Tag Archives: Office 365

Important changes to Microsoft 365 you need to know about

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Microsoft 365 is changing to a new licencing model, known as the “new commerce experience” (NCE). See how these changes will affect you. A price increase will apply to all new Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Microsoft 365 Business Premium, Microsoft 365 E3, Office 365 E1, Office 365 E3 and Office 365 E5 licences from 1 […]

Increase your cyber security – Review your organisation’s Microsoft Secure Score

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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 […]

Microsoft 365 Business Premium now available free for nonprofits

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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. […]

Ready reference – service status, network stages and outages

Ready reference – service status, network stages and outages

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. […]

Microsoft ending support for older Office applications on 13 October 2020

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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 […]

Increase your cyber security – configure Azure Active Directory security defaults

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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.

Increase your cyber security – use multi-factor authentication

Increase your cyber security

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 be share important considerations when securing your ICT environment by enabling the various functionality in order to remain secure and protected. We recommend you enable multi-factor […]

Increase your cyber security – turn on audit logging

Increase your cyber security

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 be share important considerations when securing your ICT environment by enabling the various functionality in order to remain secure and protected. We are seeing an increased […]

Microsoft announces free Microsoft Office E1 for six months

Microsoft Teams released to Office 365 business clients

As part of Microsoft’s commitment to customers during COVID-19, they are offering Microsoft Teams available for free as part of Office 365 E1 for six months. This offer, available through Microsoft Partners such as CyberGuru, will enable people across organisations, as well as their clients and individuals to be able to take advantage of Office […]

The end is near for Office 2010 and Office 2013

On 13 October 2020, some considerable changes in Microsoft Office 365 will be occurring to only support modern email software. If you are running Microsoft Office 2010 or Microsoft Office 2013, Microsoft will no longer allow these to access Office 365 after this date. Microsoft is making these changes to make email more secure. As […]