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Product Tip Tuesday: 5 things you’re not doing with BetterCloud (that you should be)
When BetterCloud first arrived onto the scene in late 2011, we were a free product to help IT admins manage various aspects of their G Suite environment. Fast forward to 2019, and we’ve evolved into a powerhouse platform that can manage and secure any SaaS application. In fact, you might be surprised by our recent functionalities. Here are five things you may not be doing with BetterCloud now (but should be).
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Product Tip Tuesday: Automatically Secure Lost or Stolen Devices
Lost or stolen devices are a headache. But by leveraging BetterCloud’s native connectors and the Platform API, you can automatically secure lost devices and safeguard sensitive data.
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Product Tip Tuesday: Automate Offboarding for Office 365
Recently, we’ve expanded our offboarding capabilities to better serve organizations that use Office 365. For this week’s product tip, we’ll share a common template we’ve seen customers use to automate offboarding in Office 365.
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Product Tip Tuesday: Profile Cleanup
This week’s product tip covers one of our most popular on-demand workflows: profile cleanup. You can finally solve an age-old IT challenge: keeping user profile information consistent across applications.
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Product Tip Tuesday: Beware of Too Many Super Admins
This week’s product tip is one of our favorites—reducing unnecessary super admin privileges. Because super admins can access and manipulate every part of your organization’s SaaS applications, it’s important to keep the number of super admins in your environment to a minimum. BetterCloud gives you the tools to make this possible.
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Product Tip Tuesday: Automatically pause your workflows when you need with wait for duration
This week we’ll show you a simple step you can add to your workflows that makes them more flexible and eliminates the need to remember manual steps later. Wait for Duration allows you to automatically pause a BetterCloud Workflow at specific times, and for a specific duration, before continuing on to subsequent actions. This action gives you the flexibility to build in natural breaks to your automation, whether that’s a few hours, days, weeks, or months.
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Product Tip Tuesday: Why Using the Default Password Settings in BetterCloud Is a Must During Onboarding
BetterCloud’s default password settings provide several advantages for security and incident management. Here’s why you should use them.
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Product Tip Tuesday: Multi-Factor Authentication
It’s Tuesday, so you know what that means—a new product tip! Up this week: multi-factor authentication (MFA), a feature that will help protect sensitive company information and your employees’ personal data.
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Product Tip Tuesday: How to Automatically Detect & Remediate Misconfigured Box Settings
In light of yesterday’s news that dozens of companies inadvertently leaked sensitive data due to misconfigured Box accounts, we have a special Product Tip Tuesday: Box Edition. Many users share Box files and folders publicly without realizing the security implications. Fortunately, BetterCloud has a solution to help manage and secure your Box files and folders at scale.
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Product Tip Tuesday: Secure file sharing in Dropbox
Secure file sharing in Dropbox allows for greater visibility into your data; you can set up alerts so you know exactly when a file is shared publicly, externally, or even internally and take steps to remediate if necessary.
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Product Tip Tuesday: How to make your workflows intelligent with dynamic fields
This week, we take a look at Dynamic Fields, a BetterCloud feature that helps make your automated workflows more personalized and scalable.
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Product Tip Tuesday: How to automatically clean up empty slack channels
Welcome to a new series called Product Tip Tuesday, where we’ll give you a quick use case that you can apply in BetterCloud. We’ll kick things off with a customer favorite: how to automatically clean up empty public Slack channels using BetterCloud.
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