The document is an ebook about curing common SharePoint headaches using GSX Monitor & Analyzer. It describes how the software can automate monitoring of SharePoint performance and capacity to reduce administrative burdens. Specifically, it provides real-time data on system load and user experience during testing, anticipates storage and resource issues, ensures accurate data replication worldwide, measures the impact of environment changes, and frees up experts' time by automating monitoring tasks.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 - Upgrading to SQL Server 2008 R2 WhitepaperMicrosoft Private Cloud
More than ever, organizations rely on data storage and analysis for business operations. Companies need the ability to deploy data-driven solutions quickly. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 data management software provides a trusted, productive, and intelligent data platform that makes it possible for you to run your most demanding mission-critical applications, reduce time and cost of application deployment and maintenance, and deliver actionable insights to your entire organization.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 - Upgrading to SQL Server 2008 R2 WhitepaperMicrosoft Private Cloud
More than ever, organizations rely on data storage and analysis for business operations. Companies need the ability to deploy data-driven solutions quickly. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 data management software provides a trusted, productive, and intelligent data platform that makes it possible for you to run your most demanding mission-critical applications, reduce time and cost of application deployment and maintenance, and deliver actionable insights to your entire organization.
En esta sesión revisamos las nuevas mejoras y funcionalidades que estarán implementadas en la siguiente versión de SQL Server principalmente en Seguridad, Rendimiento y Alta Disponibilidad
Microsoft SQL High Availability and ScalingJustin Whyte
This is a white paper that I wrote that explores the different options for Microsoft SQL Server High Availability. I explain the pros and cons of each technology, as well as important considerations like RTO and RPO.
En esta sesión revisamos las nuevas mejoras y funcionalidades que estarán implementadas en la siguiente versión de SQL Server principalmente en Seguridad, Rendimiento y Alta Disponibilidad
Microsoft SQL High Availability and ScalingJustin Whyte
This is a white paper that I wrote that explores the different options for Microsoft SQL Server High Availability. I explain the pros and cons of each technology, as well as important considerations like RTO and RPO.
Ground floor introduction to the tools and best practices surrounding SQL Server’s built-in web-based, enterprise-level reporting engine. We'll start with what SSRS is, what you'll use it for and give top tips to know when developing your first reports.
Pruebas de rendimiento de Microsoft Dynamics NAV WhitepaperCLARA CAMPROVIN
Este documento ofrece una guía de dimensionamiento de la infraestructura técnica necesaria, y explica cómo utilizar las pruebas de carga para optimizar Microsoft Dynamics NAV y el hardware para cumplir los requisitos del cliente y del sistema en general.
The Machine Learning behind the Autonomous Database ILOUG Feb 2020 Sandesh Rao
Autonomous Database is one of the hottest Oracle products where we have attempted to use Machine Learning for several aspects of the service. We take a view on our current state of ML in the Autonomous Database Cloud and how do we process this data in ADW/ATP with zeppelin notebooks to find anomalies in them to troubleshoot them at a scale of several petabytes a year and conduct AIOps. We will cover some sample notebooks to some use cases we will cover are a Log Anomaly timeline which we reduce significant amounts of logs using semi-supervised machine learning techniques to reduce logs and match them in near real time. Some of the other use cases is to use convolution filters...
This tutorial covers the topics of introduction to business intelligence with examples of BI scenarios and touches upon ETL(Extract, Transform and Load) operations using SSIS on SQL 2005 & 2008 and using DTS on SQL 2000. It contains introductions to crystal reports and SSRS. It compares Data warehouse and OLAP Cube. This tutorial concludes with topics on Data Mining and Dashboards.
Microsoft Teams Phone
Stay connected with voice and video calling using Microsoft Teams Phone on your computer, tablet, mobile device, or desk phone.
Stay connected with a modern calling solution
Make and receive voice and video calls directly in Microsoft Teams. Stay in touch and get more done anywhere.
