Inclusive Learning 365: Designed to Work for Everyone

by Contributed | Jun 15, 2021 | Technology

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

Today’s guest post was written by Chris Bugaj, Karen Janowski, Mike Marotta and Beth Poss – Assistive Technology experts, and co-authors of the new book, Inclusive 365

Designing experiences that reach all learners is a fundamental need for every educator to engage in. However, adopting an inclusive mindset is necessary before one can design educational experiences that meet every individual’s need. Within an inclusive mindset is the belief that inclusion is feasible, that all learners can achieve their potential, and that we must offer strategies that are flexible, accessible to all and intentionally designed. Inclusive educational experiences rarely happen by accident. Designing for inclusivity acknowledges learner variability and focuses on strengths that promote engagement, success, and autonomy.

Ubiquitous integration of educational technology helps create barrier free learning spaces where everyone has access to the tools to succeed and where use of technology supports does not mark any one learner as less accomplished.

As we discuss in our forthcoming book, Inclusive Learning 365, technology can be used to design experiences that are flexible which removes obstacles to independence. In the spirit of building inclusive learning experiences, Microsoft is paving the way toward ensuring ubiquitous access to inclusive technology for all. They have developed a multitude of features which promote accessibility and inclusion which are built into existing tools such as Office 365 and Windows. They have partnered with educational institutions and other technology providers to ensure these tools are widely available to the masses. Providing familiar tools with a variety of customizable features removes obstacles to content access. These tools offer flexibility and choice so that users can identify the features which work best for them, depending on the task and their own unique learning needs.

Changing the visual presentation of text, adding audio supports, translation of both voice recordings with text to speech and playback in multiple languages, are just some of the features built into Microsoft’s Learning Tools. Additionally, they have made one of their flagship accessibility tools, Immersive Reader, available to third party developers extending its reach. Immersive Reader makes text accessible for those who are learning to decode by helping them understand what they are reading. An example of that partnership with other developers is how Wakelet and Immersive Reader interact. For a recent immigrant from Israel, whose primary language was Hebrew, this partnership opened the curriculum for him in a way that wasn’t possible previously. The educator curated grade level content using Wakelet. The learner used the embedded Immersive Reader feature to translate the articles from English to Hebrew and then listened to them in his primary language. He independently accessed grade level content. Eventually, this feature was no longer needed as he gained English language skills. But it made a tremendous difference early in the school year.

Sometimes, accessibility is as simple as spell check—a tool that most of us do not even think about, as it is seamlessly integrated into almost every digital writing tool used. For one nine-year-old learner, however, spell check has made the difference between feeling hesitant as a student and becoming a confident learner with a newfound love for writing. Knowing that she had difficulty with spelling, she would get hung up on how to spell a word, lose her train of thought and get frustrated, often changing a well thought out and effective word she was writing to a less sophisticated and less interesting word that she knew how to spell. Asking the adults around her to help her spell was typically met with the direction “Try to find it in the dictionary”, not a helpful strategy when you might not be sure of the second letter in the word! When one educator explicitly modeled the simple strategy of clicking on the familiar red squiggly underlined word and using the suggestions to help her correct her misspelling, she found a solution to her writing challenges. When educators instead gave her the prompt of “Do your best and see what suggestions spell check gives you.” she took agency of her own learning. When she realized that even when she was doing handwritten work or filling in a printed worksheet, she could open a Word document and type in the word she was struggling with to copy correctly, she felt successful and proud of her work. A simple, often underrated function of a tool helped change the mindset of one young learner, who now sees herself as capable.

If the principal responsibility of an educator is to support the learners they are meant to serve, then every educator should explore both common-place and newer technologies designed with inclusivity and accessibility in mind. Learners, just like this nine-year-old, can be invited to evaluate the features for themselves, develop their own awareness for what’s available, and craft their own technology toolkit for life-long learning.

Join the four of us for a free webinar (June 17^th @ 1pm PST) led by Mike Tholfsen, as we discuss Inclusive Learning 365.

Chris Bugaj, Karen Janowski, Mike Marotta and Beth Poss

A powerful agent for Azure Monitor and a simpler world of data collection; now generally available!

by Contributed | Jun 15, 2021 | Technology

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

Today we announced the general availability of the Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) and Data Collection Rules (DCR) that are two brand new features from the Azure Monitor product. You can read more about the specific changes announced on this launch in this update announcement here.

