by Seb Matthews | Apr 10, 2019 | Cloud, Governance, Office 365
The possibilities of citizen development are ever increasing. The Power Platform and Flow (in the Microsoft ecosystem) are becoming increasingly ubiquitous and we are starting to see more and more exotic use of the capabilities that far extend (in my view) beyond the...
by Seb Matthews | Mar 5, 2019 | Cloud, Governance, Office 365
Backup? For Office 365? Are you nuts? Microsoft takes care of it, no?Microsoft does indeed take care of the availability of the infrastructure associated to operating Office 365 and Exchange Online but the safety of your data is a shared responsibility which is...
by Seb Matthews | Feb 22, 2019 | Cloud, Governance, Office 365
How long should you keep an Office 365 object such as a SharePoint Site, an Office 365 Groups or a Microsoft Team?The Eternal QuestionIt is a great question. A contentious question. A question that really only has one answer (despite what other consultants might tell...
by Seb Matthews | Jan 16, 2019 | Cloud, Governance, Office 365
The short answer? They don’t. Resilience <> Backup In a broad sense ‘backup’ of Office 365 resources is managed through a number of methods that, in the main, would actually be considered resilience solutions. Multiple copies of data at rest,...
by Seb Matthews | Oct 29, 2018 | Cloud, Governance, Office 365
We are always interested in seeing what other Solution Providers in the Microsoft Cloud space are thinking. One that I keenly follow is Brighter Days, a small boutique consultancy over in beautiful New Zealand. Founded a couple of years ago by Lee Stevens, a relocated...
by Seb Matthews | Sep 17, 2018 | Azure, Cloud, Information Architecture
Now released, initial reading of the preliminary RCA of the 4th September (2018) Azure outage further reinforced to me the intrinsic value that the cloud brings to IT operations of any scale. You read that right, reinforced my view, no diminishing in sight. Available...