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Scam Awareness Week
Scams Awareness Week 2021 takes place 8-12 November. The campaign seeks to encourage everyone to start a conversation about scams to reduce stigma and help people recognise a scam sooner, or prevent scams from happening in the first place.
Scams cost Australian consumers, businesses, and the economy hundreds of millions of dollars each year and cause serious emotional harm to victims and their families. In 2020 Australians made more than 216,000 reports to Scamwatch and reported losses of around $178 million. By the end of September this year, Australians had lost even more: Scamwatch received more than 226,000 reports with reported losses of over $222 million.
As alarming as these numbers are, it’s estimated that around one third of people who are scammed never tell anyone, so the true numbers are probably much higher. One of the reasons someone who’s been scammed might not report it is that people can feel shame or embarrassment about what has happened to them. However, by talking about scams we can reduce the stigma and work together to stop them.
Visit the Scam Watch website to find out how best to start a conversation about scams and view a range of tools and resources available. While we utilise the latest IT security features to keep our clients safe, it always pays to be vigilant.
Microsoft Windows 11
Windows 11 has now been available for a month; have you upgraded yet? One of our clients, Mars Recruitment, have had their Australia-wide fleet of 64 devices migrated to Windows 11.
If you’d like to get onboard with Windows 11, please email servicedesk@techtree.com.au
To discover what’s new with Windows 11, click here.
Microsoft Ignite
Microsoft Ignite, the annual conference for developers and IT professionals, was held as a digital event this year from 2nd - 4th November. The event focused primarily on the benefits & flexibility of working remotely, new business & collaborative applications, and security, data & AI.
There was some exciting and innovative content covered over the 3 day event which we are looking forward to implementing.
Latest macOS - macOS Monterey
Apple has released the latest macOS - macOS Monterey. The new Operating System is packed with new features, allowing you to connect and share experiences with family and friends in a whole new way - no matter the distance. Monterey let’s you watch TV shows and movies together, listen to music together and share your screen with SharePlay.
Safari is now more immersive and more customisable than ever. New tools, like Quick Notes and Focus, will help you keep track of what’s important, organise your workspace and allow you to focus on the task at hand.
Find out more about the new macOS Monterey features here.
Turn your Teams conversation into a meeting - Add audio, video & share your screen
Start an instant meeting in Microsoft Teams - there are two options:
Select Meet in a channel, or
To keep the context of a conversation, select Reply in a conversation thread in a channel’s Post tab, and then select Meet under where you’d type your reply.
In the pre-meeting video preview:
Toggle on your camera and microphone, or setup your microphone and speaker.
If you like, you can give the meeting a name and select Join Now
Want someone to join your ad-hoc meeting?
Select Show participants to invite people at any time.
Type a name or phone number into the box.
Select Request to join on who you want to invite.
Record your meeting, share content to participants and share the recorded meeting when you’re done.
To record a meeting, select More actions > Start recording.
To share content, select the Share content tray, and choose what to show such as your screen, an open window, or a PowerPoint file.
Find your recorded meeting where you first started your meeting in Teams. You can view, edit, and share this recording with others.
REMINDER!
Windows Users
It is very important to ensure your devices are being updated which should be happening automatically even whilst working from home, depending on your home internet. The latest version is Windows 10 version 21H1. If you want to know more about what is new in this version click here.
Patch Tuesday: Microsoft regularly releases software patches usually every second Tuesday of every month for its software products. Please make sure you apply and restart you computer this week to have these updates applied to your device. For those of you who we managed under a service agreement we will be monitoring and will be in touch if they’re not being applied.
How to update: Allow yourself at least 10 – 15 minutes to fully shutdown and restart your system. This ensures patches are applied, this can also address (and solve) some problems you may be having with your system. You can also manually check by following steps that can be found here.
Apple Users
Mac users: the latest version of macOS Monterey is 12.0.1.
iPhone users: the latest version of iOS is 15.1.
iPad users: the latest version of iPadOS is 15.1.
Apple TV users: The latest version of tvOS is 15.1.1.
Apple Watch users: The latest version of watchOS is 8.1.
As always, feel free to contact us at the office on 08 6161 7113 or email the team at servicedesk@techtree.com.au for any assistance with your queries.
For any after hours support (charges may apply), please contact Derek Stewart directly on 0412 000 063.