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Using @mentions in Microsoft Teams

The best way to communicate effectively with others in Microsoft Teams is to use @mentions. When you use an @mention in Teams it sends a notification to people’s Activity tab. Almost like a virtual tap on the shoulder.…

Why you should use OneDrive for Business

OneDrive for Business is a cloud-based file storage platform, providing 1TB of storage allocation to staff and students across the University. Here are a few of OneDrive’s best features. Version history Losing a file…

Organising a panel discussion event

Over Summer, the University made Teams Live Events available for staff and students to use to broadcast live online events to up to 10,000 events. In light of this, we thought it best to share all our advice for…

Meeting options explained

When we speak about Teams meeting options during our sessions, it's normally the first time our attendees have heard the term. Find out how to tailor your meeting options to suit the security requirements of your…

Microsoft 365 October review

Here’s a summary of some of the changes we’ve seen in Microsoft 365 through October. New attendee audio option for meetings Meeting organisers can now disable attendee mics to prevent them from unmuting during a…

The importance of multi-factor authentication

Multi-factor authentication (or MFA) is something we have all become slowly familiar with in the past year or so. Mostly as an additional security implementation to ensure a password leak isn’t enough for a cyber…

Help reduce the risk of ransomware attacks

Ransomware is causing headaches for organisations across the world – including Universities in the UK. Cyber criminals extorting money is nothing new: remember WannaCry? However, more recently, they’re becoming even…