The Impact of Iconography on a User’s Experience - Part 1of2

In Part 1 of this blog post we are going to be discussing how the use of icons can positively affect a user’s experience through the concepts of metaphorical affordance and conditioned response.

by Damon Sanchez Feb 15, 2017

A Look at the New OneDrive for Business Admin Center

The new OneDrive for Business Admin center that was announced at Microsoft Ignite 2016 hit preview in December of 2016 for first release tenants. This post will walk through what this admin center includes while it is in preview and where it will be useful. 

by Drew Madelung Jan 10, 2017

How to Connect to Exchange Online with MFA enabled

If you are an organization following best practices for protecting your environment in the cloud you have inevitably enabled Multi Factor Authentication on your administrator logins

by Bill Hughes Dec 29, 2016

SharePoint Summit 2016 - Indiana

Thanks to all who made it out through the snow to our SharePoint Summit 2016 event in Indiana last week.  We had a very engaging audience with a lot of good questions!  Here is a link to the presentation. 

by Drew Madelung Dec 19, 2016

Planning Your Skype for Business Voice Solution

All-in-the-cloud, on-premises, or hybrid? Whether you want (or are required) to retain functionality provided by your on-premises deployment, whether you need features that are currently available only with your on-premises voice solution, and what your plan is for moving people to the cloud depends on company’s current and future needs.

by Concurrency Blog Nov 21, 2016

Getting Started with Feature Pack 1 for SharePoint Server 2016

SharePoint 2016 went RTM (release to manufacturing) on May 14th 2016.  This was only a short 6 months ago but Microsoft has already released its first Feature Pack to bring some of the new cloud features back to our on-premises servers. 

by Drew Madelung Nov 14, 2016

SharePoint Summit 2016

Thanks to all who joined Concurrency and K2 at our 2016 SharePoint Summit across multiple locations in the midwest!  We had a great turnout at every location.  There was a lot of excitement in the crowd with lots of great questions.  

If anyone has any further questions or wants to connect please feel free to send me an email at anytime or reach to me on twitter.

by Drew Madelung Oct 16, 2016

2-4-6-8 Who Do We Appreciate… Toasters & The Psychology of Consumer & User Experience CX/UX

To understand how to utilize a Consumer Centric process and in what order to effectively execute the many puzzle pieces its first required that we know who are users/consumers are…

by Damon Sanchez Oct 13, 2016

Microsoft Ignite Updates for SharePoint, OneDrive, and collaboration in Office 365

Here is a collection announcements, information and my wonderfully entertaining
thoughts about everything in the productivity and collaboration space from
Microsoft Ignite 2016 (a.k.a. SPC 2016)  I will continue to update this Sway
throughout the conference and it will be available afterwards for everyone to view.

by Drew Madelung Sep 28, 2016

The Evolving World of SharePoint

Anyone who has been working with SharePoint for more than a short period of time has seen the product has go through many ups and downs. Right now I believe SharePoint is evolving to the modern age and the future looks incredibly bright. 

by Drew Madelung Sep 22, 2016

Modernizing our approach to MFA

Traditional passwords haven’t been sufficient for protecting accounts and assets for some time now.  From simple brute force attacks to spear phishing and pharming threat adversaries continue to develop novel methods for credential theft to add to their toolbox of existing tried and true approaches. Microsoft’s Group Program manager for Identity Security and protection, Alex Weinert,   has previously stated that MFA, when deployed properly, can end up blocking 99.9% of automated attacks.

by Adam Clifford Feb 1, 2023

10 Ways to Do More with Less via Modern Workplace Tools 

Investing in Microsoft 365 as an organization isn’t a small investment, and we love helping our customers take advantage of the hundreds, if not thousands, of features that come inside of the core services included with your subscription. Here are the 10 most popular ones that we shared with our customers in 2022 on a regular basis! 

by Chris Blackburn Feb 1, 2023