Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference – keynotes, sessions, and workshops

Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference – keynotes, sessions, and workshops

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Let’s get ready to collaborate!!!*


 


The Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference (virtual) is right around the corner – and the anticipation is real. This is a 3-day, virtual event (Dec.9-11.2020), delivered via Microsoft Teams. Each day will kick-off with an inspiring Microsoft keynote followed by a broad set of breakout sessions and depth training workshops (days 2 & 3).


 


A keynote a day (x3) keeps the energy up and information flowing.


 


Jeff Teper (CVP, Microsoft), Karuana Gatimu (Principal PM Manager, Microsoft), and Dan Holme (Director, Microsoft) will be giving keynotes spanning teamwork and employee engagement. In addition, many Microsoft speakers will deliver breakout sessions with live Q&A among thought leaders and members of the community from around the world.


 



 


The Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference is a 3-day, virtual event covering Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and the Power Platform -- all delivered via Microsoft Teams.The Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference is a 3-day, virtual event covering Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and the Power Platform — all delivered via Microsoft Teams.


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The Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference (virtual) has something for everyone digging into of Microsoft 365, including Azure. You’ll find no tech left behind: AI, sharing, intranet, BI, admin, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer, Power Platform, Microsoft Graph, SPFx, Microsoft Groups, security & compliance, Project Cortex, migration, search and more – spanning IT, dev and end user.


 


Below is a summary list of the nearly 50 Microsoft-led sessions – starting with Jeff, Karuana and Dan’s keynotes (scroll down and note the ones that interest you most):



  • 3 Microsoft keynotes

    • Day 1: Unlocking collaboration, communication, and knowledge| by Jeff Teper – hosted by George Howell, former CNN correspondent and international journalist.

    • Day 2: Balancing employee productivity & wellness with Microsoft Teams | by Karuana Gatimu

    • Day 3: Building resilience by connecting and engaging employees | by Dan Holme



  • 45+ Microsoft-led breakout sessions

    • Turn content into knowledge with Microsoft SharePoint Syntex| by Sean Squires and Chris McNulty

    • Best practices for delivering effective Virtual Events | by Karuana Gatimu and Christina Torok

    • The Intrazone Live | “Fantasy Productivity: Adopting (Microsoft) Teams” | by Chris McNulty and Mark Kashmans and MVP guests, Stephanie Donahue and Dux Raymond Sy

    • Architect your next product or idea using the Microsoft Graph| by Fabian Williams and Brian Jackett

    • Optimize your new Yammer Communities | by Angus Florance

    • What’s New in Microsoft Teams | by Karuana Gatimu

    • Living in Teams? Now, so does your intranet! | by Tejas Mehta and Prateek Dudeja

    • Virtual health and collaboration with Microsoft Teams in healthcare | by Evan Westenberger and Daniel Canning

    • What’s new & coming to OneDrive | by Jason Moore and Ankita Kirti

    • External sharing & collaboration with OneDrive, SharePoint & Teams | by Rafael Lopez-Uricoechea

    • Embrace a New Way of Work with Microsoft 365 | by Angela Byers and Shin-Yi Lim

    • Get started with Microsoft Lists | by Lincoln DeMaris and Bharath Manoj Manda

    • Organize business information with Microsoft Lists | by Miceile Barrett and Niket Jain

    • Microsoft Teams ❤ Microsoft Lists | by Ansuman Acharya

    • Customize productivity apps with lists and libraries, Power Apps, and Power Automate | by Chakkaradeep “Chaks” Chandran

    • Microsoft 365 cloud data center strategy​ | by Sean Emam and Sesha Mani

    • Turbocharging Microsoft 365 cloud user experiences | by Shyam Narayan

    • Role-based access control in Microsoft 365 | by Timothy Heeney

    • Kick-start your solution development with Microsoft 365 PnP | by Vesa Juvonen

    • Developing solutions across Microsoft 365 with SharePoint Framework | by Luca Bandinelli

    • Working with SharePoint Files and Lists: building blocks for your business process solutions | by Jeremy Kelley

    • Search where you’re already working with Microsoft Search: Vision, Strategy, Roadmap | by Robin Thomas and Kathrine Hammervold

