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November 3, 2022

Microsoft 365 plans major changes in their data handling

In the Microsoft 365 blog, Microsoft 365 plans major changes coming to their data storage and handling capabilities and commitments. In particular, Microsoft is announcing the opening of 13 additional local datacenter regions over the coming years. This will allow them to better service Cloud customers worldwide with global coverage coupled with...

October 27, 2022

Microsoft Teams broadens horizons in the business communications world

Building on their previous successes and continuing from strength to strength, Microsoft Teams broadens horizons in the business communications world. Roger’s Business, a...

October 20, 2022

Why migrate your company’s email archives?

As we have covered previously on this blog, there comes a point when legacy solutions used to secure company data in an archive reach the end of their service life. Older archives...

October 13, 2022

What is eDiscovery, and what does it mean for your business?

What is eDiscovery, and what effects does it have on your business? These are questions that all companies in the current business environment should have a ready answer to. As...

October 6, 2022

Recent Trends in Cybersecurity

Forbes released an article looking at recent trends in cybersecurity this summer – both in terms of threats, opportunities, and reactions to threats. After a several year long...

September 29, 2022

Creation and deletion of Microsoft Teams groups and channels

Microsoft Teams has become more present in companies. However, many customers are not fully familiar with the features Teams offers, how to best use them, and how to prevent data...

September 20, 2022

Cyberattack on Uber

Late Thursday of last week, another major company had their systems compromised, this time by a hacktivist cyberattack on Uber. The attackers gained access to critical systems by...

September 14, 2022

Microsoft Reducing Recovery Time for ex-Inactive Mailboxes to 30 Days

Microsoft is reducing recovery time periods for inactive mailboxes down to 30 days. This affects inactive mailboxes newly released from retention holds and policies, whose...

September 8, 2022

Basic Authentication to no longer be available for Microsoft customers from the end of September

Microsoft is disabling Basic Authentication and moving standards towards Zero Trust. Microsoft has announced that Basic Authentication – a holdover from older verification...

August 31, 2022

Archiving your Microsoft Teams chats and channels is a business necessity

Microsoft Teams, the replacement for Microsoft Skype for Business and only major competitor to Slack for business chat and communications, continues to grow. In a short time,...

August 24, 2022

How much does Microsoft 365 for Business really cost?

Microsoft 365 has, since launch, rapidly become the go-to solution for enterprises. Microsoft’s flagship B2B offer combines Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint...

August 18, 2022

Microsoft 365 archiving – an essential need for your business security

As announced recently, Microsoft is planning to bring their automatic sign-out feature to the web versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive and the Microsoft 365 admin center....

August 11, 2022

Simple electronic records retention or modern secure and GDPR-compliant archiving?

Despite the fact that most companies maintain some form of electronic records retention, and that electronic records retention policies are generally mandated by local legal...

August 4, 2022

Working with archived files – exporting from the archive in .pst or .zip format

TECH-ARROW’s contentACCESS Portal continues to push the boundaries in providing customers a flexible and agile tool to manipulate their archive with. In addition to the...

July 28, 2022

Microsoft Teams, diversification of communication channels, and the increasing need for complex archiving

Microsoft Teams took over where Microsoft’s Skype for Business had left off – providing a chatting and communications platform for enterprise use, and prompting...

July 20, 2022

The Great Reshuffle and how it affects your business continuity

Due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, industries saw a rapid increase in employees leaving their respective companies or in some cases the industry altogether. The Great...

July 14, 2022

Cyberattack on Lincoln University

Ransomware continues to ramp up and escalate as one of the major areas of concern for enterprises and businesses worldwide. It is also one of the fastest developing avenues of...

July 7, 2022

Preparing your Disaster Recovery strategy

As businesses continue to digitize to a greater degree, so-called disaster recovery plans rise in importance where maintaining business continuity is concerned. Disaster recovery...

June 29, 2022

Efficiency and streamlining; save time and money within your IT human resources

Company data-access policies are a topic that has risen in importance as more data has been generated and even more existing workflows have begun shifting online. This presents...

June 23, 2022

Disadvantages and benefits of Cloud-based archiving

Despite major advances in Cloud technologies and the Cloud rapidly becoming an almost magical word in the IT community, other industries have been more hesitant of taking...