We love to celebrate 👏our customers' successes. RT to share yours. Reach out to a @Microsoft #Azure Arc expert at Defensorem IT for next steps.
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Free Hybrid Work Consultation
To the future of work, work-life balance and employee wellness are priorities. How do you deliver it with the right combination of technology, process and culture? Experts in designing and implementing hybrid work environments, Defensorem IT can help you plan and deliver a hybrid work strategy for your organization. Receive a free consultation when you schedule direct.
Monday, March 27, 2023
One Step Closer to Modernization: The MFA Server Migration Utility
Christmas comes now for companies using Microsoft's MFA Server who want to upgrade to the next generation Azure MFA.
Microsoft has unveiled its new Azure MFA Server Migration Utility to make migrating to the next generation Azure MFA smoother and easier. The Azure MFA, Microsoft's new flagship MFA server, is designed to provide lower TCO, simpler deployment and better security than the MFA Server. Read this Microsoft article to get more details on the Server and Migration Utility.
Greggs manages and secures complex hybrid cloud deployments with Azure Arc
When Greggs bakery chain needed a toolset to simplify managing a hybrid environment built from acquisitions, it found the secret sauce in Microsoft Azure Arc. Read the customer story to learn how the +80-year-old company benefits from a less complex and more secure hybrid and multi cloud environment.
CEO Insights
Employee well-being is hugely important to Marty Flanagan, President and CEO at Invesco, Ltd. In this short video, Flanagan shares highlights from an interview with two of Invesco's rising career employees on how hybrid work environments provide the flexibility people need to maintain a healthy work-life balance. Watch the video on LinkedIn and get access to the full conversation.
Cloud Migration and Modernization with Azure Tools and Resources
The best way to future proof your business is to move more of your applications and workloads to a cloud infrastructure that can satisfy varying requirements. With Microsoft's Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), you can create different environments for different needs.
Discover how organizations accelerate their digital transformation and how Azure tools and resources can help your business migrate and modernize in the cloud. Watch this video.
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
We're here to make technology accessible to all. RT if you think that's worth celebrating.👏 #MicrosoftTeams #Azure
We're here to make technology accessible to all. RT if you think that's worth celebrating.👏
#MicrosoftTeams #Azure
How has your #hybridwork environment affected the company's internal collaboration efforts? @Microsoft can help you put a positive spin on that answer. #hybridwork
How has your #hybridwork environment affected the company's internal collaboration efforts? @Microsoft can help you put a positive spin on that answer.
#hybridwork
Monday, March 20, 2023
Azure Active Directory Demo
Azure AD (Active Directory) is a cloud-based identity and access management service in Microsoft Azure. It helps you manage the identities of users and devices while controlling access to resources within and outside your organization. A main Azure AD feature is support for integrated cross-tenant collaboration, enabling users from different organizations to collaborate and share resources with each other even when they're not part of the same Azure AD tenant (or instance).
What settings are available in Azure AD to help you manage B2B collaboration and B2B direct connect with external Azure AD organizations? Receive a free Azure Active Directory Demo with an expert from our team when you schedule direct.
Cross-tenant access with Azure AD External Identities
Azure AD (Active Directory) is a cloud-based identity and access management service in Microsoft Azure. It helps you manage the identities of users and devices while controlling access to resources within and outside your organization. A main Azure AD feature is support for integrated cross-tenant collaboration, enabling users from different organizations to collaborate and share resources with each other even when they're not part of the same Azure AD tenant (or instance).
This article shows how to use cross-tenant access settings to manage B2B collaboration and B2B direct connect with external Azure AD organizations — even across clouds. Read the blog for a walkthrough of managing external access with inbound and outbound settings, default settings, organizational settings and others. In addiiton, get tips for comparing settings for different scenarios.
Microsoft Teams Live Captions is Now Generally Available
Organizations need to be able to communicate and collaborate at work in a way that is simple, flexible and effective. Microsoft Teams continues to provide exactly that and has added Live Captions. Now, Teams on Azure Virtual Desktop can detect what's being said and who's saying it in real-time captions. Read the blog to learn how this feature enhances the experience of team members who prefer visual cues when collaborating and ensures everyone can follow the conversation effectively.
Hybrid Work - The new Microsoft Office in Vienna
Hybrid working models that focus on people's needs are the new reality. Watch the video to gain insight on Microsoft Austria's office that highlights social places for creative and focused work as well as space and time for mental health.
