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Nothing like a global pandemic to give pause for reflection and seek perspective.  A lot of people are giving well deserved praised to those on the front lines, health care workers, police, fire and all those necessary workers on the food and essential goods supply chain.  Thank you.

Last week, Microsoft began rolling out a feature where users can change their background. Super helpful if you’ve got kids running around in the background (or just have a really messy office). To change your background when you’re in a call, click the 3 ellipses shown below, and select “show background effects.”

There are many benefits to working remote or being a telecommuter. No commute, costs/time savings and work/life balance to list a few. This has often been a perk or benefit offered to attract and/or retain talent.

Collaboration and communication is key while working from home.  You are no longer face-to-face with your co-workers but need to collaborate and stay in communications throughout the day.  This may seem difficult to anyone that perhaps is working from home for the first time. 

Have you upgraded to the new Microsoft Edge browser? It was released on January 15, 2020, but you might not be aware of how awesome it is if your PC hasn’t received the rollout update.

In the days of old tangible assets held most of a company’s value. Today a majority of a company’s value is found in its intellectual property (IP).

Microsoft is ending support for several critical applications and infrastructure products. Ending support means no new features or bug fixes, but more importantly no more security fixes. So when (not if) a vulnerability is found and exploited, your organization’s data is at risk. Here is a list starting with the most urgent:

Today's guest blogger is Eric Fritz, Managing Consultant