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Learn More About Azure Backup
How do you recover from a ransomware attack? You can pay the ransom. That might work but certainly feels like a fail....
The Easy Way to Add Custom Backgrounds in Teams (video)
As briefly mentioned in one of my colleague's posts a few weeks ago, Microsoft has finally come out with a simple way...
Use Conditional Access to Strengthen Your Remote Work Setup
Most customers tell me they don’t see their staff returning to the office anytime soon. This means we will continue to...
So You’ve Been Pwned
If you’re of a certain age, you’ll recall the pamphlets the doctors would hand you at the end of your visit, so you...
How to Pop Out a Chat Window in Teams
With user productivity in mind, Microsoft has recently added the ability to “pop out a chat" in Teams. Users have...
How to Track Attendance in a Teams Meeting
Microsoft has recently made it easy to track attendance in a Teams meeting. (No more trying to do screen captures as...
Start Your Information Protection Journey by Creating Labels
Here are three common activities that require creating labels. Document management: use labels (aka “tags”) to help...
Finding Teams Version Control, v.2 (video)
More than a year ago, we published a post on finding version control in Teams. It has become very popular. We've...
CISA Office 365 Security Recommendations
CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (we’re from the government and here to help) recently put...
It’s Time to Document Your Workflows
Three things happened this week that got me thinking about the need to document your workflows. I’ve been working with...
Remember Some Basic Phishing Protections
The COVID-19 pandemic, like other catastrophes, brings out the best and worst in humanity. I’ll get to the heroes...
Enhancing Nonprofit Digital Infrastructure
NTEN, the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) and NetHope issued a joint letter yesterday outlining the need...
Build Resilience with Azure Site Recovery
The first shoe to drop during the current COVID 19 crisis was remote work. Services like Zoom and Teams saw...
Some Steps to Make Your Meetings Secure
Let’s talk about steps you can take to make your meetings secure. Zoom has been in the news recently, and not in a...
Top 5 Tips & Tricks for Chatting in Microsoft Teams
Perhaps you recently started using Teams. Or maybe, like me, you’ve already been using it for a while, but have not...
Options for Using Zoom and Teams Together
The COVID-19 pandemic has created tremendous interest in Microsoft Teams for remote work. Many of our customers...
How to Ensure Your Public Wi-Fi Security
I wrote last time about how to make sure your home Wi-Fi network is as secure as possible. Today I’m going to tackle...
Tips for Securing Your Home Wi-Fi Connection
Wi-Fi. It’s seemingly ubiquitous these days. But as we use it, we are also aware that bad actors have found Wi-Fi...
Enjoy These Change Management Tips
Let’s talk about change management tips. First, let’s start with why change management matters and why you might want...
Five Tips for Successful Meetings
Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve written a lot about Teams. A lot. Today I want to step back from the...
Creating a Group Calendar Without SharePoint Online
I was talking with a customer today who asked an interesting question. He loves Office 365… Except for SharePoint...
Integrate Zoom with Teams for the Best of Both Worlds
You’ve heard me previously describe Microsoft Teams as a collaboration platform. More than an app, it’s an...
Time to Get Organized about Privacy!
Last week, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released the NIST Privacy Framework. As a result,...
Tips on Opening Files in Teams
Let’s talk about opening files in Teams. We’ve talked a lot about Teams as a collaboration platform. Certainly,...
Protect Your Organization from Sway-based Phishing and Malware
I use Microsoft's Sway; I really like it for image-heavy content. Unfortunately, the cybercriminals like it too, for a...
IT and Philanthropy in the 2020s
Sam Caplan (@samcaplan) shared an article on LinkedIn that I had to check out. The article covered predictions for...
Bravo! Major Foundations Move to Increase Indirect Cost Support
You may have missed this announcement from the MacArthur Foundation, but it’s important and deserves some attention....
Working with Azure Sentinel and Azure AD Identity Protection
I decided to work with Azure Sentinel by adding Azure AD Identity Protection. Why? For one, it was easier than...
Finding Version Control in Microsoft Teams
Note: An updated version of this post is now available, including a video. One of the things I’ve been blithely...
The Twelve Days of Cybersecurity Christmas
The Twelve Days of Cybersecurity Christmas On the first day of Christmas some hackers sent to me A phishing...