Both these features address the data collection aspects of Azure Monitor, indicated by the red dotted box below. They aim to provide powerful new capabilities, while at the same time ensuring data collection setup is a breeze for users! Read on to find out how…

What’s the AMA? Is this “yet another agent”?

The AMA collects monitoring data from the guest operating system of virtual machines and delivers it to Azure Monitor. It is meant to replace all other agents that exist today for a similar purpose, consolidating their features and providing more capabilities on top and enabling long-requested asks by all of you.

So, while it is indeed another agent, it’s primary targeted to address the underlying sentiment of this question, which is pain and frustration at “too many agents”. For users today, there’s one agent if you wish to collect telemetry logs data, another agent if you want to collect metrics from Windows machines for alerting, another one if you want to do the same but from Linux machines. I think we all can agree that’s no fun, and the solution to this is (yep, you guessed it), the AMA!

Is the AMA the ‘one agent’ for everything?

The answer is no, but it’s meant to be the single agent for uploading data to Azure Monitor going forward, which collects telemetry data and sends it to Azure Monitor Logs or Metrics (today), and Event Hubs, Storage Accounts and many other destinations that you need to send telemetry data to (in future).

Other extensions need to be deployed for specific “curated” monitoring scenarios like security or insights, that all use the AMA to pump data to Azure Monitor.

Thus, it’s important to understand the new extension model that the AMA introduces that reduce management overhead and provide a consistent, easy way to enable, update, debug and remove specific monitoring scenarios.

• The AMA is available as a VM extension, and so all VM extension capabilities are available out of box like auto-upgrade, no-config installation and more


• Previously known as ‘Log Analytics Solutions’ or ‘Management Packs’, additional VM extensions may also be installed on the machine for specific monitoring scenarios like security monitoring (Azure Security Centre), SIEM (Sentinel), Virtua Machine Insights, Container Insights, VM Guest Health, Network Monitoring and many more


• These extensions all use the AMA extension to pipe data to the required destination, so user can choose to selectively install only what’s required. Nothing more, nothing less!

Okay, what else is new besides consolidating existing feature sets?

• Centralized yet granular (“resource-centric”) configuration, that allows you to have a setup that works best for your organization using the power of Data Collection Rules (see next section). You can either opt for centralized collection setup (one rule for all machines) as well as granular collection setup (different rule for different set of machines, even though connected to the same workspace)


• Native to ARM, which means you can use ARM templates, Azure policies, etc to manage monitoring code changes in the same as as your service code, with proper review gates and safe deployment practices


• Event filtering for Windows Event Logs that allows you to limit data collection to exactly what you require, thus providing tremendous cost saving opportunity

“We are very excited with the new Windows Security filtering capabilities in Azure Monitor Data Collection Rules. During the last 4-5 months, 3 of our customers have used the new feature. They have all gained significant logging cost savings (30-50%) being able to exclude irrelevant security events into their log workspace. The XPath filtering capabilities adds great filtering capabilities on agent level, so we only send the needed data into Azure Log Analytics. Moving forward we are also excited to learn, that Microsoft will continue to enhance the filtering capabilities to support some of the features in newer versions of XPath”

– Morten Waltorp Knudsen, CEO & Cloud Architect, 2LINKIT

• Support for multiple destinations, where you collect the data once and send it to multiple Log Analytics workspaces (multi-homing anyone?), or a combination of logs and metrics destinations at the same time


• Much better performance in terms of the EPS (events per second) rate, compared to existing agents


• Seamless experience on Azure and non Azure environments, using Azure ARC as a pre-requisite. The ARC agent comes at no extra cost and is only used to install the AMA and additional VM extensions on your non-Azure machines, the same way it’s done for Azure machines (Hint: One way to manage it all). 

“We have a large investment for both on-premise and cloud resources.  With Azure ARC and Azure Monitor Agent, we are able to collect real-time data from both environments into log analytics to provide analysis, gain visibility from operation management and compliances.  This also allows us to reduce redundant tools, processes, and expenses”

– An avid user from a large US telecommunication company

What’s DCR? Why should I bother learning about it?

“I want an easy way to setup monitoring and data collection for all my resources”

“I want to centrally manage what telemetry data I collect, and just do it one way for all instead of managing it differently per machine or resource type”

“I want a single pane of glass view for any/all data being collected from my resources and how/where it’s being sent to”

“I want a simpler monitoring life! :)”

If you can relate to any of the above, then Data Collection Rules is here to help!

