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Thanks for the ideas. I'll probably just keep forwarding emails for them and I'll let them know about the calendar edit idea.

Does anyone know if there is a way for RS Presidents, EQ Presidents and other organization presidents to send an email to the members in their organization or to the whole ward? As a clerk I can use the "Send Messages" link under Leader Resources or Clerk Resources to send emails to variou...

Hello everyone, This will be my last post on the subject as I agree that because of my posts and those of others, this discussion has become taut and unproductive. Everyone is stating opinions but what I was looking for was facts from official church policy. I have decided to continue using Google D...

.... Those posting on this thread are simply members of the LDSTech community. So although there references to Church policy, the interpretations posted on this thread are simply personal interpretations. Those opinions may provide helpful insights, but they are not official policy themselves. Good...

I don't know of any requirement to keep a backup on USB, much less off-site, that up-to-date. Here is a link to the offsite MLS Backup policy on the LDSTech wiki: https://tech.lds.org/wiki/MLS_backup#cite_note-0 The section on offsite backups states: "Church policy requires that some backup fi...

First, I appreciate the points you made regarding security. I want to be secure, our ward leadership wants to be secure and CHQ wants us to be secure. I think what made me respond the way I did was the accusation that we at the local level were somehow superseding our responsibility to protect confi...

(bold added for emphasis) Confidential data such as membership data should not be stored on a third party server. The right to see confidential data does not supersede responsibility to protect that data. Protecting confidential data is why it should not be stored on a third party server. When thir...

.... but we have all concluded after reading the handbook that any storage of documents with personal details of members on anything but church owned and controlled computers is not allowed. This means things like dropbox, google docs, etc... are all out.... I actually contacted Church HQ to ask sp...