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How To Mark Outlook Email As Not Junk

Stop good emails from going to Junk in Outlook

OPTION I

Mark Email as Not Junk in Outlook


To ensure they are put in your Inbox:

STEP 1

  • Click on your Junk Email folder.

  • Then right-click the message labeled as Junk

  • Select Junk >> Not Junk from the context menu.


STEP 2

  • The Mark as Not Junk box comes up.

  • Check Always Trust email From user@email.com.

  • Click OK

  • The message will be moved to your Inbox and won’t be blocked as Junk again.


 

OPTION II

Add Contacts in Outlook to Safe Senders List


STEP 1

  • Open Outlook and click the Home tab. Then click the Junk button and select Junk E-mail Options.

 

STEP 2

Junk E-mail Options comes up.

  • Click the Safe Senders tab

  • The Add button

  • Type in the trusted domain or email address

  • and click OK.

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The BYOD Workplace

BYOD Workplace

In today’s always-connected world, the time-honored separation of work and personal time is quickly disappearing. Mobile devices such as laptops, netbooks, tablets, and smartphones have fundamentally changed how all of us live and work. With work no longer confined to a physical office space, or limited to traditional business hours, we’ve created an increasingly mobile and dispersed workforce capable of working anywhere at anytime. 3 out of 5 workers today no longer believe an office presence is necessary for a productive day’s work.

Transferring IT hardware and equipment expenses to employees can save SMBs significant money. A study conducted by Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions projected that U.S. companies utilizing BYOD can save up to $3,150 per employee each year.

With some SMBs it’s no longer a question of what devices employees use and when they use them. Rather, businesses are looking at how to leverage the latest technologies so that employees can be more productive and efficient, even when they aren’t in the office. With this change in attitude comes new challenges: Both business and IT leaders will face new questions about security, productivity, infrastructure, and staff training.

According to Gartner analysts, more than half of organizations today already allow their employees to use third-party devices for work. While 80% of companies surveyed by Dell trust their employees in terms of device security, just 2% trust them completely.

A Managed IT Service Provider can provide a Mobile Device Management (MDM) Solution. The MDM solutions are a cost-effective means to ensure that any mobile device accessing their network is identified, controlled, and monitored.

This method of centralized management makes it easy to configure devices for enterprise access, stipulates password policy and encryption settings, locates and remotely clears and locks any lost or stolen device, automates security updates, and proactively identifies and resolves device or app issues.

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U.S. Small Business Administration recommends the following best practices, For education and cyber-prevention

  • Establish security practices and policies to protect sensitive information

  • Educate employees about cyberthreats and hold them accountable

  • Require employees to use strong passwords and to change them often

  • Employ best practices on payment cards

  • Make backup copies of important business data and information

  • Create a mobile device action plan

  • Protect all pages on your public-facing websites, not just the checkout and sign-up pages

    The survey also found:

    • 65 percent of business owners admit they have been victim of a cyberattack; computer virus attacks are the top type of attack reported at 33 percent, phishing is number two at 29 percent.

    • 86 percent of business owners believe that digital risk will continue to grow.

    • 30 percent of companies with 11-50 employees do not provide any type of formal training on cybersecurity.

    • Despite the simplicity of regularly updating software, seven percent of companies still fail to take that step.

    • Reputational risk is among the top reasons (45 percent) why business owners would consider investing in or purchasing a cybersecurity policy.

    • 35 percent of business owners who have never experienced a cyberattack are unaware of the financial cost to recover, highlighting a dangerous gap in knowledge from the implications.

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Net DirXions Mobile Device Management (MDM)

Keep Your Employees Happy (And Your Data Secure)

Smartphones and tablets continue to flood the workplace, and businesses everywhere are racing to appropriately regulate and manage these mobile devices. To support today’s bring-your-own-device (BYOD) movement, you’ll need a mobile device management (MDM) solution that keeps your employees happy – and keeps you in control.

Net DirXions Mobile Device Management is an affordable, easy-to-use cloud platform containing all of the essential functionality for end-to-end management of today’s mobile devices, including iPhones, iPads, Androids, Kindle Fire devices, Windows Phones and BlackBerry smartphones.

With MDM, you can provide users with fast and secure access to corporate data from their personal devices. And with the industry’s broadest device support, intuitive workflows, simplified deployment options, and advanced management and security features, we make BYOD simple.

 

• Powerful, secure monitoring & management of mobile devices

• Fast and easy deployment – enrollment takes just a few clicks

• Multi-device and OS support (iOS, Android, BlackBerry, etc.)

• Secure containers successfully separate work from play

• Selective & remote wiping of corporate data

• Jailbreaking and device rooting alerts

• Direct technical support – we’ll manage as much the MDM process as needed

 

Unparalleled Peace of Mind

Net DirXions answers the MDM challenge, with an easy-to-use platform that simplifies the management of personal devices – without compromising the user experience, security or privacy. Our solution provides flexible approaches for enrollment, asset management, policy enforcement and the distribution of profiles, apps and docs, all based on device ownership (whether corporate- or employee-owned). We’ll even handle day-to-day MDM monitoring and management, and only escalate back to you the alerts that you want. It’s truly a set-and-forget solution. 

Getting started couldn’t be easier. In just a few quick clicks, you can start enrolling devices and immediately manage the entire mobile device lifecycle — from enrollment to enterprise integration, configuration and management, monitoring and security, support, and analytics and reporting.

Separating Work & Play

Your employees want to maintain one device for both work and play – they want to access corporate email, then check Facebook, jump back to email and review an upcoming presentation over lunch. This need for “dual personas” is exactly what our MDM solution aims to address. So go ahead, let your employees leverage their devices – and rest assured that critical business data and applications will remain safe, secure, and accessible. On your terms!

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Data Protection and Bring Your Own Device to Work

Data Protection and Bring Your Own Device to Work

BYOD refers to a firm’s policy of allowing employees to use their own personal phones, tablets and laptops for all their work applications.This is a pretty common policy, and it has many benefits, but it brings along risks. How are you addressing these risks?

Here are some of the issues raised by BYOD

  1. A lost device – If you issue company phones, you have the ability to remotely wipe the unit clean if it is lost or stolen. With employee’s personal devices, do you still have that ability. If not, your data is at risk.
  2. Software updates – Is the employee responsible for updating all the software and virus protection programs on their own devices? If that responsibility transfers to them, you are at the mercy of their willingness to keep track of such tedious tasks. If you accept responsibility for it, do you have the in-house staff to handle all the extra work?
  3. Back ups – with data being entered on many different devices, something must be done to ensure back up procedures are routinely followed.

In short, BYOD is probably an unavoidable approach to device management. It is unrealistic to expect people to carry around 2 different phones or tablets 24/7. But BYOD means extra work for the in-house staff of a small business. To learn more about these risks and a more affordable, comprehensive approach to BYOD Management, see our e-guide “Now you see it, There IT…Stays

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Net DirXions Mobile Device Management (MDM)

Uncertainty is a business killer. To be successful, companies must plan expenses and know that vital business systems will work as needed. Taking a reactive approach to maintaining your IT networks is simply too costly in too many ways: lost productivity, dissatisfied customers and enormous repair costs. Our managed IT services are the smart, cost-effective alternative.

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