Calling in the flow of work
Work smarter with an all-in-one app that brings together calling, chat, meetings, and collaboration.
Business-critical calling
Use built-in, innovative, and AI-powered calling experiences and integrated partner software solutions.
Devices for any calling scenario
Benefit from a wide portfolio of devices for any business need and get flexible financing options.
Simple set up and management
Easily add, monitor, and manage voice and video calling from the Teams admin center.
Microsoft Teams Phone with Calling Plan includes:
Cloud-based phone system with advanced features including call transfer, multilevel auto attendants, and call queues.
A domestic calling plan with 3,000 minutes2 per user, per month within the US and Canada.
Call from anywhere, on any device through the Microsoft Teams app on desktop, mobile, web, and desk phones.
Around-the-clock customer support seven days a week, backed by Microsoft.
Teams Phone with Calling Plan requires a Microsoft 365 subscription that includes Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams
Built for hybrid work
Feel seen and heard no matter where you are and do your best work, your way.
Empower people and teams in a hybrid work world
Flexible work is here to stay, and embracing it is critical to your future success. The latest tools from Microsoft empower hybrid work environments and enable flexible work beyond organizational boundaries.
Whats New in Microsoft Teams Hybrid Meetings November 2021David J Rosenthal
Microsoft Teams
Built for hybrid work
Feel seen and heard no matter where you are and do your best work, your way.
Empower people and teams in a hybrid work world
Flexible work is here to stay, and embracing it is critical to your future success. The latest tools from Microsoft empower hybrid work environments and enable flexible work beyond organizational boundaries.
Microsoft Viva Connections
A curated, company-branded experience that brings together relevant news, conversations, and resources in the apps and devices you use every day. Viva Connections is included in all Microsoft 365 plans with SharePoint Online.
Create connection
Encourage meaningful connections across the organization in a hybrid workplace.
Drive alignment
Rally the entire organization around your vision, mission, and strategic priorities.
Empower contribution
Foster a culture of inclusion by empowering every employee to contribute ideas and share feedback.
Built on Microsoft 365
Deploy and manage Viva Connections through your existing infrastructure.
Protect your hybrid workforce across the attack chainDavid J Rosenthal
Security is one of the most important considerations for SMBs. In fact, 77% of SMBs in a recent survey consider security a top feature when purchasing new PCs.1
Last year alone, 67% of SMBs experienced a security breach that cost, on average, 3.3% of their revenue.1 That’s a big risk to both profitability and reputation, and it shows how critical strong security protections are for businesses.
The good news is that 69% of SMBs in a recent survey agreed that new Windows 10 Pro devices offered better security and data protection than older devices.1
Research shows that modern devices help business owners by preventing identity attacks, minimizing phishing, and reducing the risk of malware attacks. These are all common ways that bad actors steal business data, steal personal information, or hold our devices hostage in exchange for huge amounts of ransom money.
And with modern PCs, most security functions can happen in the cloud, without interrupting worker productivity.
Connections is a company branded employee app in Teams. It is a gateway to your employee experience, with personalized news, communications, tasks, people and resources. It provides a single curated employee destination that can be configured for specific roles like frontline workers. So, leaders can communicate and engage their employees, and employees can get easy access to the tools and resources they need from one place.. Connections builds on existing capabilities in Microsoft 365 like SharePoint and Yammer. And it pulls your communications together into a pre-configured app in Teams, designed for both desktop and mobile workers. It also acts as a launching pad to the other 3 Viva modules
Insights brings together Workplace Analytics, MyAnalytics and Glint into a unified insights app in Teams to provide data-driven and privacy-protected insights for individuals, managers and leaders. For example, employees get personalized insights, only they can see, that help them protect their time for breaks, focused work, and learning in order to promote improved productivity and wellbeing.
Topics focuses on knowledge and expertise. Topics applies AI to identify knowledge and experts and organize them into shared topics. AI automatically creates a topic page for each topic. It’s like Wikipedia for the enterprise where AI does the first draft. And these topic pages are surfaced as Topic Cards right in the flow of work in Office and Teams.
