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OneDrive
How-To

Manage Storage in OneDrive

You can sync your OneDrive or SharePoint libraries to your PC, which can be really useful for accessing items in the familiar way using Explorer. It’s also great if you ever work offline and need your files available; you can sync them in advance, work offline, then they’ll sync back when you reconnect. But, over time, these files start to take up valuable space on your PC.

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Browsers

Setting Up A Sync Account in Firefox and Chrome

By creating an account in Firefox and Chrome browsers, you will be able to sync your browsing history, favorites and saved site logins across multiple PCs. This is also a great way of transferring your browser data to a new PC. Setting up an account is very easy.

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Phishing
Best practices

Phishing – How Does It Work?

Everyone gets phishing emails. Unfortunately they’re everywhere. Most get filtered through to your junk folder or caught before they are even delivered, but some still get through. But what they are and how they work isn’t always clear. Here we’ll try to de-mystify an all too common and potentially dangerous nuisance.

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How-To

How to reset your Office 365 Password

We all forget a password from time to time. If you have forgotten your Office 365 password and cannot sign in, with Self Service Password reset enabled on your Office 365 account (if you don’t have this, ask your IT Admin to set this up for you) you can reset your own password from the Office 365 Portal login screen.

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Cloud Services

What is a Domain?

Domains are everywhere and they’re a vital part of the internet, not to mention your online company identity. A key part of our service is Domain Management so, by and large, if you’re a client of ours you don’t need to worry too much about what it is or what it does. But having some background on what they are and how they work is always useful.

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How-To

Switch Off Download Shared Mailbox

If you have access to multiple other mailboxes, you may find that Outlook starts to run slowly, that your hard disk starts to fill up, or worse – the emails in those mailboxes don’t sync properly.

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How-To

How To Share a Folder in SharePoint with External Users

Perhaps you need to collaborate on documents, provide files for the external colleague to download, or even provide a location for them to upload files to your tenancy. If you need to share a folder with people outside of your organisation, you can do this securely with SharePoint.

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Cloud Services

Teams or Zoom?

Both applications do the job of video conferencing well, and they’re not the only ones (e.g. Google Meet, Starleaf, Webex). But what’s the real difference, and when should you use one over the other?

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Security

How to Spot a Fake Email, Part 2: The Anatomy of a Scam

In our previous post on how to spot a fake email, we covered some easy ways to identify the spams, scams and spoofs that inevitably land in your inbox.

But it’s not easy to write one post covering everything. And it’s not uncommon for us to receive a few reports a day from our clients of scamming. There’s a lot of it out there, much of it increasingly hard to identify.

That’s why we’re going to break it down further today and take you through the anatomy of a scam email.

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Security

Why Use Multi-Factor Authentication?

As we move increasingly towards online services, securing your account is more important than ever.

While computer viruses still exist, they’re no longer the route of choice for hackers to get control of your data. Instead, the prevalence of online services means that the bad guys are targeting your cloud services, such as your email and file storage.

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Best practices

How Safe Is Your Fish Tank?

What on earth is this one about, I hear you ask? The Internet Of Things, that’s what; those millions of things that connect to the internet, like your home central heating, your toaster, webcams, children’s toys and yes, even fish tanks, allowing them to send you messages and alerts, or to be controlled and managed from your smartphone.

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Best practices

Better Web Privacy – Browsers, Trackers & Blockers

Surfing the web in private is a minefield.

Everywhere you go, something is watching you, tracking your search results and the pages you visit.

And more often than not the goal is to target you with advertising based on the things that you’re probably interested in (probable because hey, that’s what you’ve been looking at isn’t it?)

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Best practices

Cable Or Wireless?

Everybody hates cables, let’s face it. They look messy, they get tangled up, it’s hard to clean around them, and you always end up with

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Best practices

How to spot a fake email

Not a day goes by without one of our clients forwarding us an email asking us whether it’s real; 99% of the time it’s not,

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