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A Helicopter Tour of Intune, MAM, MDM and Conditional Access As an IT pro, you’re likely juggling conflicting interests, especially when it comes to end-user device management. How do you ensure that your users can work from anywhere while protecting your company’s...

Content and Code, an IT Lab company, becomes Content+Cloud When we became part of the IT Lab group back in November 2018, we brought our market-leading expertise in Office 365 and SharePoint into a successful managed services organisation, giving it the capability to...

Cloud Endpoint Management  In the third instalment in this series, I discussed the changes in Office 365 ProPlus, including licensing, deployment, and update changes. Here, in this fourth and final part, I outline the options for Cloud-driven Endpoint management....

Motor Giant's Production Line Rolls Faster with SharePoint Ensuring the NHS is equipped to weather the coronavirus storm remains a crucial part of the UK Government’s strategy, including meeting its critical need for ventilators. Having been called upon by Microsoft...

The ‘Power Platform’ is a collective term for three Microsoft products: Power BI, Power Apps and Power Automate. These three products provide businesses with the ability to easily surface, manipulate, automate and analyse data in conjunction with using Office 365 and...

Modernising Desktop Management - Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise In the second part of this series, I outlined how Windows 10 is different to its predecessors. It has introduced a new servicing model, along with a new deployment methodology, and even a new licensing...

Microsoft Teams FAQs As the world’s shutters closed in the war against the coronavirus, millions of us united digitally using Microsoft Teams. In the space of a single week in March, Teams users surged from 32 million to 44 million. And across the IT Lab group, we...

Top Tips for Using SharePoint and OneDrive for Business File management tools like SharePoint and OneDrive exist to make our working lives simpler. But confusion over which platform to use when and how they dovetail with Microsoft Teams is common. And countless users...

Modern Desktop Management - Windows 10 In the first part of this series, I outlined the components of the modern desktop experience: Windows 10 Office 365 ProPlus Cloud Management In this second part, I am going to provide an overview of how Windows 10 is different...

An Introduction to Modern Desktop Management In the past few years, Microsoft has been engaging with the community, and developing their approach to, Modern Desktop Management. Many organisations are aware of some of the concepts, but are reasonably asking the...

An insight into the unwritten rules about your job… The Psychological Contract is the unwritten contract between employers and employees. It is the mutual expectation that both parties have of what they expect from the other. Simply put, it’s the stuff that’s not in...

This video from Tristan Watkins, our Security & Networks Head of Service Architecture, looks at the problem with using personal devices in a professional environment. Is there a way in which session controls can help with security in a world where...

We are frequently asked for guidance on Testing Plans for SharePoint Site Migrations, so have put together this general guidance. While the complexity and nature of migration projects vary massively, and the implications naturally vary with each use-case, we have...

Are you new to Microsoft Teams? Would you like to use Teams to collaborate with people outside your organisation? Or are you an IT administrator and need to understand how to set this up? If so, you’ve come to the right place. We created a list of the most common FAQs...

COVID-19 or Corona Viris- it’s likely that it is going to affect workforces across the UK. Following the corona virus outbreak more and more organisations are advising organisations to allow remote working. Microsoft have announced that they are going to be making...

Are you prepared to migrate? Cloud migration can offer a faster, more reliable and scalable environment than traditional on-premises infrastructure. In fact, by 2025, Gartner predicts that 80% of enterprises will migrate entirely away from on-premises data centres....

Businesses of all sizes, in any industry, can benefit from taking a proactive approach to cyber security - and strengthening their defences against hackers and threats - with a Pen Test. But what is a Pen Test? Pen Testing, also known as Penetration Testing or ethical...

My debut Ignite experience has been awesome! The scale of and breadth of what Microsoft is delivering is very exciting. The announcements in the security and compliance aspects of SharePoint and OneDrive are of high importance to Content and Code and our clients....

Yammer is no longer the ugly stepsister, she’s coming to the party and she’s looking fabulous! One of the biggest announcements this year at Ignite was not that I ate my weight in macaroni cheese, but that 2020 is going to be the ‘Year of Yammer.’ I for one could not...

Microsoft love developers! This has been evident by the fact that at Ignite this year, the content and sessions for developers so far has been awesome! There have been some great announcements around SPFx, Power Platform, Graph and Azure development. Let’s take a look...

As we close out the second day at Ignite 2019 it's safe to say the running theme of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming a key underpinning capability across the entire Microsoft 365 service stack. With the advent of natural language searches in Outlook and during...

First day at Ignite is now over. With a lot of exciting new announcements, it has become clear that the key technology that Microsoft will be driving forward is Artificial Intelligence (AI). The common theme throughout the day for the future of Office 365 is that the...

[TRANSCRIPT] If you’ve already deployed Office ProPlus to your Office 365 users today and you’re planning a Teams deployment, then you might be wondering how you get Teams out to all of those users? There’s been a variety of different options like the machine wide...

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Mirus IT, the long-standing Milton Keynes-based, managed services provider is now part of the IT Lab group. This acquisition sees Mirus IT, join Perspective Risk and Content and Code, in a business that now serves 890+ managed service clients, with a combined turnover...

Teams represents a new way of working. It’s a modern communications and collaboration platform. It’s a hub for channel and thread-based conversations. It supports live and streamed events. File-sharing and real-time instant chat. All of this surfaced in a single user...

Microsoft Managed Desktop (MMD) provides the best experience for users managed by Microsoft. MMD is a subscription-based service which can help to overcome business challenges such as coming away from complex Legacy systems which are making digital transformation too...

One way of classifying documents in SharePoint is by associating them with labels. Labels help us retain, delete or not delete/edit documents in Office 365. We can have Office 365 labels for say: Documents that need to be retained for a certain amount of time e.g....

15 July 2019, LONDON: Today IT Lab Group (Content and Code + IT Lab + Perspective Risk) announced it is now an Authorized Microsoft Managed Desktop Partner providing global end-user support services alongside the Microsoft Managed Desktop service. IT Lab Group is now...

Content and Code (an IT Lab Group Company) recognised as finalist for 2019 Microsoft Customer Experience and Modern Workplace Transformation Awards respectively. Content and Code (an IT Lab Group Company) are today delighted to announce that we have been named...