Finally, Learning allows employees to easily discover informal and formal learning in the flow of work. It aggregates content from LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn and 3rd party training content and your own organizations content – all in one place. Along with providing aggregation and recommendations, it also allows managers to assign and track training, as well as report on training within and across teams.
Connections is a company branded employee app in Teams. It is a gateway to your employee experience, with personalized news, communications, tasks, people and resources. It provides a single curated employee destination that can be configured for specific roles like frontline workers. So, leaders can communicate and engage their employees, and employees can get easy access to the tools and resources they need from one place.. Connections builds on existing capabilities in Microsoft 365 like SharePoint and Yammer. And it pulls your communications together into a pre-configured app in Teams, designed for both desktop and mobile workers. It also acts as a launching pad to the other 3 Viva modules
Insights brings together Workplace Analytics, MyAnalytics and Glint into a unified insights app in Teams to provide data-driven and privacy-protected insights for individuals, managers and leaders. For example, employees get personalized insights, only they can see, that help them protect their time for breaks, focused work, and learning in order to promote improved productivity and wellbeing.
Topics focuses on knowledge and expertise. Topics applies AI to identify knowledge and experts and organize them into shared topics. AI automatically creates a topic page for each topic. It’s like Wikipedia for the enterprise where AI does the first draft. And these topic pages are surfaced as Topic Cards right in the flow of work in Office and Teams.
Finally, Learning allows employees to easily discover informal and formal learning in the flow of work. It aggregates content from LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn and 3rd party training content and your own organizations content – all in one place. Along with providing aggregation and recommendations, it also allows managers to assign and track training, as well as report on training within and across teams.
Connections is a company branded employee app in Teams. It is a gateway to your employee experience, with personalized news, communications, tasks, people and resources. It provides a single curated employee destination that can be configured for specific roles like frontline workers. So, leaders can communicate and engage their employees, and employees can get easy access to the tools and resources they need from one place.. Connections builds on existing capabilities in Microsoft 365 like SharePoint and Yammer. And it pulls your communications together into a pre-configured app in Teams, designed for both desktop and mobile workers. It also acts as a launching pad to the other 3 Viva modules
Insights brings together Workplace Analytics, MyAnalytics and Glint into a unified insights app in Teams to provide data-driven and privacy-protected insights for individuals, managers and leaders. For example, employees get personalized insights, only they can see, that help them protect their time for breaks, focused work, and learning in order to promote improved productivity and wellbeing.
Topics focuses on knowledge and expertise. Topics applies AI to identify knowledge and experts and organize them into shared topics. AI automatically creates a topic page for each topic. It’s like Wikipedia for the enterprise where AI does the first draft. And these topic pages are surfaced as Topic Cards right in the flow of work in Office and Teams.
Finally, Learning allows employees to easily discover informal and formal learning in the flow of work. It aggregates content from LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn and 3rd party training content and your own organizations content – all in one place. Along with providing aggregation and recommendations, it also allows managers to assign and track training, as well as report on training within and across teams.
Our end-to-end, integrated portfolio of cloud solutions across Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Azure is built on a foundation of security and privacy and helps every organization in every industry build resilience and improve the bottom line.
Azure Arc offers simplified management, faster app development, and consistent Azure services. Easily organize, govern, and secure Windows, Linux, SQL Server, and Kubernetes clusters across data centers, the edge, and multicloud environments right from Azure. Architect, design, and build cloud-native apps anywhere without sacrificing central visibility and control. Get Azure innovation and cloud benefits by deploying consistent Azure data, application, and machine learning services on any infrastructure.
Gain central visibility, operations, and compliance
Centrally manage a wide range of resources including Windows and Linux servers, SQL server, Kubernetes clusters, and Azure services.
Establish central visibility in the Azure portal and enable multi-environment search with Azure Resource Graph.
