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by Joe Chow

zoom
Many departments organize public meetings and webinars (online seminar) using Zoom but they are not aware of any security measures for preventing intruders from disturbing their events. Like face-to-face seminars, it is possible to have guests (mostly uninvited guests) who may interrupt the meetings ...

by Eric Shai

The CityUWiki, a collaborative platform based on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 has been launched for almost 10 years. Today, there are over 100 sites hosting on this platform. Users have enjoyed the advantage of using it for document management, shared calendar of resource bookings, etc. In order to ...

by Wilson Wong

Security and user-friendliness tend to be in conflict with each other. From the security point of view, proper protection of sensitive information is critical. Sensitive data leakage not only damage the reputation of the University, it may also be harmful to the data custodians and related ...

by by Henry Wong

O365 Exchange Online Protection
With all staff mailboxes migrated to Office 365 (O365), the migration of on-premises email supporting tools is underway. One significant upgrade is the migration of on-premises email anti-spam tool to the O365 Exchange Online Protection (EOP) cloud-hosted email filtering service. The migration has ...

by ML Lee

In today’s office environment, we often share information like reports, presentations and minutes among colleagues. We have been taught how to connect to the departmental share drive through a network drive letter to store and access files in a traditional file folder structure. This works quite ...

by Kevin Chan

Has Facebook, Twitter or Instagram already become an integral part of your life? You may want to share whatever you find interesting with your friends or followers, as frequent as you can. Wouldn’t it be a good idea if you can communicate with your colleagues on business issues the same way? What if ...

by Wilson Wong

What is Information Rights Management? Information Rights Management (IRM) is a technology that protects sensitive information from unauthorized access. It allows information owners/publishers to distribute sensitive information to specific individuals. When an email or a document is protected by ...

by Kevin Chan

What is Lync Online? As the University has adopted Microsoft Office 365 (O365) not long ago, one of its module, Lync Online Service (Lync for short) is also offered in the software suite. Lync is a unified communication cloud service hosted by the Microsoft which supports various interactive ...

by Henry Wong

University Email
With the successful migration of the University email systems for students and alumni from the on-premises systems to Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Online (“O365” is Microsoft’s cloud solution for educational institutions) in 2013, the Information Strategy and Governance Committee (ISGC) of the ...

by Joseph Leung

The new email system for students, supported by the cloud messaging solution, Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Online (hereafter referred to as Office 365 or O365), has been launched since 29 January 2013. When CityU students graduate, they can carry on using the same email addresses and accounts as ...