In the past few weeks, you may have read news of Microsoft Exchange servers being hacked by state-sponsored actors. It has come to light that four previously unidentified vulnerabilities had been identified and were being exploited by hackers in widespread attacks. What does this mean for businesses and personal users? To understand the impact, we […]
Tag Archives: Microsoft
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Feb
Feb
As you may be aware, a number of third-party applications were retired at the end of last year and into this year. These products include Adobe Flash, which for many years was the standard for developing interactive websites and other multimedia productions, as well as Microsoft Teams’ predecessor, Microsoft Edge (legacy) and Skype for Business. […]
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Nov
Nov
Over the course of COVID-19, we are seeing many people and organisations increasing their use of technology particularly for remote working and collaboration. Over the coming articles, we will share important considerations when securing your ICT environment by enabling the various functionality in order to remain secure and protected. The next part of this series […]
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Nov
Nov
Did you know Microsoft provides donated and discounted services to eligible nonprofits? One of the more recent offerings is up to 10 Microsoft 365 Business Premium licences for free for eligible non-profits as part of their donation program. If you require more than 10 licences, these are discounted rate for each additional user per month. […]
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Oct
Oct
Microsoft has recently launched a new app, Office, available for both Android and iOS devices, which provides a range of features to allow you to become more productive and efficient. In addition to Word, Excel and PowerPoint in a single app, some of the features include the ability to share files between your phone and […]
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Oct
Oct
Over the past few weeks, we have seen a number of outages affecting various internet service and cloud-based providers across the world. These have resulted in downtime, loss of productivity and frustration from the inability to conduct normal business activities. Our reliance on available, secure and reliable services has certainly come to head during COVID-19. […]
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Sep
Sep
As advised in a previous CyberGuru blog article, Microsoft will end support for Microsoft Office 2010 and Office 2016 for Mac on 13 October 2020. Whilst Microsoft Office 2013 is still supported, it is possible that connectivity over time will be reduced for Microsoft 365. Microsoft is ending support for Microsoft Office 2010 (link opens […]
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Aug
Aug
Next in our “Increase your cyber security” series, we recommend you configure security defaults on your Microsoft 365 environment, if you haven’t done so already. If you aren’t sure what security defaults does, find out more here.
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Jul
Jul
As you may have recently noticed when you started your Windows computer recently, you have the new Microsoft Edge. This new and improved web browser is now based upon Chromium. For those of you thinking the name sounds a lot like the Google Chrome web browser, that’s because Microsoft Edge was rewritten and now uses […]
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May
May
CyberGuru is proud to advise that our Chief Guru, Chris Jeffery has successfully completed his third Microsoft Fundamentals certification, Microsoft Dynamics 365, alongside his Microsoft 365 and Azure Foundations certifications completed last year, and co-insides with his 25th Microsoft certification. The exam, designed for consultants working across Microsoft technologies, requires a knowledge of the positioning […]