How to Sync and Dial International Phone Numbers from the GAL
When setting up your company to sync the GAL to Outlook Contacts and smartphones, it’s easy. Insert a USA 10 digit phone number in a phone field in the GAL and it syncs exactly as needed on both iPhone and Android. BUT, if you have employees overseas, they will be...
Mail app on iOS 14.2 now Reverses Display Name
Unexpected Change to Mail App in iOS 14.2 Apple pushed out an iOS Update to millions of phones starting in November that is likely to generate some calls to the help desk. It’s ideal if your team knows about the change before anyone calls. Let me explain a bit. Let’s...
CiraSync from Cira Apps Limited Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to CiraSync to take advantage of the scalability, reliability, and agility of Azure to drive application development and shape business strategies. SAN JOSE, California—July 28, 2020—Cira Apps Limited today...
Work from Home with itrezzo and CiraSync Infographic
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Suddenly, You Have 1000+ Remote Workers. Anyone Got Their Phone Numbers?
Large organizations are scrambling to get their people working from home. They’re jumping on Zoom, Microsoft Office 365, Google Drive, etc. to cope. But these provide only partial solutions to the communication problems they face. If your company phone contacts and...
Government Case Studies eBook
CiraSync Proves to be a Vital Office 365 IT Solution for State and Local Governments Government affects all aspects of public and private life. As such, updated shared contacts and calendars on employee smartphones are invaluable to government employees. Being able...
CiraSync in the Construction Industry
Construction employees need automatically synced shared contacts to connect with their colleagues, customers, and sub-contractors. They also need their smartphone to provide them with up-to-date information on mission critical meetings and project deadlines. Check out...
CiraSync in the HVAC Industry
HVAC employees need to be connected to their colleagues, clients, and contractors in the office and on the go. They also need their calendars immediately accessible on their smartphones to be aware of project deadlines and mission critical meetings. Check out this...
CiraSync Partners eBook
Partners Use CiraSync as Immediate Win for Microsoft Tenants Automated shared contact and calendar sync saves all enterprise organizations valuable time and money by eliminating the busy work of manually maintaining contacts and calendars. This greatly increases...
As The Walking Dead Returns, Don’t Let an Emergency Eat Your Company Alive
Up-and-running smartphone communications can mean the difference between life and death (or undeath). How do you make sure it all works? Whether you’re bolstering communications for real-life wildfires or a possible zombie apocalypse (as depicted in TV’s...
Does CiraSync Support Multi-Factor Authentication?
Yes, CiraSync supports multi-factor authentication. It can be set for the admin and dedicated service account associated with your tenant in the Office 365 Admin Portal.
Removing CiraSync Personal Edition User Consent from Microsoft 365
When you signed up for CiraSync, you granted CiraSync permission to access your Microsoft 365 account. CiraSync uses the Microsoft 365 API to access user mailboxes so that it can create and update the Microsoft 365 Global Address List, contacts, and calendar...
What are the requirements for the CiraSync Service Account?
During the CiraSync setup, the service account requires the following: Global Admin Permissions The Application Impersonation role If syncing Public Folders, the service account also requires a mailbox license, which, at the minimum, is an Office 365/Online Exchange...
How to Create and Share Public Folder Notes with Outlook
Public Folders are great collaboration tools because they act as data repositories to archive useful data. Furthermore, Public Folders can categorize data by object type and organize this data into hierarchies allowing for easy navigation, especially when using the...
How to Create and Share Public Folders with Microsoft 365
Public Folders are great collaborative tools because they act as a repositories to archive useful data that can be shared with people in your group or organization. Furthermore, Public Folders can categorize data by object type and organize this data into hierarchies...
How to Share Outlook Calendars in Outlook on the Web
When collaborating with peers, you may want to share your calendar in order to sync schedules. This guide shows how to share Outlook Calendars in Outlook on the web. Instructions Launch Outlook on the web. Click the calendar icon Click the calendar icon in the...
How Product-Led Growth Can Propel Your SaaS Company to Success—No Sales Team Needed
If you’re selling Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), you could do worse than follow the example of tech giants like Slack, Dropbox, Survey Monkey, Altassian, etc. These super-successful companies have experienced rapid growth and notoriety with a “product-led growth”...
How to Create and Share Public Folder Calendars with Outlook
Public Folders are great collaboration tools to use as an information repository for contacts and calendar data. Watch this 2-minute video to learn how easy it is to create and share Public Folder Calendars with Outlook!
How to Scale Up an App Company—With Zero Sales Team
Cira Apps Founder and CTO Vern Weitzman starts 2020 with a bang by being welcomed to the Forbes Technology Council (FTC). As an FTC member, he has been sharing his expertise as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur specializing in building enterprise software solutions with...
