If you walked the exhibit hall at last month’s Microsoft Ignite conference in Chicago, you might have happened upon a conversation, or even a booth, touting the concept, “Intranet in a Box.” In fact, while attending Ignite, I recall talking about it with a colleague of mine, Rich Wood. Last week, he wrote an article […]
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Office 365 Deployment, Security and Management – Tips for Success
To help companies rapidly deploy and fast-track Office 365 service consumption, we’ve been teaming up with Centrify. Centrify Identity Service (CIS) for Office 365 runs on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform and is a comprehensive solution for Active Directory-based SSO, user provisioning and mobility management. Together, we recently held a webinar on the topic “Proven […]
Azure Did You Know? Management using the Cross Platform Command Line Interface
The Microsoft Azure Xplat-CLI provides a cross-platform command line interface for managing, deploying, configuring and developing Microsoft Azure applications and services. While the browser based Management Portal works great, you can’t script and automate it. Using the Xplat-CLI you can do just that! Unlike PowerShell, that only supports Windows, the Xplat-CLI supports Windows, Mac OSX and […]
Digital Transformation Key to Future Success – Are You Ready?
As Mark Polly discussed in a recent blog post, a newly published study by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services shows that digital leaders are more likely to be successful than followers or laggards. There are many ways a company can improve its digital leadership. For example, CIOs can create a digital advisory board comprised of […]
Everything You Need To Know About Microsoft Azure Stack
Before we discuss Azure Stack, it’s important to understand Windows Azure Pack. I know I know, very confusing names, Pack and Stack. Windows Azure Pack was released in early fall 2013. Here’s a brief synopsis: Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server is a collection of Windows Azure technologies, available to Microsoft customers at no additional […]
Glass.Mapper Version 4 – Top New Features
I recently discussed a few best practices for utilizing Glass.Mapper for mapping Sitecore content templates to strongly-typed C# objects. I also briefly mentioned that the Glass.Mapper library was upgraded to version 4 this past May. For Sitecore developers, this is significant news, and this release introduced a few great changes worth mentioning: Simplified Nuget Packages: Previous […]
Azure: Did You Know? Hybrid Connections as VPN Alternative
In real life cloud deployment scenarios one of the very common cases is when only part of the application resides in the cloud. Usually, it’s when there is a legacy system which can’t be migrated to the cloud and resides on premises, or it’s not optimal to deploy entire system to the cloud. After all, […]
How to Plan & Prepare for Skype for Business – Webinar Recap
It’s official – as of mid April, which was covered in another post – Microsoft Lync is now Skype for Business. As expected, customers who have Lync deployed either on premises or in the cloud have questions, and folks who use Skype for personal use are wondering how well this communication tool, which works wonders […]
Guest Post: Extend Business Processes to the Cloud with Nintex
Note: Today’s blog post comes from Vadim Tabakman, Technical Evangelist for Nintex with over 8 years of experience in SharePoint and Nintex technologies. He understands how SharePoint, business process automation and forms can join forces successfully in numerous industries and business scenarios to drive business adoption and succeed in SharePoint projects. Vadim brings an excellent […]
On-Premises BI Gets a Boost in SQL Server 2016
At their recent Ignite conference in Chicago, Microsoft unleashed a flood of new information about their products and services across a wide variety of functions. Business Intelligence was not left out, by any means, with announcements of exciting new cloud-based offerings such as Azure Data Warehouse and Azure Data Lake. But given all the focus […]
Webinar: O365 Deployment, Security & Management Best Practices
As we get back into the swing of things after heading home from Microsoft Ignite (some of us didn’t have to go very far, lucky Chicagoans), we’re excited to have a bunch of new webinars lined up on various topics. One was today, on Skype for Business – stay tuned for that recap! Next up, […]
Office365 May Updates Enhance Power Map
In the May 2015 update for Office 365, Power Map users get a number of enhancements and new features. Unfamiliar with Power Map? It’s one of the “Power Tools” that are part of the Power BI offering as included in Excel 2013 and Excel Pro Plus in Office 365, Power Map provides some very cool […]