Simplify deployment of Microsoft 365 with new and updated deployment guides

Simplify deployment of Microsoft 365 with new and updated deployment guides

by | Dec 15, 2022 | Technology

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

As a Microsoft 365 admin, you need to deploy services for your users and your organization efficiently, comprehensively, and securely. Getting the most out of your investment has everything to do with how quickly you can configure, deploy, and get the right products to the right users. To help minimize time to deployment and free you up to do more, the Advanced deployment guides & assistance page in the Microsoft 365 admin center along with setup.microsoft.com deliver just that – a streamlined approach to Microsoft 365 deployment built on FastTrack best practices. Resources available on support.microsoft.com or learn.microsoft.com offer a wealth of information, training, certification and more. On the other hand, the Microsoft 365 admin center curates relevant guides specific to your tenant, offering you the most actionable information to help you get your Microsoft 365 apps and services deployed to your organization. Today we are announcing a series of improvements to the deployment guides to help you simplify deployment of Microsoft 365.


 


What’s new in the Microsoft 365 admin center Advanced deployment guides & assistance page?


 


To help you easily find guides for the services you’re deploying, we’ve updated the search tools, recommendations, and layouts for the Advanced deployment guides & assistance page in the Microsoft 365 admin center and at setup.microsoft.com. Additionally, to help you track key metrics over time, these new layouts include views that highlight guides for Secure Score (pictured below), as well as the Compliance Score and Adoption score (coming soon).


 


The Secure Score view on the advanced deployment guides & assistance page.The Secure Score view on the advanced deployment guides & assistance page.As a Microsoft 365 admin, you’ll likely need to communicate and share your deployment progress with relevant stakeholders. Rather than documenting and summarizing progress for each deployment process along the way, you can now save valuable time by exporting your progress in Excel and share your progress as needed.


 


Secondly, prioritization is key. With the breadth of services available in your Microsoft 365 subscription, it’s important to prioritize and focus on the highest impact services first. In this update, you can now view the most important actions front and center in the Suggested guides section. In future updates, these suggestions will be tailored to your configuration and licenses.


 


Lastly, to help you stay informed on the latest information about advanced deployment guides, you can now use tags to notify you when a new or updated guide has been released since your last visit to the page.


 


The suggested guides view on the advanced deployment guides & assistance page.The suggested guides view on the advanced deployment guides & assistance page.


New deployment guides on setup.microsoft.com


 


Setup.microsoft.com is the home for advanced deployment guides outside the Microsoft 365 admin center. Now, all the same guides in Microsoft 365 admin center are available on setup.microsoft.com, so admins who don’t have permissions for Microsoft 365 admin center can access the information they need. For admins of adjacent products, partners, or other stakeholders, setup.microsoft.com offers step-by-step deployment information. It serves as a useful learning and guidance resource accessible those who can’t directly sign in to the Microsoft 365 admin center, or who only have permissions to access other admin centers. The site also helps anyone get informed about deployment as they discover and try Microsoft 365 services before making a purchase.


 


Key updates to this site include:  



  • Expanded searchability to quickly find guides 

  • Better page organization to help you navigate to the right view 

  • Addition of all guides previously only available in the Microsoft 365 admin center (early 2023)


A side-by-side image demonstrating the updated design of the setup.microsoft.com website with new areas to find guides by product or scenario.A side-by-side image demonstrating the updated design of the setup.microsoft.com website with new areas to find guides by product or scenario.


New advanced deployment guides available in both Microsoft 365 admin center and setup.microsoft.com


 


Recently we’ve released a new advanced deployment guide for setting up your Microsoft Zero Trust security model. Coming in the first quarter 2023, we’re planning the release of a new guide for Windows 365 Cloud PC configuration. Check out both locations for the new guides.


 


Microsoft 365 deployment guides give you tailored guidance and resources for planning and deploying your tenant, apps, and services. They explain how to set up products, enable security features, deploy collaboration tools, and provide scripts to speed up advanced deployments. We hope you will find these recent enhancements to make for a more user-friendly and navigable environment as you explore and use the Microsoft 365 advanced deployment guides.


 


Continue the conversation by joining us in the Microsoft 365 community! Want to share best practices or join community events? Become a member by “Joining” the Microsoft 365 community. For tips & tricks or to stay up to date on the latest news and announcements directly from the product teams, make sure to Follow or Subscribe to the Microsoft 365 Blog space!

Microsoft Bookings now supports custom domains

by | Dec 14, 2022 | Technology

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

Microsoft allows organizations to own more than one domain (the default domain is onmicrosoft.com). Learn more about creating domains here: Add a domain to Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Docs.


 


We are enabling two controls for domain use in Microsoft Bookings:



  1. You can specify which domain will be used from the domain list for Bookings using OWA mailbox policy. Once the default domain policy is configured and deployed, any newly created Bookings calendars will have the configured domain in the SMTP address.

    For example, Bookings pages can be created with a domain, “contoso.com” instead of, “contoso.onmicrosoft.com”.


  2. You can also configure domains for specific users. When users with the custom Outlook Web App (OWA) policy create a Bookings calendar, it would be created with the custom domain and not the default domain.


Please note, this change will not impact Bookings calendars that have already been created. Only new calendars will be created using the configured domain.


 


How can you start using Custom domain?


 


Add your choice of a domain name as per the process defined here. Admins can use Powershell commands to user this new feature as defined in detail here: Custom domain support in Bookings.

If you are enjoying Microsoft Bookings, read more about these recently released features:



  1. Introducing follow-up reminders in Microsoft Bookings

  2. Announcing Microsoft Bookings Power Automate connector – now available in Preview!


 


Did you know? The Microsoft 365 Roadmap is where you can get the latest updates on productivity apps and intelligent cloud services. Check out what features are in development or coming soon on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, or view Bookings roadmap items here. 

