Microsoft

First, you will notice that I titled this post Microsoft Azure and not Windows Azure as Microsoft announced this change in late March. At TechEd North America 2014, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure ExpressRoute, Virtual Networking enhancements, compute-intensive A8 & A9 Virtual Machines, IP Reservation, Import/Export Service, Managed Cache Service, Traffic Manager support for […]

If you are a one of those consumers that has held on to Windows XP and hasn’t made the jump to a new PC yet, consider this… don’t do it! Instead, bite the bullet and spend that little extra to move to a tablet based computer. There is another trend sweeping the market (other than […]

Many users are migrating to the Office 365 platform and a good portion of those are migrating from GroupWise.  I  recently had the opportunity to migrate a client from GroupWise to Office 365 and wanted to leverage PowerShell.  There are several good reasons for this: There are limited reports available from GroupWise and they never […]

Within the last few months, you’ve probably heard about about Power BI for Office 365, the new cloud-centric BI front end tool set from Microsoft. You may have even attended one of our webinars on the topic, while Power BI was still in preview – it has since moved to general availability. (If you missed […]

Governance is an essential part of any SharePoint deployment. Any organization that has tried to implement SharePoint has undoubtedly asked the question, “How do we effectively manage our SharePoint environment?” Governance is that answer.  Governance is a set of policies, procedures, roles, and responsibilities that control how your business teams and IT teams work together […]

If you have already read ‘Tales from a SharePoint upgrade’ blog series part I and part II, this is part III.  One of the more popular upgrade scenarios is upgrading from SharePoint on premise to the Office 365 cloud.  This upgrade process can also mean a migration of email systems to Exchange Online, creation of […]

Office 365 2013 Pro Plus has been created utilizing Microsoft APP-V 5.0 technology and is called a Click to Run deployment. This new type of installation makes installing Office a simpler task for the application administrator to deploy and update for reasons such as License activation Automatic Updates faster deployment smaller platform ease of multiple […]

# 5 – Familiarity One of the reasons organizations have tended to stay with XP for so long is their employees are familiar with it. Like an old friend, it’s comfortable and easy to deal with. However churn among your IT administrators and other employees has changed the dynamic. Most people are now more familiar […]

Very exciting time for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 as the Spring 2014 Release is about to be available. Key themes for this release for both online and on-premises:  Marketing – Drag and drop visual Campaign Designer – Lead lifecycle management – Scalable Email Marketing – Improved Sales & Marketing Connector Sales – CRM tablet app […]

We hosted a webinar last week on the topic of driving business value with Yammer, and the session is now available for replay. Rich Wood, Director of Perficient’s national Microsoft web and social collaboration practice, did a great job briefly introducing attendees to the idea of an enterprise social network, and shared some key things worth […]

Carol Rozwell, VP Distinguished Analyst at Gartner provided insights into her research on human brain activity and how this knowledge can be used to help increase digital experience in the solutions we deliver at the Gartner Portal, Content and Collaboration Summit last week. She answered to key questions. What does recent research teach us about […]

  In SharePoint 2010, Microsoft introduced a great new feature for publishing and subscribing to content types called the content type hub. If you’re unfamiliar with the feature, read this. With SharePoint 2010 or 2013 on-premises, you would create a new site collection, turn on the features and configure the managed metadata service. Easy! When you […]