Be wary of attackers seeking to exploit the pandemic
Reports from organizations around the world indicate a significant uptick in phishing and malware attacks as bad actors seek to exploit the instability resulting from the coronavirus outbreak. As if you didn’t have enough on your plate.
Read MoreWe were excited to hear that there was a way to create custom backgrounds for Microsoft Teams video calls. We found several backgrounds online and customized them by adding our logo to the images. We were impressed with the results!
Read MoreSharePoint Online can help your team confront an uncertain future.
2020 will be remembered for many reasons. Certainly, it has already been a year indelibly marked by the impacts of pandemic. But 2020 will also be remembered as a year of ingenuity, resilience and courage. Above all, we will look back at 2020 as the year things changed. How we work, travel, shop, interact, entertain – everything we think, say and do will have changed in some capacity. Some changes will be significant while others will be subtle.
Read MoreWe are seeing huge growth in the adoption of Microsoft Teams. Unfortunately, many organizations have had to accelerate their deployment of Microsoft Teams in order to support teleworkers without the luxury of planning and strategizing on how to best roll it out.
Read MoreRecently, Microsoft announced that the ability to use a custom background when on a Teams video call. This was a nice upgrade from the background blur feature that allowed you to blur out the guest bed or your kids pouring a bowl of cereal in the background. But, the 24 options Microsoft has given us are simply not enough. We want to create our OWN custom backgrounds!
Read MoreOffice 365 comes loaded with useful apps – here are five you may be overlooking.
For many users of Office 365, familiar applications like Outlook, Office and Excel are the extent to which the powerful suite of tools is leveraged. Sharp-eyed users may have spotted other applications with names like Yammer, WhiteBoard and Visio. It turns out that, depending on your Office 365 subscription, you may have access to a host of wildly useful apps that you may have never even opened.
Read MoreThinking about moving to SharePoint Online? Here’s some governance tips to consider when making the switch.
With change and instability serving temporarily as our procedures du jour and employees flung far and wide, now may be the ideal time to start considering a migration to SharePoint Online. It’s a big step that requires a lot of planning to get the maximum benefit. But if/when you do start down this path, perhaps the most critical component to ensure long-term success is governance planning.
Read MoreAs our workplace is forcibly altered, here’s what you can expect once we come through this crisis
At Kiefer Consulting, one of our primary practice areas is helping people shepherd their organizations toward adopting a modern workplace. Our modern workplace consulting practice develops and deploys innovative solutions that improve how your organization communicates and shares information both internally and externally.
Read MoreThe Modern Workplace is undergoing a big test. Here’s some advice on how to make sure your meetings earn a passing grade.
Thrust into an unusual – and for some, unprecedented – working environment, everyone with the good fortune to still be employed is doing their best to replicate the familiar tropes of office life in a remote setting. Chief among those endeavors is almost certainly conducting virtual meetings.
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