If you have never used Microsoft Office 2007 or 2010, you may be surprised and even a little bit confused (assuming you've used previous versions) by what you see when you first run an application. In Office 2010, the menus and toolbars in the main...

Lync 2010 is available for Android phones, BlackBerry, iOS, Symbian and of course Microsoft Windows Phone. However, once Lync 2010 has been configured for a company, users will still be unable to use the Lync application unless they download the...

Lync 2010 offers mobile phone users many benefits such as on-line presence, instant messaging (IM) and conference calling.  In this article, we examine the benefits of the Office 365 Lync provision of instant messaging over standard mobile text...

Although you might think that a Windows Mobile device is needed in order to use Office 365, that couldn't be further from the truth. We decided to test Office 365 on a number of mobile phones to see how it worked with the respective operating...

Presence information is an essential component of the Office 365 Lync offering. When using any Instant Messenger (IM), there are built-in status options that a user can set to broadcast whether they are available for an IM or telephone conversation....

Mobile phone support for Lync 2010 in Office 365 was addressed on 11 December 2011 when Microsoft released the first version, completely transforming communication in the mobile phone space. In this article, we take a quick look at the core features...

At the launch of Office 365, many felt that its mobile phone support was limited both in functionality (Exchange 2010 only) and the devices supported. Indeed, compatibility extended only to: Windows Phone 7.5 and earlier; Exchange...

The import and export of defence and military related technologies is a sensitive issue that is subject to a variety of stringent regulations. Countries are so sensitive in this area due to the potential impact on national security, that the...

As service level agreements (SLA) go, the Microsoft consolidated SLA is actually quite easy to read. The SLA is only six pages long and applies to commercial, public sector, third-party, common, academic, government and charity. The interesting...

One benefit for businesses using Office 365 is the ease in which their systems can be updated with the latest patches. This benefit can translate into substantial time and revenue savings depending on the number of File, SharePoint, Lync and...

In our article on the Complex Password Conundrum, we examined the importance of complex passwords in Office 365 and why these passwords should have a minimum length of twelve characters as opposed to the default eight. Below are four tips taught by...

It is interesting to note, that after three decades, penetration testing specialists, using social engineering techniques, still find the the easy to guess password to be the major weakness of corporate on-premise systems. Easy to guess meaning...

Privacy and integrity of content is an essential component for storing confidential information in the Cloud.  As such, Microsoft Office 365 supports an integral array of security settings to help protect content from unauthorised access via...

Secure Bastion Limited is a security company that has migrated to Microsoft Office 365. From a cost benefit, Microsoft Office 365 was a no-brainer providing its business email, website presence, corporate data sharing, on-line communication and the...

On April 23 2012, global non-profit professional association ISACA rereleased a global study of more than 1,200 IT professionals in EMEA, which revealed that more than one in five enterprises had experienced a security breach and one in ten suffered...

If users of the Microsoft Office suite haven't yet seen Windows Live SkyDrive, they really should take a look at it. Although launched in late 2007, Windows Live did not have support for the Microsoft Office Web Apps until the third quarter of...

Cloud computing is not always embraced in the large enterprise. Businesses of these magnitudes will have their own data centres built up already, with their own policies and own choices of hardware deployed as they see fit. The problem with taking...

Large enterprises have the pick of the crop when it comes to office software, as despite budgets being stretched, they have a lot more capital to play with. At the other end of the scale, more vendors are trying to tie up the small business market,...

Whatever size of business you run, there are certain staple software products that have always been present and most of them have come courtesy of Microsoft. The monthly spread sheets, the weekly reports and the daily emails all benefit from the...

The launch of Microsoft's Office 365 gave businesses the mixture of traditional, familiar and productive software with the benefits of the market changing technology that is cloud computing. Rather than long licenses and heavy storage needs,...

Collaboration is never easy, and it only gets harder as more collaborators become involved in a given project. In 2001, Microsoft launched SharePoint, its attempt to solve the common issues businesses encounter when trying to enable large groups of...

Most of us will have heard of "the cloud" and many of us will be aware that we are somehow using it in our day-to-day lives, even if that just means having the same email on our phone as our laptop. A few of us might even feel confident trying to...