Free Cloud Q and A tomorrow

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I’m back on deck for our free monthly public Cloud Business Blueprint webinar, tomorrow Thursday the 23rd of April 2015 at 12.30pm Sydney time. We run this regularly to give people an update of everything that is happening in the cloud as well as the ability to ask any question. You can still sign up for the webinar here:

http://www.cloudbusinessblueprint.com/ask-weekly-webinar

We also do plenty of demos and have some great input from attendees so the webinar provides a huge amount of value by giving you a summary of all the latest changes in the cloud plus demonstrations and tutorials.

We also record these webinars for the Cloud Business Blueprint community so they can be view on demand. There you’ll find all the previous webinars plus on demand training, forums, white papers, templates, best practices and more. So if you are an IT reseller focused on providing cloud solutions you should join us.

If you can’t make this month’s event, don’t worry, there will one next month and you can sign up at the same place:

http://www.cloudbusinessblueprint.com/ask-weekly-webinar

I hope to see you there.

Need to know podcast–Episode 82

I’m joined by Darryl McAllister, a MSP business owner from Sydney, to discuss the value of certifications and how to provide a better career path for employees. We also look at the changes in technology and business as well as discussing some opportunities with the latest cloud applications.

You can listen to the episode at:

http://ciaops.podbean.com/e/episode-82-darryl-mcallister/

or subscribe to this and all episodes in iTunes at:

https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/ciaops-need-to-know-podcasts/id406891445?mt=2

The podcast is also available on Stitcher at:

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/ciaops/need-to-know-podcast?refid=stpr

Don’t forget to give the show a rating as well as send me any feedback or suggestions you may have for the show. I’m also on the hunt for some co-presenters so if you are interested on being a regular part of the show please contact me.

Resources

darrylm@netcare.sydney

http://www.netcare-itsupport.sydney

https://twitter.com/darrylmca

Sidekick – http://www.skylitesystems.com/Pages/SideKick365.aspx

http://www.skylitesystems.com

Attached Apps – http://www.attachedapps.com/

Adobe Business Catalysts – http://businesscatalyst.com/

Skype for Business client roll out – https://blog.ciaops.com/2015/04/skype-for-business-client-goes-live-in.html

Office Online and Dropbox web integration now available –http://blogs.office.com/2015/04/09/office-online-and-dropbox-web-integration-now-available/

Delve apps for iOS and Android – https://blog.ciaops.com/2015/04/delve-apps-released.html

Office 365 video app – https://blog.ciaops.com/2015/04/office-365-video-for-iphone-now.html

SharePoint Team Site default increase – https://blog.ciaops.com/2015/04/default-sharepoint-online-team-site.html

The Dark Web – https://blog.ciaops.com/2015/04/the-dark-web.html

Anzacs in France – http://www.anzacsinfrance.com/

Free SharePoint email course now at http://bit.ly/gs-spo

 

Default SharePoint Online Team Site storage gets boosted

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Hallelujah is all I can say (although I have speculated that this would eventually happen previously).

Looking through some of the announcements in the Office 365 roadmap and I found this under the In Development section:

This update will bring two key enhancements for Sites in Office 365 and OneDrive for Business. First, you will be able to upload files greater than 2GB – up to 10GB – to both Sites’ document libraries and OneDrive for Business. We, too, will provide a greater amount of default storage for Office 365 Sites usage (for documents and information); Office 365 tenants will now get 1TB + (500MB * # of E/A/G users); this calculation used to be 10GB + (500MB * # of E/A/G users).

Yeah, Yeah and Yeah! Team Sites go from 10GB starting to 1TB starting! Yeah, Yeah and Yeah again!

It is listed as under development and I can’t wait because having Teams Sites starting at 10GB and OneDrive For Business starting at 1TB per user made many businesses think of OneDrive for Business as a team collaboration solution (which it ain’t what it was designed for).