    • Cortana – what’s new with your personal productivity assistant in Microsoft 365 | by Malavika Rewari, A.J. Brush, Saurabh Choudhury, and Srikanth Sridhar

    • Moving classic SharePoint search to Microsoft Search | by Jyoti Pal and Mikael Svenson

    • Connect people with knowledge and expertise in Microsoft 365 | by Rebecka Isaksson

    • Build Knowledge with Topic Experiences in Microsoft 365 | by CJ Tan

    • Project Cortex: Knowledge discovery and content intelligence in Microsoft 365 | by Naomi Moneypenny and Chris McNulty

    • Expertise & Knowledge Networks: Microsoft’s Vision For a Successful Knowledge System In Your Org. | by Naomi Moneypenny

    • Make data-driven decisions with Power BI and Visio | by Mukul Kumar and Shilpa Goyal

    • What’s new to easily migrate your content to Microsoft 365 | by Eric Warnke and Yogesh Ratnaparkhi

    • Build a Beautifully Designed Intranet: Tips and Tricks | by Katie Swanson and Cathy Dew

    • Build and launch a SharePoint Home Site: Tips and Tricks From The Product Team | by DC Padur and Adam Ford

    • SharePoint Communication Sites & the Modern Intranet: What’s New | by Debjani Mitra and Andy Haon

    • How to Author Dynamic Intranet Pages and News: Tips and Tricks from The Product Team | by John Sanders and Rachel Lambert

    • Employee Engagement and Communities in Microsoft 365 | by Murali Sitaram and Dan Holme

    • Engage employees with the new Yammer: Communities, Communications, Knowledge Sharing | by Jason Mayans and Steve Nguyen

    • Engaging employees with Yammer and Microsoft 365 | by Michael Holste

    • Microsoft 365 Groups roadmap updates | by Venkat Ayyadevara and Mike McLean

    • How Microsoft manages Microsoft 365 Groups for its employees | by David Johnson

    • Governance and management best practices for Microsoft 365 Groups | by Vinay Jagannatha Rao

    • What’s new in Security & Compliance in SharePoint and OneDrive | by Sesha Mani

    • Microsoft Search in SharePoint and Office 365 | by Thanuja Priyadarshani and Kerem Yuceturk

    • Monitor and manage SharePoint in Microsoft 365 | by David Minasyan, Rk Menon, and Trent Green

    • Supporting Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures in Microsoft 365 | by Robert Lowe, Sesha Mani, and Jeff McDowell

    • Enable visual, real-time collaboration in Microsoft Teams using Visio | by Shilpa Goyal and Tripteesh Kaur

    • The New Microsoft Stream: Deep Dive | by Marc Mroz and Owen Paulus

    • Video in Microsoft 365 | by Segun Bright and Struan Robertson




View all 80+ combined sessions from all top-tier speakers from Microsoft, MVPs and community leaders. Session recordings will be posted to the M365CC YouTube channel after the event (some sessions may not be available due to content distribution restrictions).


 


The 14 workshops on days 2 and 3 cover the following subjects in depth: BI, intranet and IA, Teams, user adoption, SPFx, and the Power Platform. Register for a workshop today.


 


A pre-emptive thank you to all event sponsors: AvePoint, Netwoven, SysKit, VisualSP, Compass 365, Martello and Microsoft. Without your support, this event wouldn’t be possible.


 


Platinum, gold, and silver sponsors of the Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference.Platinum, gold, and silver sponsors of the Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference.


And a special shout out to community members Shirley Brothers, Jackie Baillie, Lyman Goodrich, Joel Oleson, Ryan Schouten and the #M365VConf team for putting together this event, mapping out the agenda and for supporting and promoting the knowledge and expertise that reaffirms this: Microsoft 365 has the best tech community in the world.


 


A community that collabs together, stays together.


 


Cheers, Mark Kashman, senior product manager – Microsoft 365 marketing


 


*Inspired by Michael Buffer.

