Tag: Microsoft

Microsoft Catalyst

Microsoft Catalyst is an envisioning and planning program that uses Microsoft Dynamics 365, the Microsoft Power Platform and the Microsoft Cloud to support organizations in business transformation. Through a series of activities, organizations can build, plan, and execute business strategies with a proven, innovative approach. In this video, you’ll learn that Microsoft Catalyst is based on the IDEA framework, which encapsulates services across four key areas: INSPIRE, DESIGN, EMPOWER and ACHIEVE.


Source: https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-catalyst/

Microsoft PowerApps: Introducing PowerApps portal for external users

Microsoft announced PowerApps Portals, the ability to build low-code, responsive websites which allow external users to interact with the data stored in the Common Data Service.

Starting in next month, you’ll be able to create a new App type called “Portal” directly from PowerApps. Using a simple, dedicated designer experience, makers can create pixel-perfect websites which are custom branded and allow users to interact with data stored in the Common Data Service.

With the introduction of PowerApps Portals, we are also merging the capabilities offered by Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement portals to ensure that all the Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement application portals gets the benefit of our simplified low code offering.

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Introducing PowerApps Portals: powerful low-code websites for external users

Learn how PowerApps customers can create websites over data stored in Common Data Service that can be accessed by external users with a wide variety of identities including personal accounts, LinkedIn, and other Azure Active Directory organizations as well as allow anonymous browsing of content.

Microsoft Mt. Rogers: Head-worn productivity displays

The 3D Workspace is gradualy coming to live …

The Mt. Rogers research project is focused on improving traditional productivity tasks in mixed reality environments. It allows users to put on a head-mounted display and surround themselves with as many virtual monitors as is useful. Thus Mt. Rogers offers infinite screen real-estate in a portable and private manner. Our project goals are superb text readability, efficient user input and user comfort. By achieving these goals, Mt. Rogers can function as an effective monitor replacement while giving users access to the full Windows desktop and applications that they already know and love.

Read more : Mt. Rogers: Head-worn productivity displays

Does your company use multiple Public Cloud Providers ? Use Azure Cost Management to control your spend

It’s common for enterprises to run workloads on more than one cloud provider; however, adopting a multi-cloud strategy comes with complexities like handling different cost models, varying billing cycles, and different cloud designs that can be difficult to navigate across multiple dashboards and views.

Azure Cost Management now offers cross-cloud support. This is available in preview and can play a critical role in helping you efficiently and effectively managing your organization’s multi-cloud needs. Onboard your AWS costs via an easy-to-use cloud connector to get a single view of your expenditures, so you can analyze and budget for the future in one place.

Analyzing Azure and AWS spend with cost analysis

Get deep insights into your cloud spend with the rich graphic capabilities in cost analysis. Analyze your costs across 18 available dimensions like provider, service name, usage location, availability zones, meter, and tags. Cost analysis provides the flexibility to view granular charges to understand what’s driving costs and anomalies, or high-level views to analyze total and month-over-month costs for one or both of your cloud providers. Learn more about Azure Cost Management cost analysis.

An image of the Azure Cost Management cost analysis page.

Continue at source : https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/manage-your-cross-cloud-spend-using-azure-cost-management/

Microsoft cloud IT architecture resources

Bij het ontwerp en de implementatie van (hybride) cloud oplossingen is het altijd verstandig om dicht bij de standaard te blijven en grillige workarounds of maatwerk, daar waar mogelijk, te vermijden.

Een belangrijke bron daarbij zijn zgn referentie architecturen; de bron / basis zoals de oplossing bedoeld is en zoals deze kan intergreren met bestaande omgevingen.

Microsoft heeft een goed overzicht van de hun cloud IT architectuur bronnen :

Microsoft cloud for enterprise architects series

Learn core cloud architecture concepts for Microsoft identity, security, networking, and hybrid. Review prescriptive recommendations for protecting files, identities, and devices when using Microsoft’s cloud. Learn how to deploy a modern and secure desktop with Windows 10 and Office ProPlus.

These architecture tools and posters give you information about Microsoft cloud services, including Office 365, Windows 10, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and hybrid on-premises and cloud solutions. IT decision makers and architects can use these resources to determine the ideal solutions for their workloads and to make decisions about core infrastructure components such as identity and security.

Microsoft 365 enterprise solution series

Bron : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/enterprise/microsoft-cloud-it-architecture-resources 

Microsoft Hybrid Cloud

Microsoft hybrid cloud is a set of business scenarios that combine a Microsoft cloud platform with an on-premises component. You can use hybrid cloud as a path to migrate your business and its IT needs to the cloud or integrate cloud platforms and services with your existing on-premises infrastructure as part of your overall IT strategy.

