Most people won’t know that as of the beginning of September 2020, AMDH Services has a real physical office rather than just my home office. We’re now based in an Office in Marble Hall, an old Rolls Royce building in Derby. This building is a multi-tenant property designed for use by small businesses managed by […]
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What do you do if your phone crashes or dies whilst you have Office 365 setup to use Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) on your account? The answer is hope that you’ve either: Got another account with admin privileges from which you can reset the MFA options from within Microsoft Azure AD. Got an alternative second factor
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What are “Application Dependencies”? Application dependencies are when IT components and applications rely on another component or application to provide a service. Why are they important Knowing the dependencies within your organisation is important for a number of reasons. 1. To protect business critical services from unplanned outages For example, if you have a dependency
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File storage and sharing with Microsoft 365 In previous blogs, we’ve looked at some of the ways that Microsoft 365 can help small businesses and church, charity and not for profit organisations run more efficiently. As well as giving you access to a full suite of familiar office applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint,
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Still on Windows 7 or Office 2010? If so you need to be thinking about moving to Windows 10 and Office 365 as a matter of urgency – support has ended for Windows 7 and ends shortly for Office 2010. 70% of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) reinvest saved money into their business thanks to
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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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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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About a week ago I was reading an article on the Tech Target site about cloud repatriation – to begin with the title confused me a little as I’d never heard the term “repatriation” applied to cloud. Its normally used in relation to getting people back home when an airline collapses or war breaks out
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Seeing through the clouds Today AMDH Services Limited finishes it’s engagement with Nottinghamshire County Council on their Cloud Programme. After 4 years working on the Cloud Programme from assisting developing the strategy and business case through to technically leading the delivery of that strategy I finally leave the Council. Before going into the detail of
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