Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft Azure’

One of the most common things we hear from our clients is their need to automatically access security related reports from Azure AD. With last week’s announcement from Microsoft about AAD Reporting APIs Public Preview, we now have that capability. Azure AD already has a robust set of activity, security and audit reports, with some […]

Yet again, Microsoft builds on their increasingly compelling Data Platform story by bringing out new offerings. As my colleague Stan Tartinovksy wrote last week, Azure Data Warehouse is coming.   But that’s not the only new piece of the Microsoft data environment. Also announced at the Ignite 2015 conference was a new Elastic Databases feature for Azure […]

On Wednesday, I published a new post – 10 Best Microsoft Azure Features for 2015. I wanted to include a feature I have heard about for some time now, Azure Key Vault, but I couldn’t find any public information to reference. Because of our NDA with Microsoft, I must have reference able public info before I can blog […]

Welcome to 2015, I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday season! As we gear up for Q1, I wanted to share some great new features (services) available today in Microsoft Azure. I had a hard time narrowing my list to only 10, there are a ton of new and great features for Azure. If you’re not […]

Yesterday, we shared the top five SharePoint related blog posts of 2014. As several of those SharePoint posts alluded to, when it comes to the cloud, 2014 could be called the year Microsoft went “all in” and truly made cloud king. And Azure is a significant piece of that. 80% of Fortune 500 companies are […]

Are you interested in cloud services, but aren’t quite ready to move all your data to a public, multi-tenant environment? Do you have a development or test environment that is costing you too much money to create/migrate/upgrade/maintain? Do you have a need to implement Disaster Recovery for your on premises SharePoint deployment? You may be interested to know that Microsoft Azure […]

  Last week I wrote about strategic benefits with Microsoft Azure and included some market research of other big cloud competitors. Continuing on that and in part 2 of this series I will talk about the one of the most awaited multi-forest identity solutions – Azure Active Directory Sync Tool In April this year, Microsoft announced set of great […]

With my job I end up doing some travel and with that comes the fun of meeting new people, hearing new stories, and traveling new places (possible). My last trip was to the east coast covering New York and Florida and it got me connected with some interesting folks. Waiting at the airport for our […]

Did you know there are 25 different services offered as part of the Microsoft Azure platform? These services span a variety of areas – Compute & Networking, Web & Mobile, Data & Analytics, Storage & Backup, Media & CDN, Hybrid Integration, and Identity & Access Management. Quite the set of tools! When deciding whether to […]

Oslo Renamed to Delve Announced earlier this year as Codename Oslo, today Microsoft published the official name as Delve. Delve, the first experience powered by the intelligence fabric we call the Office Graph, will be available to Office 365 customers later this year. New SMB Plans Microsoft will release as of October 1st, 2014 three new Office […]

Azure Active Directory is a comprehensive identity and access management cloud solution. It combines core directory services, advanced identity governance, security, and application access management. Azure AD also offers developers an identity management platform to deliver access control to their applications, based on centralized policy and rules. In the last few months there’s been significant […]

First, you will notice that I titled this post Microsoft Azure and not Windows Azure as Microsoft announced this change in late March. At TechEd North America 2014, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure ExpressRoute, Virtual Networking enhancements, compute-intensive A8 & A9 Virtual Machines, IP Reservation, Import/Export Service, Managed Cache Service, Traffic Manager support for […]