Numerous studies show that organizations are rapidly adopting a hybrid cloud model. According to the Rightscale 2016 State of the Cloud Report, 82 percent of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy, and 71 percent have adopted a hybrid cloud. A 2015 Forrester Consulting survey of large multinational organizations found that 58 percent were already using some type of hybrid cloud.

Tags: adaptivedge, Private Cloud, Azure, Cloud, microsoft gold partner, Office 365

Power BI is a collection of analytical tools and utilities enabling businesses to synthesize data and present it in structured formats. Users can create interactive dashboards and reports from localized data, up through enterprise-wide data models. The data architecture supports uniform models providing data consistency throughout the enterprise. Once dashboards and reports are created, they can easily be shared with any audience scope.

Tags: adaptivedge, BI, Enterprise, microsoft gold partner, Office 365, SharePoint

A disaster recovery and business continuity plan is critical to any organization’s IT operations. By designing and implementing a viable strategy, organizations can ensure systems remain available during planned or unplanned maintenance and can be recovered in the event of a system failure.  Azure Site Recovery Services (ASR) allow organizations to extend their business continuity and disaster recovery strategies to the Microsoft Cloud. 

Tags: Private Cloud, Technology, Azure, Cloud, Enterprise, microsoft gold partner

Private clouds have continued to be hot topics and have become increasingly popular for many enterprises, big and small. Once you’ve implemented a private cloud, what next? How do you manage it? How do you show its value to your business departments?  Let's talk about how Windows Azure Pack plays a part.

Tags: Private Cloud, windows automation, Cloud, orchestrator, system center

I was leading a training session on SharePoint a few years ago, and while I was covering list templates, one of the participants in the class blurted out, “Oh! An Issues list? We should use that.  We have issues!!!”  Don’t we all?  Still makes me smile when I think about it.

Tags: adaptivedge, Business Requirements, Collaboration, microsoft gold partner, Office 365, Requirements Gathering, SharePoint

Welcome to part 2 of the series, ‘Granular Licensing of Office 365 SKUs’. In Part 1 of this series, I discussed how to perform granular licensing of Office 365 SKUs via the Office 365 Admin Portal. We learned that there were some slick features on how to scope out user accounts and modify licensing. There were, however, some limitations. 

Tags: Active Directory, adaptivedge, O365, SKU, Azure, E5, Enterprise, Licensing, microsoft gold partner, Office 365, PowerShell

SharePoint Online has an almost infinite and unlimited number of use cases and solutions. After all, it’s a highly extensible platform that can be customized to fit any business need. With little to no customization or development, it is a highly effective and useful solution even if used “out-of-the-box.”

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Hello fellow SCOM’ers. Today, we wanted to share with you all an easy way to script maintenance mode in SCOM 2012. If you don’t want to manually run this, you can run it as a scheduled task. We like to manage this manually by running the script ourselves, but to each their own. Happy scripting!

Tags: scom, PowerShell, system center

With the release of Microsoft's Granular Licensing of Office 365 Enterprise E5, a significantly large amount of new services is available to offer your clients. Whether your business is already using Office 365 and simply upgrading another license SKU to E5, or is migrating to Office 365 for the first time, oftentimes simply applying all of the available options for the businesses client base is ok. In other scenarios, a more systematic and staged approach is required.

Tags: Active Directory, adaptivedge, Azure, Enterprise, Licensing, microsoft gold partner, Office 365

Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, providing a variety of service that can be used without purchasing or provisioning hardware. Azure enables the rapid development of solutions and provides the resources to accomplish tasks that may not be feasible in an on-premise environment. Azure’s compute, storage, network and application services can also be used in a hybrid configuration, connecting on-premise infrastructure with the Microsoft Cloud.

Tags: Cloud Computing, Datacenter, IaaS, SQL, Technology, Azure, Cloud, Enterprise Visual Studio, Infrastructure, microsoft azure, PaaS, SaaS, Virtualization, VM