Happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend. Please find below an overview of last weeks product news, tech posts and announcements.
Technology Strategist
Microsoft Manufacturing
Happy Monday ! I hope you had a great weekend. Please find below an overview of last weeks product news, tech posts and announcements.
Episode 3 of Envision will be on 4/20. In this episode a discussion on the impacts resulting from the pandemic, including the geopolitical environment. We’ll also explore privacy and security, sustainability, the global skills gap, and how to improve access to technology. To register Envision – Home (microsoft.com). Envision is presented by Microsoft, Accenture, Avanade & Trevor Noah
Technology Strategist
Microsoft Manufacturing
Happy Monday ! I hope you had a great weekend. Please find below an overview of last weeks product news, tech posts and announcements.
Join us at Hannover Messe Digital. The world premier trade show for Manufacturing 4/12 – 4/16 Register Here Tickets & Exhibitor Passes (hannovermesse.de)
Episode 3 of Envision will be on 4/20. In this episode a discussion on the impacts resulting from the pandemic, including the geopolitical environment. We’ll also explore privacy and security, sustainability, the global skills gap, and how to improve access to technology. To register Envision – Home (microsoft.com). Envision is presented by Microsoft, Accenture, Avanade & Trevor Noah
Happy Monday ! I hope you had a great weekend. Please find below an overview of last weeks product news, tech posts and announcements.
Join us at Hannover Messe Digital. The world premier trade show for Manufacturing 4/12 – 4/16 Register Here Tickets & Exhibitor Passes (hannovermesse.de)
Episode 3 of Envision will be on 4/20. In this episode a discussion on the impacts resulting from the pandemic, including the geopolitical environment. We’ll also explore privacy and security, sustainability, the global skills gap, and how to improve access to technology.series on the future of work To register Envision – Home (microsoft.com). Envision is presented by Microsoft, Accenture, Avanade & Trevor Noah
Happy Monday ! I hope you had a great weekend. This week is opening day, Play Ball! Please find below an overview of last weeks product news, tech posts and announcements.
Join us at Hannover Messe Digital. The world premier trade show for Manufacturing 4/12 – 4/16 Register Here Tickets & Exhibitor Passes (hannovermesse.de)
Episode 3 of Envision will be on 4/20. In this episode a discussion on the impacts resulting from the pandemic, including the geopolitical environment. We’ll also explore privacy and security, sustainability, the global skills gap, and how to improve access to technology.series on the future of work To register Envision – Home (microsoft.com). Envision is presented by Microsoft, Accenture, Avanade & Trevor Noah
Optimizing Business Processes with Office 365, Teams and the Power Platform
Microsoft 365 provides an extensive set of tools providing a method to optimize your organizations business processes. In this post I’ll provide an example. When building a process, I want to focus on these attributes;
Simplicity
Collaborative
Insightful
For this example, I’m using a safety walk. A safety walk is when a safety inspector walks the floor of a facility and records their findings. If the inspector finds an issue requiring action, they begin the process. An action can be dispatching a service technician to fix something that is broken or creating a purchase requisition to obtain a product or service needed to remediate the issue. In many organizations this would involve access to several systems making the process a bit cumbersome and storing data in silos making reporting difficult. To simply the process we’ll use just one interface Microsoft Teams and remove the data silos for information so it can used as a feedback loop helping to continually improve the process.
Here is a high level overview of the architecture.
The “Safety Tracker” app was built using Power Apps. I created one from scratch with no code in a few hours. When an issue is created several workflows are started using Power Automate.
To see a demo of the system please check out this video.
I hope you found this post useful and it has inspired you to try this approach on your use case.
Happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend. Please find below an overview of last weeks product news, post and announcements.
What’s a PowerPoint Party?
Happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend. Please find below an overview of last weeks product news, post and announcements.