Our commitment to privacy in Microsoft Productivity Score

Our commitment to privacy in Microsoft Productivity Score

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At Microsoft, we believe that data-driven insights are crucial to empowering people and organizations to achieve more. We also believe that privacy is a human right, and we’re deeply committed to the privacy of every person who uses our products. As part of that commitment, today we’re making changes to Productivity Score.

The post Our commitment to privacy in Microsoft Productivity Score appeared first on Microsoft 365 Blog.

Brought to you by Dr. Ware, Microsoft Office 365 Silver Partner, Charleston SC.

Level up with Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate

Level up with Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate

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Qualified data professionals are always in demand in today’s job market. And their importance in digital transformation is ever-increasing, as they modernize relational Microsoft SQL Server databases on-premises, migrate and administer them on Microsoft Azure, or use the best of both worlds in hybrid environments. Does this describe you? If you understand the transformation from on-premises databases to cloud data services—and the cloud database technologies available to you with Azure—now is the time to showcase the value you add to your organization as a database administrator.


 


The Azure Database Administrator Associate certification validates that you have what it takes to be a data management specialist with subject matter expertise implementing and managing cloud and on-premises relational databases built on top of SQL Server and Azure data services. You earn the certification by passing Exam DP-300: Administering Relational Databases on Microsoft Azure.


 


What kind of knowledge and experience should you have?


If you’re responsible for database management, availability, and security, plus performance monitoring and optimization of modern relational database solutions, and if you manage operational aspects of data platform solutions, together with Azure data engineers, this could be the certification for you.


As a candidate for this certification, you should have experience using a variety of methods and tools to perform day-to-day operations, including applying knowledge of using T-SQL. 


 


How can you get ready?


To help you plan your journey, check out our infographic, The journey to Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate. You can also find it in the resources section on the certification and exam pages, which contains other valuable help for Azure database administrators.


 


Azure Database Administrator Associate certification journeyAzure Database Administrator Associate certification journey


 


To map out your journey, follow the sequence in the infographic. First, decide whether this is the right certification for you.


 


Next, to understand what you’ll be measured on when taking Exam DP-300, review the skills outline guide on the exam page.


 


Sign up for training that fits your learning style and experience:



Complement your training with additional resources, like Microsoft Docs or the Azure Architecture Center. Don’t miss the Data Exposed show on Channel 9, which explores everything about data—relational and non-relational, on-premises and in the cloud, big and small.


 


After you pass the exam and earn your certification, check out the many other training and certification opportunities. Want to add to your skill set? Consider learning to migrate SQL workloads to Azure.


 


Note: Remember that Microsoft Certifications assess how well you apply what you know to solve real business challenges. Our training resources are useful for reinforcing your knowledge, but you’ll always need experience in the role and with the platform.


 


It’s time to level up!


When you earn your Azure Database Administrator Associate certification, you not only grow professionally but you also have the opportunity to show your colleagues and your employer how you can contribute to your organization’s cost savings, efficiency, and scalability. As more and more companies move to the cloud, this is a great opportunity to level up—and prove—your Azure database administrator skills.


 


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Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 98

Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 98

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We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 74 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below:





















































































































































































































































































































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ABC Client Analysis: Bismart ABC Client Analysis is a dashboard environment for the segmentation and analysis of the client portfolio based on contribution to turnover and profitability. It analyzes the contribution of customers to the company’s figures at the level of turnover and margin and shows the distribution of the client portfolio.



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Address Validation for US Addresses: Instantly verify, correct, and append U.S. mailing addresses to near-perfect accuracy. This USPS CASS Certified address validation service matches and corrects mailing addresses using the latest USPS and proprietary data sets available, ensuring your mailing records are always accurate and up to date.



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Agrimetrics Data as a Service: This range of high-value datasets relating to the agri-food sector is available through the Agrimetrics data marketplace, including data on weather, cropping and soil for one or all 1.45 million fields in the UK. Get AI-derived datasets such as satellite-data derived field properties and satellite data from Airbus.



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Automated Feedback by FeedbackFruits: This pedagogical tool, powered by AI, enables students to receive formative feedback on their academic writing skills based on criteria set by teachers. The tool allows teachers to save time and energy by reducing the amount of repetitive feedback. Teachers can focus on the content rather than the form.



