by Scott Muniz | Jul 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
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A year ago, we announced the July 31, 2021 retirement date for Skype for Business Online along with our recommendation customers upgrade to Microsoft Teams. Since then, Teams adoption and usage continue to grow, as organizations have needed to find better ways to safely connect with their teams, customers, and partners. We’re seeing this play out in the dramatic increase in remote work, where traditional in-person meetings that are now impractical or impossible are being replaced by online meetings, calls, and chats.
Many of our Skype for Business customers have accelerated their upgrades to Teams expressly to bring people, data, ideas, and workflows together in one place, giving them the flexibility to keep working while physically apart.
With 12 months until the retirement of Skype for Business Online, we want to ensure each of our customers has a plan to transition to Teams – not only because access to Skype for Business Online will end, but to help realize the full benefits of Teams. Whether your organization is looking to transition from Skype for Business Server, Skype for Business Online, or a hybrid deployment, here are some resources to help along the way.
Training, workshops, and technical guidance for a successful upgrade to Teams
Instructor-Led Teams Training – Need guidance for your deployment, or help training your organization to get the most from Teams? Check out the free live and on-demand online training designed to help business decision makers, admins, IT Pros, and end users get up and running with Teams.
Teams Upgrade Guidance – The Skype for Business to Teams content on Microsoft Docs covers upgrades end-to-end featuring a proven project framework, coexistence specifications, and an upgrade success kit. Reference for all-up planning or for answers to specific upgrade questions.
Teams Upgrade Planning Workshops – Project leads, change managers, and IT admins rave about these free, interactive online workshops for their valuable guidance, best practices, and resources for planning and implementing the upgrade to Teams.
FastTrack and Partner Support – When Teams deployment projects require more involved assistance, customers with eligible subscriptions can engage FastTrack for support. Customers are also encouraged to engage a Microsoft Partner for assistance planning or executing their upgrades from Skype for Business to Teams.
Plan today for success in the months ahead
If you’ve already started your journey to Teams, keep it up. Each organization has its unique technical environment, application and process integrations, and aptitude for change that can shorten or extend the path to “Teams Only”. With a comprehensive upgrade plan in place, you’ll be ready to handle the expected as well as the unforeseen. Upgrade from Skype for Business to Teams and enable your organization to meet, chat, share, and collaborate from wherever they are, until the time is right for everyone to be together again.
See you on Teams!
by Scott Muniz | Jul 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.
A year ago, we announced the July 31, 2021 retirement date for Skype for Business Online along with our recommendation that customers upgrade to Microsoft Teams. Since then, Teams adoption and usage continue to grow, as organizations have needed to find better ways to safely connect with their teams, customers, and partners. We’re seeing this play out in the dramatic increase in remote work, where traditional in-person meetings that are now impractical or impossible are being replaced by online meetings, calls, and chats.
Many of our Skype for Business customers have accelerated their upgrades to Teams expressly to bring people, data, ideas, and workflows together in one place, giving them the flexibility to keep working while physically apart.
With 12 months until the retirement of Skype for Business Online, we want to ensure each of our customers has a plan to transition to Teams – not only because access to Skype for Business Online will end, but to help realize the full benefits of Teams. Whether your organization is looking to transition from Skype for Business Server, Skype for Business Online, or a hybrid deployment, here are some resources to help along the way.
Training, workshops, and technical guidance for a successful upgrade to Teams
Instructor-Led Teams Training – Need guidance for your deployment, or help training your organization to get the most from Teams? Check out the free live and on-demand online training designed to help business decision makers, admins, IT Pros, and end users get up and running with Teams.
Teams Upgrade Guidance – The Skype for Business to Teams content on Microsoft Docs covers upgrades end-to-end featuring a proven project framework, coexistence specifications, and an upgrade success kit. Reference for all-up planning or for answers to specific upgrade questions.
Teams Upgrade Planning Workshops – Project leads, change managers, and IT admins rave about these free, interactive online workshops for their valuable guidance, best practices, and resources for planning and implementing the upgrade to Teams.
FastTrack and Partner Support – When Teams deployment projects require more involved assistance, customers with eligible subscriptions can engage FastTrack for support. Customers are also encouraged to engage a Microsoft Partner for assistance planning or executing their upgrades from Skype for Business to Teams.
Plan today for success in the months ahead
If you’ve already started your journey to Teams, keep it up. Each organization has its unique technical environment, application and process integrations, and aptitude for change that can shorten or extend the path to “Teams Only”. With a comprehensive upgrade plan in place, you’ll be ready to handle the expected as well as the unforeseen. Upgrade from Skype for Business to Teams and enable your organization to meet, chat, share, and collaborate from wherever they are, until the time is right for everyone to be together again.
See you on Teams!
by Scott Muniz | Jul 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.
Hello everyone, here is part 14 of a series focusing on Application Deployment in Configuration Manager. This series is recorded by @Steve Rachui, a Microsoft principal premier field engineer. These tutorials are from our library and use Configuration Manager 2012 in the demos, however the concepts are still relevant for Configuration Manager current branch.
This session continues with our App-V discussion and moves to the client side to see how ConfigMgr together with App-V 5.0 work to deploy virtualized applications, including the use of virtual environments (App-V 5.0 connection groups). We also discuss how integration between ConfigMgr and App-V, is advantageous for asset tracking and software metering.
This is final video in the application deployment series. We hope you found the series helpful.
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by Scott Muniz | Jul 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
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Once you have created a 360 Virtual Tour the next step is getting it in front of users. Do you email a link? Do you put a link in a newsletter? The easiest, and IMHO best ways are to leverage SharePoint Navigation as well as bring the tour directly into Microsoft Teams.
In this HLS Show Me How video I demonstrate how to link in the 360’ Virtual Tour into SharePoint navigation as well as bring it directly into Microsoft Teams.
Resources:
360′ Virtual Tours 2 Part Series:
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by Scott Muniz | Jul 30, 2020 | Alerts, Microsoft, Technology, Uncategorized
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Now, for the first time, with the Azure Sphere OS 20.07 release, Microsoft has licensed and exposed a subset of wolfSSL for use on Azure Sphere devices, allowing software developers to create client TLS connections directly using the Azure Sphere SDK. Software developers no longer need to package their own TLS library for this purpose. Using the wolfSSL support in Azure Sphere can save device memory space and programming effort, freeing developers to build new IoT solutions.
Microsoft Azure Sphere and wolfSSL have been long-time partners, striving for the very best in security. The Azure Sphere OS has long used wolfSSL for TLS connections to Microsoft Azure services. Azure Sphere also uses wolfSSL technology to enable secure interactions from developer apps to customer-owned services.
Partnerships with leaders like wolfSSL play an important role in Azure Sphere’s mission to empower every organization to connect, create, and deploy highly secured IoT devices. The unique Azure Sphere approach to security is based on years of vulnerability research, summarized in the seminal paper “Seven Properties of Highly Secure Devices.” These seven properties are the minimum requirement for any connected device to be considered highly secured. Azure Sphere implements all seven properties, providing a robust foundation for IoT devices.
Azure Sphere can be used with any customer cloud service, not just Microsoft’s own Azure. By providing a highly secured ecosystem, Microsoft and wolfSSL make security features more accessible and easier to use and can extend unmatched security to the frontiers in IoT where security has historically been sparse.
For information on how to use the wolfSSL API on Azure Sphere, please see Use wolfSSL for TLS connections in the online documentation. We plan to publish a related sample application, available at a later date. Check back here—we will update this post with the link to the sample once it is available.
If you have any questions, contact Microsoft at AzCommunity@microsoft.com or wolfSSL at facts@wolfSSL.com
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