Figure 1 New 85″ Surface Hub
| Azure Infrastructure | |
| How to use Azure Cost Management views | Azure Portal Series | YouTube |
| Optimize Operating Costs with Cloud Economics in Azure | Mechanics |
| Jamming to a new tune: Transforming Microsoft’s printing infrastructure with Universal Print | IT Showcase |
| Ten things you can implement to save costs in your Azure environment | Channel 9 |
| Business Applications | |
| What’s New in Microsoft Forms | January 2021 | Forms |
| Push tasks from corporate to frontline workers with task publishing in Teams | Teams |
| Manufacturers who sell direct with omnichannel retail gain powerful customer insights | Channel 9 |
| Windows | |
| Inside look at the new Surface Hub 2S 85 | Surface |
| Scan changes and certificates add security for Windows devices using WSUS for updates | Windows |
| Microsoft Surface Pro 7+ with LTE Advanced | First Look at Desig | Mechanics |
| App Dev | |
| Data Validation at Scale with Azure Synapse | Synapse |
| Intro into security principles in the context of database systems | DBA |
| Principle of Least Privilege (POLP) | DBA |
| Inspecting application metrics with dotnet-monitor | Channel 9 |
| Microsoft 365 | |
| Gain more flexibility with 250 GB file size support in Microsoft 365 | OneDrive |
| 8 new productivity hacks for frontline workers, managers, and IT | Teams |
| Approvals in Microsoft Teams, Now Generally Available | Teams |
| Getting to Microsoft Teams from Skype for Business Server and hybrid configurations | Teams |
| Microsoft Teams for frontline workers. 2021 Updates | Mechanics |
| Security | |
| FastTrack now assists with more threat protection capabilities | Security |
| Azure Active Directory empowers frontline workers with simplified and secure access | Security |
| Access Reviews for guests in all Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups is now in public preview | AAD |
| Making renewing certificates easier at Microsoft with Microsoft Azure | IT Showcase |
| Netlogon Domain Controller Enforcement Mode is enabled by default beginning with the February 9, 2021 Security Update, related to CVE-2020-1472 | Security |
| Microsoft Teams DLP Playbook!!! | DLP |
| Increasing resilience against Solorigate and other sophisticated attacks with Microsoft Defender | Defender |
| Manufacturing | Manufacturing Blog |
| Recognized for Doing Right: Evolving ESG at Cabot | MAPI |
| Sometimes You Just Have To Go Fishing Says Manufacturing Executives | NIST |
| Supply Chain AI: Getting the Most Bang for Your Buck | NED |
| Robots Ready to Grow in 2021 | Industry Week |
Happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend. Please find below an overview of last weeks product news, post and announcements.
Best of Showcase: How Microsoft Azure powered Microsoft internally in 2020
| Azure Infrastructure | |
| Deploy SAP ASCS/ERS with Azure Files NFS v4.1 shares | SAP |
| Azure Cost Management and Billing 2020 year in review | Azure |
| Business Applications | |
| Level up with Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate | Azure |
| Best of Showcase: How Microsoft Azure powered Microsoft internally in 2020 | IT Showcase |
| With reinforcement learning, Microsoft brings a new class of AI solutions to customers | AI |
| Quickly create reports in the Power BI service (preview) | Power BI |
| How Agic Technology deployed Supply Chain Management in 2 weeks to help Invitalia fight the pandemic | Dynamics |
| Windows | |
| Introducing Sleeping Tabs Experiment: Improving Memory Usage in Microsoft Edge | Edge |
| App Dev | |
| 4 common analytics scenarios to build business agility | Azure |
| Enable unified data governance with Azure Purview | Azure Friday |
| Extracting Value from Text and Audio to Inform Business Strategy | Channel 9 |
| Microsoft 365 | |
| OneDrive Roadmap Roundup – December 2020 | OneDrive |
| “The self-maintaining intranet” 🎙 – The Intrazone podcast | SharePoint |
| SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: December 2020 | Sharepoint |
| What’s New in Microsoft Teams | December 2020 | Teams |
