Last month, to much fan fair across the media, GDPR became enforceable across the European Union including in the United Kingdom. As covered in a previous post, GDPR or to give it its full title without acronyms; The General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy, aimed […]
When RML IT Consultants was launched way back in 2004, to provide IT support to businesses in Cambridge and the wider South East, the current versions of Microsoft Windows was Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, though many customers were still using earlier versions. As RML’s owner has himself been providing IT support since the […]
In just under 3 months, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force, and companies will face potentially huge new fines if they are found not to be compliant. Microsoft has responded to the challenge of GDPR compliance, with GDPR solutions delivered for Microsoft Office 365 through the Compliance Manager. Microsoft Office 365 can […]
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was passed by the European Union on 14th April 2016, and replaces the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC, with organisations having been given a two-year lead in period to become compliant. Enforcement begins on the 25th May 2018, and any organization that does business with EU citizens must comply with […]
With Christmas around the corner, and the inevitable time off that involves, this month’s post covers both the setting up of automatic replies in Microsoft Office 365 (previously known as Out of Office assistant) and some tips on how to best write one. In order to setup an automatic reply, in a web browser, sign […]
In February this year, Microsoft released their Office Training Roadmaps which help organisations when it comes to tracking their staff in terms of training, and they are available to cover the six main applications within the Microsoft Office suite. The interactive training plans are currently openly available without charge, and they are downloadable as PDF […]
Microsoft have this week launched the new My Workspace Office 365 toolbar on macOS, allowing Apple users fast access to Office 365 apps, files and other information from the macOS menu bar. Named My Workspace, the toolbar was created as an experimental project by a Microsoft Garage team based in Vancouver, and is believed to […]
One of the most important reasons for moving from Windows 7 to Windows 10 was the security benefits that it brought, and this has been further enhanced by Windows Information Protection (WIP) which began shipping with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update in 2016. WIP is a data loss prevention system integrated into Windows, and unlike […]
Despite Microsoft having launched Microsoft Office 365 back in June 2011, there still remain some users and indeed smaller organisations still not entirely familiar with Microsoft Office 365, and indeed the benefits it has over the up-front purchase of the Microsoft Office suite for individual PCs (Office Professional 2016 retailing in July 2017 at £389.99 […]
Until the attacks last month, most people would have imagined NHS IT infrastructure as impregnable, that untold budgets and resources would be thrown at security due to the sensitive nature of the data contained on it. Indeed, it wouldn’t for a moment have imagined by most that it was possible that significant parts of the […]
