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Office 365 Data loss protection (DLP) comes with 6 to 7 predefined templates, MS is adding 20-30 every month One central place to manage all workloads (SP, OD4B, Exchange). Admin Action Block access to content for SME. They shouldn’t be able to see end user content. Send email notification Policy tip (like outlook) across all workloads Target policies […]

It’s absolutely stunning atmosphere here in Chicago. What a breathtaking use of technology and level of energy with 23,000 technology folks here at Microsoft Ignite. It took two full days just to arrange chairs for the keynote! Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke about how businesses are being transformed and will be the focus of Microsoft […]

Mention the word “PST” around an Exchange admin and you’ll likely receive the same gloomy expression as if you mentioned “Public Folders”. PSTs, however, cause headaches for many others outside of the Exchange administration world. They’re even a pain for the users that create them as they can be wiped away with the reimaging of […]

Today, Perficient announced that its team will be heading to the inaugural Microsoft Ignite conference as an exhibitor. The Perficient team will be showcasing their Microsoft Cloud expertise in booth 330 and Joe Palarchio will be sharing his Office 365 experience in a session on Exchange in a hybrid environment. We’ll also be giving away […]

As a result of a decision made by either the employee or the employer, users will inevitably leave your organization. Whether you call these user “separations”, “terminations” or “offboarding”, the impact to IT is the same: network access needs to be secured and the user’s data needs to be addressed. When using cloud services such […]

When you creating a new web app (or web site, how it used to be called until recently) it’s have “Always On” setting off by default, which means the web site will be recycled after period of inactivity (20 minutes). This setting is somewhat similar to “Idle Time-out” setting on IIS application pool.When you web […]

The 2015 BUILD Conference kicked off today, and today’s keynote was packed full of TONS of announcements and new information. Some of these things are going to be released sometime this year, but some of it has also been released to be available today! Even though you can watch the Build 2015 Day 1 Keynote […]

In order to properly diagnose and troubleshoot various issues that may come up on a web site (or web job for that matter), diagnostic logging is a must and one type of diagnostic logging is often not enough.  Just because the code is deployed and hosted in the cloud doesn’t mean that you won’t have […]

Today, during annual Microsoft Build conference keynote, Microsoft’s own Scott Guthrie (executive VP  of cloud and enterprise group) introduced new Azure service which is going to be available in public preview in June: Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Large enterprise today can’t effectively function without big data realtime analytics. Realtime analytics means processing large amounts of […]

A news item from Microsoft at Adobe Summit today indicates that they will engage in a strategic partnership which will    feature the integration of Adobe Marketing Cloud Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. According to Microsoft’s Kirill Tatarinov (EVP, Microsoft Business Solutions): Helping our customers reinvent productivity and business processes is one of our top priorities. Partnering with […]

Email is a primary channel in our work lives and is an integral part of how we communicate and get things done. We continuously strive to make our life simpler and automate the repetitive tasks, and email is no different. This not only encompasses the enterprise email user but also the personal email user. Outlook has always […]

I recently participated in a webinar on the topic of Big Data/Advanced Analytics and how the Microsoft platform supports it.  My colleague Shankar RamaNathan spoke first about the various challenges of truly seeing ROI out of Big Data initiatives.  Then I spoke about how the Microsoft Data Platform, both in the cloud and on-premises, provides […]