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Simplify Your Transition to Microsoft Teams — Part 2

Understanding how coexistence modes interact is key to a smooth migration to Teams.

By Josh Walters
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April 16, 2019
Digital Workspace, Software

In my earlier blog post about migrating to Microsoft Teams, I covered the variety of coexistence modes available to organizations as they consider their migration to this communication and collaborations platform. With many organizations needing to maintain both Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams for a period of time, it’s important to have some insight…

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Simplify Your Transition to Microsoft Teams — Part 1

Knowing which coexistence mode is right for your organization will make this migration much easier.

By Josh Walters
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April 9, 2019
Digital Workspace, Software

For many organizations, Skype for Business (formerly Lync, and before that, Communications Server) has been a staple communication and collaboration platform. This type of application — one that provides the ability to communicate quickly and effectively through instant messaging, check someone’s availability via presence status, place a phone call and spin up an ad hoc…

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Maximizing the Potential of Your Microsoft Surface Hub — Part 3

The Surface Hub offers definitive value to organizations, as long as they know how to implement it.

By Patrick Nowicki
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May 7, 2018
Digital Workspace

In my first post on the Surface Hub, I focused on potential new use cases for this hybrid devices. Then my second blog post in this series took a deeper dive into the Surface Hub’s features and how it compared to the competition. Now, I’m finally getting around to the question of whether this product is…

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Weighing the Costs and Benefits of the Microsoft Surface Hub — Part 2

Organizations considering the Surface Hub or another collaborative whiteboard should look at the device’s price and features, as well as their IT environment.

By Patrick Nowicki
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April 30, 2018
Digital Workspace

Some innovative technologies come onto the market without a clearly defined use case (or, perhaps, a clearly marketed one). They pull together features from other technologies and combine them in a new way. And while this hybrid isn’t a great fit for the original workplace settings it was pulled from, it offers opportunities for creating…

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Cisco Provides a Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Along with updates to the system’s instant messaging and Presence tools, improvements to Cisco Expressway now open communication to Skype for Business users.

By Patrick Nowicki
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July 20, 2017
Digital Workspace

The end users of many on-premises and hosted Cisco Unified Communication customers have never been able to communicate natively from their Cisco Jabber clients to their third-party business partners who use Microsoft’s Lync or Skype for Business. It’s as if they were on opposite sides of a river with no “bridge” to cross, leaving them…

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Microsoft and Cisco: When Collaboration Worlds Collide

While the vendors are often present in the same environment, finding ways for them to work together can be difficult.

By Patrick Nowicki
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May 2, 2017
Cloud, Digital Workspace

“How do I get the most out of my investment?” It’s a question all IT organizations ask themselves when they review applications they have in their environment, especially when considering upgrades and migrations. This question can and ought to be answered with both technical and user adoption considerations in mind. And it presents quite the…

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