Microsoft announces a RMM product: Microsoft 365 LighthouseIn another announcement coming from Microsoft Ignite, the company has announced Microsoft 365 Lighthouse, which is... By: Dave Sobel/September 23, 2020/Business Strategy, Newsletter, Product & Company Updates
Hackers are selling RMM accessBleepingComputer is reporting on further attention to the RMM space by hackers, with at least one... By: Dave Sobel/September 23, 2020/Newsletter, Product & Company Updates, Security
Microsoft Ignite Day One Roundup — Three TrendsMicrosoft Ignite started today, and the announcements are here. Teams new Together Mode has several new... By: Dave Sobel/September 22, 2020/Business Strategy, Product & Company Updates
Government warnings on a critical server patchA blocking and tackling — Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has delivered a rare emergency... By: Dave Sobel/September 21, 2020/Product & Company Updates
HP may be your next competitorHP has announced a subscription program for hardware and services for SMBs. Called HP Business Boost,... By: Dave Sobel/September 18, 2020/Business Strategy, Newsletter, Product & Company Updates
ASCII Group Expands benefitsThe ASCII Group has added online healthcare to its membership benefits. Offered in conjunction with a... By: Dave Sobel/September 16, 2020/Product & Company Updates, Regulation
Bluetooth vulnerability & Windows Patching automationGood ones in blocking and tackling today. All devices using Bluetooth 4.0 through 5.0 are vulnerable... By: Dave Sobel/September 10, 2020/Product & Company Updates
Blocking and tackling for Patch WednesdayPatch Wednesday includes a significant round of security updates, fixing 23 critical and 105 important flaws,... By: Dave Sobel/September 9, 2020/Product & Company Updates
The Pentagon gives JEDI to Microsoft, Amazon protestsIn what is a shock to no one, the Pentagon has upheld its $10 billion JEDI... By: Dave Sobel/September 8, 2020/Business Strategy, Product & Company Updates
Alexa for Residential: Smart ApartmentsAmazon has announced Alexa for Residential, focused on landlords and property managers to add Alexa to... By: Dave Sobel/September 4, 2020/Business Strategy, Product & Company Updates
Apple takes makes a pause on anti-trackingApple is delaying that announced ad anti-tracking feature until 2021. The company indicates this is to... By: Dave Sobel/September 4, 2020/Product & Company Updates, Security
Augmented Reality: A use case shown in integrationTeamViewer has announced an integration with Microsoft Teams, allowing for connections via teams, but more interestingly,... By: Dave Sobel/September 3, 2020/Business Strategy, Newsletter, Product & Company Updates
Apple and Google adjust their exposure notificationsAs it’s a thread we’ve been tracking, Apple and Google have announced changes to their COVID-19... By: Dave Sobel/September 2, 2020/Business Strategy, Product & Company Updates
Microsoft launches Transcribe in WordNews you can use – Microsoft has launched Transcribe in Word. Available in the online version... By: Dave Sobel/August 26, 2020/Product & Company Updates
2 Microsoft, 1 Google Security items: 2 are bugs, one a productIn Blocking and Tackling news today, Microsoft has issued an out of band Windows security update... By: Dave Sobel/August 21, 2020/Product & Company Updates, Security
Microsoft announces end dates for legacy Edge and Internet Explorer 11In today’s blocking and tackling, Microsoft has announced that support for legacy Edge and Internet Explorer... By: Dave Sobel/August 17, 2020/Product & Company Updates
Expired SSL certificate & Citrix blocked by Windows DefenderToday in blocking and tackling, An expired SSL certificate and outage led to an undercounting of... By: Dave Sobel/August 14, 2020/Product & Company Updates, Security
Blocking and Tackling for Wed Aug 12 2020Today’s Blocking and Tackling: Office 365 is adding settings to allow the management of phishing simulation... By: Dave Sobel/August 12, 2020/Product & Company Updates
DNS over HTTPS appears in Windows 10In blocking and tackling, Microsoft has announced that DNS over HTTPS is coming to Windows 10,... By: Dave Sobel/August 10, 2020/Product & Company Updates, Security
Toshiba gets out of laptopsToshiba has exited the laptop business, selling its Dynabook laptop brand to Sharp, ending a 35-year... By: Dave Sobel/August 10, 2020/Product & Company Updates