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Cloud cuckoo land: Microsoft 365 backup myth three
Cloud cuckoo land: Microsoft 365 backup myth three

Like the familiar Recycle Bin on Windows, Office 365 maintains a Recycle Bin in the cloud as well. However, Microsoft imposes rules on Recycle Bin – which is why you shouldn’t rely on it as a backup tool!

Partly cloudy: Microsoft 365 backup myth two
Partly cloudy: Microsoft 365 backup myth two

Microsoft does back up everything, for their own purposes. And you shouldn't rely on that fact: it's your data, your responsibility!

Clouding over: Microsoft 365 backup myth one
Clouding over: Microsoft 365 backup myth one

Data synchronised from your computer to the cloud synchronises not just your good data, but also your errors and accidental deletions. So are you protecting your cloud data from... yourself?

Head in the clouds: Microsoft 365 backup myths
Head in the clouds: Microsoft 365 backup myths

While most people and companies would never take risks with data stored on premises, there appears t

Alternative to WiFi for Home Networking
Alternative to WiFi for Home Networking

During the COVID-19 lockdown the number of people working from home and using the UK’s broadba

Creating Configurable and Portable SSIS Packages Part 3
Creating Configurable and Portable SSIS Packages Part 3

In this article I’ll conclude my set of articles into SSIS configuration. This article will be

Creating Configurable and Portable SSIS Packages Part 2
Creating Configurable and Portable SSIS Packages Part 2

In Part 1 I showed how a simple SSIS package could be created using variables and expressions as a b