SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM)  

SharePoint Advanced Management

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 You Should Know About

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: An Advantage to Enterprises

Business Analysis

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

PMO Practices and Microsoft 365  

PMO Practices

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’s the Delta with Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse?  

Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse

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

Avoiding the Cliff of Success: When to Back Out of Software Projects   

software projects

Imagine you’re in a car on a road trip. Everything starts off smoothly and you make good progress. But as you are driving, the four-lane highway becomes a two-lane, then a dusty gravel road, and finally little more than a dirt track that winds up a steep hill. Somewhere along the way you’ve made a wrong turn or two. Now, the car you’re driving isn’t really meant to be off-roading, and the engine light is on, and it is leaking fluid badly. To make it up the last steep slope, you put the pedal to the floor and careen over the last few bumps and the fallen branch of a … Read more

Creating and Configuring Power Platform Pipelines: An Overview  

Configuring Power Platform Pipelines

Pipelines in Power Platform aim to automate and democratize the execution of the Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) process to allow for the deployment of solutions by citizen and professional developers alike. It simplifies the ALM process by reducing the domain knowledge and effort required to implement life cycle management for Power Platform and Dynamics 365 solutions. This blog will give you an overview of the process of creating and configuring Power Platform Pipelines. Prior to the introduction of Pipelines, citizen developers had to conduct ALM by manually exporting solutions from the development environment and importing into the UAT environment. Then export from UAT to Production or any other target … Read more

Creating Visualizations Using D3 

Creating Visualizations Using D3

Creating visualizations for applications can be overwhelming and difficult without using the correct tools. Recently, I faced a challenge where I needed to modernize a visualization from a legacy application that used a recursive function to display data dynamically. Creating visualizations for D3 allowed me to overcome that challenge.  What is D3?   D3 is a JavaScript library that allows you to create dynamic and interactive visualizations using built-in templates or creating completely custom visualizations. D3 makes use of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) to allow it to work with HTML and CSS. This also makes it easier to customize and configure as you can do so directly in a CSS stylesheet.  … Read more

Idle Session Timeout: What it is and How it Affects Security & Productivity

Idle Session Timeout

In today’s digital age, many organizations are now using cloud-based productivity suites such as Microsoft 365 to streamline their operations and enhance collaboration. While Microsoft 365 offers a wide range of tools and features, it also emphasizes security to protect sensitive data and ensure a safe working environment. One important aspect of security management in Microsoft 365 is idle session timeout. In this blog, we’ll explore what it is, why it matters, and how you can configure it to balance security and productivity.  What Is Idle Session Timeout?  Idle session timeout is a security feature that automatically logs out users from their Microsoft 365 accounts after a period of inactivity. … Read more

Adapting to Change: How to Do It and Why It’s Essential  

Adapting to Change

Some organizations are risk averse which often means they avoid change to reduce risk. This is a false economy, in my opinion. Sometimes, clients ask Imaginet to help them with failed and delayed projects, and for us to be successful, often we need to facilitate cultural change within the organization. When we have the right support in the organization, adapting to change can happen.   When an organization avoids change, especially in software projects, they keep the same code and ignore technical debt, and continue using older versions of components, along with whatever workarounds (hacks) that have been put in place. At some point, they are forced to make changes … Read more