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Joel Lachance: Oct 02, 2020
Unless you've been living under a rock for the last six months, chances are you've noticed that a lot of businesses are changing the way they do,...
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Julia Chester: Sep 25, 2020
When I joined BEMO, six months ago now (!), I was curious about our customers. Working in Marketing, I spent very little time actually interacting...
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Bruno Lecoq: Sep 25, 2020
If there is one thing that gets an IT professional’s heart pumping, it’s being asked to be part of a migration. From the planning and testing to the...
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Julia Chester: Sep 18, 2020
We are happy to announce that Sakshi Tomar has joined the BEMO team! Sakshi will be our first hire solely dedicated to Technical Support. She will...
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Brandon Lecoq: Sep 18, 2020
You may have registered your small business with your local government, but it’s not until you have a website that things really feel real, right? ...
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Julia Chester: Sep 11, 2020
UPDATE, January 2021: When we first published this post last fall, 2020, we mentioned it would be updated as our benefits were update. Now's the...
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Josh Franklin: Sep 04, 2020
Three months ago, I transitioned from my job as a Cloud Technical Expert at Microsoft, into a role as a Cloud Solutions Specialist with BEMO. Going...
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Julia Chester: Sep 04, 2020
Earlier this summer, our CEO and CFO asked all of our BEMO employees to participate in a week-long brainstorm. "A week-long brainstorm? About what?"...
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Julia Chester: Sep 02, 2020
Domonic is the newest addition to our BEMO team. He will be joining us as our Customer Success Manager in order to build long-term relationships with...
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Julia Chester: Aug 28, 2020
Technology is ever-evolving. Every day there are new ways to interact online and with those many points of access, open many doors for security...
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Brandon Lecoq: Aug 21, 2020
"Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first." Simon Sinek
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Josh Franklin: Aug 14, 2020
Cloud computing has been around for a while now, but it’s only more recently that it has become a major focus of businesses worldwide. More and more,...
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Julia Chester: Jul 31, 2020
Welcome to BEMO, Carol! Carol Bubar has joined BEMO as our newest team member and we couldn't be happier. Carol works as our Operational Excellence...
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Julia Chester: Jul 24, 2020
If you’re using Teams and you’re like me, you’re discovering new things about it every day. Microsoft has been a busy bee since the release of Teams...
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Josh Franklin: Jul 17, 2020
Note: This blog post was last reviewed December 2022. We do our best to keep all of our blogs up to date to offer you the best, most accurate...
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Brandon Lecoq: Jul 12, 2020
Whether you're starting a remote company from scratch or you're trying to transform your current business into running more smoothly while people...
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Catalin Alaci: Jun 26, 2020
In this post, we'll take a look at Slack vs. Teams. More likely than not, you've heard of both, maybe you've even used one or the other but what do...
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Harpreet Singh Wasu: Jun 19, 2020
In this blog post, we'll be giving you the step-by-step instructions for configuring Office Message Encryption. I have to say they aren't for the...
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Julia Chester: Jun 12, 2020
A few months ago, upon starting up with BEMO, they upgraded my setup from my laptop to a new laptop and two monitors. It was an outright command...
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Julia Chester: Jun 05, 2020
Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) protects you by preventing dangerous links and malicious attachments from entering your organization via...
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Julia Chester: May 29, 2020
Josh is our newest BEMO team member and comes to us by way of Houston, Texas! Josh will join us as a Cloud Solutions Specialist, providing full-scope...
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Julia Chester: May 21, 2020
I am busy. I have a sneaking suspicion that you are too. However, until recently, I donated precious time, multiple times a day, to getting out my...
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Catalin Alaci: May 17, 2020
In this blog post, we're going to walk you through the step-by-step process for setting up Exchange Online Protection (EOP). Although setting up...
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Harpreet Singh Wasu: May 17, 2020
In this blog post, we're going to walk you through the step-by-step process for setting up Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP). Although...
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Julia Chester: Apr 17, 2020
As many companies shift their operations online (and their employees shift into their “daytime jammies”) so too must their attention shift to...
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Brandon Lecoq: Apr 06, 2020
Julia is our latest addition to the BEMO team by way of Alaska! She will work closely with Brandon as an Inbound Marketer, bringing fresh content to...
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Brandon Lecoq: Jan 30, 2020
Mohamed is our newest addition to BEMO! He is joining our team as an Implementation and Support Engineer and will work closely with Cata, Harpreet,...
