Third-party apps now easier to find and more secure

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Starting today, administrators will be able to find, manage and deploy third-party applications directly from the Google Apps Admin console. To start, over twenty third-party applications will be available in the Admin console. These applications all offer the latest OAuth 2.0 security, single sign-on (SSO), and integration with Google services. Applications with OAuth 2.0 allow admins can deploy them to specific people or organizational units (rather than the entire company) and developers can design apps to request more narrow access to corporate information.

Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government

For more information:
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?answer=172391
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/11/third-party-apps-now-easier-to-find-and.html

 

Reference by: http://www.google.com/

Domain-restricted videos in YouTube

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Google Apps users who use their Google+ identity in YouTube will now have the option to post videos that are viewable only by others at their domain. Domain-restricted videos can only be viewed through the web UI at this time. You’ll see a field under the “Privacy Settings” drop-down menu where you can add your domain to the list of people who have access to view the video.

Editions included: 
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government

For more information:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/157177

 

Reference by: http://www.google.com/

Steps To Remember while Creating A Mailer

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Digital Campaign / Mailers / EDMs (Electronic Direct Marketing / Electronic Direct Mail / Email Direct Marketing / Email Marketing

  • Mailer should be creative (content, graphics, images, design, color etc..)
  • Types of Mailers
    • Festival, Birthday, Anniversary Wishes.
    • Sales offering mailings
    • Welcome and thank you letters
    • Newsletters and brochure mailings
    • Renewal mailings
    • Servicing reminder mailing fulfilment
    • Announcements
  •  Types of Mailers
  1. Storage Format
    • There should be fixed folder for all mailers on local as well as on web (on web it should be secured) no one can directly click www.comprompt.co.in/mailers
    • mailers/2013-2014/diwali2013/Diwali-2013.html
    • mailers/2013-2014/ christmas2013/Christmas-2013.html
  2. Sender ID: Comprompt Team sales@comprompt.co.in
    • Reply To : sales ‘at’ comprompt.co.in or noreply ‘at’ comprompt.co.in
  3. Headers
    • contain comprompt logo with slogan
    • menu urls like comprompt websites. (Web Services, Services, Software, Netwroking, Hardware)
    • Google Analytics code should be added.
  4. Body 1
    • To M/s. Comprompt Solutions
    • Dear Mr. XYZ ABC
    • Subject Line : (In Text)
    • Images of the festival / event / Marketing
    • Content of the festival / event / Marketing
  5. Body 2
    • Our product / services advertisements content with url / images
  6. Footer
    • Contact Details Mobile , Email ids, Chat Now
    • SMN logos and urls ( facebook, twitter, google+, linkedin, youtube, pintrest)
    • unsubscribe, forwards, update, privacy policy.
    • In footer also write @ 2013 All rights reserved | www.comprompt.co.in
    • Trouble Viewing this miler ? View in browser
  7. Testing
    • Test in all latest top 5-7 browsersr (Chrome, Firefox, IE, Opera, Safari) , and on Mobile/Tablet. (Android, IOs, Windows, BlackBerry.
    • Test all urls is working .
    • First sent to internal test email ids to check whether it is reaching, how is it looks on various email client etc.
  8. Reports
    • Check the analytics reports
    • Check the unsubscribe reports
    • Check the bounce reports

Note: some mailers you can use body1 at header positions and headers on 2nd or in footer position

View and save Gmail attachment directly with Drive

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Over the next few days, we’ll be rolling out a feature that lets you view Gmail attachments and save files directly to Google Drive without ever leaving Gmail. The next time you open an email with attachments, you’ll see new previews of the files at the bottom of the email. When you click on one of those previews, a full-screen view of the image or document will appear. You can now also save your attachments directly to Drive simply by clicking the Drive button that appears when you hover over the preview.

Release track:
Rapid release

Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government

For more information:
http://googledrive.blogspot.com/2013/11/attachments-in-gmail-now-with-power-of.html

Reference by: http://www.google.com/

Support for Windows XP is ending.

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On April 8, 2014, Microsoft will end support for the decade-old Windows XP as well as Office 2003. This means you will no longer receive updates, including security updates from Microsoft.

Get Modern with Windows 8 Pro and the new Office.

The security and privacy implications of this event could have significant impacts on your business. Migration is a time-consuming activity, requiring extensive planning and preparation, so if you’re running either of these products you should take action soon.

Work more SecurelyWithout critical Windows XP security updates, your information may become vulnerable. Windows 8 Pro and the new Office offer enhanced security features like built-in firewall, anti-virus, rootkit malware protection and Rights Management for emails and attachments.
Get the latest SoftwareMany software and hardware vendors will no longer support their products that run on Windows XP. Newer versions of your line of business apps are supported on Windows 8. For example, the new Office takes advantage of the modern Windows and will not run on Windows XP.
Stay SupportedWhen problems arise, online and phone-based technical support will unfortunately no longer be available. Continue to work on a supported platform with Windows 8 Pro and the new Office.
Reduce DowntimeThe risks of business disruption could increase because of the lack of supported software and the increasing age of hardware running Windows XP. Moving to Windows 8 Pro and the new Office in a timely, planned manner will reduce downtime later.

This is your opportunity to see how 10 years of innovation in both Windows 8 Pro and the new Office (either Office 365 or Office Standard 2013) can help your business.

