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Transforming work is a key theme at the conference and they spent time developing it.. The little things add up. By small means great things come to pass. Four trends that change the way people get things done. Cloud Social Mobile Big Data Microsoft has four core beliefs Future of work is about working Same […]

President Bill Clinton was the 42nd president of the US.   He also runs the Clinton Global Initiative. Short video on the Clinton Foundation Microsoft has been a key partner to the Clinton Foundation. They have been a part of the Global Initiative for 8 years. Microsoft’s commitments to CGI is 36 pages long When President […]

Despite reaching end of mainstream support back in 2009, there still seems to be a good amount of Exchange 2003 out there.  This also means with each Exchange 2003 migration, you’re dealing with as much as 10 years of management and mismanagement of that environment. One area of potential mismanagement that can quickly become a […]

Yesterday, we hosted a webinar on Best Practices When Migrating to Office 365. During the session, Shalini Pasupneti, a solution architect within Perficient’s Microsoft practice, first polled the audience, and found that more than half were not currently using Office 365. Based on this, she gave a brief overview of what makes up Office 365, […]

While poking around in Azure, looking to set up a BI Demo VM , I noticed that Microsoft had added a few SQL Server-oriented images to their catalog.   VMs labeled “SQL Server… for Data Warehousing”! There was one for SQL Server 2012 (SQL Server 2012 SP1 for Data Warehousing on WS 2012) and one for the current […]

For those that have deployed Lync 2013 alongside Office Web Apps 2013, we’ve all seen this seemingly innocuous check box: Office Web Apps Server is deployed in an external network (that is, perimeter/Internet) Over the past year I’ve never yet had a reason to check that box and honestly didn’t have a very good idea […]

Today, Perficient announced that Rich Wood, director of Perficient’s national Microsoft web and social collaboration practice, will present on Yammer best practices at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2014, taking place next week, March 3-6, in Las Vegas. The Perficient Microsoft team will also be available in booth #308 to discuss all things SharePoint, and they’ll […]

The Perficient Sitecore team has been writing feverishly over the past few months to publish several new guides. Most recently, Mark Servais, a Sr. Technical Consultant within Perficient’s Sitecore practice and Sitecore MVP, authored a new paper, Four Ways to Successfully Integrate Your Product Catalog with Sitecore. Sitecore is a content management platform that is […]

In further anticipation of SharePoint Conference 2014, today Microsoft announced the release of Service Pack 1 for all Office products, including SharePoint 2013. This has been a long time coming. Most of us in the industry were expecting SP1 to arrive sometime last fall, right around the 1 year mark of the product release. There […]

A recent Office Blog highlights new resources for Managing Office 365 with Windows Powershell.  Powershell is an incredibly robust tool for managing your SharePoint, Lync, and Exchange environments. It was released around the 2010 product lines and most of us in the industry remember its predecessor, STSADM, for managing SharePoint 2007.  If you are new to Powershell, you’ll find the […]

I’ve been going to SharePoint Conference since the 2009 iteration,  but I’ve never been so excited for an SPC as I am for this year’s version!  SPC 2014 has a lot to recommend it for anyone– from roadmap news on Yammer and Social, to a renewed content focus for on-premise and hybrid architectures, to the […]

Background: A few days back as part of my .Net learning effort I had to deliver a task that depicts the below screen When the end-user types the username, the application should validate the username from the database and display his / her training details in the dropdown box named TopicNames and LevelName. The application then […]