“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 [...]
“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, [...]
“Version 2004 is full of feature changes and a number of functional and technical improvements Welcome to the world of Windows 10 version 2004. Microsoft introduced this new version a bit earlier than it has done previously, and without much explanation to the community. When you look under the hood there’s a [...]
“With Windows 10, Microsoft moved to a new update model in 2015 and this has proven to be far superior” I still remember the days of building a brand new Windows XP machine, connecting it to the internet and the machine being instantly infected with the Sasser worm before even getting a chance of [...]
The third iteration of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) has arrived. Like I do every year, it’s time to unpack, agree with and challenge what it all means in a topsy-turvy year that we call 2020. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this quadrant is probably the [...]
“Your teams will be able to use this push-to-talk feature to communicate securely without the need for bulky radios” We have been hearing about a Walkie Talkie feature coming to Teams on mobile devices and it looks like it’s finally here! The Walkie Talkie functionality provides instant Microsoft Teams push-to-talk (PTT) communication and Microsoft have just announced it’s [...]
“Something that sounded pretty simple threw us a few curve balls on the way, so we thought we'd share our experience” We were recently asked by a customer to set up a kiosk laptop so their employees could sign into a web portal to complete some training activities. Something that sounded pretty simple threw us a [...]
Happy 10th birthday, Windows 10 With Windows 7 and 8 now very much in the rear-view mirror I was recently looking up the version history of Windows 10 and discovered that the May 2020 update (release 2004) is the 10th release of Windows 10. Happy 10th birthday, Windows 10. The realisation, however was that it [...]
Basic authentication is being deprecated Microsoft announced they were deprecating Basic Authentication for Exchange Online later this year but to avoid further disruption to businesses dealing with COVID-19, they have delayed this deprecation until 2021. Microsoft still plans to disable Basic Authentication for all newly created O365 tenants this year, as well as those tenants who have no record [...]
“Personal folder redirection is setting users’ Desktop, pictures, and documents folders to OneDrive for Business. It can be accomplished with Microsoft Intune and is nearly invisible to users while having many benefits” What is personal folder redirection? Personal folder redirection is setting users’ Desktop, pictures, and documents folders to [...]
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