Simply put, what better way to phish a user than make it look like it’s not phishing? If you can convince a user that the email is legit, they’ll be more likely to click. Better yet—make it look like it’s coming from someone they know and trust. Of course they’ll click! Enter Email Spoofing. With email being at the heart of everything we do online, the easier you can make…
MPmail Update (July 2020)
Manage Protect started in 2008 with one service: MPmail. Providing perimeter-based security, designed and built for MSPs, to manage and protect Australian businesses from email spam, virus and content threats. We selected a cloud based, multi-tenant solution that was designed for MSPs and we introduced this technology under our brand of MPmail! Since 2008, we have worked closely with MSPs to find the best cloud technology solutions to meet their…
The Torpy’s “Highway to/from Hell”
A collection of photos from Nick & Karen Torpy’s tumultuous start to the year. Evacuated 8 times within the first two weeks of 2020. Thankfully their home remained just clear of the fires. Unfortunately many of their neighbours were not as lucky.
Backup365: Open Authentication
Towards the end of August, Backup365 introduced some changes to the way we authorise our service to your Office 365 tenant. To date we have used a global impersonation account to access and backup mailboxes. As of last month, we have upgraded all new services to using OAuth or Modern authentication to provide token based app authentication for access to mailboxes with the purpose of backup. We have made this…
Workplace 2019.4 Service Update
Release Notes We’re pleased to announce the release of Workplace Server 8.1.0.56, Workplace Desktop for Windows 8.1.0.56, and Workplace Desktop for Mac 8.1.0.103, which include the following changes and issue resolutions: Changes Full Disk Access for MacOS Mojave A new security feature called Full Disk Access was introduced with MacOS Mojave. In order for Workplace Desktop for Mac backups to work properly in MacOS Mojave or later, you must enable Full Disk Access. To learn how,…
MPmail HTML Control Panel
A highly requested update, the MPmail Control Panel is beginning its transition to HTML from its current flash portal. In preparation for this change, Manage Protect would like to offer our partners early access to this new portal. While currently in beta, the new Control Panel is available for you to take a look at https://mpmail.com.au For a user to be able to login to the HTML Control Panel, the user…
The Future of Workplace
After more than a decade as a leading cloud solution, the Soonr Pro and Soonr Enterprise cloud file sharing services are turning end of life, completing the transition from Soonr to now Datto Workplace that began in 2016. As you may have already heard from your Partner Manager, on the 1st of December, all legacy Soonr users will be converted to the new Workplace plans. As shown below, the “metered”…
Backup365 Update: August 2019
The Backup365 development team have been hard at work creating the next wave of UI improvements. Earlier this week we rolled out an update to converge, our single-pane-of-glass provisioning and management portal to allow our partners to self-provision Backup365 for SharePoint and OneDrive. Here is how it currently looks in converge.mp: Onboarding and reporting configuration can be found within the ‘Services’ tab as shown above. Select the service you would…
Backup365 at RMIT!
The Backup365 recently enlisted a group of Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Computer Science and IT students to assist with building the Backup365 Outlook Add-in, and the collaboration was an absolute success. It was a great opportunity for the Backup365 team to meet and mentor the next generation of software developers, as well as for the RMIT students to work building cloud-based modern Office365 tools within a professional development…
Workplace 2019.3 Service Update
Release Notes We’re pleased to announce the 2019.3 Workplace Update, which contains the following features, changes, and issue resolutions: Features Datto Rebranding Autotask Workplace is now Datto Workplace! The changes to all components of Workplace are purely cosmetic ones, as Workplace becomes incorporated into the Datto product range. You may not see many differences if you’ve applied custom branding, but you may note new URLs and other similar underlying name changes. Your…