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How Screen Recordings Help IT Support Teams Diagnose Cyber Security Issues Faster

When something strange happens on a work computer, the details matter.

A suspicious pop-up appears. An Outlook error flashes on screen. A Microsoft 365 login prompt looks slightly different. A user clicks a link in an email and then realises something may not be right.

By the time an IT technician gets involved, the original screen may be gone. The user may have clicked “Try Again”, closed the window, restarted the computer or forgotten the exact wording of the message.

That is where a short screen recording can be surprisingly useful.

For small businesses, screen recordings can help IT support providers understand what happened, what the user saw, what they clicked and what sequence of events led to the issue. Used correctly, they can reduce back-and-forth, speed up diagnosis and create better internal documentation.

Used incorrectly, however, they can also capture sensitive information. So the key is knowing when a screen recording is helpful, and when it should be avoided.

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Gmail deliver failed email IT support Melbourne

New Gmail Rules Start Blocking Emails – Small Businesses Beware!

Having trouble with Gmail delivery failures for your small business in Melbourne? Our email IT support experts can help! The latest Anti-spam measures are a positive move by Google, but dozens of small businesses are getting caught up with email bounce backs. If your business has been caught up in the email delivery saga, call our IT consultants today for a solution. In less than a few hours we can ensure your domains’ compliance with SPF, DKIM and DMARC policy. Giving you greater e-mail security, deliverability and reducing your chance of getting blocked on Gmail.

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TPG to cut email services for customers

TPG to cut email services for customers

Update 03/07/2024: Only 2 weeks to go until The Messaging Company will start shutting down mailboxes belonging to TPG, IINET, Netspace, Westnet, Ozemail and Internode unless subscribed.

If you don’t want to pay for your personal email account we can help you migrate to Outlook (Hotmail) or Gmail. Speak to us today before time runs out so you don’t lose access to your emails.

If you haven’t already heard, one of Australia’s favourite ISPs TPG is set to stop providing email services. It’s important for you, as a business owner or a residential consumer, to understand what this means. How will this impact your ability to send email without the TPG network. What do you need to do if you chose to migrate your emails elsewhere. What businesses need to do to keep their devices sending emails once the transition is complete. We will go into details about all the above in this blog post.

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Outlook 365 corrupting Adobe PDF attachments

Outlook 365 corrupting Adobe PDF attachments

Recently a corporate client has been complaining of Outlook 365 corrupting Adobe PDF attachments on Windows 10. In some cases they are able to open the PDF attachment fine. But they are not able to open it another time and get a corrupt error warning. The error that appear is “An unexpected error has occurred” and “there was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired”. Other error messages include “Adobe Acrobat could not open ‘file.pdf’ because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn’t correctly decoded).”

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