Facebook security video

Here’s a great video from Kaspersky that covers how to enable the security features of Facebook.

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Securing Facebook

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlzXtX4BpGk

Highly recommend you implement all these features and when you are done forward the video on to others who may not be as security conscious to ensure they are also protected.

Need to Know Podcasts–Reflection

The CIAOPS Need to Know podcasts started back on August 25th, 2010 with Susan Bradley. There are now 42 completed episodes available for download and streaming covering a variety of technology and business topics.

As you can see from the graphic above the number of downloads has grown from less than 50 per month to a peak of almost 3,000! I can only say that I never expected in my wildest dreams that I’d ever reach those sort of heights.

I take the opportunity here and now to thank every single person who has listened to even one episode of the CIAOPS Need to Know Podcast. I hope that you have received benefit for the time that you have invested I hope that you’ll keep listening going forward. Remember, if you want to hear about a certain topic or from a specific person please let me know (director@ciaops.com) and I’ll do my best to have a show on that topic.

I also take the opportunity to thank everyone who has been a guest and come on to share their thoughts and experiences with the listeners. The above numbers demonstrate how interested people are in the topics that have been covered.

I look forward to continuing the podcasts into 2013 and beyond. I am ALWAYS looking for people to come on as guests and share their information. So, if you are at all interested please get in contact with me (director@ciaops.com). All the shows are pre-recorded at a time that suits you and done via Skype. It is simply about having a chat that hopefully other can benefit from. If you feel so inclined I’d be really interested in hearing from you (director@ciaops.com).

Again, thanks to all who have made the CIAOPS Need to Know Podcasts a success and stay tuned for more episodes.

Need to Know Podcast–Episode 42

In this episode I speak with SBS MVP Philip Elder about the opportunities around an on premise IT business focused on the SMB market. We discuss the challenges now faced in this market and what the secrets to success will be in the future.

http://ciaops.podbean.com/2012/12/04/episode-42-philip-elder/

Don’t forget all the other podcasts at http://ciaops.podbean.com and appreciate a like over
athttp://www.facebook.com/n2kpodcast.

Remember if you want to be a guest please contact me (director@ciaops.com)

Office 365 Recipient limits raised

One objection I hear regularly from business who are using their emails incorrectly is that Exchange Online ONLY allows email to 1,500 recipients a day. Many use that as an excuse for staying on premise because they want to bulk email from their own inbox.

Firstly, Microsoft has just raised that limit to 10,000 recipients a day from 1,500.

http://help.outlook.com/en-us/140/dd630704.aspx#RecipientLimits

Secondly, you really shouldn’t be using your normal email accounts for bulk email. A much better bet is something like Mailchimp, but if you must (and some MUST) then ensure you follow the guidance provided by Microsoft when it comes to bulk emails and you’ll never reach those limits!

http://help.outlook.com/en-us/140/ff381292.aspx#bulkemailstrategies

Less site options in Foundation 2013

Been poking around SharePoint Foundation 2013 and noticed the following reduction in site template options.

Here’s the site template options when you go to create a new sub site:

Collaboration tab

SharePoint 2010 Foundation

SharePoint 2013 Foundation

i.e. the following templates are no longer available:

– blank site

– document workspace

– group work site

There is no longer a meeting tab as there is in SharePoint 2010

There is now an Enterprise tab that contains:

So the following site templates are no longer available by default in SharePoint 2013 Foundation:

– Blank site

– Document Workspace

– Group Work Site

– Basic Meeting Workspace

– Blank Meeting Workspace

– Decision Meeting Workspace

– Social Meeting Workspace

– Multipage Meeting Workspace

The following have been added:

– Basic Search Center

The reason? My guess is that most people never used the site templates that have been removed and the thinking is that if people want to get them then they will probably be available via the new Office Marketplace that is part of SharePoint 2013.

However, the more I look at Foundation 2013 the more I am convinced that it is far more basic that Foundation 2010 was. Maybe the addition of the Office Marketplace in the 2013 products is where additions to the product will appear? I’ll be interested to see whether they do.

SharePoint Foundation 2013 setups

The previous blog post I did on setting up SharePoint Foundation 2013 I will admit to cheating a little. There is did the installation completely on a single windows 2012 Server that I had converted to a Domain Controller (DC).

Now, technically that isn’t supported, so here are some other ways you can attempt to install it.

If you simply try and install it on a stand alone server that is not part of a domain you’ll see

If you select stand alone and follow it through you’ll end up with the following error during the configuration wizard:

which is the same sort of error I received when testing the beta.

If you instead try and do a complete install you end up at:

So as:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2764086/en-us

notes, SharePoint 2013 is NOT supported unless it is on a domain connected server, only then will you see:

and the ultimate end results you are after

When you use the GUI installation method.

New CIAOPS SharePoint book–preorder offer

I am just about set to publish my latest SharePoint title –

SharePoint Client Side

This book covers all of the desktop applications that can be interfaced to SharePoint 2010. It shows you how to use common Office applications like Word, Excel, OneNote and Outlook with SharePoint Document Libraries and lists. It shows you how Office Web Apps functions as well as more advanced applications such as Access, Visio and SharePoint Workspace. It also provides a brief introduction to the power of applications like InfoPath and SharePoint Designer.

In essences it demonstrates that the real power of SharePoint is how it can be integrated with the applications user every day. If you want to get more out of SharePoint than what you are getting now then this book will show you how by providing extensive information and tutorials on how to use, Windows Explorer, Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, Access, SharePoint Workspace, Project, Visio, InfoPath and SharePoint Designer with SharePoint 2010.

If you use SharePoint you need this book to give you the complete picture of what is possible with SharePoint on the desktop.

I expect to have the book ‘e-published’ by this time next week and until then I am going to make the following pre-release offer:

– 50% discount off the price of the finished product (i.e. $4.38 vs $ 8.76 RRP)

– all 3 ‘e-versions’ of the finished work (ePUB, Kindle and PDF)

Conditions

– full payment of $4.38 receive prior to the ‘publishing’ of the final product most likely next week.

To take advantage of the offer please contact me (director@ciaops.com) to arrange payment.

If you are already a CIAOPS SharePoint and Office 365 Guide subscriber you’ll receive a copy of the title once it becomes available as part of your subscription.

Do wait to too long to take advantage of this offer.