Bastion Briefings.

Over a year, staff at 17 businesses asked us to release 88 emails our filter had held. The biggest group by far was invoices, statements, payments and orders. Here's why that happens and a weekly check for whoever pays the bills.

Pop-ups, crashes, a browser that opens somewhere you didn't choose. Which of these actually point to malware, and what to do about it before you touch anything else.

Microsoft will rent you a whole Windows desktop in the cloud. Here is what a Cloud PC actually is, what the Australian plans cost, and where we see hosted desktops fall over.

Microsoft's consumer Windows 10 updates now run to 12 October 2027, and staff have seen the headline. Here's why managed business PCs are excluded, written so you can forward it.

Restricting Microsoft Office macros is one of the eight controls, and it is one of the few you can finish in an afternoon. Here are the settings, the policy paths, and the licensing catch that stops most small businesses cold.

The last of four habits for October. If an email says a supplier's bank details have changed, ring them on a number you already have before you pay.

Premium usually gets sold, or knocked back, on price alone. What it actually adds over Standard, and three questions that should decide it for your office.

Microsoft's paid updates for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 finish at the end of October, and there won't be another extension. Here's how to tell whether your email is on your own server or in Microsoft 365.

You are a domain admin, you can see the folder, and Windows still says access denied. Here is why folder redirection does that, and the safe way to get back in.