Month: March 2020

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Support remote workers using Microsoft Teams

Andy Smart March 05, 2020 0 Comments
Use the best practices in this article to support your users who work remotely or from home. Technical advice Make sure Teams is turned on for everyone Look at Teams free to make Teams available to everybody in your company. Remote employees rely more heavily on meetings and audio conferencing. If you haven't yet rolled out these workloads, check out Meetings and conferencing in Teams. Tell...
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What are SSL or digital certificates?

SSL or digital certificates are basically small pieces of code created by using sophisticated mathematics that ensures that communication between devices or websites are sent in an encrypted manner, and are therefore secure. They play an essential role in keeping IT infrastructure up and running safely and are issued by certificate authorities, who electronically verify that the certificates are...
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Replacement of some SSL certificates for O’Brien Media hosting clients

Andy Smart March 04, 2020 0 Comments
We have been notified that one of our suppliers of a recently discovered a bug in the Let's Encrypt certificate authority code, described here and covered by BBC News on their website today, 4th March. Unfortunately, this means we need to replace the certificates that were affected by this bug, which includes a number of certificates issued between January 28th and February 29th. To avoid...
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Outlook support notice

We no longer provide support for Outlook 2013 and earlier due to incompatibility with the latest security standards. The below instructions may work for you, although we will not be able to provide assistance.
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Userguide: Cisco IP Phone 7975G

This guide provides operating instructions and feature descriptions for the Cisco Unified IP Phone 7975G. The Cisco Unified IP phone 7975G is a multiline touch screen phone. About your Cisco 7975G Phone Your Cisco Unified IP Phone 7975G provides touch-screen access, in addition to soft keys and dedicated buttons, allowing you to place and receive phone calls, put calls on hold, transfer calls,...
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