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Understanding the Partner Admin Link
I spend a lot of my time talking to Microsoft Partners about the best way to get recognised for the work they do with customers and how they can best earn incentives for that work. I’m absolutely terrible at remembering all the details so this blog post is as much a reference for me as […]
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Avoiding Bill Shock
One of the great advantages of a service like Microsoft Azure is its scale. I don’t have to worry about ordering a physical server, setting it up, and living in fear that the cleaner might accidentally unplug it so they can use their vacuum cleaner. At the click of a button I can provision anything […]
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What to look for when choosing a Microsoft Cloud Distributor | Relationships
My last few posts have focused on the sorts of questions a Microsoft reseller might want to ask of a prospective indirect CSP provider. When I shared these posts I got a really positive response, but one stood out in particular. The managing director of an indirect provider suggested that I should write an additional […]
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What to look for when choosing a Microsoft Cloud Distributor | Role Modelling, Feedback and Leadership
In the first part of this series, I talked about competencies, support, and skills. In the second, I built this out further to practices, platforms and partnerships. In this post we’ll look at the importance of choosing an indirect provider who role models best use of technology effectively, solicits frank and open feedback and provides […]
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What to look for when choosing a Microsoft Cloud Distributor | Practices, Platforms, and Partnerships
In the first post of this mini-series, I gave examples of the questions you, as a Microsoft Reseller, might want to ask of a prospective indirect CSP provider. Building on competencies, support, and skills, this post focuses on areas around practice development, CSP platforms and partner-to-partner engagements. Indirect providers are actively focused on demonstrating how […]
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What to look for when choosing a Microsoft Cloud Distributor | Competencies, Support, and Skills
My job is to work with IT distributors. Together with my team, we look after the top 10 Microsoft cloud distributors (also known as indirect CSP providers, or simply ‘indirect providers’) in the UK. In the last three years I’ve built up a pretty clear idea of what I would recommend any reseller look for […]
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How To Automatically flag negative emails in Office 365 using Microsoft Flow
Find out how to automatically flag negatively worded emails in Office 365 using Microsoft Flow and Microsoft Cognitive Services.
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How To Weed out long paths easily ahead of a OneDrive for Business migration
You know exactly what’s happened as soon as you see it. That pesky error. One of your users has managed to create a directory structure so long courtesy of a sneaky mapped drive and now you’re unable to do anything with it; least of all get it synchronising with OneDrive for Business. If only there […]
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How To Move Small Business Server to Microsoft Azure
Remember 2010? In technology terms, 2010 was a century ago. Yet, plenty of small businesses around the world still run applications and servers from that era today. Microsoft’s Small Business Server 2011 is just one example. 2010 also marks an important milestone in the development of the modern “cloud” we use today as it’s the year […]
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How To Build a Q&A bot with zero code in less than an hour!
(This is version 2, updated with more detail and screenshots. I’ll continue to revise this post with more detail about each step if I find gaps in the guide. You should find there’s enough signposting for you to get started.) It’s just gone 5:00am where I am in Seattle, WA. I fly home later tonight […]