For Office 365 ProPlus customers, Office 2016 for Windows arrives today as an update. Volume license customers using the traditional Office 2016 software, will have to wait until October 1st for the software to become available. Office 2016 for Windows brings a lot of modern features to Microsoft's productivity suite with an emphasis on collaboration. Office 2016 for Windows … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2015
AVG will collect free antivirus users’ info to turn a profit
AVG introduced their new Privacy Policy last week. This change has been touted since March by their CEO as a new one-page Privacy Policy, that they believe should be the industry standard for transparency. The new Privacy Policy takes effect on October 15, 2015. In the new version and with its transparency, you can see that AVG will collect non-personal information from the … [Read more...]
The biggest data breaches of 2015, so far
2015 is not even over and there have already been significant data breaches. Millions of individuals have been impacted by some of the individual breaches. This image lists some of the biggest breaches this year (non-comprehensive) from insurance companies to the IRS and Harvard, this has been a difficult year for many victims. (Credit: Bustle) … [Read more...]
Edward Snowden has changed the world
Some see Edward Snowden as a hero, others a whistleblowers, and others a treasonous traitor. No matter your opinion, Snowden has changed the world. See the image below for examples of how society has been impacted. Click image for larger view. (Credit: Whoishostingthis.com) … [Read more...]
Group Policy Management: “The server is unwilling to process the request.”
I was cleaning up old, unused Group Policy Objects recently and came across two that could not be deleted. They were legacy GPOs from before I started at the organization and were not linked anywhere and had old arbitrary settings. Not wanting to just leave junk laying around, I tried to delete the actual objects not just the links from within the Group Policy Objects area in … [Read more...]