Simply put, a DCR is a rule you can use to define what data to collect, how it should be processed, and where it should be sent to. It’s agnostic of the source of the data as well as the destination, making it independent of either and thus flexible enough to configure collection just the way you need to.

As such, DCR presents tremendous opportunity to revisit and simplify your existing data collection setup, and provides freedom from all existing limitations around configuration to make the most out of Azure Monitor!

How do DCRs work with AMA?

1. You first create a DCR which is nothing but an Azure ring 1 resource, which resides within Azure in a resource group and subscription of your choice (same as any other resource)
   
   
   
   1. In the DCR, you select which types of data you’d like to collect from what’s supported today
   
   
   2. Finally you specify the destination(s) where the data needs to be sent to. Within a single DCR, you can specify multiple Log Analytics workspaces today or a combination or logs and metrics destinations in Azure Monitor. Note: The metrics destination is not GA and continues to remain in preview with these limitations
   
   
   
   


2. Once created, one or more DCRs can be applied to one or more machines using DCR-Association (or DCRA) which need to be deployed per machine (1:1 mapping between DCRA and resource)


3. These machines should have the AMA installed which then polls into new Azure Monitor Control Service to fetch the DCRs the machine is associated with. Once received, AMA starts collecting the required data
   
   
   
   1. AMA uses Managed Identity so the machines should have that enables. See prerequisites here.
   
   
   
   

Note: When using the DCR creation experience on Azure Portal (shown below), you only need to perform step #1. All other steps are performed on your behalf (woohoo, no need to worry about agent installation!)

Does it only support AMA?

As of today, DCR is used to configure what the AMA should collect and where the data should be sent to. In the long term though, Data Collection Rules will become the single, consistent way to configure data collection for other resources like PaaS services (uses Diagnostic Settings today) or application (uses AppInsights SDK today), and whatever else that you need. Tell us now and help us build it for you!

What’s the migration story from existing agents?

We will not be auto migrating customers due to the fact that AMA is not at full parity yet with the existing agents.

• Log Analytics Agents customers may start migrating to AMA if their required set of capabilities and “solutions” are available already. Migration can be performed using the same steps listed in our documentation today, and using policies to replicate these steps “at scale”
  
  
  
  • In addition, ensure to cleanup existing agents, workspace keys, config files from machines
  
  
  • Also disable solutions on workspaces that you wish to use the new agent for instead
  
  
  
  


• Azure Diagnostic Extension and Telegraf agent customers can start migrating to AMA if they only need to send metrics data to Azure Monitor Metrics. Sending data to Event Hubs and Storage accounts is not supported yet.

We will be releasing migration tools in the coming months to automate and simplify some of this for you. In the meantime, if you need additional guidance or have questions, please reach out to the product group directly. We would be happy to assist!

What’s next?

This launch is just the first step towards a better and more powerful world of data collection for monitoring.

On the agent side:

• We continue to consolidate features from existing agents, including but not limited to:
  
  
  
  • Custom log collection
  
  
  • Windows 10 support
  
  
  • New destinations like event hubs and storage accounts
  
  
  
  


• Support for popular solutions (AMA extensions) that you use today. This should unblock more of you to migrate soon to the better agent.

On the DCR side, we will expand scope to act as the control plane for other parts of Azure Monitor data collection, like API based ingestion and Diagnostic Settings.

Lastly, we rely on you to tell us where we should head next. So tell us what you need, and tell us now!

OneDrive Roadmap Roundup – May 2021

by Contributed | Jun 15, 2021 | Technology

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

May has been really busy for the OneDrive team. Here are the latest functionalities that rolled out to production last month. 

• Updated file picking experience for Yammer


• Immersive reader in OneDrive and SharePoint


• Link settings to the Quick Permissions


• Expiring access for external users


• Exclude specific files from sync on macOS


• PDF viewing updates on iOS and Android 


• Request Files for GCC High and DoD 

Updated file picking experience for Yammer

Roadmap ID :  67240

When users upload files to a Yammer community they will now have access to the files structure and capabilities consistent with OneDrive. 

By default, the Pick files window displays your OneDrive folders and files as well as your Document libraries in SharePoint and Teams,  including the shortcuts to shared folders that have been added using the Add to OneDrive feature, so you  can easily navigate to the documents to select and upload.