Meet governance and compliance standards for apps, infrastructure, and data with Azure Policy.
Delegate access and manage security policies for resources using role-based access control (RBAC) and Azure Lighthouse.
Organize and inventory assets through a variety of Azure scopes, such as management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, and tags.
Learn more about hybrid and multicloud management in the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure.
Windows Server 2022 is now in preview, the next release in our Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC), which will be generally available later this calendar year. It builds on Windows Server 2019, our fastest adopted Windows Server ever. This release includes advanced multi-layer security, hybrid capabilities with Azure, and a flexible platform to modernize applications with containers.
Windows 365 also creates a new hybrid personal computing category called Cloud PC, which uses both the power of the cloud and the capabilities of the device to provide a full, personalized Windows experience. This new Windows experience comes as organizations around the world grapple with the best ways to facilitate hybrid work models where employees are both on-site and distributed across the globe.
The Windows 365 Cloud PC experience is:
Versatile, familiar and productive by delivering users their personalized content, settings, and applications
Simple to deploy and manage from a single console, easy for anyone to use
Secure by design, leaving no data on the device
Available on any device and optimized for the best experience on a Windows PC at a predictable price
And lastly, it’s scalable and resilient to support changing workforce needs and new business scenarios
Designed for hybrid work
Productive
Improve employee productivity and focus with a simple, powerful user experience.
Collaborative
Discover a smarter way to collaborate with Microsoft Teams integration.
Secure
Protect data and secure access with a Zero Trust-ready operating system.
Consistent
Make adoption easy with app compatibility and cloud management.
Productive and collaborative
Reach your individual and team goals with built-in assistance features in Windows 11.
Simple, modern visuals
Snap assist
Personalized widgets
Intelligent video conferencing
Share a window while presenting
Meet now in Microsoft Teams
The Microsoft Teams call and chat function in the taskbar of Windows 11.
Meet now in Microsoft Teams
Connect with anyone on any platform with fast, easy-to-use calling and chat right from the taskbar.
The most secure Windows yet
Increase security with hardware-based integrity protection in Windows 11, from the silicon to the cloud.
Go passwordless
Get secure, multifactor single sign-on from devices to the cloud and apps with Windows Hello for Business.
Perfect for remote work
Ship employees a corporate-owned device secured by company policy and easily provisioned by them.
Microsoft Scheduler for M365 - Personal Digital AssistantDavid J Rosenthal
An assistant for everyone
Enjoy the speed of a virtual assistant augmented with human understanding.
Easy scheduling
Save time by handing off the time-consuming task of scheduling using your own words.
Works 24/7
Request a meeting at any time. Cortana works around the clock even when you are offline or busy.
You control your data
Scheduler works within your Microsoft 365 compliance boundaries and keeps the data inside your organization. You control your data.
Smart technology with human assistance
Increased reliability that will always complete your request by using human assistance to resolve ambiguities and context.
Grows with your needs
Available 24/7 and capable of handling thousands of requests at the same time.
What is New in Teams Meetings and Meeting Rooms July 2021David J Rosenthal
Chat
Share your opinion, and your personality. Send gifs, stickers, and emojis in a group chat or in one-to-one messages.
Instant messaging
Meet
Instantly go from group chat to video conference with the touch of a button. Teams of 2 or 10,000 can meet in one place, no matter how many places they’re in.
Online meetings
Call
Make and receive calls with internal and external groups using Microsoft Teams Phone, Operator Connect, or Direct Routing.
Voice calling
Collaborate
Easily find, share, and edit files in real time using familiar apps like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel in Teams.
Video conferencing
Make meetings more personal and increase your productivity by collaborating in real time.
Screen sharing
Keep everyone on the same page by sharing your screen so they can see the same content.
Custom backgrounds
Create the perfect virtual setting by choosing, uploading, or blurring your background.
