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Office 365 Dark Mode – Yes or No?

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Did you know that dark mode is now available for your Office 365 applications?

You can turn it on for Office apps like Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Planner, Teams, To do, OneNote, etc. And, of course, it can be turned off anytime.

Advice: Use it where the default mode is not appropriate; for example, in dark environments.

Pros and cons?

Pros:

  • It saves energy, but only if your devices have an OLED screen.
  • It reduces eye strain in low light conditions.
  • The screen glare is minimized.

Cons:

  • White text on a black background is harder to read.
  • It can be challenging to read long texts in dark mode.
  • Dark themes are an inferior option for eye strain in bright light conditions.

Conclusion?

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So, dark mode – yes or no? It depends mostly on your personal preferences. We recommend that you use dark themes in low light conditions, and light themes during the daylight. Test to see which option suits you best.

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Beware of Office 365 Phishing Attacks

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No matter how hard your organization tries to protect employees and its customers, it is possible for determined individuals to find a way to bypass built-in security protections and steal your account credentials.

Here are two examples:

  • you will get an email with a notification that you have late tasks in the Planner
  • you will receive an email containing a link to a SharePoint document which is similar to standard SharePoint invitation

If you click on the link, a fake portal.office.com login page will appear.

What to do if your Office 365 account was hacked?

  • contact your IT support immediately
  • reset your password
  • remove mailbox delegates
  • disable mail forwarding rules
  • remove the global mail forwarding property
  • enable Multi-Factor authentication
  • set a complex password
  • enable mailbox auditing
  • deliver Audit Logs to the admin to review

Follow these steps to prevent phishing attacks

  1. Educate your colleagues about the dangers and the warning signs of phishing attacks.
  2. Do not click on a suspicious link from unknown email addresses/senders.
  3. Do not input your Office 365 account credentials into suspicious forms, or when a connection to a website is not secure.
  4. Always try to use two-factor authentication.
  5. Purchase and enable Advanced Threat Protection.

Use Advanced Threat Protection from the Security & Compliance Center

Advanced Threat Protection has a set of machine learning models with detection algorithms that can mitigate a very high percentage of phishing attacks. It is available in the Office 365 E5 plan, but you can also purchase it as an add-on to your existing Plans.

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Advanced Technology Days 14: Azure AD & Google Identity Provider

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Advanced Technology Days – a well-known IT conference in Croatia, will be held this December in the Plaza Event Center, Zagreb.

The conference will focus on three fields: DevOps, Artificial Intelligence and Business IT.

Our COO, Hrvoje Kusulja, will talk about an Azure Active Directory novelty – Google login for external B2B users. He will also show a demo how to set up and activate this new AAD feature. This is a pretty nice feature if you are an Office 365 user and you want to share documents with external Google users.

You should definitely come if you work in the IT industry.

When?

Date: December, 5th & 6th 2018

Where?

Location: Plaza Event Center, Zagreb

Register today!

advtechdays.com

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Business Automatization within the Office 365 system  

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In order to stop losing time on actions we do manually every day, there are Flow automated workflows for available for many applications and services. Workflows are suitable for departments in organizations of all sizes: sales, HR, marketing, administration, etc.

Frequently used templates are readily available for use, but you can also create your own custom multi-step flows.

Save time with Flow automated workflows

Workflows can be used for various purposes: data collection, social networking, data and file synchronization, email and calendar actions, etc.

Some of the popular workflows can help you to:

  • Track your working hours
  • Create a task when an email is flagged
  • Save email attachments to your OneDrive for Business
  • Create a OneNote page for upcoming events
  • Get a push notification when you receive an email from your manager

Flow Connectors

Connectors are available for Outlook, Office 365, SharePoint, OneDrive, Power BI, Dynamics 365…

It is also possible to connect with third-party services such as newsletters, various cloud providers, social networks, CRMs, etc.