What is Microsoft’s MyApps Portal?
Microsoft’s MyApps portal (a.k.a. the access panel) is a web-based portal for users of Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory account to launch applications. Think of it as a set of “visual bookmarks” that launch applications granted either by a company administrator or through self-service access: The idea is to...
Microsoft Tech Summit in Washington DC
On Monday and Tuesday last week, Microsoft held their Washington DC Tech Summit. I attended 4 sessions: The Future is Closer Than You Think; Broadly Deploying Windows 10 for Business The Windows 10 session was a convincing look at how Windows 10 could be effectively deployed and managed...
Skype for Business Auto Attendant Using Office 365
Auto Attendant is one of the most important features of an enterprise phone system. For people calling into your business, the auto attendant’s ability to route calls to the correct party is vital to the functioning of your company. When using Skype for Business as your enterprise phone system in...
Skype for Business – the Cure for Email Overuse
Overuse of email is rampant in American business and culture and many believe it degrades efficiency and effectiveness. It prolongs decision making and execution because it fosters truncated, unfocused exchanges rather than thoughtful communication. It fosters misunderstanding because it lacks all of the nuance of verbal and visual interaction. It...
Facebook implements Office 365 for 13,000 employees worldwide
On July 12th Facebook announced that they have implemented Office 365 for their 13,000 employees world wide. This announcement is a great win for Microsoft and their Office 365 platform to have a high profile tech company put their entire organization’s productivity suite in Microsoft’s cloud. Facebook’s CIO Tim Campos...
Realcomm Advisory: Interactive Technologies and the Maturity of Office 365 and Skype for Business
A key capability for any enterprise to succeed is the ability to gather timely, accurate data, assign meaning to that information, and make decisions based on the information in an agile manner that responds rapidly to changing market and business conditions. In the commercial real estate industry, technology teams generally...
OneNote Updates for Desktop, Web, and Mobile Apps
Last week, Microsoft announced new updates for OneNote web, desktop, and mobile apps. Before regularly using OneNote for notetaking, I used a mixture of Word documents and handwritten notes to keep track of my lists. This ran the risk of losing important notes, and it also built a backlog of...
Office 365 Updates and Patching
One of the biggest benefits of the Office 365 suite, and of subscription-based software as a whole, is the constant support. Traditional software was sold with an implicit time limit for everyone that purchased it. Sure, the software license might last indefinitely – but there was no guarantee that...
Office 365: The Only Software that Grows with Your Company
American business is consumed by the idea of the startup – a company that is founded with just the work of one or two talented individuals that toil for months on their own and eventually strike it big and get outside investment and more employees. Startups can’t build their infrastructure...