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AUTOMY: This cloud-based, no-code digital solution automates business processes and tracks performance. Take a human-centric approach to process automation. AUTOMY is designed for efficient collaboration among users, ready to scale and change with minimum disruption. This application is available only in English and Spanish.



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Bank Statement (Open Banking) Data Categorization: The Categorization Engine allows for the processing of data direct from an individual’s current account or the passing of custom data sets. The engine uses cloud-based machine learning and big data analytics algorithms to obtain deeper insights from transaction data.



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The Bot Platform: The Bot Platform is an easy-to-use, no-code platform that allows anyone to build their own bots and automation tools for platforms like Workplace from Facebook, Microsoft Teams, and Facebook Messenger. Start from an editable template or build bots from scratch that help drive employee engagement and productivity.



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CentOS 7: Pre-configured by ProComputers.com, this is a minimal CentOS 7 image, mainly used as a common base system on top of which other appliances could be built and tested. It contains just enough packages to run within Azure, bring up a SSH Server, and allow users to login. Azure Linux VM Agent, cloud-init, as well as the CentOS 7 security updates are included.



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CentOS 7.8: Pre-configured by ProComputers.com, this is a minimal CentOS 7.8 image, mainly used as a common base system on top of which other appliances could be built and tested. It contains just enough packages to run within Azure, bring up a SSH Server, and allow users to login. Azure Linux VM Agent, cloud-init, and the CentOS 7 security updates are included.



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CentOS 8: Pre-configured by ProComputers.com, this is a minimal CentOS 8 image, mainly used as a common base system on top of which other appliances could be built and tested. It contains just enough packages to run within Azure, bring up a SSH Server, and allow users to login. Azure Linux VM Agent, cloud-init, as well as the CentOS 8 security updates are included.



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CentOS 8.1: Pre-configured by ProComputers.com, this is a minimal CentOS 8.1 image, mainly used as a common base system on top of which other appliances could be built and tested. It contains just enough packages to run within Azure, bring up a SSH Server, and allow users to login. Azure Linux VM Agent, cloud-init, and the CentOS 8 security updates are included.



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Comprehension by FeedbackFruits: This pedagogical tool gives instructors the opportunity to upload documents for students to review, recognize and prime on specific topics to guarantee a better understanding of study material. Comprehension helps students better process study material by priming them on specific topics.



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CT – Miner: Celebal offers this automated knowledge mining tool for RFPs, contract management, legal, audit and fraud. This end-to-end platform lets customers use state-of-the-art deep learning capabilities on question answering without having to code anything. The solution has data security at all levels and uses Azure Key Vault for added security.



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Customer Journey: Bismart has created a model based on customer journey that analyzes data from the purchase funnel by stages, customer satisfaction levels, pain points and other key metrics for customer management. Improve the customer experience and therefore the business cycle and value delivery.



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Cybersecurity Assessment: Using a tactical exploitation methodology, White Hat Consultores performs a security analysis of the entire client infrastructure, detecting security breaches from servers, forgotten computer equipment, and programming errors in the client’s systems. This application is available only in Spanish.



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Discussion Assignment by FeedbackFruits: This tool allows teachers to structure a meaningful online discussion and drive peer learning in the classroom. Teachers can replicate a physical classroom and leverage the interactions in an online environment. Online discussions can help to teach students discussion and writing skills.



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DNS Server – BIND DNS Server on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: This pre-configured image from Cloud Infrastructure Services provides BIND9 DNS server solution on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. BIND9 is open-source, flexible, and full-featured DNS software widely used on Unix/Linux because of its stability and high-quality performance.



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DNS Server – BIND DNS Server on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: This pre-configured image from Cloud Infrastructure Services provides BIND9 DNS server solution on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. BIND9 is open-source, flexible, and full-featured DNS software widely used on Unix/Linux because of its stability and high-quality performance.



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Dynamics 365 CRM to QuickBooks and Outlook: Dynamics 365 CRM to QuickBooks and Outlook: RoboMQ Connect iPaaS allows line-of-business users to perform two-way API and data sync between Microsoft Dynamics 365 to QuickBooks and Outlook. Accounting, finance, and ERP users in sales, supply chain, operations, and vendor management can build integration workflows in minutes.



