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Microsoft Bookings: Stop playing calendar tag

      “Scheduling meetings is a mundane task that wastes time. Now Microsoft has a free tool to fill the gap.”   Does this sound familiar? “Hey, can you send me a few time slots that work for you?” …then you play calendar tag over four or five more emails until you finally [...]

January 14th, 2020|

PowerPoint Palette Templates

Do you know if the colours in your PowerPoint deck are company approved? Almost every company will have a branded PowerPoint template. Something I recently saw takes this to the next level: adding a colour palette. Why? Well, companies will almost always have a branding guide that specifies company colours. However, outside of the [...]

January 13th, 2020|

5 Tips to Optimise Your Outlook Calendar Productivity

    The tips and tricks in this blog post are to increase your Calendar productivity. If you use Outlook on a daily basis, check the list below for ideas you like. Below are the Tips to Optimize Your Outlook Calendar Productivity     1. Start Outlook in Calendar View   “Making full use [...]

January 13th, 2020|

Android Enterprise Recommended – Why is it important?

In February 2018, Google announced some very good news for businesses and OEMs with the launch of its Android Enterprise Recommended (AER) program. The program’s aim being to provide a Google-recommended list of devices that meet a set of enterprise-grade requirements for companies to consult. Devices submitted for AER certification are rigorously tested based on Google’s [...]

April 28th, 2019|

Mobile Mentor selected for AER

February 20th, 2019 — Mobile Mentor today announced it has joined the Android Enterprise Recommended program for Managed Service Providers. The Google™-led program is aimed towards giving customers more confidence in deploying Android™ and ensuring their enterprise mobility deployment is as consistent and as current as possible.   Under the program, validated MSP partners are trained on the latest best practices from [...]

February 19th, 2019|

The 6 phases from portability to mobility

What is the difference between mobility and portability?  From 1970 to 2010 we saw computing power move from large, expensive back-office infrastructure to smaller, less expensive consumer devices that we all use every day.  This unlocked the content we need from our back-office systems (e.g. medical records) to be available on progressively smaller screens.  This was the [...]

April 30th, 2018|

MDM to EMM to UEM – a Mobile Journey

It’s that time of year that we review the benchmark of where the world of mobility management, specifically Unified Endpoint Management (UEM), is at according to Gartner.  I recently posted a similar article on LinkedIn reviewing the magic quadrant, but wanted to share my thoughts with everyone on the subject.Mobile Device Management (MDM)2011 was the start [...]

April 30th, 2018|

Our First Month with Microsoft Planner

What is Microsoft Planner? Microsoft Planner is a task management tool offered within the Office 365 suite of solutions.  The Microsoft website lists it as “easy for your team to create new plans, organize and assign tasks, share files, chat about what you’re working on, and get updates on progress.” For those of you familiar [...]

March 28th, 2018|

Mobile Security Update on VPN Apps

Apps that create a Virtual Private Network (VPN) on devices are becoming more prevalent and organisations should be aware of what that means in terms of data loss for iOS and Android devices. A VPN allows users to create a secure connection to another network over the Internet. Traditionally VPN’s have been used to provide access to [...]

February 20th, 2018|
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