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| | I've had a strange fascination with printers for at least a decade—and not because I think they're awesome.
In fact, printers always seem to do the exact opposite of what you want them to do. It's maddening. Why can we have self-driving cars but not printers that just work? And to make matters worse, we're learning that the latest Windows 10 updates are causing even more printer issues than we thought.
We might never have a perfect printer, especially for an in-office setting. But when you provision hardware, what are the things you look for in printers—and more importantly, what types of "features" do you avoid? Let me know in this SaaSOps Community thread. |
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| | | Microsoft Admits Windows 10 Updates Are Causing Even More Printer Problems Than First Thought | | BetaNews | Following reports that a recent update to Windows 10 was causing blue screens as well as problems with printing, Microsoft issued a new series of updates to address the issues. Now Microsoft has issued a warning that there may be additional problems with elements missing from print outs, or even entirely blank pages being output. | | Death by 1,000 Tabs: How IT Can Optimize the Offboarding Process in a SaaS Management Platform | | BetterCloud | How can you develop a best-in-class offboarding experience without asking IT to complete 1,000 manual tasks across 1,000 browser tabs? In this guide, we’ll explore how manually offboarding users introduces unique security and compliance risks—and how IT can mitigate them by automating the process with a SaaS management platform. | | Google Chrome Adds Real-Time, Automatic Captions for Web Content | | CNET | Google on Thursday rolled out a new feature for its Chrome Browser called Live Caption, which automatically generates real-time captions for media with audio, such as podcasts and videos. The feature allows people who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as anyone who wants to access something in a noisy environment or keep the volume down, to consume content without sound. | | “Expert” Hackers Used 11 Zerodays To Infect Windows, iOS, and Android Users | | Ars Technica | A team of advanced hackers exploited no fewer than 11 zeroday vulnerabilities in a nine-month campaign that used compromised websites to infect fully patched devices running Windows, iOS, and Android, a Google researcher said. The breadth and abundance of exploits for unknown vulnerabilities sets the group apart. |
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| | | The 10 Best Tools to Open RAR Files | | MakeUseOf | RAR files are one of the most common archive formats. If you're unfamiliar with how to open a RAR file, or you've got one recently, then this list may help. All ten of these RAR openers are easy to use, good at compressing files, and they are free or paid depending on the features you're looking for. | | How to Sync Files in Microsoft Teams to Your Device | | How-To Geek | Whether it’s because you need to work offline or you just prefer working from your file system, syncing files from Microsoft Teams to your hard drive is quick and easy. Here’s how to do it. |
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| | | Automate Unmanaged Account Onboarding With the User Invitation API Beta | | Google Workspace Updates | Google is adding a User Invitation API to the Cloud Identity API. This new API allows you to identify and manage unmanaged accounts. Unmanaged accounts are users with consumer Google accounts that share your organization's email address. The API will enable you to manage these accounts at scale. |
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