Seamless file picking experience in Yammer consistent with OneDrive

Immersive reader in OneDrive and SharePoint

Roadmap ID :  81954

Users can now open documents directly in the Immersive Reader from inside OneDrive and SharePoint and leverage learning tools to change the appearance of your document by using Text options, set Text Size, Spacing, Font, and Themes that suit your learning needs , select Play at the bottom of the window to hear your document read aloud and to see the text highlighted simultaneously change the fonts , etc.

The Immersive Reader features help everyone on any device improve their reading skills, including those with dyslexia, dysgraphia, ADHD, emerging readers or a combination of the broad range of unique student abilities.

Open Word files directly into Immersive Reader from inside OneDrive and SharePoint. 

Link settings to the quick permissions

Roadmap ID : 81958 

Over the next year, we’re using an incremental, data-driven approach for rolling out updates to improve the sharing experience across all Microsoft 365 and Office applications for all platforms (desktop, web, and mobile). 

Recently we released Quick Permissions – a more intuitive and discoverable drop-down menu to help you easily select a permission levels( Can edit or Can view ) . We are now adding an additional entry point  to Link settings from the Quick permissions dropdown that provide more granular sharing control, so you easily can change link types and sharing permissions..

Intuitive access to link settings for updating sharing permissions.

Expiring access for external users

Roadmap ID : 43797

To protect shared files, administrators can set a mandatory expiration period to ensure access doesn’t last forever and help avoid leaking organization data by accident. This policy can be enabled in the SharePoint admin center (both modern and classic) and applies to both OneDrive and SharePoint. Once the policy is implemented, external users will automatically lose access to content on the site-by-site level (or OneDrive-by-OneDrive level). SharePoint site administrators and OneDrive owners will have the authority to extend or remove access for the selected users. 

Admins and end users can expire shares to external users

Exclude specific files from sync on macOS

Roadmap ID : 80684

We enabled functionality in OneDrive for macOS that allows IT admins to prevent the OneDrive sync app from uploading certain files to OneDrive or SharePoint. IT admins who are managing macOS devices in their organizations can enable this setting using the prescribed plist file entry to prevent users from uploading specific file types such as .exe or .mp3 when they sync their OneDrive files.

When this setting is enabled, the sync app doesn’t upload new files that match the specified keywords, and the files remain in the local OneDrive folder.

In Finder, the files will appear with an “Excluded from sync” icon in the Status column, and users will see a notification in the OneDrive activity center explaining why the files aren’t syncing.

Exclude files notification in Finder and Activity center.

PDF viewing updates on iOS and Android 

• Jump to Page for PDF viewing
  Roadmap ID :  81920, 81919
  Users of OneDrive for iOS and Android will be able to to navigate quickly to specific pages in PDFs . When viewing a PDF, users can tap on the page number at the bottom of the screen for the “Jump to Page” dialog to appear and then enter any page number to move to that page.
   
  Jump flow on iOS.


• Outline for PDF viewing
  Roadmap ID :  81918, 81917
  
  Outline creates a clickable table of contents to help people who use OneDrive on iOS and Android to quickly navigate PDFs. In iOS when viewing a PDF, tap More . When the table of contents appear, tap any page title to jump to that page . On Android when viewing a PDF, tap Outline for the the table of contents to appear.  
  Note : The outline feature only works if the PDFs contain outline information inside the metadata. If such information does exist, we simply will not show the outline command in OneDrive.

Outline flow in iOS

Request Files for GCC High and DoD

Roadmap ID : 72228

The popular Request Files feature is now available for GCC high and DoD.  With “Request Files” users can collect data from internal and external stakeholders using an upload-only link.

Request files via upload only link

Learn more and stay engaged..

 We continue to evolve OneDrive as a place to access, share, and collaborate on all your files in Office 365, keeping them protected and readily accessible on all your devices, anywhere.

 To learn more about OneDrive,

• You can stay up-to-date on all things via the OneDrive Blog and the OneDrive release notes.


• Check out the new and updated OneDrive documentation.


• Take advantage of end-user training resources on our Office support center 


• Check out our episodes of Sync Up- a OneDrive podcast to learn more about OneDrive from the experts.

Thank you again for your support of OneDrive. We look forward to your continued feedback and hope to connect with you at another upcoming Microsoft or community-led event .