Azure Marketplace new offers – December 13, 2022

Azure Marketplace new offers – December 13, 2022

by | Dec 13, 2022 | Technology

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

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 108 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below:


 


 


 













































































































































































































































































































































































































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Drive data architecture modernization with Denodo Platform on Azure Marketplace

by | Dec 12, 2022 | Technology

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

In this guest blog post, Mitesh Shah, Director – Cloud Product Management at Denodo, discusses how Denodo Platform offerings via Microsoft Azure Marketplace can help modernize your cloud data architecture and accelerate cloud adoption.


 


Businesses that are modernizing data warehouses or data lakes using Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics want simple, governed, more flexible hybrid cloud data integration. This is possible via a virtual data access/data delivery architecture powered by data virtualization, enabling real-time analytics with minimal data movement and zero data replication. Data virtualization is a modern, logical form of data integration; other approaches include extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes and change data capture (CDC).



No matter the size of the business, having a single source of truth is invaluable. Businesses have numerous tools and techniques at their disposal, making it more difficult to establish the right combination when it comes to the overall cost, time to implement, and skills required to establish a modern, digitally driven architecture as part of their cloud transformation journey.


 


The data virtualization approach integrates any kind of structured and unstructured data that is outside the data lake (Azure Synapse), across other cloud systems (in a multi-cloud deployment), or in a different geography to support compliance requirements in real time. This also eliminates the need for multiple tools to manage a variety of cloud services separately and provides the auto-scaling support to manage reporting and data integration workloads across a variety of data sources in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment.


 


Use cases for the data virtualization approach


Users normally think of their cloud migrations in terms of moving their data to the cloud. Yes, that’s an important aspect of any migration, and several bulk load tools can facilitate that. The challenge is minimizing any kind of business disruption to the numerous applications (business intelligence tools, application programming interface connectors, web services) that leverage the data sources that are migrating to the cloud, such as data warehouses or databases. Data virtualization can simplify migrations by introducing a virtual data access layer, which can not only minimize business disruption but also provide flexibility to organizations, enabling them to manage migrations at their own pace.



Here are some other example scenarios:



  • Customer 360/single view of the data: Data virtualization can help by integrating the data from newer applications as part of merger and acquisitions activity. Organizations can combine all data across Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and more.

  • Marketing and website analytics: Combine/consolidate all marketing data (from Facebook, Twitter, Salesforce, Google Ads, LinkedIn) in one place, for better business insights.

  • Business intelligence/reporting: Data virtualization makes analytics more effective by integrating the right data sets across multiple data repositories (Azure Synapse, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB).

  • Sales and social media analytics: Data virtualization enables seamless Dynamics 365 CRM integration with a variety of other applications, such as ServiceNow, Google Analytics, Twitter data, and Azure Data Lake Storage, composed of CSV/XLS/Parquet files to drive intelligent campaigns and empower sales cycles with faster conversions and closings.

  • Data marketplace and data as a service (DaaS or API management): Adopt a logical data architecture, which can help democratize all enterprise data while providing centralized control in a distributed data landscape. The web-based data catalog tool provides a single point for secure, enterprise-wide data access and governance. This facilitates the corporate data marketplace, which then provides visibility into the enterprise data ecosystem and enables data to be shared without compromising data security.


Common challenges to keep in mind
Businesses face a variety of challenges that could have a direct impact on their growth and investment:



  • IT resource constraints/cost management: Not having a full-fledged IT team is quite common, and this is especially challenging when organizations are trying to enable self-serviceability. Managing a tight budget in a competitive environment is equally challenging.

  • Siloed/disparate data: This is a common challenge, and while there are multiple ways to address it, such as building ETL pipelines and/or replicating data, many can result in high costs, latency, and other secondary challenges.

  • Data security/compliance in the cloud: Without a centralized security layer, enabling such capabilities as Active Directory integration, data masking, data encryption, and row-and-column-based authorization to support General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other regulations can be a huge burden.


A self-service option in Azure Marketplace: Denodo Platform
Powered by data virtualization, the Denodo Platform addresses the key challenges above. It enhances data management in the cloud and streamlines many elements of this potentially complex journey.


 


Denodo recently announced two new offers, Denodo Professional and Denodo Standard, in Microsoft Azure Marketplace. They are targeted to mid-market users, to help them accelerate their SaaS integration and cloud adoption at an affordable cost using a pay-as-you-go model. Enterprise users can use Denodo Enterprise and Denodo Enterprise Plus offers to access advanced capabilities such as a full-featured data catalog and artificial intelligence/machine learning-powered query optimization for faster, more efficient BI reporting in the cloud.



Denodo is excited to offer a 30-day free trial of Denodo Professional via Azure Marketplace. After that, you pay only $6.27/hour for your data integration and management needs. Sign up to get in touch with our team about the offering, or you can start the free trial subscription directly from the marketplace. You can also take advantage of annual pricing via a private offer. All Denodo Platform offerings in Azure Marketplace are co-sell ready, and they enable you to start you cloud data integration journey in a self-service manner.

Azure Integration Services for Mainframes and Midranges Modernization Partners Survey

Azure Integration Services for Mainframes and Midranges Modernization Partners Survey

by | Dec 10, 2022 | Technology

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

As we prepare the Roadmap for Host Integration Server, our Mainframe and Midranges Integration platform and its Azure Logic Apps Connectors, the Azure Integration Services Product Group, is interested on learning how we can assist you supporting your efforts in your Mainframe and Midranges Modernization to the Azure Cloud. The following is the link to the survey: https://aka.ms/hostintegrationpartners.  


 


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