Microsoft, Non-Profits and Charities

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Microsoft offer significant discounts to Non-profit organisations with charitable status. Obviously there are a few hoops to jump through to qualify but if you do, you can access the Microsoft NonProfit Resources page for all sort of goodies!

Setting Up Business Email and a Website

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A friend of mine just started up their own business and was completely overwhelmed by all the options for getting the business online. It got me to thinking about how daunting it can be for non-IT people!

Recording Microsoft Teams Meetings

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Recording Microsoft Teams meetings is something we get asked about occasionally. Whether it is for a team member that can’t make the meeting, saving the meetings for prosperity or recording a presentation, it is something relatively easy to do.

Telehealth: Zoom is not the Answer

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Zoom gained popularity during 2020 for being easy to set up and easy to use. However that ease also translated to easy to compromise – which is not good for Telehealth services.

3CX: Providing Ad-hoc Announcements to Callers

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The 3CX telephone system is a very easy to set-up, easy to use service. The handy web management tool makes it easy to change your greetings played to callers which is handy if an event or outage impacts you and you want to alert people calling in.

Don’t Use Your ISP Email Address for Business

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ISP Email So you’ve got the NBN connected via Telstra, Optus, iiNet or anyone of the dozens of ISPs out there and they give you an ISP email address at their ispname.com.au. Whether it’s a bigpond.com, tpg.com.au or whatever – don’t use it for anything important – especially not your business. ISP email addresses are […]

Windows 10 Blank Screen After Login

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There are lots of tips for fixing blank screens when booting or when loading Windows but what about when everything is fine until you get a blank screen after login?

Free* Microsoft 365 Apps That May Help Your Medical Practice

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We all know that a Microsoft 365 Subscription comes with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook but there are a bundle of other apps included in your Business or Enterprise subscription that you may never have noticed. Disclaimer: None of these add-on apps are a good alternative to decent Practice Management software. However they are free […]

You Need Multi-Factor Authentication!

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No excuses! You need Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) enabled. Whether you are small or large, work on-site or remotely, corporate/education/medical/finance/etc., if you have the ability – turn it on.