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Proactive Cyber Defence in Government: Microsoft’s Evolving Approach to Trust and Security

Proactive Cyber Defence in Government: Microsoft’s Evolving Approach to Trust and Security

When Satya Nadella discusses the importance of trust in technology, especially within the realm of governmental data protection, I see a direct alignment with the strategic trajectory outlined in Microsoft’s latest Deputy CISO blog. Tim Langan, Microsoft’s Deputy Chief Information Security Officer for Government and Trust, provides a compelling perspective on the complexity and urgency… Continue Reading →

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New options for AI-powered innovation, resiliency, and control with Microsoft Azure

New options for AI-powered innovation, resiliency, and control with Microsoft Azure

The cloud landscape is shifting. As I see it, the demands facing organisations with mission-critical workloads—whether in manufacturing, healthcare, or government—have grown well beyond simple scalability. The latest updates from Microsoft Azure underscore a strategic pivot towards adaptive infrastructure, offering new pathways to balance innovation, resilience, and operational autonomy. In this analysis, I’ll break down… Continue Reading →

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Microsoft Certification Paths

This is a really useful resource for anyone interested in understanding how Microsoft cloud certifications are structured, including links to find out more information about each certification and to book exams etc. Check out the link below for more information. https://bit.ly/3zybrDP For more information about Microsoft Certifications, and my specific challenge and journey, please read… Continue Reading →

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Office 365: Updated Delve/Profile Page

Due to working at IBM (we use Notes/verse and Connections, not Exchange, Office 365 etc.), I hadn’t been on the profile page since the last Office 365 workshop. I had some spare time today, so I thought I would check out the new Delve analytics feature, which (in theory at least) is available on my… Continue Reading →

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SharePoint Online: New Documents View – First Impressions

Microsoft has rolled out it’s new version of the SharePoint Online document library to those users who have opted in to the first release program.  More details on this are provided in your Office 365 message centre or from this page https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-is-a-document-library-3b5976dd-65cf-4c9e-bf5a-713c10ca2872?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US. On a personal not I have been working with SharePoint document libraries for… Continue Reading →

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Office 365: Updated About Me Page

For those of us who where wondering what the updated About Me experience that has been mentioned in the Office 365 Roadmap may be like in Office 365.  You can get a preview of the experience by using the following link from your portal https://portal.office.com/profile/. In my opinion it looks a lot cleaner and also… Continue Reading →

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Should we customise SharePoint?

I have been having lots of discussions with my clients recently regarding whether to customise SharePoint 2013, especially SharePoint online and I thought I would document some of my thoughts in regards to this scenario. My thoughts on this subject have evolved over the last year or so.  Having spent some time working directly for… Continue Reading →

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Office 365 – Microsoft announce the introduction of the new groups feature

Microsoft announced yesterday that the new Groups feature announced at the SharePoint Conference will start to be rolled out across the Office 365 service.  The announced schedule will be the early adopters receiving this first, followed by the other subscribers over several months. For more information please see the following blog post http://blogs.office.com/2014/09/25/delivering-first-chapter-groups-office-365.

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