This is a dangerous time. Keep your eyes open. Along with the egregious physical attack on the ground in Ukraine, cyber-attacks are flying back and forth between the combatants. Unfortunately, these cyber-attacks are not limited to Russia and Ukraine. Parties trying for a peaceful resolution using sanctions are also viable victims in this battle.…
There is more to using a search engine then just typing in words… Entering a search word or phrase in a search engine is easy. But does the most relevant (to you) page show up in the first page of results? Do you spend too much time rummaging through the pages and pages of results…
Unused site accounts can come back to haunt you How many old, abandoned accounts do you have? If you are like most of us, there are plenty of sites you have signed into, and for one reason or another are no longer interested in. Why not just forget about them, and let them gather…
Two minutes = better habits! With the holidays, family gatherings and celebrations behind us, it’s time to focus on work and, hopefully, remember some of the best practices we’ve learned. Please take two minutes to review the questions in this quiz to help you start the year productively and safely. More information: After reading…
Whatever they offer you, don’t feed the plants. This next month and a half is a very busy time for those of us shopping for gifts. It’s also an increasingly busy season for hackers. What better time to slip in traps then when we are spending a lot of money and are put off…
Do not rely on flash drives to protect your data USB flash drives are ubiquitous. We all have several of them that we use to quickly store data, or to transport data from one computer to another. Unfortunately, like all forms of digital storage, flash drives can break or corrupt your data, typically at…
Microsoft will start pushing out Windows 11 on October 5. Please do NOT allow your computer to upgrade to Windows 11 for now. There will certainly be some initial issues, incompatibilities, and confusion. We don’t need to be the guinea pigs on this one. On your office computers, we encourage you strongly to not…
Can you undo that email you just sent? Have you ever wanted to retract an email? Perhaps you replied in haste and now you’ve changed your mind, or you replied to an email when you really wanted to forward it to someone else… You’ve already sent the email, and you’re staring at the screen,…
How to work with SharePoint libraries This series of articles will help you configure and access SharePoint libraries that your organization has made available to you. Article Index: Sync based on a library link Stop syncing a library Receive a link to a file (specific) Receive a link to a folder (specific) Receive a…
What is that new widget on my taskbar? Microsoft has silently rolled out a new widget that will show up on your taskbar in Windows 10. By default, it will show the current weather with both an icon and a text description. If you hover over or click on the widget, the full window…
Please patch your Dell computer Dell has identified a security vulnerability in a driver installed on Dell computers going back to 2009. The fix is simple, and we strongly encourage you to follow the steps in this article to remediate this problem on all your Dell computers (office and home). If you don’t have…
Did Outlook stop working for you? Microsoft pushed out an update to Outlook which prevents users from viewing or creating emails. They are working on a fix and may have already resolved the problem by the time you read this. If you are still having problems, please close and restart Outlook. If that does…
Select from those apps approved by your company The cloud provides many free IT apps to share and collaborate with your friends and colleagues, including Dropbox, Slack, Google Drive, iCloud, etc. If your company has not authorized their use for company data, then they are unapproved and you shouldn’t be storing work data there.…
Update your Dell BIOS and device drivers The Dell Command | Update (DCU) app (or the alternate “Dell Update” app) allows you to discover and install driver, BIOS and firmware updates on your system. The app allows you to keep your system up to date by automatically interrogating your system and comparing it to…
You’ve received an invitation link to a SharePoint folder from another organization. How do you accept? SharePoint is (among other things) an online file sharing system. Typically, it is setup for members of an organization. It has security measures in place to protect the files from other users, especially those outside the organization. However,…
Dark Mode may be easier on your eyes Dark Mode is all the rage these day. By reversing the dark and light elements of the page you may reduce eye strain, lessen battery demand, and help you sleep at night. If you wish to enable it, this article walks you through the steps to…