This poster tells the cross-cloud story on hybrid cloud architecture and scenarios for Azure, Office 365, Microsoft Intune, and Dynamics 365.

Download poster : here 

Azure solution architectures

Architectures to help you design and implement secure, highly-available, performant and resilient solutions on Azure.

Visit page : Azure solution architectures

Azure IoT Reference architecture

The IoT Architecture Guide aims to accelerate customers building IoT Solutions on Azure by providing a proven production ready architecture, with proven technology implementation choices, and with links to Solution Accelerator reference architecture implementations such as Remote Monitoring and Connected Factory. The document offers an overview of the IoT space, recommended subsystem factoring for scalable IoT solutions, prescriptive technology recommendations per subsystems, and detailed sections per subsystem that explore use cases and technology alternatives.

https://azure.microsoft.com/nl-nl/blog/azure-iot-reference-architecture-update/

How to use Microsoft Teams, a demo tutorial (2019)

Microsoft Teams wordt door steeds meer organisaties in gebruik genomen. Teams is inmiddels een oplossing met een breed scala aan functionaliteit. Deze video geeft je een up to date overzicht van het gebruik van de meest recente functionaliteit van Teams.

Learn everything you need to know about using Microsoft Teams in 15 minutes. Aya Tange from Microsoft Teams walks through the end-to-end user experiences with a full demo tutorial: from chat and collaboration to online meetings and calling capabilities. If you’re in IT, we also cover the core set of admin controls for managing Microsoft Teams.

This show was recorded at Microsoft Ignite | The Tour in Amsterdam.

To learn more, check out: http://aka.ms/SuccessWithTeams

Inside Azure datacenter architecture with Mark Russinovich

Een goed en up to date (mei 2019) overzicht van de ontwikkelingen rond MIcrosoft’s Azure datacenters door Mark Russinovich van MIcrosoft.

Join Mark Russinovich, Azure CTO, to learn how Microsoft’s Azure enables intelligent, modern and innovative applications at scale in the cloud, on-premises and on the edge. Microsoft Azure has achieved massive, global scale, with more than 50 announced regions consisting of over 100 datacenters, and it is growing fast. It delivers the promise of cloud computing, including high-availability, extreme performance, and security, by custom designing software and hardware to work best together. Mark takes you on a tour of Azure’s datacenter architecture and implementation innovations, describing everything from Azure’s global infrastructure, to how we enable large-scale enterprise scenarios on both cloud and edge, to how we bring quantum computing to real-world scenarios today, and more.

Microsoft Teams #architectuur #inrichting #governance #beheer

Als er binnen de Office365 omgeving 1 dienst enorm in beweging is, dan is dat Microsoft Teams. Mede door de steeds grotere adoptie van Teams binnen kleine en grote organisaties is de vraag naar inzicht, structuur en beheer groeiende. Microsoft speelt daar goed op in en je ziet dan ook een hele hoos aan actuele content die de prangende vragen goed adresseert.

Ik heb een kort lijstje samengesteld van wat content die ik in de afgelopen tijd als nuttig heb ervaren. Doe er je voordeel mee

Microsoft Teams architectuur

Beheer van policies / AD gerelateerde zaken rondom Teams

Beheer en governance in Teams

Training voor (beheer van) Teams

Wanneer gebruik je Onedrive. Teams, SharePoint, etc.

Een van de meest gestelde vragen rondom de implementatie en het gebruik van Office365 diensten is “welke tool gebruik je waar en wanneer ?”.

Er zijn net zoveel (goede) antwoorden als vragen en er is dan ook al heel veel over geschreven. Vandaag deelde Gapingvoid een hele simpele graphic die het ook heel goed samenvat :

GV 19-4-2019

Simpel ? ja, het ligt er maar aan hoe je het bekijkt. aan het eind van de dag is er namelijk maar 1 persoon die kan beslissen met welk stuk gereedschap hij / zij aan de slag gaat voor welk taak : jijzelf.

Het ‘enige’ dat je dan nog nodig hebt zijn :

  1. Goede kennis van en (digtitale) vaardigheden met de tools waarmee je wilt werken.
  2. Goede afspraken met collega’s / de mensen met wie je samenwerkt over welke tools je waarvoor in wilt zetten voor die werkzaamheden die je samen met anderen wilt doen.