One in every two emails is spam! Every day people receive spam emails but this doesn’t even touch the surface when it comes to the big picture of email security. Spam currently accounts for every other email sent, that’s 50% of all emails and current numbers are the lowest that they have been in a…
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GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is a new EU law which will apply from the 25th May 2018 and will replace the current Data Protection Act. Many organisations have already been planning to ensure that the changes and new requirements for data protection and privacy practices will be met. It’s the biggest change in the…
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Part 5 of 7 Online Resources to Discover and Learn about Office 365 Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams was launched in November 2016 as a new chat based workspace for ………Teams! It brings together people, conversations and content into an entirely new experience while using the tools they are already familiar with from within Office…
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Part 4 of 7 Online Resources to Discover and Learn about Office 365 Deeper Dive Should I save my documents to OneDrive for Business or a SharePoint Team site? Office 365 is a suite of tools, aka apps. Understanding the purpose of each tool from the outset can help immensely when deciding on the tool…
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Part 3 of 7 Online Resources to Discover and Learn about Office 365 OneDrive for Business OneDrive for Business is an online document and file storage platform used by individuals and teams who need a central location to store, access, share and sync their work files. If you have a small business, it’s ideal…
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Part 2 of 7 Online Resources to Discover and Learn about Office 365 Outlook Outlook is your Personal Information Manager, a central location for emails, calendar, contacts and tasks which can be synchronised to your mobile device(s). Outlook now connects and synchronises with Exchange, seamlessly enabling connections with a variety of mobile hardware and…
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Part 1 of 7 Online Resources to Discover and Learn about Office 365 Introduction Office 365 is a toolkit of useful tools, some of them look familiar, some less so. The intention of this article is to enable you to increase your understanding of what is in Office 365, start to think about which…
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It is likely you will have seen the recent media reports about Meltdown and Spectre – bugs in modern computers that can leak passwords and sensitive data. Smartdesc are aware of this and we are planning patch deployments for all customers to mitigate against the meltdown vulnerability. For further details, please see here https://meltdownattack.com/ If…
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GDPR How should a Not-for-Profit organisation prepare for the change? GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is a new EU law which will apply from the 25th May 2018 and will replace the current Data Protection Act. Many organisations have already been planning to ensure that the changes and new requirements for data protection and privacy…
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Smartdesc Opening Times over Christmas We will be covering the Christmas period as shown in the table below; Date Open/Close Monday 25th December Closed Tuesday 26th December Closed Wednesday 27th December Open – Normal Service Thursday 28th December Open – Normal Service Friday 29th December Open – Normal Service Saturday/Sunday Closed Monday 1st January…
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