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Email Validation by Service Objects: Boost campaign performance and email deliverability with real-time email verification. By ensuring you are only sending to authentic and accurate email addresses, this service improves your sender reputation, protects your mail servers from being blacklisted and boosts your campaign’s ROI.



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Events: Manage, analyze, and track your physical, digital or hybrid events for fashion, luxury, and beauty with Launchmetrics Events. Create first-class experiences using a single tool to manage all your events. Design the perfect invite and allow guests to RSVP digitally while monitoring the guest list in real time. Gain insights into attendance metrics and more.



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Expel 24×7 Managed Detection and Response: Expel offers all-day SOC-as-a-service security monitoring and response for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Using the customers’ existing security signals, Expel helps organizations get more value from their existing investments.



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Galleries: Maximize editorial opportunities and manage digital assets for the fashion, luxury, and beauty industries with Launchmetrics Galleries. Create customizable online showrooms for editors, influencers, stylists, and other industry insiders to access and download assets and request samples. Build your content library in the cloud and increase your productivity.



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GoSchedule – Appointment Scheduling Software: With GoSchedule, your appointments are instantly scheduled with prospective clients from multiple channels. The software automatically routes appointments to the concerned teams or staff members within your organization. Use among sales teams, salons, online educators, and more.



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Group Member Evaluation by FeedbackFruits: This pedagogical tool gives instructors the opportunity to get insights into the feedback process. Students can reflect on the collaborating and contributing process within groups. By asking group members to evaluate each other’s contribution, free riding can be eliminated.



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HORNG YU ELECTRIC-Cloud Power Management System: iPanel Cloud Management System is an application that enables the online monitoring of traditional power transmission devices. The platform lets you integrate different components such as power meter, relay, VCB/ACB, temperature monitoring devices, and more.



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Illusive Networks and Microsoft 365 E5: Extend Microsoft 365 E5 Security with Illusive Networks Lateral Threat Management. The Illusive platform is architected and engineered to provide attack surface management, high-fidelity threat detection and precision forensic cybersecurity intelligence both within and alongside Microsoft 365 E5.



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Illusive Networks and Microsoft Azure Sentinel: Illusive Attack Surface Manager shares attack surface analysis and incident logs with Azure Sentinel. Why leave privileged credentials and connections lying around if you can clean them up? This capability delivers immediate value to Microsoft customers seeking to protect their environments.



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Interactive Document by FeedbackFruits: Get your students engaged with articles online via inline questions and discussions. Instructors can add discussion topics and practice questions within documents. Students can engage with the document, share how the document made an impact on their view of the study material, and answer questions.



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Interactive Presentation by FeedbackFruits: Make your presentations interactive by adding questions to your slides. Instructors can quickly add interactive questions within their existing presentations, ensuring that a more holistic, thematically guided lecture experience can be achieved. In-class debates are also streamlined.



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International Address Validation – Service Objects: The DOTS Address Validation – International service instantly verifies, corrects, and/or appends address information to your contact records from over 250 countries, dependent areas, and territories. This real-time API service verifies and corrects international mailing addresses.



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Managed secure SD-WAN leveraging Microsoft Azure: This fully managed Open Systems Secure SD-WAN – deployed as a SASE solution – simplifies your Azure routing by enabling you to integrate your Azure cloud infrastructure (Azure VNETs, Microsoft Global Network, Azure Virtual WAN) into your global WAN.



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Name Validation by Service Objects: Detect and fix bogus first and last name data before it becomes a problem. With the DOTS Name Validation service, you can quickly identify vulgar, celebrity, dictionary-derived words that are typically used to create fraudulent or low-quality leads. The service also parses and fixes name order.



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NICE inContact CXone Voice Connectivity for 365: NICE inContact CXone Voice Connectivity for Microsoft 365 provides global, carrier-grade voice services – delivered over a secure internet connection. Streamline collaboration between contact center agents and Microsoft Teams users throughout your organization with CXone directory.



