While our name is changing, our commitment to excellence remains the same. We will continue to be the same organization you have come to know and trust—a top-flight Microsoft consulting partner with a strong focus on Modern Work, Cloud Infrastructure, and custom development solutions. Our dedication to delivering innovative and effective solutions for our clients is unwavering.

This rebranding is not just a change of name; it represents a renewed vision and a unified approach to serving our clients better. We are excited to embrace the FORTÉ identity, which symbolizes strength, expertise, and a forward-thinking mindset.

Reflecting on our journey, we recall the brand refresh we underwent a few years ago when we brought our brand identity closer to our parent company. During that time, we remodeled our identity to better represent our joint values and mission. You can read more about that transformation here. Just as we successfully navigated that change, we are confident that this new chapter will bring even greater opportunities for growth and innovation.

As we transition to FORTÉ, we want to assure you that our core values and dedication to our clients will remain unchanged. We are excited to continue providing top-tier consulting services and helping organizations achieve their goals through modern and effective solutions.

Stay tuned for more updates as we make this transition. We look forward to continuing our partnership with you under our new name, FORTÉ.

Thank you for your continued support.

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What is DMARC?

DMARC, short for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance, is an email authentication protocol designed to help email administrators prevent fraudsters from spoofing email domains. It specifies whether spoofed emails should be allowed, quarantined, or rejected by recipients.

How Does DMARC Work?

DMARC acts as a gatekeeper to a receiving email server. When an email arrives from your sending domain and it isn’t verified with SPF or DKIM, you can use DMARC to tell the receiver to reject, monitor, or quarantine the message. DMARC requires either an SPF record or a DKIM record – better yet, both of them.

Why is DMARC Important for Companies?

Enhanced Email Security

DMARC gives organizations the power to govern their email domains and have visibility over emails that are being sent on their behalf. This allows security teams to quickly discover and halt any unauthorized emails being sent from their domains, protecting customers, employees, partners, and suppliers from potential exploitation by cybercriminals.

Improved Email Deliverability

DMARC helps businesses ensure emails reach intended recipients and avoid spam or malicious flags. If your email server isn’t configured correctly, your emails could be getting sent to spam.

Increased Visibility and Control

DMARC allows tracking of email traffic and policy adjustments as needed. This improves email deliverability and overall email marketing effectiveness.

Enhanced Reputation

Companies that send millions or even billions of emails each year can improve their overall email reputation score and trustworthiness by using DMARC.

What’s Changing, When, and by Whom

Throughout 2024, a number of major email providers are putting DMARC policies in place that can and will affect email deliverability. If your organization uses email (which is everyone), this will have an impact on you at some point.

January 2024

Apple did not set a date for publishing a DMARC policy, but all other requirements were stated as ones that should be in place now. So, it’s best to assume this means immediately.

February 2024

This is Google and Yahoo’s initial deadline to meet new requirements. This affects email domains that send over 5000 emails a day to gmail or yahoo addresses for now.

Google provided further clarification about the February deadline after its initial announcement. It stated that bulk senders who don’t meet sender requirements will start getting SMTP protocol-level temporary errors (with error codes) on a small percentage of their non-compliant email traffic. These temporary errors are meant to help senders identify email traffic that doesn’t meet the new guidelines and start addressing their non-compliance.

April 2024

Google will start rejecting a percentage of non-compliant email traffic and will gradually increase the rejection rate. For example, if 75% of a sender’s traffic meets their requirements, they will start rejecting a percentage of the remaining 25% of traffic that isn’t compliant.

June 1, 2024

This is Google’s revised deadline for bulk senders to implement One-Click Unsubscribe in all commercial, promotional messages.

Deploying DMARC at Your Organization

DMARC, while being a potent tool for enhancing email security, improving deliverability, and boosting a company’s email reputation, is not without its complexities. The deployment of DMARC can be a challenging task, given its intricate nature and the need for precise configuration.

However, these challenges should not deter companies from leveraging the immense benefits DMARC offers. It’s crucial to remember that help is available. Whether it’s seeking advice from cybersecurity experts, employing automated tools, or outsourcing to a managed service provider, companies can navigate the complexities of DMARC deployment.

In the end, the effort invested in implementing DMARC will pay dividends in the form of enhanced security, improved deliverability, and a stronger reputation. So, let’s embrace the challenge and make the digital world a safer place for all. If you’re a company struggling with DMARC, remember, you’re not alone, and help is just around the corner.

Need help with DMARC? Contact us today.

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Microsoft Partner of the Year Finalist

Magenium has been a dedicated Microsoft partner since our inception in 2007. It took a lot of people a lot of years to build this place into the top-tier partner that we are today, and in 2023 our efforts were recognized by earning Microsoft Partner of the Year finalist in the Converged Communications category. Winning this is a reflection of our collective expertise in Microsoft Teams for meetings & meeting rooms, Teams calling, and our ability to support both of those with our Managed Services.

Grand Opening of our Microsoft Experience Center

The next evolution of Magenium really began in earnest with signing for our new office space at 3025 Highland Parkway, Suite 275 in Downers Grove IL. The intent of this space was always to showcase the latest in technology from Microsoft and provide our customers a place to see what is possible.

What we wound up with was a facility that exceed our lofty goals. Almost everyone who walks these halls comes away with a sense of “I want that to be my office” and we couldn’t be prouder of what we built.

A New Logo, Look & Feel

Since our acquisition by AVI Systems in 2018, our back-office teams have worked to integrate the best of both organizations. Together we’ve launched new service offerings and more to bring our Microsoft consulting services to AVI Systems customers, and AVI Systems capabilities to Magenium customers.

Operationally we were probably a bit ahead of where we were from a brand perspective, so we felt the time was right to rebrand ourselves to emphasize our alignment as an AVI Systems company. So yes, while we are an AVI Systems company, we are a very specific type of AVI Systems company.

Looking Ahead to 2024

As we look ahead to 2024, we are full of excitement because we have new service offerings ready to serve our customer’s needs and, of course, our beautiful new facility. If you’re looking to improve the return on your Microsoft investment, we are here to help and you can contact us to get started.

Have a Happy New Year!

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