Add my Office 365 email address to Apple Mail (Mac)
Add your Office 365 email to Apple Mail. Then you can send and receive business emails from your Mac
Step 1. Open Apple Mail and select Mail
Step 2. Select Add Account
Step 3. Select Exchange and Continue
Step 4. Enter your Name, Office 365 email address and select Sign In.
Step 5. Select Sign in
Note: If Microsoft can’t find your email, you’ll be asked to enter your details manually:
• Username = your Office 365 email address
• Password = your Office 365 email password
• Internal URL = outlook.office365.com
• External URL = outlook.office365.com
Step 6. You’ll be redirected to the Office 365 login. Enter your Office 365 email password and select Sign In.
Step 7. Accept the terms
Step 8. Select Done
Setup email using the Android mail App
Follow the the instructions for adding your first email account.
To Setup your email on Android phone.
Step 1. Click on the email icon
Step 2. Click the cog
Step 3. Click Add Account
Step 4. Click on Office 365
Step 5 .Put in your username and click next
Step 6. Put in your password and click sign in
Step 7. Click Accept on Terms and conditions
Step 8. Click Apply on Security settings
Step 9. Choose 1 mnth to sync and sync contacts calanders and task then click done
Add an email account to Outlook
Follow the the instructions for adding your first email account.
Go To Start Menu or search bar type Outlook and Open it.
For Outlook for Office 365 and Outlook 2016
Enter your email address and click Connect.
Follow the instruction for additional email accounts to Outlook.
- Select File > Add Account.
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Enter your name, email address, and password, and click Next.
- If prompted, enter your password again, then select OK > Finish to start using your email account in Outlook.
If you need instructions for adding an email account using advanced settings, see Use advanced setup to add a POP or IMAP email account in Outlook for PC.
To update your email settings such as incoming and outgoing server names, see Update your email settings in Outlook for PC.
Set up email using the iOS Mail app
If you’re trying to sign in to Office with your Microsoft account, you may get a message asking you for parental permission or to verify your age.
For more information about why you’re seeing this and how to resolve it, see Parental consent and Microsoft child accounts.
Set up an Office 365, Exchange, or Outlook.com email in the iOS Mail app
Go to your iPhone or iPad’s Settings > scroll down and tap Accounts & Passwords > Add Account.
Note: If you’re on iOS 10, go to Mail > Accounts >Add Account.
Select Exchange.
Enter your Office 365, Exchange, or Outlook.com email address and a description of your account. Tap Next.
Tap Sign In.
Note: Tap Configure manually if you need to enter server settings.
Enter the password associated with your email account. Tap Sign in or Next.
The Mail app may request certain permissions. Tap Accept.
Choose the services you want to sync with your iOS device and tap Save. You’re done!
Sony Backup Tapes – 185GB
Sony was king of the music tapes (backup tapes) in the 80’s.
Just as in the music industry, backup tapes were slowly being faded out for more robust and bigger storage solutions such as hard drives and Digital Discs.
That might all change if Sony’s new backup tapes go into production
Last month at the International Magnetics Conference (Intermag) in Europe, Sony presented a brand new method of storing data on magnetic tape which according to their current limits can be as much as 185TB (TeraBytes!) onto one tape.
Just as interesting is that Tape Storage Council, which monitors tape shipments said that tape shipments had increased by grew 13% in 2012, and were projected to grow to 26% in 2013.
So much for the notion that tape backups were a dying backup medium.
To achieve this amazing storage capacity, Sony has developed and enhanced a technology known as “sputter deposition.” This involves layers of magnetic crystals firing argon ions at a polymer film substrate. For more information on the technology, go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputter_deposition
The big benefits of tape are power usage and price. Even though hard drives and discs are constantly lowering their production price, the truth is, here today that tape is significantly cheaper in mass quantities.
For comparison, to set up an 180TB hard drive array using today’s pricings, you are looking at spending over $10,000 AUD in hard drives alone.
Compared to buying 1 single tape deck, plus the hardware and software to run the system and paying for technicians and you would come up significantly cheaper… by a long margin in fact.
