Tech News: Microsoft Cloud Resilience Amid Red Sea Cable Disruption

September 17, 2025

Microsoft has reassured customers of the strength and adaptability of its Azure cloud services after damage to undersea internet cables in the Red Sea caused some regional slowdowns recently. Estimated Read Time: 2 minutes The disruption occurred near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and impacted the SMW4 and IMEWE cable systems—two of…

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Tech Tip: Use Polls in Team Chats for Instant Feedback

September 4, 2025

Need a quick way to make team decisions without long chat threads? Many messaging platforms offer polling tools that let you gather votes instantly. In some cases no admin rights or extra apps are required to set this up. So say goodbye to lengthy group chats and use polls in…

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Tech Tip: Protecting Your Privacy in Word

September 3, 2025

Protecting Your Privacy in Word: Using the Document Inspector Estimated Read time: 1 minute When you share a Word document, you may be giving away more than just the visible text. Hidden information—such as the author’s name, tracked changes, embedded comments, or document properties—can travel with the file. This metadata…

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Security-Stop-Press: Out of Office, Not Out of Mind

August 13, 2025

Holidays should be a time to relax, but for cyber criminals, they’re prime hunting season. When staff are away, attackers exploit the disruption to routines, reduced staffing, and the extra details people inadvertently share. For SMEs, this means a greater need to educate employees on travel-related cyber risks and how…

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Tech Tip: Snooze Email Messages to Deal With Them Later

August 13, 2025

Busy inbox? Don’t let the email bombardment overwhelm you! Wouldn’t it be great to just snooze email messages to deal with them later? Of course! And you can! There is a ‘Snooze’ feature and it lets you temporarily hide an email and have it reappear at a date and time…

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