Consolidating CiraSync License Packs
This guide shows how to consolidate CiraSync license packs with the same expiration dates. If you have license packs with different expiration dates, please submit a support ticket to get in touch with the Cira Apps Ltd. Customer Success Team. Instructions Click...
How to Create and Share Public Folder Contacts with Outlook
Public Folders are great collaboration tools to use as an information repository for contacts and calendar data. Watch this 2-minute video to learn how easy it is to create and share Public Folder Contacts with Outlook!
Marketing Strategies to Help You Sell SaaS in 2020
Today, we don’t need to use papyrus or clay tablets to advertise goods for sale (or record customer service complaints), but the fundamentals of marketing and selling are still the same. You need a product that people want or need, the price point is what customers...
Evaluating Your Company’s Cybersecurity Strength: 12 Key Indicators
Cybersecurity has become one of the major concerns for businesses today. According to a study conducted by the University of Maryland, hackers attack every 39 seconds, on average 2,244 times a day. Because of the high risk, companies need to be proactive and create...
Google Assistant Privacy Changes and What It Could Mean for Alexa
If you haven’t heard, your phone is listening to you. Both Google and Apple were using data collection and recording well before the average user was aware. This was particularly evident for Apple who hired contract workers to listen in and record user conversations...
Joining the CiraSync Customer Advocacy Program Slack Channel
Cira Apps has just launched a Customer Advocacy Program, as part of the Customer Advocacy Program, members will also be given access to a private Slack channel within the CiraSync workspace. This guide shows how to join the private Customer Advocacy Program Slack...
How to Create an Outlook Calendar Group
How to Create a Calendar Group in Outlook In today’s fast-paced work environment, staying organized and managing time effectively is more important than ever. Microsoft Outlook, a mainstay in the world of email and calendar management, offers features designed...
How to Create a Shared Mailbox in Office 365
A shared mailbox is a mailbox that a group of people can use to view and send emails under a singular alias. Office 365 users can create a shared mailbox in the Office 365 Admin Center. This guide shows how to create and add members to a shared mailbox. Instructions...
HVAC Case Studies eBook
HVAC Employees Increase Productivity and Profitability with Automatically Synced Contacts and Calendars to Smartphones HVAC company employees need access to accurate contacts and calendars on their smartphones to deliver high-quality projects on time. As employees who...
How Automatically Synced Contacts and Calendars Save Companies Big Money
Big companies with very smart executive teams are doing something strange: often leaving piles of money on the table, because they’re not automatically syncing their contacts lists and calendars to smartphones. That’s the take from Cira Apps Ltd. Founder and CTO Vern...
2020 Tech Advice from Silicon Valley—The People in Charge of IT Need to Lead
The view from Silicon Valley? Being really good at building and maintaining technology is just not good enough for the tech leaders of 2020 and beyond. If they want to keep their jobs longer-term, they already need to bring higher value for their companies, says Cira...
Can Tech Offer a 4-Day Work Week?
In October 2019, Microsoft Japan announced that their experiment in a 4-day work week led to a 40% increase in employee productivity, and saved 23% in utility costs. This experiment sparked much discussion in the possibility of adopting a 32-hour week, which in turn,...
13 Smart Strategies for Keeping Remote Tech Workers Informed
Remote working is the new norm for a number of reasons: it is hard to find great talent where your company is located, employees want to work remotely, and companies see “an astounding increase in productivity boost among telecommuters.” All of this is great news for...
Resolving Linked, Merged, and Corrupted iOS Contacts
With the recent updates to iOS, contact merging issues can occur on iPhones. These issues can lead to merged, linked, or corrupted contacts. This guide shows how to resolve these compatibility issues. These issues can be present with other Microsoft applications that...
Construction Company Case Studies eBook
IT at Construction Companies Save 1,000s in Valuable Time Construction company employees need to connect with the right co-workers, subcontractors, or customers via smartphones at any time. Delivering high-quality projects on time means accessing accurate schedules,...
Testimonial—Tomas, Systems Support Analyst
In this video: Tualatin Valley Water District field technicians are required to respond to emergencies at all hours of the day. However, inaccurate caller IDs and contact information caused an unhappy workforce who were unable to effectively handle and respond to...
Testimonial—Clint, Senior Network Administrator
In this video: We sit down with Clint Siebert, Senior Network Administrator of Skender, as he shares his experience with CiraSync. Before CiraSync, Skender employees were tasked with manually updating their contacts whenever a change needed to be made. CiraSync has...
Testimonial—Ed, Senior Network Administrator
In this video: IT at The Morse Group spent more than 10 valuable hours per week manually updating the company Global Address List for for their remote worker force. Senior Network Administrator Ed Handschuh tried everything to solve their contact syncing issue...
Can I export my contact lists from the CiraSync dashboard?
Yes, you can export your contact lists from the CiraSync dashboard. Please do the following: Click VIEW in the Contact Lists pane. Click the SOURCE button under the desired contact list. Click Export to Excel.
