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Congratulations to Marques Stewart, Senior Director of Network Infrastructure with Achievement First, for his SaaSOps Star Award nomination! With BetterCloud, Marques has created app-specific policies and workflows to handle tasks that were previously manual. And with alerts, his team knows when a user joins an app, a group, or a team, and an audit trail is immediately created. SaaSOps Stars winners will be announced at Altitude 2019. Nominate an individual or team and join us in SF for two days of great content with current and future CIOs! | | | Microsoft Is Offering a Windows 7 Extended Security Update to Some Users | | ZDNet | Even though Windows 7 will no longer get free security updates after January 2020, Microsoft has been offering enterprises different ways to continue to get patches after that date. There's yet another option for Microsoft enterprise licensees that hasn't gotten much publicity which is available as a limited time promotion. Enterprise Agreement (EA) and Enterprise Subscription Agreement (EAS) customers with active subscriptions to Windows 10 E5, Microsoft 365 E5 and Microsoft 365 E5 Security can opt for Windows 7 Extended Security Updates for a year for no additional charge. | | The Top IT Habits of Successful Unicorns (Panel Recap) | | BetterCloud Monitor | BetterCloud founder and CEO David Politis recently hosted an online panel discussion with IT leaders from three unicorn companies: Vicky Couturier, IT systems director at InVision; Anthony Ancheta, IT manager at Lime; and Matt Kauffman, IT help desk manager at Toast. The panelists shared their IT philosophies, how they solve their biggest IT challenges, and their top habits for scaling IT operations. | | Apple Patches Previously-fixed Security Bug That Allowed iPhone Jailbreak | | TechCrunch | Apple has fixed a security flaw for a second time after it accidentally reintroduced an old bug in a recent software update. iOS 12.4.1, released Monday, contains a security fix that was first patched months earlier in iOS 12.3. Apple rolled out a fix in May, but accidentally undid the security patch in its latest update, iOS 12.4, in July. | | Phishing: These Are the Companies That Hackers Impersonate When They Try to Steal Your Data | | ZDNet | Microsoft is still the brand most spoofed by cyber criminals attempting to conduct phishing attacks–but fraudsters are increasingly sending phony emails claiming to be the likes of Facebook and Amazon to steal login credentials, financial data, and other information from victims. |
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| | | How to Enable Google Chrome’s New Extensions Menu | | How-To Geek | Are too many Chrome extensions cluttering up your toolbar and menu? Google’s working on a solution for that. The new Extensions menu provides a place for all your extensions in one combined toolbar icon. It’s available now behind a flag. | | 11 Best OneNote Tips and Tricks for Power Users | | Guiding Tech | Microsoft OneNote often makes the list of best note-taking apps irrespective of which blog you land on, and for a good reason. You can create text, voice, video notes and attach pretty much any file right inside a note. But there are other features hidden beneath the surface. Here are some of the coolest and most productive OneNote tips and tricks for power users who are looking to boost their productivity. Also, if you are just getting started it with, these tricks will certainly benefit you too. |
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| | | Professional Collaboration Engineer Certification for G Suite Admins | | G Suite Updates | Google recently introduced the Professional Collaboration Engineer certification, which assesses an individual’s ability to deploy, configure, support, manage, and monitor G Suite administrative operations, and demonstrates their ability to increase operational efficiency by implementing solutions across the platform. | | Google Vault API Updates to Replace Team Drives Fields | | G Suite Updates | Google recently updated the Vault API to reflect the renaming of “Team Drives” to “shared drives.” The new fields in the API are detailed in the article. Currently, both the old and updated fields are available. However, Google will stop supporting the old fields in the API on June 1, 2020. |
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