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Who Owns Office 365 Deployment? Most Organizations Don’t Know

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In our industry, we are witnessing IT teams delegating and partitioning shifting responsibilities, often on an ad-hoc basis, with the organization leaders content to allow this adaptive strategy in the short term until problems or conflicts begin to arise.

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Microsoft Targets the Healthcare Industry with Several New Features for Teams

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft is working on new features for Teams that they hope will entice workers in the healthcare industry to adopt the collaboration platform.

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Leave Those SharePoint Permissions for Office 365 Groups Alone

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Office 365 Groups and Teams make SharePoint much easier for people to use, with the price paid being the imposition of the groups permission model on SharePoint. On the upside, everything is very simple. On the downside, the permissions assigned to group members might not be what you want.

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Microsoft’s Build Registration Opens February 27th

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft’s Build conference will take place again in Seattle with registration opening up later this month.

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How to Secure A Network Using NSGs and ASGs

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In this post, I will explain how you can use Application Security Groups (ASGs) in addition with Network Security Groups (NSGs) to create secure network designs for virtual machines in Azure. Before you read this post, you should read Understanding Application Security Groups in the Azure Portal to understand the purpose of ASGs and how…

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Microsoft’s Windows 7 Extended Support Pricing Announced

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

With Windows 7 support coming to an end next year, Microsft has announced pricing for extending Windows 7 support for commercial customers.

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Surface Go: Six Months Later

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft’s Surface Go is six months old and this is a closer look at the hardware after using it a considerable length of time.

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How to Use Windows 10 Quick Assist to Give or Receive Remote Support

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Looking to better understand Quick Assist in Windows 10 for remote support? Russell has you covered.

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Groups Membership Model Makes Teams Private Channels Hard to Implement

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Secure (or private) channels is the biggest user request to the Teams development group, possibly because Slack has this feature. The only problem is that the Office 365 Groups membership model doesn’t allow for filtering within a group, so introducing elements available to a selected set of members might create all sorts of difficulties for how Teams interacts with the rest of the Office 365 ecosystem.

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Azure Firewall in a Single Virtual Network

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

This s how to design the deployment of an Azure Firewall in a single virtual network.

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How to Secure A Network Using NSGs

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Here’s how you how you can use Network Security Groups (NSGs) to secure the subnets of a typical virtual machine-based web application deployment in Azure.

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What To Consider when Building Your Azure Firewall Design

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan explains what you need to consider when planning for a deployment of the Azure Firewall.

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