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How can a digital workspace boost employee productivity?
The scope of internal communications is continuously expanding and evolving as new technology develops and improves. While intranets are well established in most workplaces, digital workspaces are now becoming more common due to the increased level of interaction and...
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IT Operating Models: aligning strategy to operations
An IT Operating Model translates strategic intent into operational capabilities. It serves as the foundation for execution and provides a clear guide for the enterprise leadership team, line managers and operational teams. A well-defined and articulated operating...
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On-Prem to the Cloud: why migrate to SharePoint Online?
We recently ran an event that looked at how organisation's still utilising SharePoint 2013 on-premises, or older legacy versions, can successfully migrate to SharePoint Online. So, we thought we would compile some steps to help add value to those still using dated...
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How to use Content Search in Microsoft Teams
Content Search within the Security and Compliance Center enables administrators to perform a search for Microsoft Teams data across SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and OneDrive for Business. Every Microsoft Team is supported by an Office 365 Modern Group, which...
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What is Microsoft Teams?
Microsoft Teams is a chat-based platform built for Office 365 that has been specifically developed to make collaboration and group work easier and more efficient. Utilising both chat and instant messaging as its primary method of communication between team members,...
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How do you backup Microsoft Teams?
As with all of the Office 365 suite, the concept of how to backup Microsoft Teams can be a complex one to understand, and many would question whether "backup" is even required. However, there are ways of ensuring your content is protected within Microsoft Teams. When...
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Tackling Cyber Security with Enterprise Mobility + Security
The level of threat that exists for businesses of all sizes in today’s current cybersecurity landscape has never been greater. As such, organisations should be considering improving their security functions to protect existing on-premises infrastructures or in the...
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Office 365 Adoption: are you seeing the results?
According to Forrester, the analyst, who performed a Total Economic Impact report of Enterprise productivity platforms, successful Office 365 adoption can give you an ROI of 162% within three years. When an organisation uses Office 365 to it's full potential, there...
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Top 5 security benefits of migrating to SharePoint Online
Ironically, security is barely ever at the forefront of considerations driving an organisation’s transition from running SharePoint on-premises to using its cloud counterpart – SharePoint Online. If nothing else, it is quite often seen as a deterrent – as IT managers,...
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Top 5 tips for the Microsoft Teams command bar
Microsoft recently introduced the command bar for Microsoft Teams allowing you to quickly access many features or functions, from whatever window you are in. The Teams command bar has replaced the search bar and you can now some commands can now be run directly from...
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Content and Code named in The Sunday Times Top 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2018
Multi award-winning Microsoft Gold Partner Content and Code was ranked amongst the top consultancies to work for in The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For. Content and Code were ranked 67th overall and received three stars within the annual report’s...
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How to work smarter not harder with truly effective Office 365 training
The Office 365 productivity suite is made up of many applications that work together to enable a more productive workforce. As such, there are many opportunities to change how employees work - both as individuals and as teams. However, problems can often arise...
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Digital Transformation in 2018
Digital Transformation in 2018 Masterclass Align your business objectives to Microsoft Technology Date: Thursday, 22nd February | Time: 9.30am – 1pm | Where: Fountain House, 130 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 5DJ As the modern workplace advances with new and...
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SharePoint Migration with Metalogix – lessons learned
I just wanted to share some lessons learned from a recent SharePoint migration project we have undertaken using both the Metalogix Essentials and Content Matrix tools. In this post I will share some potential pitfalls so that hopefully you can rectify these...
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Microsoft Teams interop policy for inbound calling selection
Announced and rolled out yesterday, Microsoft have brought PSTN calling to Teams. Previously limited to only the Skype for Business client, this now means you can call mobiles and landlines from the Teams client; whether that’s in the browser, in the Windows...
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Top Predictions for Office 365 in 2018
It’s been one hell of a year for Office 365. This year has seen Microsoft Teams released and fast establish itself as one of the most important services in Office 365. In addition to that, we’ve seen a long list of small and large updates to the Office 365 service –...
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Skype for Business or Microsoft Teams – what should I be using in 2018?
Microsoft announced at Ignite earlier this year that Skype for Business Online is going to be replaced by Microsoft Teams. There has been some confusion over what this means for organisations currently using Skype for Business Online, or Skype Hybrid, so I thought I'd...
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Frozen in time? Has the Public Sector embraced Digital Transformation?
In 2015, Deloitte released a study that was aimed at understanding more about the key factors affecting Digital Transformation for Public Sector organisations. it was based on research across the market and concluded with 5 key questions that should be at the...
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Subject Access Requests (SAR) – Beware of the SAR Storm!
I have heard and spoken to a number of companies and organisations, and it seems that in many cases, they are happy to see how many Subject Access Requests they receive after the 25th May 2018 to decide how they want to deal with Subject Access Requests from data...
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Microsoft Ignite – My week at Ignite and the latest Exchange news
Exchange isn't going away any time soon, and with big crowds for the sessions about both on-premises and online, interest remains strong. Microsoft have repeatedly this week stated that it's the most used service, and some big behind the scenes changes mean that...
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Microsoft Ignite – Day Five: All change please
Once again Microsoft have not disappointed – another fantastic week. The week serves as a distinct reminder that we, at Content and Code are “Changing the way the world works”. A link to our mission is the fact that, despite being a monolithic organisation, Microsoft...
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Microsoft Ignite – Day Four: Adoption is behind everything
Another common theme throughout Microsoft Ignite, apart from Microsoft Teams of course, is that user adoption is now a key focus for Microsoft. The focus on user adoption is not a new thing for Microsoft though, as this already started last year with Mott MacDonald...
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Microsoft Ignite – Day Three: Developers, Developers, Developers
The running theme for day three of Microsoft Ignite is seemingly "developers, developers, developers…". What’s clear from day three is that despite the change in leadership at Microsoft they still really care about developers. What follows are the initial thoughts...
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Microsoft Ignite – Day Two: Long live SharePoint
Yesterday the Keynote and many of the sessions I attended were heavily focussed on 'Microsoft Teams'. This technology is very interesting and I think it will really add value and benefit many of our enterprise clients. However, this led me to wonder, where does this...
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Microsoft Ignite – Day One: Teams is the future
The key phrase from the first day of Microsoft Ignite is "Intelligent Communication" as the next logical step from "Unified Communication" in the world of Microsoft technology. All areas of Microsoft, and indeed the wider community, are clearly heavily committed to...
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Advanced Threat Protection for your Office 365 Service
When you buy Office 365, as part of the agreement you get built-in anti-malware and anti-spam protection as standard. Exchange Online Protection provides a service level agreement of 100% protection against known malware, and is on a par with its rivals for protection...
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Using Office 365 to classify and secure your data
For years ensuring that the right metadata is attached to your data has been essential to helping you organise and manage content. Lately, with Office 365, being able to have a consistent set of labels across multiple services – Exchange and SharePoint in particular-...
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The GDPR: give the project shape
In my last article, “Opportunity Calling - The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),” I mentioned the notion of not being driven by the text (i.e. the articles and recitals that make up the General Data Protection Regulation) during the initial stages of an...
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Opportunity calling: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a reform of the current data protection rules, it is currently being written into UK law and will apply to all organisations who hold personal data from 25 May 2018. Penalties for non-compliance will be "effective,...
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GDPR: should you be worried?
If, like me, you are old enough to remember the 1999 Millennium bug panic and the rush to update legacy systems before the end of the rational world as we knew it (Planes falling out of the sky, banks collapsing, etc.), then you will be familiar with the anxiety and...
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