Monday, 8 June 2020

Work From Home – Handy and Useful Tools


Let the 'Technology' help you!

 

Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the whole working and collaboration culture is now already shifted to a new working style. Work From Home was an optional feasibility with some restrictions across various organizations, but now this has become a preferable option.

 

Here in this article, we will discuss about some cool and reliable handy tools you can use to make your life easier during this tough time, and can help yourself stay safe.

 

What Next?

If your organization is still thinking to make a move to jump into cloud world, this is absolutely the right time.

You may consider to have some email and collaboration platforms like Google’s G Suite or Microsoft’s O365.

 

These two giant technology players have almost everything you need to get your work done.

 

Why Cloud?

There could be situations where you may not be able to serve the hardware failure timely and effectively like you used to do in normal business. Due to many restrictions imposed by Governments and safety concerns of organizations, they may not be able to support the way they are supposed to.

 

To avoid all such hardware related maintenance, failures, and limitations hiccups, cloud based technology solutions are the best place to go. Also, not just the emailing and collaboration platform, these days you can have almost every technological requirement fulfilled on cloud as per your requirement.

 

What you may Need (with brief overview)?


Email: For having email conversation with service partners and colleagues (e.g. Gmail, Outlook, etc…)


Instant Messaging: For instantly catching up with your colleagues and service partners (e.g. Google hangouts, Google Chats etc..)


Collaboration and Utility: Excel, Power Point, Word for working uninterruptedly  (e.g. Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides, MS Word, MS PowerPoint,


Video Meeting: To have real-time face to face meeting experience with your folks (e.g. Microsoft Teams, Google Meet etc…)


Online Storage Space: To Store data and work stuffs that is easily accessible, and manageable, and always available (e.g. Google Drive, OneDrive etc…)


Calendars: To track your meeting, events, reminders and many more to stay updated about ‘what’s going on around’ (e.g. Microsoft Calendar, Google Calendar etc….)


Notes: To keep notes of important stuff you may need to action sooner or later (e.g. OneNote, Google Keep etc….)


Others: Online Whiteboard (e.g. Google Jamboard), Survey and questionnaire tools (e.g. Google Forms), Corporate social media platforms (Yammer, Google Current etc…)


And, Dont forget to have a good stable/working internet connection. :)

 

Cheers! Please write me back if you have any query of feedback. 

 

#StaySafe #StayHome #CollaborateWell #WorkFromHome

Saturday, 6 June 2020

Important News (SiteOpia Customers): SiteOpia decided to sell hosting business to Pickaweb with effect from 29th May 2020

Due to this business transition, Pickaweb is migrating DNS records from SiteOpia to their DNS hosting platform (Pickaweb), and so you may experience the outage while DNS propagation is going on.

There are many SiteOpia customers reported that, their DNS and other services hosted on SiteOpia has been effected due to this.

What should you do?

Interactively work with the Pickaweb Support guys and make sure all the records in your DNS control panel are correctly updated (verify all the records one by one).

So what changes (as per communication from SiteOpia to its customers)? 

There’s a little administration that will change - in particular your billing arrangements with SiteOpia. From the 29th May, you will be billed directly by Pickaweb. They will notify you in advance of any billing & you will be able to login to their billing area to make payment & download your invoices.

Pickaweb will also migrate your hosting and email from our servers to theirs. They will notify you in advance & make all of the necessary changes to your domain's Nameservers to minimize any interruption to your service.


Good Luck Friends! Hope to get back to the normal business soon.

Thursday, 4 June 2020

G Suite New Tenant Setup Steps and Prerequisites (High Level Brief For Administrators)

To setup new tenant in G Suite, you need to be ready with the following prerequisites:

Prerequisites:

·         Domain Name Registered with any public domain hosting providers (e.g. sampledomiain.com)

·         Admin access to your registered DNS control panel

·         List of MX Records

·         An email address Corporate or Personal

For Video tutorial on G Suite Setup Steps, please refer this one of the cool tutorial (by MiLA Educations):


Steps (New Tenant Setup at G Suite):

  •         Signup for G Suite at G Suite Signup Page
  •         Use your primary domain name or create one instantly
  •         Verify your Domain for G Suite authorization
  •         Setup Required DNS records (MX Records)
  •         Finish the setup process by login in to G Suite Admin Console you just activated
  •         Setup your billing, company and other information


List of MX records (for G Suite Tenant Setup):

Values for G Suite MX records

Name/Host/Alias Time to Live (TTL*) Record Type Priority Value/Answer/Destination
@ or leave blank 3600 MX 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM
@ or leave blank 3600 MX 5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM
@ or leave blank 3600 MX 5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM
@ or leave blank 3600 MX 10 ALT3.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM
@ or leave blank3600MX10ALT4.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM


You are done now with setting up New G Suite Tenant.