Tag Archives: Microsoft 365

Introducing Copilot for Microsoft 365

Introducing Copilot for Microsoft 365

We are excited by the general release of Copilot for Microsoft 365 for small and medium businesses. This productivity tool is now available to help you streamline your work and enhance your creativity, productivity and skills. We believe this will be a game changer for many small and medium businesses. Microsoft surveyed users given early […]

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 […]

Ask CyberGuru: Is the cloud backed up?

Ask CyberGuru

In this month’s Ask CyberGuru we are asked, “I have moved onto a cloud-based service thinking that by moving onto this that it is backed up, but understand from talking to others that I need to back up. Is this the case?” When you move onto the cloud, you may not realise that cloud-based vendors […]

What does the Microsoft Exchange Server hack mean for Microsoft customers?

What does the Microsoft Exchange Server hack mean for Microsoft customers?

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 […]

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

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 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. […]

Productivity in your pocket – the new Microsoft Office mobile app is now available

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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 […]

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

Increase your cyber security

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.