Migration

Are you still thinking of ways to move to the cloud with certain services? Well, the Cloud economics site could help. For working with the Azure cloud, Microsoft provides the Cloud economics public website with information how to get the most value from an Azure investment. Open it it at Cloud economics. On the website, potential customers can find a bunch of information about key guidelines for common technical and financial considerations, and reasons, why companies are moving to the cloud in case studies. Also, there is a PowerPoint document with recommendations available to download at Financial and economic considerations for cloud migration. ...

Richard Campbell, creator and host for Runas Radio, spoke with Martina Grom, CEO atwork, in an online conversation about hybrid workspaces, governance challenges of Microsoft 365 hybrid workers, and the migration into the Cloud during the pandemic. In this article, we summarized for you the critical insights from the marvelous 30 minutes conversation. The work-life balance equilibrium In addition to the threat to public health, economics, and social disruption, the world of work has been profoundly affected by the pandemic. Based on this, employees started to identify their work differently since there has been more flexibility within the pandemic. Therefore, many people figured out what works best for them – from starting early up to doing their work lately. Next to that, the work environment changed a lot since children, pets, and other family members became part of the daily routine when working from home. ...

“In einer herausfordernden Zeit konnten wir mit atwork schnell und professionell eine funktionierende Lösung für Home-Schooling und Home-Office in Betrieb nehmen. Die Kompetenzen auf technischer und organisatorischer Ebene haben einen unkomplizierten und raschen Start in Microsoft Teams ermöglicht. Auch bei weiteren Projekten konnten wir uns voll auf das Knowhow von atwork verlassen. Wir freuen uns einen langfristigen Partner für Microsoft Cloud Services zu haben.” Benjamin Böhm (Head of IT, Diakonie – Eine Welt) ...

Microsoft started to recommend its 64bit edition of Office 365 pro plus to be installed as the default Office installation. While at first many people think this is a bad idea due to all add-ins I did the switch last weekend and it was a very smooth and friction free experience. Till April 2019 you had to manually uninstall the 32bit version of Office first and than install the 64bit version. If you are deploying Office 365 pro plus through the Office 365 Deployment toolkit you can now automate this experience and add a new switch to your config file. ...