Sony hasn’t released a price on the new tapes, but we can be confident that price per GB will still fall in the same area as current tape decks as the technology is quite similar to what is being used today.
We assume a firmware update would also make many tap backup devices compatible with the new tapes, even if initially not the full use of the 185TB claimed.
With Facebook looking to upgrade to Blu-Ray discs and Google still on tape backups, it will be interesting to see which way the big tech companies go in way of their backup and storage needs.
Plus we at A&STech will keep on top of it all and provide the latest and best solutions to our customers.
Windows XP End of Support
That ever blue sky, those endless green hills, you could almost say it was a holiday.
If it were a holiday, it would be over as Windows XP has reached its End of Support life with Microsoft.
So after 12 years of supporting and updating Windows XP, Microsoft has cut off its life support today the 8th April 2014.
What does this exactly mean?
Well a few things.
Firstly all versions of Windows XP will no longer be available for purchase.
If you are running Windows XP you will no longer receive any more automatic updates.
There will not be any new patches or security updates for all versions of Windows XP.
All official support from Microsoft will cease. This includes the maintenance and creation of knowledgebase articles.
The End of Support for XP will also stop providing Microsoft Security Essentials updates for all XP users. This means if you stick with Windows XP and are running Microsoft’s Security Essentials as your only Anti-Virus software, you remain unprotected to any new viruses.
If you have MSE (Microsoft’s Security Essentials) installed, you may still receive anti-malware updates for a limited time according to Microsoft.
You can still safely use your version of Windows XP after today as it will not stop functioning and Microsoft does not have a switch to turn it off on your PC, however every day that goes by you will be slightly more at risk to the ever increasing viruses that target (and will definitely directed towards) Windows XP.
One other thing I have seen and been informed of is that some users are getting pop ups about this end of support cut-off date.
This can be seen as a small windows or pop up at the bottom right of the users screen.
What we recommend is to not upgrade your Windows XP machine, but move everything to A Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 machine as soon as possible to take advantage of all the great new features and at the same time be well protected.
We at A&STech will still provide troubleshooting and technical support for your Windows XP machine as we are still fond of the OS.
Future Tech : MCX Cables
This week Intel has unveiled a new technology in data transferring called MCX.
MCX (which strangely is not an acronym for anything) has a total transfer rate of 1.6 Tbps!
Developed by Intel and produced in collaboration with US Conec, these data cables are already in the real world evaluation stage as of last week.
Conec expects to start shipping the MCX cables in Q3 of 2014 but not to consumers or general public. These cables are solely developed for supercomputers and high data transfer applications.
Some of the customers include Microsoft and IBM.
Intel has also announced that the technology is available to other cabling manufacturers.
In true Intel speak, the development of these MCX cables comes from a huge breakthrough in Silicon photonics technology.
The combines speed of the fibers peaks at 1.6Tbpis (Terabits per second) of distances of upto 300 meters in length. This is three times longer than currently utilised technologies in datacentres.
The fiber inside the cables transmits at 1310 nm wavelength (the wavelength used by Intel Silicon Photonics Modules) with low optical loss.
The MXC connector uses a lensed ferrule to carry light from one connector to the other, rather than physical fiber contact of the end faces as with traditional connector technology.
The development of the MCX cables was done in hope of replacing the traditional copper based cabling found in datacentres
The MCX connector supports upto 64 fibers per cable, with each fiber operating at 25Gbps which gives the total of 1.6Tbps.
Now this of course displays the full throughput of a cable if it was transmitting traffic in one direction (upload or download)
But in the real world, 32 fibers will be used for upload and 32 for download giving the cable a maximum of 800Gbps (Gigabits per second) bandwidth.
So with all advancements in technology, the question we ask ourselves is; so what does this mean to me? Well it could mean a DVD movie of around 4GB downloaded and on your hard drive in less than 1 second. – Not bad.
But until we can download full DVD’s with the speed of opening up Google in a web browser, we just have to wait and see how quicjly this technology gets adopted and utilised by the mainstream and hopefully we get our hands on some for testing.
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