This is the next installment in a series of blogs on the subject of cloud transformation. It has been amazing to see how many clients have jumped straight from cloud mandate to cloud implementation. A very small, technical organization with a very limited separation of duties might be able to take this approach. However, this […]
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Data Loss Prevention (DLP) in Microsoft Teams
Protecting your information has become increasingly important and businesses now require that you comply with business standards and industry regulations to ensure the sensitive data is kept safe. Although it has become easier to communicate with other colleagues than ever, this also introduces potential disclosure of sensitive data like financial data or PII (personally identifiable […]
How to Create an Approval Flow using Microsoft Flow
This solution will show you how to create an approval flow using Microsoft Flow. Below is the structure of the flow: Add the “SharePoint – When an item is created” trigger. Add the “Send an email notification” action to remind the user that the submission is successful. Add the “Initialize variable” action. This action is […]
Direct Routing March 2019 (Part 5 of 5)
Welcome back to the final blog in our Direct Routing series! Last time we discussed how to leverage multiple SBC’s in your environment as well as how to configure your SBC to support Direct Routing. This time we’ll wrap things up by discussing the user provisioning process, types of configurations you may have, and lastly […]
Direct Routing March 2019 (Part 4 of 5)
Welcome back! First and foremost apologies for the long wait on this blog post. Planning for a wedding, moving, and work is surprisingly time consuming ;). Anyways, last time we discussed dial plans, voice routing basics, and how to prepare for Direct Routing. This time we’ll discuss how to leverage multiple SBC’s in your environment […]
Moving from NuGet Package.Config to PackageReference
Recently during a .Net upgrade project, we migrated NuGet packages to PackageReference. Though we have been using NuGet packages for a long time, it has been interesting to see how NuGet has changed the way of including packages without package.config. The new method keeps solutions tidier and has numerous other advantages, so it’s definitely worth […]
Things to Consider with Lift-and-Shift Migrations in Cloud
This is the next installment in a series of blogs on the subject of cloud transformation. We decided to call out this specific cloud lift-and-shift migration strategy because of our clients’ experience with this strategy. Many of our clients have seen both negative and positive results from this strategy, however, all of them missed many […]
What’s Coming to Microsoft Teams? (May 2019)
Summer is just around the corner and that’s not the only thing to be excited about! Microsoft Teams has a bunch of new features on its road map that are worth noting! In this article we’ll go over some of the exciting new features that are currently in development! Currently In Development As of today […]
Potential Impacts Beyond Cloud Applications & Infrastructure
This is the next installment in a series of blogs on the subject of Cloud Transformation. When an organization transitions to cloud technology, it will often change the way that organization thinks about IT solutions. Cloud technology allows an organization to operate in more of an experimental/disposable way. This freedom allows an organization to “try […]
Direct Routing March 2019 (Part 3 of 5)
Welcome back to part 3 of our Direct Routing blog series! In this article we’ll discuss voice routing basics and how you can plan for Direct Routing. With that being said, let’s jump right in with the first topic on dial plans. Dial Plans What gives Teams users the ability to dial a phone number? […]
Azure Site Recovery for On-Premises to Azure Disaster Recovery
Microsoft introduced Azure Site Recovery (ASR) in 2014.This Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offering allows on-premises workloads to be replicated into Azure. Azure Site Recovery orchestrates and manages disaster recovery for Azure VMs, on-premises VMs, and physical servers. Azure site recovery support four types of Disaster Recovery as a Service: Azure to Azure site […]
3 Key Benefits of Integrating Azure Bots with Back-end Systems
In this previous blog post, we discussed 3 ways you can leverage the Microsoft Azure Bot Framework and Bot Service to provide employees within your organization an improved self-service experience. Today, we’ll discuss how these tools provide an integrated environment that seamlessly connects your existing knowledge bases and back-end platforms to your end users – […]