Where I’m at, we use Google Apps (G Suite) for e-mail, but still rely on Active Directory for individual accounts and use MS Office rather than Google Docs most of the time. One situation to come up in the last few years is Google no longer supports MS Outlook out of the box. If you […]
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What are “Less Secure Apps” in Google?
May 4th, 2017 · No Comments · IT News, security
If you’ve tried to use Outlook or another traditional e-mail client with GMail, you may have run into this requirement to enable “Less Secure Apps”. There are other situations that may prompt you to turn this on, as well. What does that mean? Why does it matter? I think I can explain. Google, by default, […]
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Cleaning an Infected Computer at Work
September 23rd, 2014 · No Comments · security, superuser
I have two basic philosophies underpinning how I approach infected computers. To begin with, I don’t really believe in cleaning an infected computer at all. I could cover the reasoning for this in more detail, but I already have a well-voted answer on SuperUser.com that I think says it better than I could fit here. For computers […]
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