Microsoft

OneDrive is awesome! I love being able to access my files from any device at any location – home, work, mobile, tablet. The last few months, Microsoft has continually upgraded the service. As more and more users are getting familiar with OneDrive, I wanted to compile a list of my favorite tips and tricks to […]

With my job I end up doing some travel and with that comes the fun of meeting new people, hearing new stories, and traveling new places (possible). My last trip was to the east coast covering New York and Florida and it got me connected with some interesting folks. Waiting at the airport for our […]

Did you know there are 25 different services offered as part of the Microsoft Azure platform? These services span a variety of areas – Compute & Networking, Web & Mobile, Data & Analytics, Storage & Backup, Media & CDN, Hybrid Integration, and Identity & Access Management. Quite the set of tools! When deciding whether to […]

So you have a bunch of old Windows Server 2003’s still plodding along with out-of support legacy enterprise applications running, that are still critical to your business? Windows Server 2003 support ends mid next year! You certainly don’t want to deal with increased security risks and the chance of loss of compliance by ignoring this […]

If you’re a fan of the NFL, you will know that every team uses a series of camera’s at different angles to take snap shots of every play. Those images are relayed back to the teams on the sidelines and then are printed out on full pages. You might have seen classic images of your […]

For many of us Outlook is always running. If used to its full potential Outlook will work for you and make a busy day more manageable. Many fail to utilize the many features Outlook has to assist you with hundreds of incoming emails and/or a full calendar. I am sharing a few tips that will […]

A lot of what we talk about here on the Perficient Microsoft blog focuses on the cloud, and that reflects market trends, and what we are seeing with our customers. As Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote earlier this month in his email to employees, and so many at Microsoft have said since, we now live […]

A few weeks ago, a colleague posted a TED Radio Hour from NPR on our Perficient Yammer network titled – “Why We Collaborate”. After listening to the broadcast, I thought this would be a perfect segway into a post I have been working on for a while now. I want to discuss some of the […]

The new System Center Operations Manager Office 365 Management Pack can be used to: Add and configure Office 365 subscriptions to be monitored in Operations Manager Proactively monitor connection health for subscriptions Automatically discover services and features available for each subscription Proactively notify when Office 365 Incidents that affects services operational status appear, being changed […]

In two previous posts, I gave a Kapow overview and an outline of the extraction and transformation process. This article will cover the upload of migrated content into Sitecore. Once data is extracted and transformed, the clean data is sitting in database tables ready to be uploaded into Sitecore. Sitecore has an Item Web API […]

CIO.com has an article titled, “Enterprise Collaboration Will Drive Digital Transformation“.  Perhaps a more descriptive but longer title would be, “Digital Transformation Will Happen But Those Who Succeed Will Collaborate Across The Enterprise”  It’s not the catchiest title of course.  However, it highlights how to make any transformation successful.  The author, Matt Kapko, notes “The CIO […]

Last week, at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference, it was mentioned that there are one billion Microsoft Windows and Office users today, and Office 365 is Microsoft’s fastest growing business in its history. At Perficient, we are definitely seeing this. Our customers are using Office 365 more than ever, from SharePoint to Exchange and Lync to […]