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Nuara ePRO 2020: A supply chain management tool that automates and streamlines your organization’s procurement process, Nuara ePRO allows employees to raise purchase requests conveniently through their online access panel. Supervisors can review purchase requisitions from anywhere at any time.



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Peer Review by FeedbackFruits: This pedagogical tool enables instructors to create assignments for students to provide feedback to their peers on deliverables. Peer Review can improve the final version of a report or make students more aware of their skills. Feedback from peers helps students to think critically about their work.



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Reverse Phone Lookup by Service Objects: Boost your campaign performance and phone connectivity with real-time phone verification. This phone number reverse lookup service includes latitude-longitude information on carrier and contact, mailable address notification when available, and appends SMS/MMS addresses.



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RTGS.global stage 1: RTGS.global is the global network for cross-border liquidity. Through RTGS.global’s always-on, always-available network, you can authenticate and audit interbank real-time liquidity on a transaction-by-transaction basis. Stage 1 enables participating banks to use the network in a SaaS-based offering.



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Samples: Easily manage and track your sample collections for the fashion, luxury, and beauty industries with Launchmetrics Samples. Track your samples and products as you send them around the world or within your company. Never wonder where your samples are again. Use RFID and barcode tags for a seamless check-in and check-out system.



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SAP + Dynamics 365 Integration: Save time and money with this layered integration of SAP S/4HANA and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service based on Microsoft Logic App Service. Streamline your processes, sales, and customer service. Avoid switching CRM and SAP and cover a gap in a business flow.



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Squid Proxy Cache Server on CentOS 7.7: This pre-configured image from Cloud Infrastructure Services provides the Squid proxy caching server, optimized for speed and high performance, on CentOS 7.7. Squid offers traffic optimization options, most of which are enabled by default. Squid is a caching proxy for the web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.



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Squid Proxy Cache Server on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: This pre-configured image from Cloud Infrastructure Services provides the Squid proxy caching server, optimized for speed and high performance, on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Squid offers a rich set of traffic optimization options. Squid is a caching proxy for the web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.



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SWAN Systems: SWAN Systems is a decision-support and planning solution that enables irrigators to improve yield, save money and time, and conserve resources. Customized to an exact geography and irrigation context, SWAN’s technology transforms historic, current, and predictive data from multiple sources into actionable insights.



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UltraBac Hybrid Hyper-V Backup to Azure: UltraBac’s Hybrid Hyper-V Backup Solution uses Microsoft APIs to back up both running and powered off virtual machines from protected virtual hosts to any on-premises disk-based storage device. It then copies the backup to Azure for redundant and identical offsite backup.



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UltraBac Hybrid vSphere Backup to Azure: UltraBac’s Hybrid vSphere Backup Solution uses VMware APIs to back up both running and powered off virtual machines from protected virtual hosts to any on-premises disk-based storage device. It then copies the backup to Azure for redundant and identical offsite backup.



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Verinote by VeriSaaS: Verinote is an enterprise mobile digital intelligence, evidence, and note-taking platform. It replaces handwritten official notebooks, diaries, journals and decision logs often used in government, law enforcement, regulatory, and legal services. It complies with the security requirements of courts, governments, and enterprise.



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Virtual Learning Academy: 3DBear offers a turnkey solution for using virtual learning environments in teaching. With augmented reality and virtual reality, you can teach hands-on skills remotely. Many students can perform the same lab activity or vocational task at once. In vocational training, you can train almost any hands-on skill remotely.



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Voleer: This BitTitan solution puts automation to work for you with out-of-the-box tools or support to build your own. Voleer’s datacenters and powerful automation work with your technology to enhance visibility and provide more effective management of resources, security, data governance and more. Do more with the resources you have.



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X0PA ROOM: X0PA AI is an intelligent SaaS platform that aims to save significant time and cost of hiring while achieving the highest level of objectivity using AI and machine learning. X0PA provides transcripts of the interview are available and analyzes the choice of words and tone to provide text analytics.



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Zoho Bookings: Zoho Bookings is an online appointment scheduler for service-based small businesses. It offers a booking system for one-on-one meetings, classes, and renting of assets. Once you fill in your operational details, you’ll receive customizable booking pages for every service, asset, and staff member.



