Microsoft

Have you ever encountered a new feature in Office 365 that you did not know even existed?!?! I have, and it can be frustrating. In exciting news, today Microsoft has released a brand new Office 365 for Business Roadmap web page!! Check it out, its great. It has 5 categories – Launched, Rolling Out, In […]

Azure Active Directory is a comprehensive identity and access management cloud solution. It combines core directory services, advanced identity governance, security, and application access management. Azure AD also offers developers an identity management platform to deliver access control to their applications, based on centralized policy and rules. In the last few months there’s been significant […]

Microsoft added the “Password Sync” option to DirSync in June 2013 and in the past year it has become a viable alternative to AD FS due to its fewer on-premises infrastructure dependencies. The differences between Password Sync and AD FS are well documented elsewhere, the article “Choosing a sign-in model for Office 365” is a […]

Do you know what organization transports your child to school each and every day? There’s a good chance it is FirstGroup’s First Student. Transporting more than 2.5 billion people each year across the UK and North America, FirstGroup plc is much more than yellow school buses. It’s Greyhound. It’s First Transit, one of North America’s […]

Cloud services like Office 365 and SharePoint Online are becoming an increasingly popular alternative to an on-premises SharePoint solution. However, many organizations are deciding that their best bet is to deploy specific solutions in Office 365, while keeping other workloads in their on-premises SharePoint environment. Certain hybrid scenarios make sense, and others don’t. This past […]

Earlier today, CMSWire.com published an article written by my colleague, Rich Wood. Rich heads up our modern applications team here at Perficient, and he’s basically a gold mine of information when it comes to enterprise solutions for intranets, extranets, and public internet sites. Thankfully, he likes to share that knowledge with the rest of us […]

Recently I participated in a Microsoft developer discussion on the Yammer Network where some great ideas were shared. I am re posting a summary of the session posted in that group here for everyone’s benefit ——————————– Overview: Microsoft responses to questions are provided by Chris Johnson, Sonya Koptyev, Jeremy Thake, Dorrene Brown, Mauricio Ordonez, Brian Jones, Ricky Kirkham, Christophe Fiessinger, […]

Organizations of all sizes are looking more seriously at the cloud, and beginning to understand the scalability and cost savings benefits of a hybrid solution. Given the benefits of a properly implemented hybrid solution, it’s logical to consider other areas of the business that can gain from the cloud – one of those being your […]

What are Yammer Groups? Groups are logical containers for sharing conversations, files and notes in Yammer based on a single business purpose or goal. What are the benefits of Groups? Groups are the foundation for organizing content in Yammer networks, providing immediate business value when collaborating.  Some of the benefits include: 1)  Targeting your message […]

SharePoint SKU Retirement July 1st, the following SKUs will be retired: SharePoint Plan 1 w/ Yammer SharePoint Plan 2 w/ Yammer Office Online w/ SharePoint Plan 1 Office Online w/ SharePoint Plan 1 This retirement aligns with Microsoft’s previous announcement of OneDrive for Business and the broader SKU strategy of eliminating mini-suites. More information on […]

As many organizations are in the process of moving to the cloud, or even considering a move, and a large portion of those organizations use SharePoint, it can be difficult to determine if and when a SharePoint on-premises and a SharePoint Online hybrid solution will provide value. This isn’t surprising, given the fact that questions […]

In really exciting news today, Microsoft announced new integrations between Yammer, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive called document conversations. We had a sneak peak of this functionality back in March at the  SharePoint Conference. At the time, Microsoft announced these changes would come “sometime this year” and I am really happy to start seeing this functionality early […]