Did you know that there are two different Azure portals for deploying and maintaining your Azure subscriptions? For folks that have been working with Azure for some time or taking the exams, this is should be old news… for others, it might come as a surprise. So, what are the key differences and why should […]
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Leading with the Cloud in the Microsoft Environment:A Blog Series
As we look towards the New Year I thought it would be interesting to take a step back and learn from where we’ve come from. As you know, we have worked with a lot of organizations this past year on digitally transforming their business (see our recent guide: Reimagine Your Business in a Digital-First World […]
Office 365 – Using The New Advanced Threat Protection Feature
Back in April 2015, Microsoft announced their new Exchange Online “Advanced Threat Protection” (ATP) feature. A month later, I saw it for the first time at the Microsoft Ignite conference and it looked like something well worth checking out later. Microsoft later made it available as a purchased add-on for existing licenses and released a […]
Introducing Microsoft Graph: formerly Office 365 Unified API
As more and more data moves to the cloud and adoption of cloud SaaS products continues to increase, we need more sophisticated ways to extract, transform, and interact with that data. This spring at the //build conference, Microsoft previewed the “Office 365 Unified API”. That product is now in full production and has been renamed […]
Office 365 – SPF, DKIM and DMARC in Exchange Online (Part 1 of 2)
The fight against email spam is an on-going battle for mail administrators and while cluttering up a mailbox with junk mail is undesirable, phishing campaigns can be a serious security issue. Those with malicious intent are highly motivated and their practices have evolved over the years; fortunately, the technologies available to protect against such attempts […]
Reimagine Your Business in a Digital-First World with Microsoft
The ability to stay on top of ever changing trends within your business environment is constantly a challenge. One facing many organizations today is that of digital transformation. Four key trends around digital transformation that we uncover in this latest guide, include: – Increased focus on the customer experience – Continued connectedness – this is […]
Azure DevOps: Predictability in the Cloud with Azure Automation
Why to automate anything should be obvious. In addition to efficiency, there are also considerations on consistency, repeatability, and predictability to programmatically carry out tasks. Considering DevOps, automation is an effective vehicle to minimal user interventions from both Dev and Ops for establishing application infrastructure, configuring run-time, and deploying a target application. This automation provides […]
Introduction to Microservices using Azure Service Fabric
Today’s Internet scale services are built using microservices. Example microservices are protocol gateways, user profiles, shopping carts, inventory processing, queues, caches, etc. Microservices can further be defined by: Is (logic + state) independently versioned, scaled, and deployed Has a unique name that can be resolved Interacts with other microservices over well-defined interfaces like REST Remains […]
Office 365 – Better Ways to Schedule Meetings w/ External Parties
When it come to scheduling meetings with external parties, it seems like we fail to leverage technology more times than not. While there are several options available to make scheduling meetings easier, we almost always fail back to the default “what times work for you” conversations. This is everyone, I see it with clients, with […]
A look at the new Cloud features for Skype4B in Office365
Beginning December 1, 2015, Microsoft will be officially rolling out a number of new features within Office365 that significantly enhance the Skype for Business workloads. These features have been in preview form for a few months now, but December 1 marks the date where it becomes generally available (GA) for all tenants within Office365, across the […]
Office 365 – Getting Closer To “True” Single Sign-On For Outlook
One of the Office 365 concepts that gets glossed over a bit is “single sign-on”, in particular when it comes to Outlook. Many will provide the statement that if you implement AD FS, then you have single sign-on. While it is true that AD FS provides single sign-on for some workloads, I’ve often argued that […]