Microsoft SharePoint is a collection of products and software elements that include a web browser for collaborative functions, process management modules and a document management platform. The bottom line for management is that SharePoint empowers users to manage content effectively, improving workflow processes and helping people to make better and faster business decisions. The issue [...]

What is Outbound Content Compliance? Outbound Content Compliance (also outbound content security or OCC) is a new segment of the computer security field, which aims to detect outbound content that violates the security policy of the organization and/or government regulations and prevent it leaving the organization. OCC deals with internal threats, either malicious or accidental, [...]

No portal is an island—or at least, it shouldn’t be. Unfortunately, while SharePoint is great for sharing documents, it doesn’t integrate easily with the rest of your enterprise, including non-Microsoft applications and data sources. To be truly useful, your portal needs to bring together all your users and connect to all your applications. Whether you’re [...]

Migrating from Mac OS X Leopard to Snow Leopard can be a labour-intensive operation that takes several hours and requires a local visit to the end-user’s computer. Multiply this by the number of Macs you need to upgrade and migrating systems can easily monopolise the time of your support staff. When you need to migrate [...]

There are a number of advantages when end users do not have local administrative rights on their Windows desktops. These include: – Less chance for malware to successfully attack the system. – Reduce chance for the end user to make unauthorized changes to the system. – Better control on which applications are installed and used [...]

When it comes to IT security, almost all businesses using IP networks to transmit data will know that they have to protect themselves, and they will have systems in place to keep their data secure. However, this is often focused at the head office. For workers that are not located at the central office – [...]