Posts Tagged ‘support’

Microsoft commits more than $110M in additional support for nonprofits, workers, and schools in Washington state

Written by Brad Smith, President – December 18th, 2020 There’s no doubt that most of us across the Puget Sound region are anxious to put the difficulties of 2020 behind us. As we approach the end of December, we look forward to the new year with a mixture of optimism and concern – optimism about spreading ...

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Successful COVID-19 vaccine delivery requires strong tech partnerships

Written by Dr. David Rhew - Chief Medical Officer & VP Healthcare, Worldwide Commercial Business, Microsoft – December 11th, 2020 As a society, we continue through the journey of this global pandemic, but there is finally light at the end of the tunnel. There are currently two COVID-19 vaccines under accelerated review by the U.S. Food ...

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Top CISO KPIs to Help Measure Your Team’s Effectiveness

Whether we like it or not, the performance of our jobs is reflected in both the metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that have been assigned to us. The world of Cybersecurity is also well known for this, but which ones are important for your IT Security staff? We will explore some of the major ...

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Microsoft 365 and Azure Security Product name changes

As announced at Microsoft Ignite 2020, the following product names have changed: Microsoft Threat Protection is now Microsoft 365 Defender Azure Advanced Threat Protection → Microsoft Defender for Identity Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection → Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection → Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Azure Security Centre Standard Edition ...

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How To Share your Outlook Calendar

For any business, no matter how large or small they might be, or even the industry that they serve, there is one common need; that is,  the need to schedule out tasks, events, deadlines, and project milestones.  There have been a few approaches to this, including using a whiteboard.  But given the realities of the ...

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Restricting Guest User Access in Azure Active Directory

Written by Tony Redmond – September 17th, 2020 Clamping Down on Guests After several years’ usage, most Office 365 tenants are accustomed to guest users and the way that the Microsoft 365 groups membership model allows guests access to group resources such as plans, sites, and teams. For most, the model works well, and the only issue ...

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An Introduction To The SOAR Methodology

In today’s business world, there is no doubt that the IT and Network Infrastructures of all sorts of businesses are starting to become complex, even if they have a Cloud-based platform, such as that of Microsoft Azure.  The need to centralize all monitoring of log events and the collection of mission-critical information and data is ...

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Microsoft’s AI for Health supports COVID-19 vaccine development

Given the global urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic, Microsoft's AI for Health program has stepped in to support the development and potential deployment of Vaxine's COVAX-19 vaccine with a philanthropic grant. Vaxine Pty Ltd, a biotechnology company based in South Australia, uses computational and artificial intelligence (AI)-based technologies to accelerate pandemic vaccine and drug development with ...

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Announcing data import from PDF documents

We are excited to announce a new and exciting update to Get & Transform Data capabilities in Excel – PDF data connector! This has been one of the top requests from you and we heard you. With the new From PDF connector you can connect to PDF files, and use the included data from the ...

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Three Predictions For What The Future Might Look Like

Written by Derek Thompson – The Atlantic – August 6th, 2020 In March, tens of millions of American workers—mostly in white-collar industries such as tech, finance, and media—were thrust into a sudden, chaotic experiment in working from home. Four months later, the experiment isn’t close to ending. For many, the test run is looking more like ...

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