If you are interested to join our team do check out aka.ms/ODSPTEAMSPM 

Thanks for your time reading all about OneDrive,

Ankita Kirti –  OneDrive  | Microsoft

Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 146

by Contributed | Jun 15, 2021 | Technology

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 76 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below:

Applications C3 AI Ex Machina: C3 AI Ex Machina is a no-code AI product that enables individuals, teams, and enterprises to build AI models and prep petabytes of disparate data with prebuilt connectors such as Snowflake, S3, Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage, and Databricks. Capassa Digital CFO: Capassa gathers and analyzes data from your small business’s accounting and finance departments, then presents the numbers visually to give you a better overview. Capassa will help you understand what’s working and what needs to be improved.  CBRE Host: With a high level of uncertainty around office environments due to COVID-19, CBRE’s Host empowers employees to choose where they want to work, emphasizes socially distanced desk options, provides digital entry passes, and helps employers manage building occupancy. CDP 7.2.x Runtimes: This offer from Cloudera provides images for setting up a Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Public Cloud environment with Data Lake and Data Hub. CDP Public Cloud makes it easier to achieve high-value analytics from the edge to AI in a familiar cluster model in the cloud. CDP Public Cloud images: This offer from Cloudera provides images for setting up a Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Public Cloud environment with FreeIPA and Data Lake. CDP Public Cloud makes it easier to achieve high-value analytics from the edge to AI in a familiar cluster model in the cloud. Cegeka Capacity Smart Parking: Cegeka’s Capacity platform enables facility managers and parking asset owners to better utilize their parking spaces. The platform offers central management for access control, capacity monitoring, customer assistance, and more. CentOS 8.3 Minimal: This image offered by Ntegral provides CentOS 8.3 Minimal, a minimal Linux distribution optimized for production environments. CentOS is an excellent virtual machine platform for workloads that include Node.js, web applications, and various database platforms. CloudSphere Cloud Migration Planning: CloudSphere’s Cloud Migration Planning can discover and map the entire topology of your IT estate, databases, and operating systems, uncovering any unknown connections and dependencies that could complicate your migration. Debian 10 Server: This offer from Cloud Infrastructure Services provides Debian 10 Server. Many popular Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Knoppix, PureOS, SteamOS, and Tails, choose Debian as a base for their software. Desktop360: Citrix on Azure Managed Service: Desktop360 from Entisys360 is a managed, ready-to-use Windows 10 virtual desktop deployed in a customer’s Microsoft Azure resource group and delivered by the customer’s Citrix cloud. distriBind for MGAs: Designed for managing general agents and insurance agents, distriBind’s back-office software automates premium reconciliation and carrier reporting. If you use digital distribution, distriBind can deliver real-time operations and allow you to report without bordereaux. Epsilon Smart: Fostering digital transformation for Greek businesses and their taxes, Epsilon Smart offers a web invoicing app for freelancers and small to medium-sized businesses. This app is compliant with the AADE myDATA platform and is available in Greek and English. FHIRBlocks Consent4Health: Consent4Health uses FHIR, blockchain, cryptography, fine-grained consent management, and a decentralized identity framework to free data custodians from the risk of managing electronic health information on behalf of patients. GORDIC GINIS: GINIS is a comprehensive solution for public administration organizations. It features economics, file service, human resources, and payroll systems. This app is available in Czech. ioMoVoR: Part of the ioMoVo cloud storage solution, ioMoVoR lets users move their data within ioMoVo and also across any platform of their choice. IoT Device Management: IoT Device Management is a stand-alone part of eSoftLink, LACROIX Group’s end-to-end IoT platform. Connect, drive, and monitor your industrial IoT solution with this platform-agnostic product that can be deployed on-premises or as a software as a service. Mavis: AI-Based Pharma Insights: Graphene’s AI engine, Mavis, analyzes and aggregates information to present complex insights to pharmaceutical companies. Mavis is trained by medical and pharmaceutical experts to identify, group, and present insights by country. MongoDB Server on CentOS: This offer from Cloud Infrastructure Services provides MongoDB Server 4.4 Community Edition on CentOS 8.3. MongoDB is a powerful distributed document database with high availability, horizontal scaling, and geographic distribution. MongoDB Server on Ubuntu: This offer from Cloud Infrastructure Services provides MongoDB Server 4.4 Community Edition on Ubuntu 20.04. MongoDB is a powerful distributed document database with high availability, horizontal scaling, and geographic distribution. Nomidio IDP: Nomidio IDP is a password-free multifactor authentication