Using survival skills can help with project management. Yes, you read that right. What is the Bushcraft Rule of Threes? The bushcraft rule of threes is a simple guideline that helps campers and survivalists to prioritize their needs in a wilderness situation. It states that you can survive: The rule of threes helps you prioritize what will cause you to fail fastest first. When you follow the rules, it prevents you from wasting time and energy on less urgent matters. For example, if you are in a cold and wet environment, finding or building a shelter to keep you warm and dry is more important than looking for food … Read more
What Is Global Secure Access? Working remotely has become the norm for many people. Nowadays, people work from nearly anywhere, which makes network security even more important. Global Secure Access (GSA), available as a preview feature in the Microsoft Entra Admin Center, provides a solution for secure access to your apps and resources using Microsoft’s Security Service Edge (SSE). Global Secure Access (GSA) can be used to control network traffic between endpoint devices and the internet. Capabilities of GSA include web content filtering, M365 traffic control, and can even act as a VPN for your private, corporate resources. The GSA client is installed on endpoint devices and helps forward network … Read more
Modern SharePoint In today’s globalized world, ensuring accessibility across languages is essential for effective communication on digital platforms. If you’re considering transitioning classic SharePoint sites to the modern SharePoint environment and upgrading to multilingual support, you’re in the right place. This blog will walk you through each step for a smooth transition. Understanding the Challenge: Classic SharePoint typically manages multilingual content by separating it into different sites for each language and utilizing buttons for language switching, while modern SharePoint offers seamless language switching and dynamically presents content in the user’s preferred language, all within a single site. This difference in structure can pose challenges during page migration if not planned carefully. … Read more
Teams Premium Teams Premium is designed for power users and organizations that heavily utilize Teams meetings. It is also beneficial for those enterprises that need enhanced meeting security due to business security requirements. Microsoft Teams enhances employee communication and collaboration, and many of the best features are only available on Teams Premium. This blog will serve as a guide to help you determine whether Teams Premium is right for your organization. Teams Premium Security Features As cyber threats become more prevalent and malicious actors become more sophisticated, security has never been more important. Teams Premium has several security features to help your organization remain safe and secure: Teams Premium Meeting … Read more
Protecting sensitive data is crucial. Not only as a legal obligation but also as a cornerstone of trust with customers and partners. Payroll and Human Resources data may be the most apparent examples of sensitive data.
SharePoint Advanced Management Control and manage content to improve security and governance with integration to Microsoft Purview Information Protection. SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) is a collection of strong features that help organizations govern SharePoint sites and OneDrive more efficiently and help organizations enable secure collaboration across SharePoint sites. To enable SAM, an add-on license is needed with your existing license that includes SharePoint. SharePoint Advanced Management is currently priced at $3 USD per user per month. Organizations need to license every user in their tenant – not just Admins. Previously, organizations needed to run or perform manual work to identify security and compliance breaches. When you enable the license … Read more
5 Cyber Threats As we rapidly progress in this modern age where everything is now connected to the internet, it’s important to know what threats are out there so you can protect yourself. Cyber threats are becoming more advanced and are constantly challenging current security standards. In this rapidly changing digital environment, having the ability to anticipate these 5 common cyber threats could be crucial to the safety of your digital identity. 1. The Revolution of AI and Machine Learning We are officially in an AI boom with no signs of slowing down. With the recently released AI-powered application, ChatGPT from OpenAI, the public now has a taste of … Read more
Business Analysis Frameworks In a world with high businesses competition, strategy, innovation, and technology make a significant difference and give Enterprise organizations an advantage over the competition. Driving innovation and enterprise transformation makes Business Analysis an advantage to the success of organizations. Organizations that implement Business Analysis frameworks are better able to navigate complexities, identify opportunities, and analyze the complexities. It aids in strategy analysis and proffers solutions that create beneficial advantages to the enterprise. The Components of Business Analysis Business Analysis involves the identification of needs through analysis, assessing the solution options, assessing the impact of the change, and alignment with the enterprise goals and objectives. It bridges … Read more
What is a PMO (Project Management Office) The Project Management Office (PMO) sets the standards for work and processes among project managers. They establish documentation, best practices, and training for internal project managers. Copilot for Microsoft 365 is an AI assistant that works alongside you and through all your applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and more, within your Microsoft Ecosystem. Copilot can be particularly beneficial for The PMO but there may be concerns about how it aligns with PMO best practices. In this blog, we will discuss PMO practices and Microsoft 365, how they fit together, and why using Copilot can be beneficial for your project management … Read more
What is Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse? That is a great question that can only be answered if we get some definitions straight: Delta Lake – a low-cost data storage framework that stores data in open-source, generic file formats such as Parquet and their metadata, typically in the cloud. Parquet – a data storage file format that organizes and compresses data as columns within groups of rows to optimize query time. Delta – a data storage format combining Parquet files with corresponding JSON metadata to enhance data use and traceability. Lakehouse architecture – a pattern of organizing data that prioritizes data management and optimization features such as ACID transactions (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, … Read more
