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| | | | | AWS Introduces New Chaos Engineering as a Service Offering | | TechCrunch | When large companies like Netflix or Amazon want to test the resilience of their systems, they use chaos engineering tools designed to help them simulate worst-case scenarios and find potential issues before they even happen. Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels introduced the company’s Chaos Engineering as a Service offering called AWS Fault Injection Simulator. | | SaaS Operations and the Road Ahead for Enterprise IT (Webinar Recording) | | BetterCloud Monitor | Last week, BetterCloud’s Chief Strategy Officer talked with special guest Bill Martorelli, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, about their latest market report. Missed the live event? Check out the recording here. | | Microsoft to Quarantine SolarWinds Apps Linked to Recent Hack Starting Tomorrow | | ZDNet | Microsoft announced today plans to start forcibly blocking and isolating versions of the SolarWinds Orion app that are known to have contained the Solorigate (SUNBURST) malware. Microsoft's decision is related to the massive supply chain attack that came to light over the weekend and impacted IT software vendor SolarWinds. | | Microsoft Releases Native Office Apps for M1 Macs | | Computerworld | Collectively tagged as Microsoft 365 for Mac Apps — formerly labeled Office 365 ProPlus — the flagship applications Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word have been updated so that they run on the Apple Silicon-powered MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac Mini without requiring translation. |
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| | | How to Backup and Restore Emails in Microsoft Outlook | | How-To Geek | Modern email systems keep your mail in the cloud so you can access it from anywhere, but even they have storage limits. Here’s how to take a backup of your Microsoft Outlook emails and restore it if you ever need those messages again. | | Not Getting Notifications on Google Chrome? Here Are 10 Fixes to Try | | MakeUseOf | It can get really annoying when you miss high-priority emails, important messages, or juicy sales offers because Chrome didn't send notifications to your computer. The consequences can even get pretty costly at times. We've compiled all the solutions that you need to restore Chrome's notifications back to normalcy on Windows or Mac. |
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| | | Emergency Notification Systems Discussion | | SaaSOps Community | Our friend Rose Layton started a really timely (and important) discussion yesterday in light of the recent Google outage. The community dove into this one *really* fast and the conversation is *really* compelling. Check it out and join in by clicking the link above. |
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| | | Additional Language Support for Live Captions in Google Meet | | Google Workspace Updates | Google is expanding live captions in Google Meet to French, German, Portuguese and Spanish (Spain and Latin America) speakers. They were previously only available in English. Live captions allow deaf and hard of hearing users, users with different primary languages, and users in noisy environments to participate more fully in meetings. | | Turn Google Meet Quick Access on or Off From Google Calendar | | Google Workspace Updates | Meeting organizers in G Suite for Education and Enterprise for Education domains can now turn Quick access on or off for a meeting from the event in Google Calendar. The Quick access setting helps organizers control if participants must ask to join the video meeting. |
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