solution certified under the OpenID Connect standard and SAML 2.0. It allows enterprises to biometrically authenticate users at scale without significant up-front or ongoing costs. Nuuka Connect: Nuuka Connect connects commercial or public buildings to IoT solutions, sensors, energy meters, and more in the cloud. Nuuka Connect provides a unified data format and open APIs to access building information and optimize building systems. Nuuka Optimize: Nuuka Optimize is software for HVAC processes that can be connected to any building and allow operators to flexibly adjust energy consumption. This enables lower costs and a reduction of CO2 emissions. OptScale: Hystax’s OptScale provides visibility to help companies optimize IT costs and control Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services workloads. The solution offers dozens of cost optimization scenarios, resource lifecycle management, and more. Proge Learning Insights: Proge Learning Insights from Proge-Software supports universities and other educational institutions with their distance-learning initiatives. Proge Learning Insights features an advanced analytics dashboard based on Microsoft Power BI. Rail-Inspector: Rail-Inspector accurately processes and analyzes imagery captured during drone surveys. Rail-Inspector identifies and measures railway features, classifying anomalies and reporting areas of concern to railroad decision-makers. Redis Server on CentOS: This offer from Cloud Infrastructure Services provides Redis Server on CentOS 8.3. Redis is an open-source in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis Server on Ubuntu: This offer from Cloud Infrastructure Services provides Redis Server on Ubuntu 20.04. Redis is an open-source in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, and message broker. Retency Privacy Engine: Retency Privacy Engine’s de-identification technology provides database protection and personal data privacy. It’s commonly used in insurance and banking (for fraud prediction and risk assessment), marketing (for ad optimization), and city planning (for public transportation optimization). Riverbed Cloud Accelerator: Riverbed Cloud Accelerator simplifies cloud adoption and accelerates performance for application users and developers by removing network inhibitors, such as bandwidth constraints and unpredictable latency. SafetyAware: At-Risk and Lone Worker Safety: Running on Aware360’s PeopleIoT platform, SafetyAware provides instant communication and robust response that supports at-risk and lone workers wherever they are. Key elements of the solution include wearable devices and satellite connectivity. SendGuard for Outlook: SendGuard from Standss (South Pacific) Ltd. is a compliance and information security add-in for Microsoft 365. SendGuard can scan emails for profanity and guard against security breaches, warning users with a pop-up before they send them. SSIMPLUS VOD Monitor: SSIMPLUS VOD Monitor adds an intelligence layer to your video workflow so you can detect issues and quickly solve them. Track video-on-demand asset quality at scale from source to viewer and meet your customers’ high expectations. SynerScope Ixivault: SynerScope’s Ixivault visualizes linked data from traditional sources, like spreadsheets and databases, as well as from images, video, IoT data, and documents. Ixivault helps users rapidly categorize, label, and clean large data sets. Tom Sawyer Graph Database Browser: Tom Sawyer Graph Database Browser provides fast and easy visualization and analysis for graph databases. Users of all skill levels can view five graph layouts and run social network and link analysis, clustering, pathfinding, and more analytics using toolbar and menu options. Vitro Digital Record Platform: Vitro Software, formerly known as Slainte Healthcare, brings a “show value, then grow value” approach to digital transformation in hospitals and healthcare settings. Its digital record platform offers operational efficiencies and easy navigation. Work From Anywhere: Built on Microsoft Defender, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Azure, BMIT’s Work From Anywhere bespoke solutions enable employees to work remotely while securely accessing data. BMIT can design and deploy tools to make your business run smoother. Workplace Automation Self Help & First Fix: First Fix from Workplace Automation contains scripts to efficiently complete common administrative tasks faced by IT service desks. Improve your service desk productivity with automation, self-help features, and a device support report. Work Securely: Built on Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Azure, BMIT Work Securely bespoke solutions protect employee devices, guard against possible data loss, reduce the risk of identity theft, and perform risk analysis on your business data and security posture. Consulting services App Dev with Azure CosmosDB: 1-Day Briefing: This briefing from white duck GmbH will demonstrate ways to implement modern cloud applications with NoSQL database storage using Azure CosmosDB. Design a modern, scalable solution architecture for your apps. Automize CSP subscription management: Automize will provide Azure CSP support and managed services for your chosen subscription. Automize will assist with onboarding, activation, billing, service requests, and more. Automize Landing Zone: 3-Day