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Free (Boilerplate) IT Policy templates for your IT Enviroment

If you are in charge of IT for a company, it is a good idea as part of the onboarding process a User signs a user acceptance policy like they sign their work contact. This document will cover 

  • Acceptable use of the company network, files and equipments
  • Security measures a user is expected to abide to
  • Protection of company data

It makes clear from the start of what is expected of them as a user of the system.

Sans.org has put together some standard documentation you can use for your environment for free

Acceptable User Access Policy

Email Policy

Remote Access Policy

You can get the user to use this free tool to electronically sign the document then email it back to you

https://smallpdf.com/sign-pdf

Free PDF Tools for your Small Business

Reading PDF's can be done in most browsers for free. However, editing them can require expensive software such as Adobe Acrobat

Here are some free alternatives for you to use : 

OCRing

How to get a text from photos or flat PDF's. Easily convert a PDF to Doc File

https://www.onlineocr.net/

Use Optical Character Recognition software online. Service supports 46 languages including Chinese, Japanese and Korean . OnlineOCR.net is a free OCR service in a "Guest mode" (without registration) that allows you to convert 15 files per hour (and 15 pages into multipage files). Registration will give you ability to convert multipage PDF documents and other features.

Edit PDF's in Browser or Program

PDF Escape allows you to edit PDF's in browser or you can download their program

https://www.pdfescape.com/windows/

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The Start menu is back - We've missed you , and so have our customers. Classic Start is a default install for customers with 8.1 installed, however Microsoft have listened to the users and brought this back! 

Inbuilt upgrader from Windows 7 just works - Not much explaining here , Microsoft has come along way since the Vista days of the updater breaking a load of Apps and Drivers. You are warned before of programs that might have issues and are made to uninstall these before update.

Stable - We've skipped a release (8.1) , Check below, Microsoft usually skips a good OS per release

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Built for touch - Like 8.1 Microsoft are making the User interface easy so this can be used on your Surface Tablet, Phone and Laptop with Touch Screen easily. Also Microsoft Office finally works with touch! 

Buil in Apps and App Store - Adobe Reader Client, Maps , Media player , Mail and Photo Viewer all included in the operating system and there's a store to find new applications without the risk of running into Virus on internet fake stores!

Built for Cloud - Small business now can use an Active Directory account linked to their Email Address for management without needing an on-premise server

Updates Slipstreamed - Microsoft is continuing to release new updates on a daily basis. That means instead of waiting to release new features through a service pack or major release, 

 

Free - It's was a Free Update util 2016 July for a whole year as long as your current license of windows is Valid. This link still might help you https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows10upgrade