New Features (Teams Mostly) Microsoft has been busy rolling out new features to the Microsoft 365 platform. Most of these are in Teams. Lists, Forms and OneDrive new features could be viewed as “not-Teams”. Only the OneDrive “Dark Mode” and Lists “iOS App” updates are clearly not going to be used in Teams. Most of […]
Today a customer asked me about the value that we were bringing and how to they can justify paying for our services. The way Managed Service Providers (MSPs) justify their value to clients is to offer services at a price below what the client can get that same service for. In the case of this […]
Security has been a 2 edged sword for both IT Staff and IT Users. You need it but it made using your tools harder. That all changes with cloud managed security. Loved by Users Loved by IT Trusted by All General Networks can help you coordinate security across multiple platforms, using multiple apps and manage […]
Microsoft Teams helps employees do more, no matter where they work. General Networks helps setup, learn and use Teams. Work from Home (WFH) is easy when Teams is your WFH platform! The modern workplace is everywhere. In the office. Out of the office. On the road. An increasing number of American workers work remotely at […]
What’s the landscape for security in the Work From Home (WFH) era or Covid-19 While the basics of security and the threats have not changed much, the landscape has changed significantly. While most organizations are not working from the office, the normal situation of “build a security wall” and put important resources behind it is […]
If you using Teams for PSTN Conferencing (Telephone Dial In), you have probably noticed that anyone that is not a member of your Office 365 tenant must be manually admitted from the Lobby by someone who is part of your company. Skype for Business meeting allow the meeting creator to turn this off for a […]
If you’ve been worried about the FaceTime bug/hack where someone can watch and listen to you without any approval from you, your in luck. Apple has released a patch for iOS 12.1.4 that fixes the problem. This document describes the security content of iOS 12.1.4.
iPhone WiFi Problem: If your having iPhone WiFi issues, it’s not a setting. Apple pushed out iOS 12.1.2 and it’s breaking WiFi. The most common issue is what this Pennsylvania poster encountered: “@AppleSupport iOS 12.1.2 update broke WiFi sign in on the iPhone SE. Getting a random PW is incorrect even when was signed on […]
by kurtsh New security baseline for our OSs was released: Microsoft is pleased to announce the final release of the security configuration baseline settings for Windows 10 October 2018 Update (a.k.a., version 1809, “Redstone 5” or “RS5”), and for Windows Server 2019. For now, download the content here: Windows-10-1809-Security-Baseline-FINAL. It will be posted to […]
Update to STAY SAFE FROM PHISHING. 5 Ways to Stay Safe June 2018 Volume 13 Issue 06 From the desk of Thomas F. Duffy, MS-ISAC Chair The Federal Trade Commission’s definition of phishing is “when a scammer uses fraudulent emails or texts, or copycat websites, to get you to share valuable personal information.”[1] When a […]