For a while now Microsoft has offered an SLA with service credits for 2 or more Virtual Machines in an Availability Group and also for a single virtual machine with premium SSD based storage. Obviously an SLA doesn’t prevent an outage but it does incentivize the vendor to design their service to avoid outages. The
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Booking a family holiday Back in the middle of 2019 my extended family decided that to celebrate some significant birthdays we’d go to Center Parcs in Woburn in May 2019 for a long weekend. We booked some accommodation, restaurants etc. All looked like it was going to turn out to be a great weekend –
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Introduction Back in May 2020 the National Audit Office (NAO) released its report on the state of digital transformation in the NHS. You can read their report here. The purpose of this report was to describe the current state of digital services within the NHS and to examine the readiness of the NHS to deliver
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Introduction With Office 365 Microsoft have been promoting the empowerment of an organisation’s staff – you can work in your way with Office 365 – from anywhere, at anytime, on any device. Part of this has been the introduction of three applications to the fold to help users get more from Office 365 – these
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If you’ve been wondering how to migrate to cloud – what practically should you do and what are the steps – this fairly lengthy guide from Microsoft would be a good starting point. Microsoft presents a three stage migration process – assess – migrate – optimize. I think its also important to notice that they
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Containers allow you to run multiple applications on the same operating system kernel, unlock ultimate productivity, and provide a standardized environment for development, QA, and production teams. Simply put using containers allows you to get more out the resources available and to deliver services using less resources – thus costing you less. There are challenges
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If you are considering buying Office 365 or Microsoft 365 for your business here is a quick checklist to run through of some of the things to consider. This is by no means a comprehensive list – and as a consequence I may come back to this over time to add to it. I should
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In this blog post I’ve tried to explain why Microsoft seems to have moved from talking about Office 365 to talking about Microsoft 365 and have tried to explain what the top level product options are under the enterprise and business licensing streams. Microsoft have moved in their terminology from talking about “Office 365”
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Are you Cyber Secure at home? Today I just want to mention three sites to help you check – these aren’t a replacement for a good router / firewall connecting you to the internet, or for good antivirus, but looking at some other areas: one for checking that your email isn’t known to have appeared
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Why do you exist? The first question to ask when trying to formulate an ICT strategy is “Why do you exist?” and this question can and should be taken in two different ways: Why does my organisation exist? What is “core business” for your organisation and what are the business goals in the short, medium
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