Sage 100:  Important Security Update

2 Changes to Sage 100 that May Impact Your Ability to Operate

1.  Emailing from Sage will still work in the interim, Microsoft clarified their plans to retire support (join us to learn how to avoid if/when Microsoft retires support)

2.  Sage 100 will only go into “read-only” mode if a customer has not updated their software to a version supporting TLS 1.2. (join us to learn how to avoid)

Complimentary Webinar

Date:  Thursday, September 29, 2022

Time:  11 AM PT / 2 PM ET

You received the email from Sage the last week of July or the first week of August. In this email, Sage announced again two (2) items that may directly impact your company’s ability to work within the Sage 100 product.

Emailing from Sage 100 

Sage 100 email services will not stop working on 10/1 as indicated earlier. Sage has received clarification from Microsoft on their plans to retire support of basic authentication and confirmed that the SMTP authentication used by Sage 100 will not be impacted starting 10/1 as earlier indicated. Sage provided this updated information to partners and customers earlier this month. So while it is still important for customers to move away from basic authentication for security purposes, Sage products will not be impacted in the short term.  Google shut this off in June of 2022. OAuth or basic email authentication is currently used in many versions of Sage 100 and allows your company to be able to do the following:

1. Email Invoices to Customers – this also applies to quotes and orders
2. Email Statements to Customers
3. Email Purchase Orders to Vendors
4. Email remittance advices to Vendors and Customers
5. Email reports to your team

Please join us in this webinar to review the options your company has so that your staff can continue to efficiently work if and when Microsoft finally retires support of basic authentication.

Sage 100 "READ ONLY” mode summer of 2023

Sage 100 will only go into “read-only” mode if a customer has not updated their software to a version supporting TLS 1.2. Sage is working with partners to help upgrade their customers and are still investigating alternatives to ensure customers are not shut down when Sage makes this switch.

Please join us in this webinar to learn about important Sage 100 security update changes that will take effect and how to make a smooth transition for your company.

Avalara / Sage 100 users - Avalara will stop working February 2022

Avalara has been publishing that they will turn off TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on 12/31/2022 since January of 2022.  Avalara has since announced an extension of their TLS date to February.  Some versions of Sage 100 use TLS 1.0 and 1.1 to communicate to Avalara today to get the right rates on quotes, orders and invoices as well as commit those invoices in the Avalara portal.

If you use Avalara, please join us in this webinar to review the options your company has so that your staff can continue to efficiently utilize Sage 100 and Avalara.

Agenda:

1. What is OAuth and how does it impact my Sage 100 system?
2. What is TLS and how to avoid the possibility of Sage 100 going into “Read Only” mode by September 2023
3. Why Avalara customers have to update their Sage 100 before February of 2023
4. How to get ahead of these changes that are affecting your business
5. Upgrade incentive from Fortis
6. How Sage 100 customers can reduce friction & elevate their collections process with Lockstep Receivables (accounts receivable automation software) and our automated invoice and statement delivery functionality.

We look forward to "seeing" you on Thursday, September 29th!