by Bill Marsden. The background around this announcement can be reviewed here and relates to the global roll out of the Microsoft new commerce experience (NCE). In short, the way you purchase Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Windows 365 is changing and within this announcement we are informing you of these changes and

Microsoft 365 has quickly become the mainstay software of many companies worldwide. A process which began a number of years ago with software and services moving to the cloud quickly accelerated when Covid arrived and remote working became the norm. Working from home became a regular and necessary occurrence, and with that came new requirements

Industry trends affect how small and medium-sized retailers do business The pandemic caused an unprecedented shift in commerce. Customers want more retail experiences that are contactless, flexible, and online. Small and medium-sized retail businesses that adapt can better serve their customers. For example, businesses that rely on in-store sales might offer virtual, appointment-based shopping sessions or

Microsoft 365 Business Premium is an integrated solution that brings together the best-in-class productivity of Office 365 with advanced security and device management capabilities to help you securely run and grow your nonprofit organisation.     Build your organization SharePoint team sites provide powerful collaboration tools, including (via Outlook): Group calendar and inbox Task management

New hybrid work innovations in Microsoft Teams Rooms, Fluid, and Microsoft Viva By Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft 365 As workplaces open in many regions around the world, I hear from customers every day that they can’t wait to get back to in-person collaboration. I feel it myself and look forward to seeing

Looking back at Teams again and how Azure AD groups can assist in managing what policies a user receives. This is all great, but how then without using PowerShell, or when you really don’t have time to fire up PowerShell as admin and then MFA using “Connect-MicrosoftTeams” to your tenant like most admins do, can you

Getting your environment ready to deploy surface hubs and teams meeting room devices, especially when your environment is mostly Azure, but still in a hybrid state can be a pain in the neck. I recently had the opportunity to work through the above and came up with the following analogy………. If you can do it

Are Microsoft 365 backups needed? It’s a topical question, and I wish I could boldly give you a clear-cut answer, YES or NO? However, the answer isn’t that clear cut. Let’s break this down into 3 simple questions: What Microsoft 365 license plans do you have? Are you using all the recovery features of your

A year ago, Teams was a pretty brand new thing and many orgs had only just started trailing it, or hastily rushed it out due to the pandemic. The way to control what you could do inside Teams was mostly derived from a script that had to be ran on premise that set various commands