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Perficient Named as a 2021 Microsoft Healthcare Partner of the Year Finalist
Microsoft recently announced the finalists and winners of its 2021 Partner of the Year Awards. We’re delighted to share that Perficient was recognized as a finalist for the Healthcare Partner of the Year Award. This honor positions Perficient among a global field of top Microsoft partners that have demonstrated excellence in innovation and implementation of […]
Microsoft Teams Updates (July 2021)
Welcome to July! Microsoft has a cornucopia of updates across various areas of Teams: Meetings, calling, chat and collaboration, management, and security! In this blog, we’ll cover some of the latest and greatest announcements announced last month, many of which you can start using today! Meeting Updates Attendance Dashboard Now as a meeting organizer, whenever […]
How to Achieve High-Availability for Azure SQL by Using Auto-Failover Group
An auto-failover group is an Azure SQL database feature that replicates one, or a group of databases to the secondary Azure SQL server in a different region. This feature is used to failover all the databases in the failover group in case of disaster and the failover is automatic. High availability is a crucial component […]
Adopting a Zero Trust Approach to Security – Part 2
Welcome back! Our last blog on adopting a Zero Trust approach to security gave you a high-level overview of the core principles in a Zero Trust security model. In this blog, we’ll start by discussing o the first and most important pillar, identity. Identity is the primary control plane for the Zero Trust model, which […]
How to Publish and Subscribe Messages to a Queue Using MSMQ
Now that you’ve learned how to install MSMQ technology in your technology stack, you can now set up publishing and subscribing to messages as well. Follow the steps below to set up the code for publishing, which allows the sender application to send the message to the queue. Step 1: Create the Publisher Application. For […]
How to deploy Viva Connections for Microsoft Teams
Microsoft announced a new employee experience platform called “Microsoft Viva” in early February 2021. According to Microsoft, this platform brings the following tools in a single place, Microsoft Teams. Employee engagement (Viva Connections) Wellbeing (Viva Insights) Learning (Viva Learning) Knowledge discovery (Viva Topics) What is Viva Connections? The “Viva Connections app” is the central landing […]
Adopting a Zero Trust approach to security – Part 1
Zero Trust has become somewhat of a buzzword over the past couple of years and has been coined the new gold standard of security models as technology has changed. So what exactly does “Zero Trust” mean, and should your organization start considering adopting this model? In this blog, we’ll discuss the Zero Trust security model […]
5 Easy Steps for MSMQ Installation
The need for mature technology is drastically increasing, placing more emphasis on creating architecture that is modern, reliable, and scalable for not only individual technologies but also how they interact with each other. Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) is one of the simplest and advanced methods that help your business’ technologies interact and connect with each […]
Automate Everything: Extract and Process Forms with AI Builder and Power Automate
The Automate Everything series was written by Rebekah Williamson and Taylon Hammons Automating the manual process for extracting forms sent through email reduces late submittals and inbox clutter. Modernize the way you process email attachments by leveraging Power Automate with Power Apps AI Builder. Using these no-code tools, you can set up a flow to automatically download forms received from email into your OneDrive. Additionally, you can extract data from the form and input […]
Automate Everything: Creating a Team using a Power Automate and Microsoft Forms
The Automate Everything series was written by Rebekah Williamson and Taylon Hammons With Microsoft Forms and Power Automate, you can automate the creation of Teams channels and make life simpler for you and your Teams administrator. This tutorial guides you through a workflow that captures a new Teams request and sends it for approval. Create your Microsoft […]
Microsoft Teams Updates (June 2021)
The month of May had a plethora of new features announced by Microsoft. In today’s article, we’ll review some of the biggest features and innovations released in Microsoft Teams around meetings, calling, chat and collaboration, security, compliance, and privacy! Let’s get started! Meeting Updates Dynamic View One of the biggest announcements around Teams meetings involves […]