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AI/ML for Engineering : 2-Hr Assessment: DEEP BLUE AI PTY LTD’S free two-hour assessment includes a preliminary discussion of your data, business use cases, and opportunities to deploy machine learning algorithms at scale. DEEP BLUE will provide recommendations on how your business requirements can be met using machine learning algorithms.



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AI/ML Solution Build : 3-Wk Implementation: Get a full-scale solution to deploy robust, cost-effective machine learning models using DEEP BLUE AI PTY LTD’s expertise in data engineering, DevOps, and SaaS platforms within the Azure ecosystem. At the conclusion of this phase, you will have access to the custom ML model and Azure Functions APIs.



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AI/ML Use Case Assessment : 2-Hr Assessment: DEEP BLUE AI PTY LTD’S free two-hour assessment includes a preliminary discussion of your data, business use cases, and opportunities to deploy machine learning algorithms at scale. DEEP BLUE also provides recommendations on improvements to your data collection and storage to optimize predictive performance.



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AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals (rev.1d):1-Hour Briefing: This briefing from Qualitia Energy will help you understand Azure and get ready for Exam AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals. This briefing is a summary of the one-day workshop also provided by Qualitia. Learn Microsoft Azure fundamentals and get ready for the AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals exam.



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AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals (rev.2d):1-Hour Briefing: This briefing from Qualitia Energy will help you understand Azure and get ready for Exam AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals. This briefing is a summary of the two-day workshop also provided by Qualitia. This course is suitable for IT personnel who are just beginning to work with Azure.



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Azure: Free 2-Day Proof of Concept: Effortlessly assess on-premises workloads, apps, data, and servers, including Windows, SQL, Linux, and others, for migration to Azure. Seepath Solutions’ Azure expert services team will help you with cloud migration processes and planning and help run a proof of concept so you can move with confidence.



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Azure Governance Workshop: 1Day & 1-2Wk Deployment: Champion Solutions Group’s Azure Glidepath for Governance Basic Service workshop and discovery focuses on access, security, and governance in Microsoft Azure. This offering also includes a baseline governance deployment over period of up to two weeks to help you improve your Microsoft Azure security posture.



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Azure Governance Workshop: 1Wk + 1-2Mth Deployment: Champion Solutions Group’s Azure GlidePath for Governance Enterprise Service includes an in-depth workshop and discovery totaling 40 hours that focuses on access, security, and governance in Azure. This offering also includes a baseline governance deployment over a period of up to eight weeks.



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Azure Governance Workshop: 40hr + 2-4Wk Deployment: Champion Solutions Group’s Azure GlidePath for Governance Standard Service includes an in-depth workshop and discovery totaling 40 hours that focuses on access, security, and governance in Azure. This service also includes a baseline governance deployment over a period of up to four weeks.



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Bizdirect Cost Optimization – 3week implementation: This cost optimization service from Bizdirect will provide a report including all required actions to optimize workloads and total optimization percentage of each action. The report will include the current state of the services, configurations and sizes (as-is), recommendations, and more.



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Cloud Migration Data Readiness: 3-Wk Assessment: Bring clarity, assurance, and compliance to your cloud migration with Aiimi’s next-generation technology. Powered by AI and machine learning, InsightMaker software helps you understand what data you’ll be migrating and what you’ll leave behind, so you can budget for the required storage.



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Cloud Security Readiness: 3 Week Assessment: In this assessment, Accenture will help the customer to assess information security risks and legal and compliance challenges and plan secure cloud implementation. Get a comprehensive report with a holistic view on security requirements for cloud implementation customized to your IT architecture.



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Data Analytics Accelerator : 3Wk Implementation: vNext will help you create a modern data platform to uncover new insights, collaborate, innovate, and drive a data-driven culture using Azure Synapse Analytics. Get Automated deployment and scaffolding of your modern data platform using Azure DevOps.



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Disaster Recovery: 2-Week Implementation: Seepath Solutions will discover, assess, and define the architecture and recovery process for workloads on Azure. In one week, you will gain the monitoring and protection your business needs to be compliant and secure in case of an emergency. Get system recovery in 30 minutes or less.



