I have often wondered how Microsoft have architected their cloud solutions to ensure that there is no cross-talk between tenants (be that accidental or malicious) and hey presto a document from Microsoft has surfaced which outlines exactly that. In summary it talks about Azure AD being stored in partitions and these partitions being replicated in […]
Office 365 Persistent Chat (Microsoft Teams)
A common complaint from people who are used to using Skype and who are moving to Skype for Business is where is persistent chat? I mean in Skype I can be part of a group conversation and even if I’m not actively logged into Skype the next time I log in I can see the […]
UC and Cloud Day Summary
Birmingham hosts UC and Cloud Day Neil and myself travelled to Birmingham to attend the UC and Cloud Day. It was a first for us, but had been recommended to us by James from Binary Tree who has been a couple of times. We had some logistical hiccups with thinking is was at the NEC […]
Wrapping up Ignite 2016
Ignite 2016 is once again behind us, farewell Atlanta! Our team again travelled to Ignite to try to see as many sessions as possible, meet as many people as possible and have a good time while doing so. This year Ignite was held in Atlanta and we arrived a day or two early to get […]
Enabling Remote Administrators for O365
By Carl Baumann, CEO 4ward North America, and Twan van Beers, Nero Blanco The administration tasks for an Office 365 deployment are really designed around a centralized management model. Within the free admin toolset provided by Microsoft there is no way to setup regional management rights for administrators who ONLY want to take care of […]
Azure network error 1233, error 53 path not found
If you have an Azure VM that is suddenly getting errors including Error 53: The network path was not found Error 1233: The network location cannot be reached Server can’t be pinged but can ping out After ensuring that the firewall settings are ok (or if you know 100% this was working and now after […]
What are Windows and Surface as a Service?
In recent months you may have come across the terms Windows as a Service and Surface as a Service. What exactly do they mean? How can they be of benefit? This blog aims to explain those two terms in detail Windows as a Service The term Windows as a Service first started being used with […]
What is Microsoft Cloud and Azure?
What is Cloud? The term Cloud is very common place now, but what does it actually mean? Are you already using ‘Cloud’? Where is the Cloud? In a nutshell a cloud is a set of computing services that are accessed over a wide area network connection and where the management of the underlying hardware is separated […]
WPC 2016 download via PowerShell
Hi all!!! We’ve just come back from WPC in Toronto, and as first time attendees we were blown away. Not so much by the scale of it, which is impressive in itself but not dissimilar to MEC and Ignite, but the sheer quantity of information available. You can choose to do sessions, arrange formal 1:1 […]
EMEA Partner of the Year 2016
Binary Tree has awarded Nero Blanco the honour of EMEA Partner of the Year 2016. We are humbled to receive this award from Binary Tree, and look forward to continuing our close working relationship with them. Many thanks to everyone in Binary Tree for creating the software, services and channel to allow us […]
A journey through Microsoft
I thought I’d write about the various programs that are available through Microsoft and Nero Blanco’s journey so far… It may help other partners choose their track and or make them aware of what is out there. Individual Certification It all started with us as consultants looking to increase our knowledge of the products. My […]
Reaching Gold Cloud Productivity
Our aim for 2016 was to reach Gold Partner status with Microsoft, in particular in the Cloud Productivity competency, and we’re not even half way through the year yet and we’ve got there! Thanks to everyone’s hard work and dedication to get people onto the Microsoft cloud platform! Our next focus will be Tier-1 Cloud Solution […]