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 […]
Posts Tagged ‘Windows Azure’
Watch Out Amazon-Microsoft Azure is Here to Rule
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 […]
Released – Official name for Oslo and New Office 365 SMB Plans
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 […]
Office 365 Roadmap Communications
Overview: Last week Microsoft hosted a Roadmap Communications discussion forum to align with the new Office 365 for business public roadmap. Panel involved experts from Microsoft and Office 365 MVP’s. I am sharing the summary here for everyone’s benefit. Specific topics: · Roadmap at a glance · General Questions & Functionality · First Release · Yammer ROADMAP […]
Office 365 Feature Rollout and First Release Program
Did you always feel Office 365 has been going through rapid updates and you as a customer or partner are left with no insight? Until now Microsoft has been rolling out features without regard to the tenant profile. There is generally no process for partners to get updates before or after customers. I personally know […]
What’s New in Microsoft Azure Active Directory
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 […]
Developing for Office 365 and SharePoint
Recently I participated in a Microsoft developer discussion on the Yammer Network where some great ideas were shared. I am re posting a summary of the session posted in that group here for everyone’s benefit ——————————– Overview: Microsoft responses to questions are provided by Chris Johnson, Sonya Koptyev, Jeremy Thake, Dorrene Brown, Mauricio Ordonez, Brian Jones, Ricky Kirkham, Christophe Fiessinger, […]
Busy Pre-Build week for Microsoft and Azure!
The Microsoft Build Conference is set to kick off next week but the company got off to an early start this week with several different announcements. Windows Azure now generally available in China This may not sound like a huge accomplishment worthy of being called out individually but a little known fact is that Windows […]
Windows Azure: Workload Scenario Examples
Here are 6 workload scenario examples for Windows Azure. If you have any questions, please contact us and our certified cloud specialists can help you deploy Azure today!
Windows Azure: 5 Things You Might Not Know
Did you know? Windows Azure supports your environment beyond just your Microsoft technology? Windows Azure supports heterogeneous environments. Just a couple of examples include the ability to develop, test, and deploy Oracle DB, WebLogic, Java, and Oracle Linux on Azure and pay by the hour while getting full support from Oracle, as well as the […]
Strengthen Company Culture with Yammer enhanced by HDInsight
In a world of broadband internet connections, online collaboration tools and the ability to work from almost anywhere – office culture can be difficult to sustain. This especially holds true for people who live in large cities (where the commute can be problematic) or in harsh climates (like the never ending winter in Chicago this […]
Windows Azure: Retiring Windows Server 2008 and how to upgrade
Beginning on June 2, 2014 Windows Azure will be retiring Windows Server 2008. This means that you will no longer be able to deploy a new Cloud Service or manage your existing services on virtual machines running Windows Server 2008. Windows Azure currently supports four different GuestOS ‘versions’: GuestOS 1.x – Windows Server 2008 GuestOS […]