How-To
How to Open Private Browsing Windows
If you have multiple email accounts with the same provider, such as Office365 or Google, or others such as Twitter, you might have trouble switching between the two.
February 3, 2021
The Macnamara Blog
How-To
How to password protect a Zip folder
If you need to share a document with an external third party, you should do so securely. Sometimes password protecting and emailing the document is not such a good idea (see Why you shouldn’t password protect your Office Documents). You might consider instead giving them temporary access to the folder itself (see How to share
January 15, 2021
How-To
Switch Off Download Shared Mailbox
If you have access to multiple other mailboxes, you may find that Outlook starts to run slowly, that your hard disk starts to fill up, or worse – the emails in those mailboxes don’t sync properly.
December 22, 2020
How-To
How to share your calendar in Outlook
By default everyone in your organisation can see some basic details in your calendar. However this is limited to showing whether you are free or busy at a particular time.
December 22, 2020
How-To
How to share a folder in SharePoint with external users
Perhaps you need to collaborate on documents, provide files for the external colleague to download, or even provide a location for them to upload files to your tenancy. If you need to share a folder with people outside of your organisation, you can do this securely with SharePoint.
November 30, 2020
How-To
How To Open Another Mailbox in Office 365 Webmail
If you have access to multiple mailboxes, and you’re used to using Outlook where you can see them all together, it’s not immediately obvious how to see them all when using Outlook on the web. But, it’s easy!
November 30, 2020
Best practices
Why you shouldn’t password protect your Office Documents
Protecting your sensitive data with a password seems like a good thing to do, right? So why would we say it is not a clever idea? Because protecting the location is better than protecting the document.
November 5, 2020
Cloud Services
Teams or Zoom?
Both applications do the job of video conferencing well, and they’re not the only ones (e.g. Google Meet, Starleaf, Webex). But what’s the real difference, and when should you use one over the other?
November 5, 2020
Security
How to Spot a Fake Email, Part 2: The Anatomy of a Scam
In our post on how to spot a fake email, we covered some easy ways to identify the spams, scams and spoofs that inevitably land in your inbox.
But it’s not easy to write one post covering everything. And it’s not uncommon for us to receive a few reports a day from our clients of scamming: there’s a lot of it out there, much of it increasingly hard to identify.
That’s why we’re going to break it down further today and take you through the anatomy of a scam email.
November 4, 2019
Security
Why Use Multi-Factor Authentication?
As we move increasingly towards online services, securing your account is more important than ever.
While computer viruses still exist, they’re no longer the route of choice for hackers to get control of your data. Instead, the prevalence of online services means that the bad guys are targeting your cloud services, such as your email and file storage.
October 8, 2019
