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Celebrating 20 Years 2003 - 2023
Celebrating 20 Years 2003-2023

Celebrating 20 Years 2003 – 2023: A Look Back

2023 marks a milestone for Macnamara, at 20 years since the company was founded, way back in 2003, by Ciaran, with a view to bringing the world of enterprise IT to the SME market. In 20 years a lot has changed in technology, but that same commitment to outstanding service hasn’t. We take a look back at some of the history of the company and how we ended up where we are today.

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Outlook
How-To

How to use a Meeting Room Resource Mailbox

If you have a meeting room, multiple rooms, or another resource you share that needs to be booked out, there’s a really useful solution in Microsoft 365 call a Resource Mailbox you can use to manage the bookings automatically.

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Edge
How-To

How to Create an Edge Web App

We love finding new features and useful tips for Windows and we recently came across this great little option in Edge browser where you can turn a web page into a App on your PC.

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OneDrive
How-To

How To Set Up OneDrive Backup

OneDrive is a couple of different things. It’s the personal storage you get in Microsoft 365 and Outlook.com accounts. It’s also the name of the App that runs on your PC that syncs these files to your computer (as well as SharePoint files). But what is OneDrive Backup and how do you use it?

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SharePoint
How-To

How to Sync SharePoint using OneDrive

Sometimes it’s useful to have your SharePoint folders synced to your computer so you can access your data directly in Explorer. Syncing is easy, but there are a couple of things to bear in mind.

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OneDrive
How-To

Selectively Sync Folders In OneDrive And SharePoint

Syncing your OneDrive and SharePoint content to your PC is a useful way of accessing your data in the familiar Windows Explorer (or Mac Finder) view. It’s also a great way to work on items offline as you can sync in advance of travelling. But, there is a cost in terms of the background processing, especially if you have a large number of items in your OneDrive or SharePoint libraries.

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OneDrive
How-To

Stop Syncing OneDrive Items You No Longer Need

Syncing Teams or SharePoint files using OneDrive is a great way to get quick and easy access via the familiar Windows Explorer. However, over time you might end up syncing large numbers of files you don’t need or rarely ever use.

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OneDrive
How-To

How to Reset OneDrive

OneDrive and SharePoint files can be synced to your PC so you can access them in the familiar Windows Explorer. However, sometimes the sync may encounter problems, especially if you sync a large number of files. If this happens, you might to occasionally reset the cache OneDrive uses to keep track of changes.

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Password Manager
Best practices

LastPass Password Manager

Password management can be a bit of a nightmare. We’re always told to use complex passwords that are hard to guess, and to never re-use passwords. But, in practice this can be a challenge to remember them all! Most of us may have dozens if not hundreds of online services that require a username and password to access. How on Earth are we supposed to have a different complex password for them all and be expected to remember them without writing them down?

The good news is, you don’t have to remember them, or write them down!

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Outlook
How-To

Import an Online Archive to your Mailbox

Online Archives are a great way to increase your mailbox storage in Microsoft 365 but they have some drawbacks, most notably for backup and retention. If you need to delete your archives for compliance but don’t want to lose the mail, you will need to move the archived emails back into your main inbox.

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Outlook
How-To

How to add a Shared Mailbox to Outlook Mobile

If you have access to shared mailboxes and you need to view these in Outlook on your mobile, you don’t need to know the username and password for those accounts. You can add them using your existing delegated access rights.

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Fax machine
Macnamara blog

You have a new Fax!

When was the last time you received a fax? Possibly never. But, it might surprise some of you to know that millions of faxes get sent every day. In Germany, Japan and the US especially, they are alive and well, if not so much here in the UK. But how are they used in Phishing?

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Disk
Best practices

To Save or to Auto Save?

Save as you go. If ever there was a golden rule of working with computers, this is it. Anyone who has ever worked on a document before losing their progress to an application crash or power cut knows only too well the dangers of not saving your work. So the introduction of Auto Save in Office seems to be, on the face of it, an absolute gem. But how does it work and what if you need to turn it off?

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Computer security and data protection concept. Laptop with an locked lock and key on it.
How-To

How to reset your Windows Hello PIN

Windows Hello allows you to unlock your PC or Laptop using a PIN instead of a password, or if you have biometric inputs, facial recognition or a fingerprint. This is considered more secure than a password, even though it’s less complex, because it’s unique to the device you are using, and doesn’t leave the device to be authenticated somewhere else.

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Spelling and grammar phrase
How-To

How to copy Office Auto Correct Customisations to a new PC

Over time, you may start to build up a nice set of Auto Correct customisations and shortcuts in Office on your PC. If you are setting yourself up on a new PC, or perhaps even just a new profile for a PC migration (for example from a Server Domain to Microsoft 365 Azure AD) then you’ll want to take any customisations you have made with you.

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Edge
How-To

How to Sign in to Edge Browser

Signing into Edge using your Office 365 email account is a great way to securely access your company data without having to repeatedly sign into Office 365.

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How-To

How to Create an App Password

Most modern applications work with 2 Factor Authentication, but some older (or, ‘legacy’) applications do not support this modern sign in method. Instead, if you need to connect one of these applications to your Microsoft 365 account, you will need to use a specially generated password called an ‘App Password’

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