Together mode
Digitally sit in a shared background, making it feel like you’re in the same room with everyone else.1
File sharing
Co-author files in real time. Securely store, access, share, and collaborate on files from anywhere.
Apps and workflows
Streamline tasks and critical business processes by integrating apps and workflows.
Market availability
Available in 53 languages and 181 markets. Connect across Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android.
Privacy and security
Meet regulatory, legal, and organizational needs with industry-leading compliance offerings.
The Java ecosystem is very broad, with different technologies including Java SE, Java EE/Jakarta EE, Spring, numerous application servers, and other frameworks. Wherever you are in Java, Azure supports your workload and process with an abundance of choice – from IaaS to fully managed services. You can run any application architecture, from monoliths, to containerized monoliths, all the way to completely microservices based apps.
We see three broad patterns for running Java applications in the cloud, depending on how much control or productivity you need.
The first is lift and shift with Virtual Machines:
Virtual machines provide the most flexibility, control and visibility while moving to the cloud, especially for initial lift and shift of Java workloads. Azure provides a variety of Java focused VM images and solutions templates in the Azure Marketplace to get you up and running quickly.
The second is modernization using containers:
Containers provide portability, flexibility, scalability, manageability, repeatability, and predictability.
Azure provides best of breed support for Docker and Kubernetes, especially through the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
Finally, Azure has the most managed hosting options for Java applications of any major cloud platform with fully managed PaaS for Spring, Tomcat, and JBoss EAP:
Managed services offer ease-of-use, ease-of-management, productivity, and lower total cost of ownership.
You can focus on building your applications, not managing infrastructure.
All of this is supported by managed databases and DevOps tooling:
Use fully managed SQL and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cosmos DB, and SQL.
Keep using the tools you love, with plugins for IntelliJ and Eclipse, integrations with a variety of DevOps tools like Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, and GitHub.
Get comprehensive protection across all your platforms and clouds
Protect your organization from threats across devices, identities, apps, data and clouds. Get unmatched visibility into your multiplatform environment that unifies Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Extended Detection and Response (XDR). Simplify your security stack with Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Defender.
Protect your business with a universal identity platform
The Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) enterprise identity service provides single sign-on and multi-factor authentication to help protect your users from 99.9 percent of cybersecurity attacks.
Gartner named Microsoft a leader in Magic Quadrant 2020 for Access Management
Single sign-on simplifies access to your apps from anywhere
Conditional Access and multi-factor authentication help protect and govern access
A single identity platform lets you engage with internal and external users more securely
Developer tools make it easy to integrate identity into your apps and services
Connect your workforce
Whether people are on-site or remote, give them seamless access to all their apps so they can stay productive from anywhere. Automate workflows for user lifecycle and provisioning. Save time and resources with self-service management.
Choose from thousands of SaaS apps
Simplify single sign-on. Azure AD supports thousands of pre-integrated software as a service (SaaS) applications.
Protect and govern access
Safeguard user credentials by enforcing strong authentication and conditional access policies. Efficiently manage your identities by ensuring that the right people have the right access to the right resources.
Engage with your customers and partners
Secure and manage customers and partners beyond your organizational boundaries, with one identity solution. Customize user journeys and simplify authentication with social identity and more.
Integrate identity into your apps
Accelerate adoption of your application in the enterprise by supporting single sign-on and user provisioning. Reduce sign-in friction and automate the creation, removal, and maintenance of user accounts.
The Nintex Platform is Easy-to-use, Powerful and Complete to manage, automate and optimize your processes.
Manage processes by discovering, mapping and sharing across process participants and owners.
This often leads to opportunities for process automation. Many processes involve the capture of information and our forms capability provides an ease-to-use, responsive design experience, often eliminating paper forms. With advanced workflow capabilities you can quickly design powerful applications using advanced logic and rules to eliminate manual work. Nintex RPA drives speed by automating those mundane, repetitive tasks. Since many processes involve the need to generate a document we have a DocGen offering to automatically create documents from both unstructured and structured data sources. With Nintex Sign powered by Adobe Sign you can easily integrate eSign into your signature-based workflows for total automation.
