SharePoint always had focus on key trends: Modern collaboration Content Management Personalized insights Security compliance SharePoint Evolution Delve people profile will be part of SharePoint sites. (replaces the mysite profile and org chart scenarios). This UI allows for authoring capability (blog). Office graph is future for powering all of these experiences. On Premise Investment […]
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Protect Against Data Loss in Transit in Office 365 – Ignite 2015
Office 365 Data loss protection (DLP) comes with 6 to 7 predefined templates, MS is adding 20-30 every month One central place to manage all workloads (SP, OD4B, Exchange) . Admin Action Block access to content for SME. They shouldn’t be able to see end user content. Send email notification Policy tip (like outlook) across all workloads Target policies […]
Key Announcements at Microsoft Ignite Keynote – Satya Nadella
It’s absolutely stunning atmosphere here in Chicago. What a breathtaking use of technology and level of energy with 23,000 technology folks here at Microsoft Ignite. It took two full days just to arrange chairs for the keynote! Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke about how businesses are being transformed and will be the focus of Microsoft […]
Perficient to provide insights on cloud solutions at #MSIgnite
Today, Perficient announced that its team will be heading to the inaugural Microsoft Ignite conference as an exhibitor. The Perficient team will be showcasing their Microsoft Cloud expertise in booth 330 and Joe Palarchio will be sharing his Office 365 experience in a session on Exchange in a hybrid environment. We’ll also be giving away […]
A Proposal for CIOs to Consider
After a recent conference on the modern customer experience, my colleague Sheri Hastings had some great takeaways, described in two separate posts on our Digital Transformation blog, “How George Proposed to Jane and Why CIOs Should Care.” If “Evolve or Die” is the core message, then the Fortune 500 is the case study: Fifty percent […]
Azure: Did You Know? Always On Web Apps
When you creating a new web app (or web site, how it used to be called until recently) it’s have “Always On” setting off by default, which means the web site will be recycled after period of inactivity (20 minutes). This setting is somewhat similar to “Idle Time-out” setting on IIS application pool.When you web […]
Top 10 Announcements from Build 2015 Keynote on Day 1
The 2015 BUILD Conference kicked off today, and today’s keynote was packed full of TONS of announcements and new information. Some of these things are going to be released sometime this year, but some of it has also been released to be available today! Even though you can watch the Build 2015 Day 1 Keynote […]
Azure: Did You Know? Diagnostic Logs in Azure Web Sites
In order to properly diagnose and troubleshoot various issues that may come up on a web site (or web job for that matter), diagnostic logging is a must and one type of diagnostic logging is often not enough. Just because the code is deployed and hosted in the cloud doesn’t mean that you won’t have […]
Introducing Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Today, during annual Microsoft Build conference keynote, Microsoft’s own Scott Guthrie (executive VP of cloud and enterprise group) introduced new Azure service which is going to be available in public preview in June: Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Large enterprise today can’t effectively function without big data realtime analytics. Realtime analytics means processing large amounts of […]
Microsoft and Adobe to Partner Around Marketing and CRM Spaces
A news item from Microsoft at Adobe Summit today indicates that they will engage in a strategic partnership which will feature the integration of Adobe Marketing Cloud Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. According to Microsoft’s Kirill Tatarinov (EVP, Microsoft Business Solutions): Helping our customers reinvent productivity and business processes is one of our top priorities. Partnering with […]
Office 365 – “A Day in Life” Outlook Tips
Email is a primary channel in our work lives and is an integral part of how we communicate and get things done. We continuously strive to make our life simpler and automate the repetitive tasks, and email is no different. This not only encompasses the enterprise email user but also the personal email user. Outlook has always […]
Webinar – Microsoft Big Data and Advanced Analytics
I recently participated in a webinar on the topic of Big Data/Advanced Analytics and how the Microsoft platform supports it. My colleague Shankar RamaNathan spoke first about the various challenges of truly seeing ROI out of Big Data initiatives. Then I spoke about how the Microsoft Data Platform, both in the cloud and on-premises, provides […]