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Keeping Track of Last Modified Documents in SharePoint 2013

Using SharePoint documents library can be quite challenging sometimes. Especially when it comes down to following what is going on. For that there are a few tricks that can be used in order to know what are the new documents published or modified. Alerting First thing is that you can be alerted on most things in SharePoint.

3 Major Issues Caused by SCOM for IT Professionals

The energy last year at the Microsoft Management Summit was just incredible, and the new release of SCOM seemed to be really impressive…At first glance. SCOM is still the same. It’s powerful. It can manage many different capabilities and it’s a part of the System Center suite.

Top Ways to Check Your Microsoft Office 365 Health

Whenever a user complains about slowness in accessing a mailbox, IT administrators often suspect it’s due to an issue with the network. Still, they don’t always have enough information to confirm this. To confirm the issue, admins will check with other users to see if they’re facing the same issue. Then they’ll try to access Google to confirm the speed of the Internet, and ping outlook.office365.com to check if there is any packet loss.

Ensuring Teams Performance when it's OneDrive, SharePoint and Exchange Under The HoodBy Nick Cavalancia, Microsoft MV

It has become the backbone of many organizations, where conference calls, meetings, collaboration, and sharing all take place. This dependency makes it a critical application that requires consistent optimal performance to effectively maintain user productivity. For most Microsoft 365 applications, monitoring performance of a service like Exchange Online revolves around Exchange-related services, logs, etc. With Teams however, ensuring optimal performance proves to be a more complex task, and even more so when utilizing native tools.

Prevent and Avoid Costly Downtime

With increasingly complex systems sustaining mission-critical services, IT departments are hard at work designing business continuity strategies to avoid unpleasant surprises. Each year companies lose $26.5 billion in revenue due to IT downtime - either planned or unplanned. When there are critical application failures on the network the costs can hit a staggering 1 million dollars per hour lost in Fortune 100 companies.

Troubleshooting Microsoft 365 End to End: Turning Interruption into Insight

How should you approach monitoring and troubleshooting Microsoft 365 so that you are the first to know of problems and have the tools at hand for quick remediation? Watch Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter MVP, Nick Cavalancia, and Martello VP of Product Development, Rob Doucette as they discuss how to troubleshoot SaaS applications like Microsoft 365 with end-to-end monitoring.

The Top IT Dashboards You Should Be Using

Technology has evolved the critical need for accessing real-time applications such as cloud-collaboration, VoIP and video conferencing from anywhere in the world. CIOs who prioritize around the clock performance and availability for cloud-based productivity tools, have an opportunity to deliver more value and can give their business a competitive edge. IT dashboards are a critical tool in enabling productivity. However, one of the biggest challenges that IT leaders face is to integrate data from multiple business systems that are already in place, both on-premise and in cloud solutions.

Take Control of Alert Storms

Relevant and timely alerts are a key tool to manage application performance successfully. However, IT administrators are often overwhelmed by alerts. Either they receive too many alerts or get notified of ones that aren't relevant to them. By setting up alarm properties to suit your needs, you'll find them more relevant and avoid alarm fatigue. Becoming proactive, rather than reactive when it comes to detecting problems on the network reduces stress on the IT staff and offers a better end-user experience, by preventing downtime.

Be the First to Know When Microsoft 365 Service Issues Arise

On Monday September 28 a multi-hour global Microsoft 365 outage brought down Teams, Office 365 and Outlook leaving many people disconnected. While Microsoft outages are rare, there are a range of possible issues on your network and in your user’s environment that can cause service issues at any time. Knowing quickly when these are happening, and what’s causing them is key to keeping users productive on Microsoft 365.

#ITConnections - Getting the Most from Your Microsoft 365 User Experience

From email, to word documents, presentations and spreadsheets, Microsoft’s suite of productivity software is an essential tool for most businesses. With Microsoft 365 being cloud-hosted it offers the ability to collaborate from any location. This flexibility comes at a cost, where it presents a new set of challenges to monitor and manage the end user experience. Organizations who are heavily dependent on Microsoft Office 365 simply can’t afford to not have visibility into what users are experiencing.