Once you have been managing and automating processes, imagine the amount of information available on how your business is operating. Leveraging Nintex Analytics you are able to get process intelligence allowing you to monitor, analyze and improve your business.
With the Nintex platform our customers and partners value our extensibility, using pre-built connecters as well as leveraging our Xtensions to build powerful bi-directional connectors to orchestrate processes across any systems in your organization.
Combining the power of Nintex with our customer success and vast partner network it is easy to see why our customers are so successful.
Microsoft Power BI is a unified self-service and enterprise business intelligence platform that combines an intuitive user experience with intelligent data visualizations to provide greater depth of data insight. Reports can be shared within Microsoft tools like Teams, SharePoint, PowerPoint, or within other productivity products.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
From Siloed Products to Connected Ecosystem: Building a Sustainable and Scala...
How to Cure SharePoint Headaches with GSX - Monitor, Measure, Manage - From Atidan
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GSX Headquarters Switzerland: +41.22.735.82.40
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3. Introduction
Many organizations are experiencing an uncontrolled proliferation of SharePoint servers and
custom applications to serve diverse business lines, leading to inefficient use of IT resources
and frequent calls to high-level engineers to resolve outages and other issues. They often find
that the more mission-critical SharePoint becomes, the more performance degrades and
administrative headaches escalate.
GSX Monitor is engineered to cure six common SharePoint headaches, to keep your system
running smoothly and bring administrative costs under control.
Headache 1: Load Testing your environment
Issue
While deploying SharePoint within your company, you have to load-test your environment
with multiple scenarios. Architects and administrators normally use a load-testing tool to see
how their environment reacts with 2,000 users, 10,000 users, and so on.
Analyzing the results, you’ll easily see that your System can support a certain amount of users
or and actions before breaking down. But a status of the system won’t give you any insight on
true performance experienced by users. For example, if no critical capacity is encountered,
systems are deployed and typically accept the load, but does this actually mean the user
experience is good?
To be able to truly test your environment and predict its performance you need to measure
the performance of the service delivered to your users before, during and after initial testing.
The GSX cure
By simulating actual end user activities and performance, GSX Monitor gives you the
information you need to see how the number of sites and users affects your environment’s
performance.
Figure 1 GSX Monitor: Mainview
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4. After setting up your SharePoint monitoring interfaces in GSX, you can then choose the web
services and scenarios that you want to test on a regular basis.
Figure 2 SharePoint Web Services Setting
Web Services tests are true tests of end-to-end performance. Not only will they tell you which
services are up or down, but also the time it takes as a user to perform the actions. For
example, GSX will try to make a copy of a document, use a form, access document versioning,
and access the webparts.
The statistics view below shows you the response times for each of the tests you have
selected. You can then follow performance during load testing to see how your environment
actually delivers services to your users.
Figure 3 List of SharePoint Web Services
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5. The scenario tests involve multiples actions in order to see how various scenarios play out in
your environment.
For example, you can create a blog post, create a meeting, create a site collection, test the
search services, test the Excel services, upload a document and List Item. Each test will show
the performance that your environment delivers to your users during load testing.
Together, the service and scenario tests allow you to see, adjust, and forecast actual enduser performance before and during your load tests.
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6. Headache 2: Anticipating capacity issues
Issue
Your SharePoint environment constantly evolves, as users upload documents, create sites, and
update files. Storage and site administration become a nightmare when administrators do not
have a real-time view of their SharePoint environment and SQL back-end. Specifically, they
are unable to track trends and forecast the future.
Moreover, in most companies the SQL team is separate from the SharePoint team. This
division can really become a problem as SharePoint administrators desperately need to know
what is going on database-wise to anticipate capacity issues or resolve performance problems
on critical site collections.
