With a strong reputation for their image based backup software Shadow Protect and a famed 15 min recovery time, Storage Craft is a natural player to tackle backups of Cloud services. The first SaaS offering they released is an Office 365 backup option – again a natural move considering their Enterprise customer base. GSuite backups […]
Insights into Office 365 Foundations for Decision Making
Office 365 has been the conversation of many organizations as the platform continues to expand and reach millions of customers around the world. Before making any form of quick judgement call on whether Office 365 is right for you, it’s important know the Office 365 Foundations before getting started. Today we will uncover the fundamentals […]
Stop asking “Who just joined the call?” in your Skype for Business meetings!
We’ve all been on those conference calls where someone is taking roll call and tracking who has joined the meeting. How about the conference calls that introduce each person that has joined the call? Conference calls regardless of the platform you are using tracks the attendees that have joined. Some do it better than others […]
Microsoft Teams Product - Is it better than Slack?
Last week, Microsoft took their chat-style team collaboration product out of preview and unveiled it to the world. Microsoft Teams has been in preview since November 2016 and has been put through its paces by names like Accenture, Alaska Airlines, Deloitte, Expedia, Sage, Three UK and Trek Bicycle. Slack killer? Everybody (except Microsoft) wants to […]
Office 365 User Licensing
One of the challenges of adopting Office 365 is getting your head around the licensing. The licensing terms themselves are straightforward. You subscribe to a license for a user for the product or product set (plan) that they need to use. That subscription is a small amount paid monthly or a larger amount paid annually. […]
Don’t mix old habits with Office 365
The technical part of a migration to any new technology is usually straightforward and hopefully well documented. If you’re moving to Office 365, there are a number of Microsoft resources and third party migration tools like SkyKick, BitTitan and Sharegate to do the actual “lifting and shifting” of your data into the Cloud. We like to think that we’re […]