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September 14, 2022

Microsoft Reducing Recovery Time for ex-Inactive Mailboxes to 30 Days

Microsoft is reducing recovery time periods for inactive mailboxes down to 30 days. This affects inactive mailboxes newly released from retention holds and policies, whose recovery window is being reduced from 183 days – the change coming into effect by the end of September. This may change how companies treat their inactive mailboxes and...

September 8, 2022

Basic Authentication to no longer be available for Microsoft customers from the end of September

Microsoft is disabling Basic Authentication and moving standards towards Zero Trust. Microsoft has announced that Basic Authentication – a holdover from older verification...

August 31, 2022

Archiving your Microsoft Teams chats and channels is a business necessity

Microsoft Teams, the replacement for Microsoft Skype for Business and only major competitor to Slack for business chat and communications, continues to grow. In a short time,...

August 24, 2022

How much does Microsoft 365 for Business really cost?

Microsoft 365 has, since launch, rapidly become the go-to solution for enterprises. Microsoft’s flagship B2B offer combines Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint...

August 18, 2022

Microsoft 365 archiving – an essential need for your business security

As announced recently, Microsoft is planning to bring their automatic sign-out feature to the web versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive and the Microsoft 365 admin center....

August 11, 2022

Simple electronic records retention or modern secure and GDPR-compliant archiving?

Despite the fact that most companies maintain some form of electronic records retention, and that electronic records retention policies are generally mandated by local legal...

August 4, 2022

Working with archived files – exporting from the archive in .pst or .zip format

TECH-ARROW’s contentACCESS Portal continues to push the boundaries in providing customers a flexible and agile tool to manipulate their archive with. In addition to the...

July 28, 2022

Microsoft Teams, diversification of communication channels, and the increasing need for complex archiving

Microsoft Teams took over where Microsoft’s Skype for Business had left off – providing a chatting and communications platform for enterprise use, and prompting...

July 20, 2022

The Great Reshuffle and how it affects your business continuity

Due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, industries saw a rapid increase in employees leaving their respective companies or in some cases the industry altogether. The Great...

July 14, 2022

Cyberattack on Lincoln University

Ransomware continues to ramp up and escalate as one of the major areas of concern for enterprises and businesses worldwide. It is also one of the fastest developing avenues of...

July 7, 2022

Preparing your Disaster Recovery strategy

As businesses continue to digitize to a greater degree, so-called disaster recovery plans rise in importance where maintaining business continuity is concerned. Disaster recovery...

June 29, 2022

Efficiency and streamlining; save time and money within your IT human resources

Company data-access policies are a topic that has risen in importance as more data has been generated and even more existing workflows have begun shifting online. This presents...

June 23, 2022

Disadvantages and benefits of Cloud-based archiving

Despite major advances in Cloud technologies and the Cloud rapidly becoming an almost magical word in the IT community, other industries have been more hesitant of taking...

June 16, 2022

Potential mistakes in your email archive migration and how to overcome them

Data migration is increasingly a common phenomenon for companies, for any number of reasons including having outsized their current storage systems or wanting to change their...

June 8, 2022

Ransomware as a Service: A new face for digital threats

We’ve previously discussed the evolving face of cybersecurity and the threat environment posed to businesses on this blog. One of the most rapidly shifting threats is...

May 31, 2022

Migration from Metalogix Archive Manager for Exchange made easy

Are you considering migrating from your Metalogix Archive Manager to a new solution? TECH-ARROW’s contentGATE Migrator opens possibilities that makes us an obvious choice and...

May 25, 2022

Understanding the pros and cons of Microsoft Teams for secure coworking

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, the business world has rapidly accelerated the shift to remote working. This initially presented issues in the technological...

May 18, 2022

How cybersecurity threats are changing – and how the security environment changes with them

As we move on further into the year, we can look in retrospective at the past year and draw useful conclusions for the future. In particular, 2021 saw a great deal in...

May 11, 2022

Modern archiving solutions – top questions for assessing your existing archive

In the current day, most companies will have acknowledged the need for backups and archiving solutions. Especially archives are an absolute necessity for modern companies seeking...

May 4, 2022

GDPR – what does it mean for your business

The General Data Protection Regulation (referred to as GDPR from here on) came into effect four years ago now in the European Union. As discussed at some length in this Privacy...