| Enabling your organization for safe online meetings and collaboration with Microsoft Teams | Teams |
| Does Your Organization Record Teams Meetings? Bookmark this link! Hi Teams Community, | Teams |
| Best of Yammer in 2020 | Yammer |
| How to get more new data types in Microsoft Excel | YouTube |
| Security | |
| How to use tagging effectively (Part 1) | Defender |
| Collaborate with anyone in any organization with any email address! | Azure AD |
| What’s New: Improved Analytics Preview Graph in Public Preview ! | Sentinel |
| Attack simulation training in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 now Generally Available | Defender |
| Zero Trust networking at Microsoft hinges on communication, collaboration, and expert knowledge | IT Showcase |
| Privacy breaches: Using Microsoft 365 Advanced Audit and Advanced eDiscovery to minimize impact | Security |
| The dynamic duo: How to build a red and blue team to strengthen your cybersecurity, Part 1 | Security |
| Manufacturing | Manufacturing Blog |
| IoT is now Generally Available as a solution covered by FastTrack for Azure to eligible customers | IoT |
| Johnson Controls and Microsoft join forces to create healthier, safer and more sustainable buildings | Transform |
| How Daycare and Industrial Entrepreneurship Relate to Manufacturing’s Recovery | NIST |
| How Manufacturers Are Reengineering Themselves — and Their Futures | MBT |
| Robotics Give Hyundai a Leg Up on Next Gen Vehicles | IndustryWeek |
Happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend. Please find below an overview of last weeks product news, post and announcements.
Do you use the Your Phone app in Windows 10? It’s a great way to interact with your phone from your PC. Read and send messages, check notifications even run some Android apps. It’s a great time saver. Using Windows 10? Here’s how to run Android apps on your PC
| Azure Infrastructure | |
| Reduce costs with new memory-optimized Azure Virtual Machines certified for SAP HANA | Azure |
| At-scale migration automation support with Azure Migrate and Azure PowerShell | Azure |
| SAP Application Server AutoScaling in Azure Introduction | SAP |
| Azure Defender for Key Vault | Azure |
| Understanding Backup Storage Redundancy in Azure SQL | Data Exposed | YouTube |
| Business Applications | |
| How to Create a No Code AI App with Azure Cognitive Services and Power Apps | Tech Community |
| New pilot project knocks down ‘contact list’ blockers for Microsoft sellers | IT Showcase |
| Always On Service with Dynamics 365 | Mechanics |
| How consumer goods organizations are adapting by going D2C | Dynamics |
| Windows | |
| Microsoft ‘Aquila’: System Center Operations Manager in the cloud | ZDNet |
| App Dev | |
| Introducing Flexible Server in Azure Database for PostgreSQL & MySQL | Channel 9 |
| GitHub Codespaces | Channel 9 |
| Microsoft 365 | |
| Power your digital transformation with insights from Microsoft Productivity Score | Microsoft 365 |
| Project for the web – October 2020 Update | Project |
| We’re improving search usage reports in SharePoint Online with Microsoft Search | SharePoint |
| The Yammer Flipbook – an interactive guide to Yammer | Yammer |
| What’s new with Microsoft 365 | October 2020 | YouTube |
| What’s new in Outlook on the Web | YouTube |
| Microsoft 365 Network Connectivity Testing Tools | YouTube |
| Security | |
| How to Auto-apply Retention Labels using Compliance Center – Three Part Video Series | Security |
| Microsoft recognized as a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving | Security |
| Manufacturing | Manufacturing Blog |
| Move to Microsoft Azure boosts Microsoft’s inventory management system | IT Showcase |
| Aerospace CEO: Spread Your Wings to Spread the Risk | MBT |
| The Future of Connected Devices | NIST |
| What Makes a High-Performance Organization? | Industry Week |
| 5 Lessons from Silicon Valley that Translate to Manufacturing | Industry Week |
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Have a great week!
