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Best Practice Resource Naming Conventions in Microsoft Intune

Naming conventions are something that you can debate about with your colleagues while trying to pick THE BEST. It is important to at least have one – or follow a few simple principles when naming resources – because standardization makes BAU life easier: reporting looks nice, troubleshooting is straightforward, training is faster, etc.

December 9th, 2020|

Remote Support: Work from anywhere meets support from anywhere

    “There is a rapidly growing requirement for the capability to support people using any device, anywhere, anytime.”   https://youtu.be/PPDxXEwBJjE   How have you adapted your IT support for mobile workers? IT support has traditionally been very hands-on, with in-house or third-party providers being available on premise. Today, with most computing devices being [...]

November 19th, 2020|

The Rise of Surface: Microsoft’s Play at First Party Devices

    “Is Microsoft (Windows 10) running on Microsoft (Surface hardware) better than on another OEMs hardware? History would tell us yes.” There is little doubt the internet has delivered many wonderful things. 20 years ago you could not book a flight directly from an airline and 10 years ago you could not buy [...]

November 16th, 2020|

Is it Time to Abandon Intel?

ARM predictions for 2021 and beyond “With Microsoft and Windows 10 on ARM clearly on the path and Apple set to join the party we are in for some interesting transition years ahead as mobile continues to eat the computing landscape.” Later this week Apple are rumoured to be announcing their first Apple Silicon [...]

November 8th, 2020|

Zero Trust: Modern Security for the Modern Workforce

  “Zero-Trust represents a cultural shift from network-based controls to identity-based policies and processes” With a plethora of device types needing to access a network, it is becoming challenging to manage secure access using traditional security strategies and tools. Attackers often bypass conventional access controls, exploiting the common assumption that assets are safe on [...]

September 15th, 2020|

Microsoft Intune: A Journey to Market Leader

“Intune has dominated the UEM category this year, to the point that we expect Gartner may need to change the criteria in 2021” Intune has recently been named as a category leader for Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) by Gartner. In fact, Intune has dominated the UEM category in 2020, to the point that we [...]

September 11th, 2020|

Cloud Data: Access files anywhere, any time, on any device while improving security

  “Cloud data improves productivity and access, while improving security and simplifying operations” Computer data used to be considered most secure when it was stored in on-premise servers or private data centers. This belief dates to the time when computers were hard-wired to the server through network access points. Backups were a lengthy process, [...]

August 28th, 2020|
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