implementation: Create the framework for your organization’s cloud adoption strategy in this three-day implementation by Automize. This service is aligned with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and ensures a smooth migration to Microsoft Azure. Azure Cloud Migration: 5-Day Evaluation: Izertis will develop a plan to migrate your digital identity management services to the cloud or hybrid environment using Microsoft Azure. Improve your processes of authentication, security, and identity management. This offer is available only in Spanish. Azure DevOps & GitHub: 1-Day Assessment: white duck GmbH will audit your current infrastructure and offer a roadmap to a modern DevOps-driven agile development process based on platforms like Microsoft Azure DevOps or GitHub. Azure Fundamentals for ISVs: 1-Day Workshop: This workshop by white duck GmbH will provide an overview of Microsoft Azure from a developer’s perspective along with an introduction to architectural concepts for cloud solutions and the basics of modern DevOps methods. Help your team learn the fundamentals of cloud computing. Azure Kubernetes Service: 10-Day Proof of Concept: This PoC from white duck GmbH will help your organization ship faster, operate with ease, and scale confidently. Learn how to use end-to-end prototyping in application development based on Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service. Azure Kubernetes Service Health Check: 1-Day Assessment: In this assessment, experts from BoxBoat Technologies will assess the stability, security, and configuration of your Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service cluster. Ensure peace of mind by making your Kubernetes platform safe, compliant, performant, and cost-effective. Azure Performance Management: 1-Day Workshop: In this workshop, diva-e Platforms GmbH will analyze the performance of your digital applications and existing Microsoft Azure infrastructure and make recommendations to optimize operations. This offer is available only in German. Azure Sentinel Accelerator: 2-Week Implementation: ANS Group’s implementation will deliver a fully functional production-grade Microsoft Azure Sentinel environment across multi-cloud and hybrid platforms. This will help your organization with efficient incident detection, analysis, and response. Azure Sentinel Managed Service: 3-Day Implementation: Insight Technology Solutions will help clients implement Microsoft Azure Sentinel while providing end-to-end services, including a team of analysts to manage round-the-clock security operations. Azure Well-Architected Framework: 3-Day Assessment: Objectivity’s assessment will validate your organization’s existing solution against Microsoft Azure best practices. Get an accurate understanding of your cloud architecture and ensure it is reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient. Cloud Adoption: 8-Week Assessment: Trace3 will help your organization assess, design, and build a foundation of your cloud adoption strategy that is secure, easily configurable, and ready to deploy workloads in Microsoft Azure.  Cloud Cost Management: This service by myCloudDoor will help you monitor and manage the cost and resources associated with your company’s consumption of Microsoft Azure. Keep track of the administrative tasks and continuously optimize your consumption and cost forecasts. Cloud Migration Services: CloudMoyo will make your organization’s migration to Microsoft Azure seamless through rearchitecting, refactoring, rehosting, and rebuilding. Create a roadmap for a digital future through this risk-free migration to the cloud. Cloud Migration Strategy: 8-Week Assessment: Trace3 will help you understand your migration options and recommend the right approach to meet your business needs. Establish a scalable process to assess, migrate, optimize, secure, and manage your workloads in Microsoft Azure. CloudMoyo Integration Services: Scale your company’s growth and empower end users with CloudMoyo’s integration services. CloudMoyo will help connect your on-site applications, systems, repositories, and IT environment to Microsoft Azure. CloudMoyo Snowflake on Azure implementation: In this implementation, CloudMoyo will run the Snowflake Data Warehouse on Microsoft Azure to offer a unified view of enterprise data and business performance, along with improved data security and self-service analytics capabilities. Cloud-Native Application on Kubernetes: 10-Week Implementation: This implementation by Objectivity offers an innovative minimum viable product created with Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, and AI. Containerization will allow organizations to better control application deployment, scaling, and management. Cloud Security SIEM Managed Services: 2-Week Implementation: PT Mitra Integrasi Informatika’s implementation will provide Azure Sentinel, the next-generation security information and event management (SIEM) solution from Microsoft, so your organization can detect and eliminate cybersecurity threats with ease. CloudSphere Cloud Migration Planning: CloudSphere’s automated assessment will map out the topology of your current IT infrastructure and help discover dependencies or issues that might complicate your migration to Microsoft Azure. Data Integration Platform on Azure: 4-Week Proof of Concept: Objectivity’s proof of concept will help