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July 31, 2019

Microsoft finally puts the Nail in Skype for Business Online’s coffin

We knew it was coming and it’s actually taken longer than many people thought, but just 2 years after the first debut of Microsoft Teams, Microsoft has announced the Skype…
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July 16, 2019

Planning your Teams deployment… Don’t forget the Video

Teams is not just for chat and content sharing. A recent Nemertes’ “Workplace Collaboration: 2019-20 Research Study” of more than 625 organisations, found that almost two thirds (64%) of participants…
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May 28, 2019

Why you should be using Azure Identity Protection

Why? The move from traditional on-premises IT solutions to cloud services has seen a dramatic change in the way that systems are managed and controlled. The access to services from…
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May 24, 2019

What are Flow and Power Apps all about ?

I was in a client meeting earlier today and we were talking about process automation, their journey to Microsoft 365 and shifting workloads from on-premise to cloud. During the meeting,…
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May 23, 2019

Citrix VDI support for Microsoft Teams is just weeks away

At the Citrix Synergy event yesterday, Citrix announced the long anticipated optimization pack for Microsoft Teams for both the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. This long awaiting announcement builds upon…
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May 15, 2019

New WannaCry-type exploit threatens XP, Server 2003 and Windows 7… What do you need to do?

Microsoft has started warning users of older versions of Windows desktop and Sever to urgently apply a Windows Update today to protect against a potential widespread attack similar to the…
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May 14, 2019

Microsoft announces Windows 7 Extended Security Updates for Windows E5 customers.

As most people know, Windows 7 is going out of support January 14, 2020. Whilst there are now (according to Microsoft, 850 Million devices running Windows 10), and many many…
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May 14, 2019

Skype for Business Online Plan 2 being retired – what you need to know?

Microsoft have recently announced that after July 1st 2019, organisations will no longer be able to purchase Skype for Business Online Plan 2 as a standalone license and customers actively…
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May 13, 2019

How to do the things you used to do in Skype..in MicrosoftTeams

As I have the pleasure of working with more and more organisations on the adoption and deployment of Microsoft Teams (and in many cases the migration from Skype for Business…
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May 8, 2019

Windows 10 is getting a full Linux kernel later this year.

At Microsoft Build this year, Microsoft annouced another bold move in embracing it s once enemy/competition Linux by announcing plans for a full Linux kernel to be rolled into Windows…
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May 7, 2019

Microsoft announces ‘Fluid Communication Experiences’ coming soon to Office 365

This week at Build (Microsoft’s annual developer conference), Microsoft announced the “Fluid Framework” a new software development kit (SDK) designed to help developers build faster and more flexibly distributed apps…
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April 30, 2019

Microsoft and Dell launch VMware-Microsoft Azure Partnership

Microsoft and Dell have together announced a new partnership between themselves to deliver the full VMware cloud infrastructure natively in Microsoft Azure. The partnership will allow customers to deploy and…
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April 30, 2019

Surface Hub 2: The Latest Update Annoucements

With the plethora of new information circling around the hugely Microsoft Surface Hub 2 since their New York event and annoucnment of availability and pricing back on the 17th April.…
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April 23, 2019

Admins can now restore files from Teams and Sharepoint

Microsoft has started rolling out File Restore for SharePoint and Microsoft Teams, a feature that allows Office 365 administrators to restore any files or folders deleted from the two services…
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April 23, 2019

Reducing the SecOps ‘noise’ with Microsoft Threat Experts

St George’s Day… Today’s tip… Two new cloud-based technologies, Microsoft Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Threat Experts, have recently been unveiled in efforts to reduce the “…noise, false alarms, time consuming…
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April 17, 2019

Microsoft Officially unifies labeling across Office 365 and Azure IP

Yesterday, after months of “preview testing”, Microsoft announced the “General Availability” (GA) of their Azure Information Protection (AIP) unified labeling client. Sorry remind me – what is AIP? Azure Information…
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