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One new update that may have flown under your radar is the new built-in polls feature in a Teams meeting. In today’s article, I’ll be covering this cool new feature and show you how you can start using polls in your meetings! Step 1: Schedule your meeting Let’s start things off in the Microsoft Teams […]

With about 42% of the U.S. labor force working remotely, managing devices has become more important than ever. Luckily, Microsoft has made great advancements in device management capabilities, many of which we’ll discuss today. In this blog, we’ll go over four main areas of Endpoint Management: Creating an app deployment Securing the app (conditional access […]

You’d have to run the Azure SQL DacpacTask in your Release Pipeline to continuously deploy your database to Azure SQL. However, if your .dacpac file is not recognized in your build artifact during the DacpacTask, you have to manually add some lines in your Build Pipeline. NOTE: I’d already deployed our local database to Azure […]

Following his recent appointment to the board of directors of St. Luke’s Hospital, a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare provider headquartered in St. Louis, I chatted with Jeff Davis, Perficient Chairman and CEO, about the distinction and his goals for working with the healthcare provider. Jeff, thanks for the time. A Board of Directors appointment is an […]

Welcome back to the last part of our “Four Microsoft 365 network connectivity principles you need to know” blog series! Last time, we discussed the concept of enabling direct connectivity for Microsoft 365 connections If you haven’t had a chance to check that blog post out yet, I encourage you to check it out here. […]

Welcome back to part 3 of the “Four Microsoft 365 network connectivity principles you need to know” blog series! Last time we discussed the topic of local egress and how enabling local egress of Microsoft 365 data ensures the greatest chance of the traffic being routed through the closest Microsoft network point of presence in […]

Last week, Microsoft announced all of the upcoming updates for Microsoft Teams in the month of November. In this blog, we’ll go over some of the biggest announcements around meetings and calling as well as chat and collaboration! Without further ado let’s see what Microsoft has in store for us! Meeting and Calling Updates Live […]

If you have a project in your repository that you want to host on the web, running the build and release pipelines on Azure is one way to go. Although configuring them is super easy, the process itself is not very intuitive especially the first time you encounter it because what each pipeline does is […]

At Perficient, we see a lot of our partners investing in healthcare in general.  Most of our partners have evolved to the point where their tools are HIPAA compliant and many are willing to sign BAA’s.  I think it’s significant then that Microsoft’s recent announcement that Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is generally available. Getting beyond […]

Welcome back to our “Four Microsoft 365 network connectivity principles you need to know” blog series, it has been almost 2 months since the first article (sorry for the large gap), so if you haven’t had a chance to read the first blog, you can check it out here. Last time we talked about the […]

Microsoft recently announced several changes coming to Microsoft Teams, this month and next. In this blog article, I’ll cover many of the planned changes for Teams so you and your organization can start planning accordingly. With that being said, let’s take a look at the planned changes coming to Teams for the months of October […]

We are excited to be listed by Forrester in its recent report, Now Tech: Azure Services Providers, Q4 2020 — Forrester’s Overview of 41 Azure Services Providers. As the report notes, “Many enterprises continue to struggle with starting and continuing their journeys to the cloud.” The report also notes that service providers can help clients […]