Business Insights

Microsoft recently announced their Azure Virtual Desktop Solution, which allows organizations to move their entire IT infrastructure into Microsoft’s first-class cloud environment. If you’re interested in learning more about what’s on the IT horizon and how it can benefit your organization, check out this episode of Tech Talks, where Sebastian Igreti discusses the latest in cloud technology.

The Microsoft Office 365 Junk Email folder is a powerful tool to keep spam out of your inbox. However, it’s not perfect, and important emails from people you trust can occasionally get caught in the spam filter. On this episode of One-Minute Wednesday, Greg Deleon will show you how to whitelist trusted senders, so that future messages from those senders will avoid the Junk Email folder.

MSP Mentor Recognizes TechMD We are excited to announce that TechMD was ranked among the world’s top 501 managed service providers by MSPMentor! The MSP 501 companies ranked this year include organizations from around the world and from diverse technology and business backgrounds. Collectively, they amassed $14.48 billion in total revenue (based on 2016 results), […]

Ever wanted a single place to organize your daily agenda, keep a list of tasks, and jot down notes and ideas? On this week’s One Minute Wednesday, Jonathan Marinca will be showing you some of the basic functionality in OneNote, Microsoft’s digital collaborative note-taking application.

Pop-up notifications often feel like a nuisance, and we tend to click through them without paying much attention. But today’s cybercriminals can use pop-ups to install malicious code on your computer, so you should always take a closer look before clicking. On this week’s One Minute Wednesday, Andy Shin will discuss a recent malware popup scam called “Hoefler Text” and walk you through some steps you can take to protect yourself. Tune in to learn more!

WannaCry Ransomware Causes Global Security Breach You may have seen the news this weekend: cybercriminals released a new strain of ransomware that can automatically spread itself across all computers in a network. It’s been dubbed “WannaCry” and it’s causing a global epidemic. More than 40 hospitals in the UK were shut down over the weekend. […]

Ever had a printed document that you wished you could edit on your computer? On this this week’s episode of One-Minute Wednesday, Nathanael Emenaker will show you how to take a photo of a printed document and then convert it into a Microsoft Word file using the Office Lens app. Check it out!

Ever wanted to snap a photo of a whiteboard and then edit the text on a computer? In this week’s One Minute Wednesday, Yung Min will be discussing a great mobile app called Office Lens. Office Lens turns your phone into a mobile scanner that can take photos and then transfer them into editable documents and pictures in Microsoft Office applications. Tune in to learn more!

Have you ever had trouble keeping up with your tasks, projects and assignments? In this week’s episode, we’ll be showing you some quick and easy steps for creating a reminder in OneNote that will notify you of your upcoming tasks via Outlook. Tune in to this week’s One Minute Wednesday to learn more!

Learn how to avoid spear phishing attacks, keeping yourself and your company safe from security breaches. On this episode of One-Minute Wednesday, Drew Lawson will explain how the Target security breach occurred, so you can prevent something similar from happening to you.

Last week on One-Minute Wednesday, we discussed using search folders to pull up emails that fit a predefined search criteria. This week, Jackson Roberts will be showing you how to customize those Outlook search folders, allowing you to organize your inbox with highly-targeted search terms. The possibilities here are endless, so if you’re looking to take control of your inbox, don’t miss this episode!

This week on One-Minute Wednesday, Isaac McIntosh will be showing you how to create a few examples of Outlook search folders. These folders allow you to instantly pull up any emails in your inbox that fit your search parameters, like unread emails, emails marked as important, or emails from a specific person.

Protect yourself from the latest trend in cybercrime! In this week’s episode, Aspen Lindblom will be talking about “smishing”, a type of phishing attack that targets cell phone users via text messages. Cybercriminals will spoof a phone number and send text messages that appear to be coming from a legitimate source, all in order to steal sensitive information. Today we’ll show you how to identify and protect yourself from this new threat.

Learn how to customize your view when working in Microsoft Word! On this week’s One Minute Wednesday, Paul Swanson will talk about some of the view options available to you when working in a document. These view options allow you to optimize your workspace and tailor your document display for your needs.

Make sure you change duplicate passwords immediately! On Thursday of last week, website security provider Cloudflare announced a major security vulnerability affecting their service. This vulnerability has caused sensitive user data to be exposed across a number of popular websites, like Yelp, Uber, and others. To protect yourself, make sure you are not reusing any […]

Learn how to quickly extract important characters from cells in Excel! In this episode, Gipson Lyles will be teaching you some tips on how to use the LEFT, RIGHT, & MID functions in Microsoft Excel. These functions allow you to pull specific portions of data from particular cells and move them into another cell or range.