Using Custom Backgrounds in Microsoft Teams – Star Wars
Microsoft Teams has the ability to create a background for your video conferencing without requiring any special equipment or green screen. To enable backgrounds make sure you have enabled Video when making a call/meeting and then select the ellipse menu and then "Show background effects" Once enabled a selection of available backgrounds will appear on the right side of Teams. Simply select a background and either "Preview" or "Apply". Now to add a custom background is easy. While we're at it, let's have some fun and add some official Star Wars backgrounds. You can find them located here: https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-backgrounds Follow the directions...
Remote Assist Securely for Free
Remotely Assist Securely and for Free! Many of us are suddenly supporting a large number of remote computer users, whether they be employees, customers, or friends and family. There are a number of commercial choices out there like Teams and Zoom, but a hidden gem is included with every copy of Windows 10. It's called "Quick Assist". Quick Assist isn't a conferencing system or a sophisticated "teams" app, but if you need to provide remote assistance to someone over the phone and have access to their computer, then it can help you in a pinch. It behaves well with multiple monitor setups...
Backing up your Azure Virtual Machines
Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) are great. They're easy to setup, maintain, and leverage the many advantages of the cloud. Although storage devices of the VMs have redundancy you are still susceptible to a VM not booting up or becoming inaccessible due to corruption or a Windows update on the VM. When that becomes your issue the disk redundancy won't help you and your stuck with a complicated and time consuming process of rebuilding the VM. To save yourself from this rebuilding process Azure has a backup feature called Recovery Services. Recovery Services allows you to create a "Backup Vault" that you...
Dynamics GP 2015 R2 Released
On June 1, 2015 GP 2015 R2 was released and can be downloaded from Customer Source. GP 2015 was released in December 2014 and marked a change in architecture providing a services based architecture and bringing workflow back inside of GP (formerly integrated with SharePoint workflow). GP 2015 R2 builds upon the initial release by adding more feature improvements. [caption id="attachment_1680" align="aligncenter" width="300"] All-in-One Viewer[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1681" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Smartlist Designer SQL View Workflow[/caption] Some key enhancements are: Smartlist Designer continues to improve with a new workflow that allows a SQL view based on a Smartlist to be initiated by a user and then...
CustomerSource to allow free access
Microsoft Announces “Freemium” Model for CustomerSource On Monday September 8th, Microsoft will update CustomerSource to allow free access to some content, but still require a login to access content available through a customer service plan. On Monday September 8th, Microsoft will be updating CustomerSource with a new "freemium" model, where Dynamics customers will have free, un-gated access to around ½ of the content in CustomerSource, but will still need to log in to access the remainder the content. After the launch, customers can access CustomerSource as they do today, but will not be challenged with a login until they reach secured gated content (which...