, we start by writing down how the app, the devices and the accounts connect.
Can you pull camera footage when we need it?
Yes. With the recorder on a network we manage, an engineer can find and export footage for a given time without a site visit.
How soon will we hear back?
We reply within one business day.
Tell us what runs from your main office
Call (412) 556-7007 or email [email protected] with your locations and what each one depends on at headquarters.
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