design an optimal integration process for all your data scattered across disparate sources. This will harness the power of Microsoft Azure Data Lake and Microsoft Power BI solutions and help your organization become more data-driven. Data Integration Platform on Azure: 10-Week Implementation: Objectivity will implement an optimal integration process for all your data scattered across disparate sources. Harness the power of Microsoft Azure Data Lake and Microsoft Power BI solutions and help your organization become more data-driven. Data Platform Implementation: 10 Weeks: Motifworks’ 10-week implementation brings Microsoft Azure and big data analytics competency to help your organization with end-to-end data platform modernization. This will help reduce total cost of ownership and improve your operation margins. Data Platform Modernization: Link Development’s data platform modernization can help boost your organization’s digital productivity by using Microsoft Azure data services. Reduce administrative costs and make better data-driven decisions. Data Platform Modernization: 8-Week Implementation: Trace3’s data platform modernization uses Microsoft Azure tools to help organizations achieve the agility and elasticity necessary to run an intelligence-driven business. The implementation incorporates tools like ADF, ADLS, Databricks, and Azure Synapse to drive outcomes. Integration Center of Excellence: 9-Week Implementation: Using the Microsoft Azure platform, Synegrate will implement an enterprise integration with a strong focus on people, processes, and policies. This will result in high-quality integrations, greater ROI, and improved total cost of ownership. IoT Envisioning: 4-Day Workshop: Insight Canada’s workshop will help build a foundational understanding of how IoT and Microsoft Azure services can drive transformational change in your organization by enabling data-driven intelligence and integration. Managed Azure Landing Zone: 1-Hour Briefing: KCOM Group’s briefing provides an overview of how your organization can get started with Microsoft Azure without having to design, build, manage, and support the Azure infrastructure. Harness the performance, scalability, and innovation of Azure by deploying this landing zone.  Managed Detection and Response Service: This managed service from Venzo A/S uses the capability of Microsoft security products combined with features of Azure Lighthouse to gain visibility into your organization’s data sources via delegated access management. Identify and mitigate cybersecurity risks before they become a threat. Modern Data Platform on Azure: 4-Week Proof of Concept: Objectivity’s proof of concept will provide a custom architecture design for a modern data platform on Microsoft Azure. This will help your organization manage its cloud migration easily and efficiently. Modern Data Platform on Azure: 5-Day Assessment: Objectivity’s offering is designed to identify and assess the current state of your data solution and the feasibility and ROI of migrating one or more applications to Microsoft Azure. It includes a roadmap for a seamless migration process.  Modern Data Platform on Azure: 10-Week Implementation: In this implementation, Objectivity will help your company take data processing to a new level with Microsoft Azure. You’ll receive a custom-fit, end-to-end data solution that can still be easily expanded in the future. Modern Desktop Deployment & Management: intellecom GmbH will supply modern desktop provisioning and management based on your Microsoft 365 subscription and desktop deployment. This offer is available in German and English. Modernize Data Warehouse on Azure: 2-Day Assessment: In this engagement, UXLI will help you assess, design, and deploy modern data services for your cloud adoption, thus increasing the agility, scalability, and reliability of your data. A high-level strategy to include Microsoft Azure analytics will be included.  Modernize .NET Apps: 3-Week Assessment: This offer by Lightstream is geared toward customers who have chosen to modernize their .NET applications with Microsoft Azure. Benefits include a proven and repeatable process that creates a complete modernization plan with speed, security, and efficiency. Modernize your application with the cloud: 5-week implementation: CLOUDFIELD will help you modernize and speed up application development using Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service and other Azure services. Easily navigate business-critical requirements to improve your end customers’ experience. Vision Workshop: 2-Week Assessment: Sparkhound’s workshop will help you determine what’s most valuable for your business based on empirical data from Microsoft Azure analytics services. Learn how to prioritize budgeting and resources for your business, technology, and sustainability. Windows Virtual Desktop: 2-Day Workshop: In this workshop, Cluster Reply will administer a fully functioning Windows Virtual Desktop proof of concept. This will enable your organization to envision secure, work-from-anywhere scenarios and their positive business implications.  Windows Virtual Desktop: 2-Week Proof of Concept: Simplify your remote modern workplace with a proof of concept of Windows Virtual Desktop delivered by OBVUS. Learn how you can eliminate hardware constraints and increase your organization’s agility and performance.