Reference by: www.microsoft.com

How To Share Your Username & Password

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Not Recommend

Never Share Username & Password both on Email or on same communication.

Recommend

Send Username On Email & Password On SMS.

WatchGuard Dimension – Oceans of data instantly become SECURITY INTELLIGENCE

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WatchGuard Dimension™ is a new cloud-ready network security visibility solution that comes standard with WatchGuard’s flagship Unified Threat Management platform.

comprompt-kb-WatchGuard-dimension_rightIt provides a suite of big data visibility and reporting tools that instantly isolate and distill key security issues and trends, speeding the ability to set meaningful security policies across the network.

WatchGuard Dimension offers users a menu of visibility and reporting options to present the information in the way they find most intuitive. we will show the 4 key features of WatchGuard Dimension and why you need them in your network environment:

  1. Executive Dashboard
  2. Summary Reporting
  3. Hierarchical TreeMap
  4. Global ThreatMap

Reference by http://www.watchguard.com/

New Google+ Features for Enterprises

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On November 5th we are launching Restricted Communities as a feature in G+. This means that your Google Apps for Business customers will be able to restrict communities to only their organization. Restricted communities mirror the Public and Private communities in the consumer space, but these Restricted Communities can only be joined or seen by users in their organization.

The four types of restricted communities are:

 

The four types of restricted communities
Type of communityWho can joinWho can see posts and membersWho can find community via search*
1. Open within your domain – Anyone in your organization can join Everyone in your organizationEveryone in your organization Everyone in your organization
2. Open within your domain – Moderator approval needed to join Anyone in your organization can request to join, but moderators must approve membershipEveryone in your organization Everyone in your organization
3. Private in your domain – Moderator approval needed to joinAnyone in your organization can request to join, but moderators must approve membershipCommunity members Everyone in your organization
4. Private in your domain – Hide community from searchesOnly people in your organization who are invitedCommunity membersNot shown in search results**

*Restricted communities may not yet be searchable in your domain.

**The name and photo of a “private in your domain” community that’s hidden from search will still be visible to people in your organization who type in or follow a link to the community’s web address. The name and photo will not be visible outside your organization.

If you choose not to have search engines index your community, the community itself won’t appear in Google search results. However, your community will still remain visible to anyone in your organization with the URL. Other pages and content (including websites, blogs, and Google products such as Picasa Web) that link to your community can still appear in search results. If someone outside your organization follows a link to your organization, they will see an error and won’t be able to view the community.

 

Reference by http://www.google.com

Google Apps New Update Information

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  • End of support for Internet Explorer 9
  • Calendar events that update when Google Groups change
  • Domain-restricted Google+ communities

End of support for Internet Explorer 9

We would like to remind you of the Google Apps browser support policy, the set of guidelines for Google Apps services interoperability support. We support the latest version of Google Chrome (which automatically updates whenever it detects that a new version of the browser is available) as well as the current and prior major release of Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari on a rolling basis. Each time a new version of one of these browsers is released, we begin supporting the update and stop supporting the third-oldest version.

Google’s test plans have been adjusted to now stop all testing and engineering work related to Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), as Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) was released on 17 October 2013. End users who access Gmail and other Google Apps services from an unsupported browser will be notified within the next few weeks through an in-product notification message or an interstitial pages with information about modern browsers and how to upgrade to them.

Editions included: 
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government

For more information:

https://support.google.com/a/answer/33864

Calendar events that update when Google Groups change

Starting today when Google Calendar invitations are sent to members of a Google Group, the attendee list will automatically update as people join or leave the group. When you join a Google Group, you will be added to all of its meetings. And if you leave a group, those meetings will be removed from your calendar. Note that groups stop dynamically changing when the total number of guests in the event crosses 200.

Release track:
Rapid Release

Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/11/calendar-events-that-update-when-google.html
https://support.google.com/a/answer/172013

Domain-restricted Google+ communities

Starting today, new Google+ communities will be restricted to your domain by default if sharing is restricted in the Admin console. Posts in these communities are only viewable by people within the domain. However, you can still choose to create communities with people outside your organization so clients, agencies or business partners can join in. You can also make your community open to anyone at your domain or private, joinable by invitation only. Community owners can easily change settings, manage membership or invite other team members to join.

Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government

For more information:

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/11/private-conversations-with-restricted.html
https://support.google.com/plus/answer/3379754

Reference by http://www.google.com/

XP Retiral – Business is at RISK / Banks Face Security Risk/ Indian Govt Issues Advisory

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  1. Windows XP is already significantly more likely to become infected with Malware. Post April 2104, attackers and hackers will take advantage of customers who continue to run on XP exposing their vulnerability. Do go through the attached document outlining the RISKS that business customers have.
  2. The article below outlining the risks that banks have if they stay with XP issued by US regulatory body
  3. The Government of India has also issued a letter to its departments to move off XP prior to the deadline. The letter is from the emergency response cell.

PCI DSS compliance at risk if banks use Windows XP after Microsoft withdraws support services, regulatory agencies warn.

Banks that use the Windows XP operating system will face a risk to their compliance with payment card data security rules if they continue to operate the software after Microsoft withdraws its extended support services, a US regulatory body has warned.

Windows XP End Of SupporApril 2014.pdf

Cert In Advisory Windows XP End Of Support.pdf

 

 

Reference by http://www.microsoft.com