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Free Cloud Migration Readiness Assessment
Defensorem IT can help accelerate your migration to the cloud with Fast Track for Azure. Schedule a free cloud migration readiness assessment with one of our experts.
Add Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) as an identity provider for External Identities
Azure Active Directory is available as an identity provider option for B2B collaboration by default. If an external guest user has an Azure AD account through work or school, they can redeem your B2B collaboration invitations or complete your sign-up user flows using their Azure AD account. This technical blog post shows you how to permit guest users to sign in with their Azure AD account, verify publishers' domain and walks you through next steps. Read it for a quick demo.
Monday, March 13, 2023
Simple Ways to Enable Flexible Work Today
Every company's needs are different when it comes to figuring out flexible schedules that work for a particular organization. However, it's clear that it's now essential to support flexibility in different work styles for your people and teams. Read the blog for insight on six simple ways to enable flexible work at your organization.
Azure Active Directory - The Ultimate Beginners Guide
In this video, Andy Malone, Microsoft MVP and certified trainer, demos Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) basics. From architecture to setting up users to assigning licenses, Andy walks through everything you need to know to make the most of Azure AD's rich functionality. Ready to learn! Watch the demo to participate in a busy section packed with demos.
Scandinavian Airlines Speeds App Development, Lowers Costs with Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Every year, millions of travelers book flights with the Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) app, just one of many customer-friendly innovations that the company has pioneered in its 75-year history. As a digital leader in an industry still recovering from the 2020 travel bans, SAS relies on Azure to lower infrastructure costs and gain agility for its development teams.
Read the customer story to learn how the continuous collaboration SAS received from Microsoft and the FastTrack for Azure team helped the airline save money and simplify processes for their application team.
How do you make flexible work the best it can be for different employees? Where do you start? Let a @Microsoft #hybridwork expert from Defensorem IT provide the right answers. #WorkTrends #FutureOfWork
How do you make flexible work the best it can be for different employees? Where do you start? Let a @Microsoft #hybridwork expert from Defensorem IT provide the right answers.
#WorkTrends #FutureOfWork
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
eClinicalWorks thrives in the cloud with Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Disk Storage
eClinicalWorks is a national innovation leader with cloud-based solutions for electronic health records (EHR), practice management, patient engagement and population health management. When the company sought additional capacity to manage the influx of data and network traffic, it looked to Microsoft Azure. With Azure, eClinicalWorks now benefits from greater platform agility, resilience and uptime. Get the story to see how the organization leverages these benefits into deployments that ensure high availability.
Carat
Check out this use case story to learn how media agency Carat was able to form the partnership that allowed Microsoft Teams to become the Official Collaboration Platform of the NFL.
Security is Only as Good as Your Weakest Link
Today's IT managers are spending a good portion of their budgets on data security but in many cases, getting less for the money. Read this blog to gain insight on why organizations can't count on being 100% secure and how human error contributes to risk. Contact a Microsoft security expert at Defensorem IT to discuss flexible purchasing options and implementation.
How Microsoft Teams uses AI and machine learning to improve calls and meetings
Disruptive echo effects, poor room acoustics and choppy video are some common issues that hinder the effectiveness of online calls and meetings. Read the blog to learn how Microsoft Teams is improving such audio and video challenges through AI and machine learning.
Monday, March 6, 2023
Your first line of defense against cyberthreat is a good security posture. How often do you assess yours? 🤔 Reply to have an @msftsecurity expert from Defensorem IT reach out about an assessment. #BeFearless
Your first line of defense against cyberthreat is a good security posture. How often do you assess yours? 🤔 Reply to have an @msftsecurity expert from Defensorem IT reach out about an assessment.
#BeFearless
ELFT powers quality improvements using Power BI and Microsoft Azure
East London NHS Foundation Trust's (ELFT) approach to quality improvement is deeply rooted in data to understand the opportunities and test the impact of interventions. When ELFT embarked on a strategy to enable data-driven decision-making closer to the point of care, it chose Microsoft's Intelligent Data Platform including Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Power BI. Get the story to learn from ELFT's experience powering quality improvements and making real-world impacts on patient care with Power BI and Microsoft Azure.
How 'born in the cloud' thinking is fueling Microsoft's transformation
After 8 years, Microsoft has finished the "lifting and shifting" of its massive internal workload to Microsoft Azure and this has the company rethinking everything. Read the blog to learn how the company is retooling to take advantage of all the cloud has to offer.
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