HDF Mail Assure

HDF’s email filtering system: What you need to know.   HDF offers additional email protection through SolarWinds Mail Assure.  Mail Assure filters our clients’ email before it arrives at their email server, blocking SPAM and viruses before they can reach our mailboxes. If you are interested in getting more email protection, or are unsure if…

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There’s a new browser in town

Microsoft has released its new browser   Microsoft has (fairly) silently pushed out the new version of it’s browser: Edge.  You may have noticed the new “e” logo on your task bar, or worse yet, you may have noticed that your default browser was changed… without your permission. This article tells you everything you need…

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How Twitter got breached

How hackers breached Twitter – and what WE can learn from it   On July 15th, Tweets were sent from 45 different accounts including those of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Obama, Apple and others. The attack did not crack any software or hardware security systems. They got access to the accounts by merely asking for…

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Your computer froze – now what?

Your computer stops responding… You’re typing on a Word document, and all of a sudden your cursor stops moving and your computer becomes unresponsive. You’ve just launched your browser and nothing is happening on your screen. You try to click it again, but the computer isn’t responding to anything you do. You left your computer…

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Webex-Tips

Webex Tips for participating in a meeting This article will help prepare you to participant in Webex meetings by testing your computer and by guiding you to avoid some difficulties. While joining a meeting is very straight-forward, you may want to make sure that your computer’s camera, video, speakers and mic are configured correctly before…

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Teams – Tips

Microsoft Teams includes a very rich bundle of programs to help you easily communicate with colleagues and friends remotely.  To hope you navigate the means ways to use Teams, we offer these tips. Article Index: What is Microsoft Teams?: Work remotely without feeling remote Get started with Teams: Take your first steps Meet with people…

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MS Office AutoSave

The MS Office AutoSave feature can save you from disaster   Have you ever forgotten to save a document and lost your work?  Or the computer froze up before you could save that half-written report you’ve been working on for two hours?  Microsoft’s AutoSave function was created to protect you from these events.  But you…

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Microsoft Teams

Work remotely without feeling remote.   Microsoft Teams is a hub for teamwork.  It allows you to easily pull together individuals, no matter where they are, to share information, work collaboratively, and bridge their physical divide… be it the distance to their office down the hall, or to their home where they have been sequestered…

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