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Nearly 18 months ago, we were delighted to welcome Mirus IT to the Content+Cloud family, as our centre of excellence serving small and medium-sized businesses. Now they are taking another step in their amazing journey with a new look, and a new website, but the same first-class IT support. They have re-branded with an updated look and a beautiful user-friendly website. This upgrade reflects the Mirus values, their values, their evolution, most importantly, it reaffirms their dedication to meeting their clients’ needs, providing IT support with a personal touch, and continuing to earn their lo ..read more

Leading UK technology providers come together Back in June 2020 we made the announcement that we were part of a new group brand. From today, Content and Code begins officially functioning as Content+Cloud! Content+Cloud is the integration of both Content and Code and the IT Lab group. This unification has created what we know will be a leading force in technology services. Other formerly IT Lab group companies: Mirus, Sol-Tec, Perspective Risk, and Fresh will remain as sub-brands within the new Content+Cloud group. Content and Code has always focused on changing the way the world works by work ..read more

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 data? Even before the lockdown, this was a challenge. And as budgets tighten, the pressure is on to ‘do more with less’. As we transition to a return to the workplace, now is an ideal opportunity to modernise your approach. Because whatever the future looks like, you need tools that meet the needs of your users and organisation in ..read more

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 deliver a full portfolio of professional and managed services across the core Microsoft technology stack of Office 365 and M365, Azure, Dynamics 365 and SharePoint. Now, the IT Lab group, and with it, Content and Code, is becoming Content+Cloud. Find out more. Being part of the IT Lab group, and now coming together as one brand ..read more

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.   Microsoft Endpoint Manager Microsoft Endpoint Manager is Microsoft’s new name for the unified management experience unifying Configuration Manager and Microsoft Intune to manage all organisation endpoints. While an organisation can use one or other service, the most considerable flexibility is available when the two servi ..read more

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 to support the UK Ventilator Challenge participants with their Microsoft Teams usage and collaboration requirements, we were called on once more to donate our skills and time to a critical cause. In this case, we used the power of Power Apps and Power Automate to assist one of the major contributors to the Ventilator Challenge – a ..read more

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 Dynamics 365. The basis of the Power Platform is the Common Data Service (CDS), which is the underlying data platform that provides a unified and simplified data scheme, but other data sources are also available. As the current situation around the world continues to test our remote working abilities, it has become extremely evi ..read more

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 model. In this third part, I am going to talk about how Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise (formerly Office 365 ProPlus) and how Microsoft Office has changed in the last 10 years.   Office 365 In June 2011 Microsoft released Office 365 to the world. At the time it was built on the 2010 versions of common Microsoft Office pro ..read more

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 received an unprecedented volume of calls from organisations needing assistance. We recently ran a poll to identify the most popular Teams questions. It was open to clients and non-clients alike, Teams users and Teams admins. The most-asked questions feature in our on-demand webinar: Microsoft Teams ‘Ask the Experts’. These experts ..read more