As of April 21st 2020, Microsoft made changes to several product names, these changes were implemented automatically and at this stage, there are no changes to license cost or features. The changes were as follows:- • Office 365 Business Essentials became Microsoft 365 Business Basic. • Office 365 Business Premium... read more →
May
05
Apr
21
You can now integrate Yammer with Teams via the Teams App store which helps to consolidate these two collaboration platforms to some extent. If you open Teams, click your three dots and select More apps:- When the window opens, search for Yammer in the top box and Communities should appear.... read more →
Apr
15
Teams meetings invitations can be customised such as adding a company logo, a legal disclaimer, help information and a text only footer. This is all done via the Teams admin center, https://admin.teams.microsoft.com, using an account with appropriate permissions such as a Teams or Global Administrator to Microsoft 365. Note that... read more →
Apr
06
There are many potential benefits to public cloud adoption, enhanced resiliency, improved agility, cost reduction and many more, but its not a given that all these benefits will be realised just because "you're in the cloud", each use case and thus the benefits are unique. Cost is one of the... read more →
Mar
30
With the lockdown in place and all staff working remotely, we've had to postpone our sponsored spin for YPACF. We will rearrange this later in the year when some sense of normality is resumed. We will however all be doing at least 1 hour of vigorous exercise tomorrow (by... read more →
Mar
19
Yes, a very long-winded title! Our Principal Consultant Toby Skerritt takes a look at AD authentication over SMB for Azure file shares. The ability to set Active Directory based permissions on Azure Storage Account file shares has been one of the most heavily requested features of the platform. It’s now... read more →
Mar
18
A lot of organisations are establishing or have already established methods for staff to work from home. For some people working this way is second nature, for others its rather alien, both in terms of the tools you might use and how it feels to work in a different environment. ... read more →
Mar
16
We want to help people as we go through this challenging time, our technical capability is probably our strongest asset. Our MD Andy Sellers posted this today on LinkedIn. If you need any support, feel free to give us a call on 01635203700 and the team will help you. Did... read more →
Mar
13
Reminder that the End of General Support (EOGS) for vSphere 6.0 and the below listed products was yesterday - March 12, 2020. This includes the following releases: vCenter Server 6.0 vCenter Update Manager 6.0 ESXi 6.0 Site Recovery Manager 6.0 and 6.1 vSAN 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2 vSphere Data Protection... read more →
Mar
04
Not a blog intended on creating blind panic or sensationalising this subject, merely collating some of the recent news updates from multiple sources including the technology vendors themselves about the impact that Coronavirus is having on their supply chain. A lot of the worlds consumer and enterprise tech is either... read more →