Think about this, 10GB to 1,000GB per Team site for every new and existing Team Site. That is a 100x increase in one hit! The exponential power of the cloud.

Hallelujah is all I can say (now just gotta wait for it roll out).

Delve apps released

Microsoft has released mobile Delve apps for Android and iOS. These apps allow you to view your Office 365 Delve information on the go.

Delve is an Office 365 technology that surfaces relevant information based on your interactions with others in you business and Office 365 services like SharePoint, Exchange, Lync, Yammer and so on. It uses signals created these to determine what is the most relevant information to you.

If you want to know more about what Delve is take a look at my previous post:

Delve rolling out now

Unfortunately, it seems that here in Australia we’ll need to wait a few weeks before we can use the apps as the roll out is only in the US at the moment but is coming to other countries ‘soon’.

The Delve service has also added the ability to ‘blog’:

“The new tool allows you to both edit and view pages from your mobile device, auto-saving as you go.  It also provides the ability to post pages directly to Yammer, automatically creating friendly, readable URLs. And because it’s integrated across Office 365, it’s easy to embed documents inline from OneDrive for Business, videos from Office 365 Video, even photos from your desktop. And finally, it’s fast, modern and ready-to-go.”

You can read the full Microsoft announcement here:

http://microsoft-news.com/microsoft-releases-office-delve-mobile-apps-for-android-and-iphone-windows-universal-app-coming-soon/

and

http://blogs.office.com/2015/04/14/new-office-delve-people-experiences-in-office-365/

The Dark Web

Although I spend most of my time working with technology enablement via productivity I have a keen interest in information security and where it is taking us as a society. Unfortunately, on that score I am not very ‘bullish’ about what the future holds.

Some of my previous thinking on this can be found at:

The World of Security Anomalies

Security before convenience or else

The bad guys keep winning

Why the bad guys will always win

To this list you can add:

Inside The Dark Web

Which looks at many of the issues I have previous covered but focused importantly on the challenges or privacy in todays connected world and how we are fast losing it and for it to be lost forever.

Take a look and let me know what YOU think. Is this something we SHOULD be worried about?

Need to know podcast–Episode 81

We’ve covered off using OneDrive for Business as a collaboration solution, now Tas and I turn our attention to outlining how SharePoint Online Team Sites should be used within a business. We also discuss what strategies are successful when it comes to making SharePoint a winner within an organisation.

You can listen to the episode at:

http://ciaops.podbean.com/e/episode-81-tas-gray/

or subscribe to this and all episodes in iTunes at:

https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/ciaops-need-to-know-podcasts/id406891445?mt=2

The podcast is also available on Stitcher at:

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/ciaops/need-to-know-podcast?refid=stpr

Don’t forget to give the show a rating as well as send me any feedback or suggestions you may have for the show. I’m also on the hunt for some co-presenters so if you are interested on being a regular part of the show please contact me.

Resources

Cloud Business Blueprint www.cloudbusinessblueprint.com

Skype for Business client roll out – https://blog.ciaops.com/2015/04/skype-for-business-client-goes-live-in.html

Attached Apps – https://blog.ciaops.com/2015/04/getting-started-with-attached-apps.html

Built in mdm for O365 – http://blogs.office.com/2015/03/30/announcing-general-availability-of-built-in-mobile-device-management-for-office-365/

AU data centers go live –http://blogs.msdn.com/b/auspartners/archive/2015/03/31/office-365-and-crm-online-services-land-on-australian-soil-today-what-you-need-to-know.aspx

Checking your MOSPA agreement in the Microsoft Partner Portal

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1. Login to the Microsoft Partner portal;

https://partners.microsoft.com/PartnerProgram/PartnerMembershipCenter.aspx

with you Microsoft Partner details.

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2. Click the Status link next to the MOSPA program

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3. Confirm that the MOSPA (Microsoft Online Services Partner) agreement is Completed.

If something other than Completed is shown, you need to enrol or renew your MOSPA Agreement.