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Joel Lachance: Dec 20, 2019
UPDATE, December 2020: This blog was originally written for ESU updates for 2020. If you're wondering where to purchase updates for 2021, check out...
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Brandon Lecoq: Nov 26, 2019
Microsoft will no longer release security updates for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 after July 9, 2019. Remaining on legacy infrastructure...
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Brandon Lecoq: Nov 21, 2019
Microsoft 365 is a bundle of Office 365, Windows 10, and Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS). Microsoft 365 is the parent product of Office 365 and...
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Catalin Alaci: Nov 21, 2019
Azure AD Connect is a Microsoft tool designed to meet and accomplish your hybrid identity goals. It lets you connect your on-premises Active...
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Brandon Lecoq: Nov 20, 2019
Microsoft 365 Business Standard (formerly known as Office 365 Business Premium) is by far the most common product among SMBs while Office 365 E3 has...
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Brandon Lecoq: Oct 24, 2019
Most of our customers and partners ask us about the approval process for government organizations wanting to be on Microsoft Government Community...
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Bruno Lecoq: Oct 22, 2019
A successful Zero Trust strategy requires seamless and flexible access to applications, systems, and data while maintaining security for both users...
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Catalin Alaci: Oct 21, 2019
When you bring on a new hire does your IT team spend time having to configure that person's computer and then does the new hire has to spend the next...
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Joel Lachance: Oct 11, 2019
In our last blog post, What is Microsoft EMS? we gave an overview of the 6 tools that make up the Enterprise Mobility + Security suite. In this post...
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Joel Lachance: Oct 10, 2019
Microsoft launched the Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) in March 2014, in an effort to transition from 'bolted-on' security to 'built-in'...
Brandon Lecoq: Sep 24, 2019
The team at BEMO came up with the most important questions to ask any business owner or company executive when determining their risk of a data...
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Bruno Lecoq: Sep 16, 2019
With 81 percent of data breaches being due to weak, reused, or stolen passwords, turning on Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all of your apps is...
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Catalin Alaci: Sep 11, 2019
Think of your organization’s Active Directory (AD) like the bouncer outside of your own very popular, hard-to-get-into club. This AD system not only...
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Brandon Lecoq: Sep 04, 2019
No company on the planet can beat Microsoft's value to schools and education organizations. Between school-specific applications, heavily discounted...
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Brandon Lecoq: Aug 28, 2019
I was approached by the Head of IT for a 70-something person company via LinkedIn, wanting an independent review of their environment. I thought...
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Bruno Lecoq: Aug 25, 2019
For the last six months at BEMO we have been migrating a lot of Domain Controllers to Azure. During our discovery calls with the customers, it's...
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Joel Lachance: Aug 14, 2019
Most people are still unaware that Microsoft provides domestic and international calling plans for businesses through Office 365's Microsoft Teams....
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Brandon Lecoq: Aug 09, 2019
Microsoft is now pushing companies to adopt the Microsoft 365 product line, which bundles Office 365 with Windows 10 and their cybersecurity tools...
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Brandon Lecoq: Aug 01, 2019
Cata is our newest addition to BEMO. He is joining Bruno and Harpreet on the implementation team as a Cybersecurity Engineer. Cata has known the...
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Harpreet Singh Wasu: Jul 25, 2019
Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) for Office 365 and Azure is a great solution created by Microsoft to enable users to change and reset their...
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Joel Lachance: Jul 17, 2019
Microsoft will stop providing mainstream support for the Windows 7 operating system on January 14, 2020. From that day on, Microsoft will no longer...
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Brandon Lecoq: Jul 09, 2019
Office 365 E3 is $20 per user/month and Office 365 E5 is $35 per user/month, so is it worth the extra $15 per user/month? In this article we dive...
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Bruno Lecoq: Jun 28, 2019
In this blog post, we're going to walk you through configuring SPF, DMARC, and DKIM. While this is an essential step, it is only one portion of a...
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Brandon Lecoq: Jun 18, 2019
The most common migration we do at BEMO is moving customers from GoDaddy to Office 365. We know the masses can't be migrating just because we are...
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Brandon Lecoq: Jun 18, 2019
Most people that come to us to migrate their email to Office 365 are under the impression that it's a really easy process. You have no idea how many...
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Brandon Lecoq: Jun 11, 2019
Microsoft will no longer release security for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 starting January 14, 2020. Remaining on legacy...
