There is so much talk about Microsoft Teams this week already and yesterday a number of new features were announced. “Since we launched Teams three years ago, it has evolved to become the hub for teamwork — a place where you can meet, chat, call, and collaborate all in one...
All this talk about working remotely! If you haven't seen Microsoft Teams in action you can experience an interactive demo at https://teamsdemo.office.com. In this demo, you’ll first get a guided tour of Teams to understand the app and learn about key features. You’ll then try out some real actions and...
I was contacted yesterday by Info-Tech offering access to various research, tools and templates which can help IT teams with their COVID-19 response plans through their new COVID-19 Resource Center. There is a wealth of resources there, but for example, these are some of the resources I've been looking at this...
I'm sure most people who work in IT are aware that Microsoft, in the light of the current COVID-19 (Coronavirus) crisis, have offered Teams for free for 6 months. If you already use Office 365 you will already have access to Microsoft Teams but may not be aware of it....
Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 09:00 AM – 03:30 PM (PDT) Just in case you have missed the announcement, tonight (or this afternoon depending on your time zone) is the free Open Source Virtual Summit by Microsoft Azure. Key highlights of the event: Keynote by GitHub VP: Find out what it takes to...
I found myself looking at Microsoft Booking the other day. If you are not familiar with Microsoft Bookings, its an simple booking engine designed for small businesses. Customers can create a booking through a web page specifying the time and service required, receive a confirmation email and calendar invitation, and...
My favourite tool to answer this question and give insight into what is taking up hard drive space has been WinDirStat for a number of years now. Based upon the discontinued KDirStat for KDE3 it scans the entire drive and presents the findings in a number of ways. A directory...
I recently looked at the Azure Backup Explorer public preview and this week Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Backup Reports. Backup Reports uses Azure Monitor Logs and Azure Workbooks, and serves as a the destination for tracking usage, auditing of backups and restores. The previous PowerBI reporting is...
I love the security tools that come with the M365 and O365 E5 plans but I’ve always felt there were too many separate, and largely unintegrated, tools. For this reason, I was very excited when Azure Sentinel came along as Microsoft's cloud SIEM as it can consume and analyse data...
A small puzzle for the end of last week with an Azure web app running PHP. The default upload_max_filesize for PHP on Azure Web Apps is 8,192KB and there was a need to increase it. I’ve done this 100s of times with PHP running on Apache – but wasn't sure...
One of my favourite Microsoft tools, that I find myself using more and more, is Scheduler which is currently in preview. Previously known simply as Calendar.help, Scheduler is a personal digital assistant (Cortana) that can arrange meetings on your behalf that works with Office 365, Outlook.com, or Google calendar. To...
“Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.”
Transcriptions on recorded Teams meeting is a fantastically useful feature but it needs to be turned on and configured. When this feature is used and a recording is played back, one can search for particular words used in the meeting. This is really useful when you want to find that...
At the recent Microsoft Ignite The Tour Johannesburg, I was introduced to MVP Nicolas Blank. During the conference we had several conversations regarding content creation with regards to blogging and his podcast; the fear of pressing publish; and imposter syndrome. During these conversations, we discussed the pace that IT is...
Following on from A Quick Look at Azure Just-in-Time Virtual Machine Access and subsequently looking at Implementing Just-in-time in Azure Security Center, I promised to look at implementing JIT directly from the VM page Remember that JIT is only available with Security Center Standard Tier. You can compare the Free...
