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Microsoft Azure offers top in-class services in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS products. These services enable businesses to optimize and modernize their business assets and workloads with almost limitless scaling, both vertically and horizontally.   Two administrative domains can impact the growth potential of cloud workloads: Security and Governance.  Security represents how a business will ensure that […]

In today’s modern workplace, utilizing Microsoft technologies is a staple, whether you use server/end-user operating systems or Microsoft 365 services like Exchange and SharePoint Online. Sometimes, it can be difficult to identify when to implement new features or even enhance existing configurations.   This is where a Cloud Solutions Provider, or CSP, can step in.  A […]

Multi-factor authentication has become a de facto technology for enhancing security for all types of applications from online apps to desktop apps to VPNs. We’ve all experienced receiving phone calls, text messages, and notifications after providing a username and password.   However, the experience of MFA within the Microsoft Authenticator app has been limited for Microsoft […]

Microsoft Azure is a rich and intuitive cloud computing ecosystem that offers IaaS, PaaS, IDaaS, DaaS, and SaaS solutions for your business. Each type of service runs in a consumption model where you, the customer, rent the infrastructure and licenses at a metered rate.   This consumption model provides customers with the flexibility that fixed costs, […]

Microsoft’s annual conference, Microsoft Ignite, took place in mid-October. This event gathered industry experts, tech professionals, and enthusiasts for technical training, breakout sessions, keynotes, and more. The event was held both in person in Seattle, Washington, and virtually with more than 200,000 people tuning in. Microsoft has compiled all the Microsoft Ignite 2022 news into […]

The Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework is Microsoft’s set of guiding principles in maintaining and improving a customer’s workload quality in the Azure Cloud. To ensure easy adoption of the framework, there exists what are called the “five pillars of architectural excellence.” These pillars consist of Reliability, Security, Cost Optimization, Operational Excellence, and Performance Efficiency. If an […]

Microsoft solutions and services are a staple of productivity for businesses of all sizes and industries. However, due to the broad scope of options available, Microsoft licensing has long been a complicated and convoluted affair.   As a result, many businesses aren’t handling their licensing as efficiently as they could be and find themselves with a […]

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint has many available methods to deploy and manage onboarding and configurations using Microsoft Endpoint Manager (which includes Intune), and there is no shortage of capabilities surrounding the deployment methods. However, server capabilities for non-managed servers have been primarily deferred to resources outside of MEM. The options to manage servers using Microsoft […]

As the business landscape shifts, employees must be able to login from anywhere and at any time. While this provides employees with unsurpassed flexibility and convenience, it can also cause businesses security headaches, increased licensing costs, and infrastructure issues.   Enter Microsoft’s Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). AVD is a desktop and app virtualization service that runs […]

Throughout the last few years, many businesses have seen a massive increase in their digital footprint. Businesses have never gathered more data and our growing attack surfaces have led to an inherent risk of cyber attacks. In addition, we’re now operating across multiple clouds and on-premises platforms.   As our relationship with technology expands, the cyber […]