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Empowering Remote Workers: 1 Hour Briefing: Empower your remote workforce with secure access to the organization’s data. In this free briefing, you will learn how Seepath Solutions helps you secure devices and protect sensitive data using Microsoft Azure. Learn how to increase the productivity of your remote employees.



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Federal Azure Networking: 10 Wk Workshop: Applied Information Systems’ workshop starts by helping you to define networking use case requirements and design session scope and attendees. Experts will work with SMEs and stakeholders on design, decisions, diagrams, and specifications. Finally, you’ll get an approach, pricing, and implementation plan.



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3 ways to minimize fraud this holiday season

3 ways to minimize fraud this holiday season

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Even in challenging times, the holiday season’s irresistible deals attract both customers and fraudsters. A differentiated fraud prevention strategy is essential to keep a merchant’s fraud losses minimized while letting legitimate customers continue to have a smooth shopping experience.

Consumers often change buying and engagement patterns with merchants during the holiday season like shipping to a new address when buying a gift or adding a new card on file that may give them higher rewards or a higher spending limit.

These new consumer behaviors pose a challenge for fraud prevention because it makes it more difficult to differentiate between fraud attempts and legitimate purchases.

Online purchases are expected to increase this year due to social distancing requirements. Now more than ever merchants need to adopt a differentiated strategy for fraud preventionone that helps adapt and respond to changing customer behaviors and minimizes fraud loss.

Here are three tips for the holiday season to help keep fraud low and maximize gains during these peak sales times.

First: Identify your fraud attack zone

While this may sound like a no-brainer on the face of it, identify and make a list of products in your portfolio that fraudsters can benefit from, either by reselling the products or using it themselves.

One of the key strategies in fraud defense is to identify where you are likely to be attacked. A product that is of limited supply or being posted with a high discount is more likely to be targeted than a product that is abundantly available year-round and has a low discount. Digital goods, especially one-time or non-subscription digital goods, tend to be targeted more than physical goods.

Commonly, these will also be the products most of your customers want and are the star items of your holiday deals.

Loosening fraud-decision thresholds on these products could make you a soft target for fraud. Instead, evaluate if you can apply limits such as maximum quantity and then use it in a watch-list fashion for reviews and reporting.

If you have a process in place for manually reviewing some transactions, consider adding confirmation or shipping delays until the review is completed.

Second: Set up rapid internal fraud communication channels

Core sale events and accompanying fraud attempts can last from a few hours to days. During which there will be an outburst of information coming from customer escalations, social engineering attempts, reports of successful purchases, and successful fraud prevention.

Weeding out noise from useful signals in real-time is essential. Normal communication methods such as support tickets and email messages can’t scale to meet these needs.

Set up channels that promote cross-functional communication in real-time, such as incident management tools, command room techniques, or collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams. Include fraud analysts, review agents, customer support agents, and any other teams involved in handling fraud or customer escalation in these rapid communication channels. This helps with quick resolution of any false positives (customers blocked due to fraud suspicion) and to identify new fraud patterns as well as react to them.

Third: Monitor trends as near to real-time as possible

During the rush of holiday sales activity, it is essential to monitor the trends as near to real-time as possible and as granular as possible. Set up reporting on decisions and trends such as reject rate, approval rate, review rate, and trends of total volume and score distribution with views across slices of products, geographies, and user segments. All teams responsible for fraud prevention should always have a hawk’s eye on these reports and be ready to quickly jump-in if suspicious trends are seen.

How Microsoft can help your business combat fraud efficiently this holiday season

If you are currently using Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection, you can use the virtual fraud analyst capability to get a segmented view across your products and fraud profiles. The scorecard gives you a real-time view of the performance and support tool that helps to search and investigate all transactions including risk information and history. You can also enable the transaction acceptance booster feature to share data with banks in real-time to maximize customer experience and reduce wrongful declines.

Next steps and continued learning

If you are not currently using Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection, you can learn more and start a free trial to see what additional value you can bring to your business and customers.

 

 

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