As IT budgets for 2021 are reviewed and adjusted, many organizations are seeing the impact of COVID-19 on their priorities and tech spends. For many organisations, the cost of simply doing business is on the rise. IT Spending Review For many organisations around the world COVID-19 forced an immediate shutdown, those lucky enough switched to […]
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As images of Margaret Keenan, the first person in the world to be given the Pfizer COVID-19 jab, are beamed to every TV on the planet, people and businesses start to plan for a return to some form of normality. Many organisations and businesses, slowly coming out of their remote working hibernation, are talking about a […]
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Within Patronum email signature management, you can embed UTM codes that can be used to help track the success of banner campaigns embedded within your user’s email signatures. What is a UTM code? OK, so maybe you didn’t know, but UTM codes, also called UTM parameters, allow you to see where traffic to your website […]
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We’ve always been an advocate of the Directory within an IT system. Our lineage goes back decades to the days of X.500, LDAP, and Novell eDirectory. As cloud adoption continues to rise, we are seeing more and more vendors, including Google, introducing their own directory service, based within “The Cloud”. Many organisations don’t realise the power of the […]
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Every Google Workspace (G Suite) environment uses the Google Directory to store information about users, groups and external contacts. Regardless of whether this data has an authoritative source such as an HR system or is simply manually added, the employees within your business rely on this directory information to find other users or even to […]
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Recently we’ve been helping a large Google Workspace client through some rebranding which required them to change their email signatures across multiple locations and departments. For many within the organisation, it was something they hadn’t done or even thought about for a long time. As we worked through the changes with the customer we highlighted […]
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Last month we talked about the exciting update to Google G Suite and the introduction of Google Workspace along with it’s new single, unified user experience. Unfortunately, many customers are still waiting for this feature to be rolled out within their domain, unaware that the lack of the interface change is due to a setting within the Google […]
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We often get asked why should we use Patronum to manage Google Workspace users email signatures. After all, users can be asked to update the email signature themselves, but do they? An email signature is more than just a bit of text at the end of your email, it conveys your company brand, your professionalism […]
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It’s not clear when the current COVID-19 crisis will be over. After almost a year of national lockdowns and local restrictions, working with your colleagues in the same office will probably feel like a distant memory. Unfortunately, the near-term doesn’t look any better with US government top infectious diseases expert, Anthony Fauci, warning that it […]
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It’s been over four years since Google renamed its collaboration suite from Google Apps for Work to Google G Suite. Today, Google has announced that it will once again be rebranding and renaming Google G Suite to Google Workspace. Back in July Google announced a better way to work, one more in tune with what was happening around the […]
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