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| | | | | Zoom Was Down First Thing Monday Morning | | Engadget | Despite some controversy and security issues, Zoom has become near-essential in the time of coronavirus, with so many companies moving to remote work. As such, it surely shook workers everywhere when they discovered Zoom was down this Monday morning. | | Do You Have the Right Technologies to Improve Your Employee Experience? | | BetterCloud Monitor | The current economic conditions have yielded new challenges that companies are navigating. If you are in HR or IT, one of the best questions you should ask yourself is: Are we investing in technologies to improve our employee experience? | | Understanding DNS—Anatomy of a BIND Zone File | | Ars Technica | There's a fundamental technology you really need to understand—DNS, the Domain Name System. There was a time when a sysadmin with no aspirations to managing Internet-accessible services might have gotten by without understanding DNS, but that time is long, long gone. | | Office 365 Now Opens Attachments in a Sandbox to Prevent Infections | | BleepingComputer | Application Guard for Office (also known as Microsoft Defender Application Guard for Office) is designed to help prevent block files downloaded from untrusted sources from gaining access trusted resources by opening them within an isolated sandbox. |
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| | | How to Turn an Old Laptop Into a Chromebook | | PCWorld | Not everyone needs a computer with a full set of bells and whistles. A Chromebook’s simplified interface makes it popular with schools—and those of us who serve as IT support for less tech-savvy relatives. Here's how to do it. | | How to Add a Background Color or Image to Emails in Outlook | | How-To Geek | Microsoft Outlook and other modern email clients have a lot of plain, white backgrounds. It doesn’t have to be that way, though. Whether you want a soothing beige, an eye-catching image, or something in-between, Outlook allows you to customize your email backgrounds. |
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| | | Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20197 | | Microsoft | The Your Phone apps feature which was highlighted during Aug 5th Samsung Unpacked event is now gradually rolling out to General Public. As a reminder, the Your Phone apps feature allows you to instantly access your Android phone’s mobile apps directly from your Windows 10 PC. |
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