SharePoint administrators need to have access to a real-time view of trending statistics in
order to predict the evolution of the SQL environment as it affects the performance of the
indexer, crawl and SharePoint frontend servers.
The GSX cure
GSX connects to your SQL server and tests its availability, giving you real-time insight into the
size of your environment.
To configure that in GSX Monitor, you simply click the server setting tab, click on SQL, and
then just enter the information for the SQL server (single or mirror).
Figure 4 SharePoint SQL Settings
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7. Instantly, GSX will test the availability of the connection to your SQL server and you’ll be
alerted to any issues concerning email, popup, sound, snmp trap to SCOM, and so on.
To verify the connection is a first step, but what you need is data, figures that describe the
size of your environment. The SharePoint statistics view gives you all the real-time
information you need to manage the size and evolution of your environment, including the
number of site collections, the total size of sites, the number of documents, and the total
size of documents.
Figure 5 Content DB Information
The size of site collections is generally larger than the total size of all documents -- you’ll
also find valuable information on webparts, workflow configuration files, etc.
Just below this you will see the content database names, number of site collections per
database, the sizes of the sites, the number of documents and their size.
Hence, database-by-database and site-by-site you have the ability to easily understand the
storage needs for your SharePoint Infrastructure.
Figure 6 SharePoint Sites Information for WSS_Content
You can export all of these statistics to Excel, or consolidate all of the data in our GSX
Analyzer tool, to create reports or to trend specific periods.
The GSX Analyzer reporting section lets you to quickly trend the evolution of your SharePoint
environment
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8. Figure 7 GSX Analyzer: Sharepoint Trend Graph
GSX will automatically send your trend at a defined date and time, in pdf or csv, with the
graphs you select. With this you can reliably forecast emerging prevent capacity issues.
In sum, GSX Monitor offers you a complete set of tools to spot emerging issues as your
environment evolves.
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9. Headache3: Provide trusted data around the world
Issue
Many big companies have large SharePoint environments with multiple farms that require
specific tools to replicate across the globe. The Data replication is managed by these tools
but how beneficial is a replicated database that has not been crawled in a week and for which
you find 40 percent rate of unsuccessful crawl elements?
Replicated data must be trusted and indexed -- otherwise you are simply replicating errors.
Providing accurate and trusted data is not only a question of crawling, it is also a question of
the information attached to a document. For example, are you sure that the project manager
will find the right version of an important document if versioning is not functioning as it
should?
The GSX cure
GSX not only constantly checks the indexer, it alerts you on the last crawl and the percent of
unsuccessful elements, but also checks the performance and the availability of the web
services involved in the selection and the display of the documents.
The Indexer Alerts allow you to set two different alert thresholds according to your needs.
•
The “Elapsed time” threshold alerts you if the last crawl hasn’t taken place in the
specified time. If not, there could be an issue between the indexer and the SQL
server.
Figure 8 SharePoint Indexer Alerts
•
The “Unsuccessful crawl element” threshold alerts you to possible non-normalized
documents or damaged data in the SQL database.
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10. The crawling index could also timeout for several reasons. GSX Monitor will alert you to
threshold issues so you can take action before a problem impacts the users.
Then, to ensure the accuracy of data, several webservices must be checked. GSX is not only
checking the basic status of the service, but in real time GSX checks the service providing the
response time, from a user perspective.
Several web services settings help assure the accuracy of the data delivered by the SharePoint
environment to the users;
Figure 9 SharePoint Web Services settings
Site Data: If it’s down, the search will be only able to find the site name and content, but not
the metadata. The user then will experience difficulties in finding the sites and information
they need.
WB Alert: Without this function, an administrator cannot guarantee the integrity of lists of
SharePoint documents. Administrators and users lose view and control over SharePoint
libraries.
Versions: If this web service is down, the user cannot access a previous version of a
document, with the possible loss of critical information.
Finally, GSX lets you check the Search Service itself. If the service is down, no one will be
able to find anything in SharePoint.
Thus, GSX offers you multiple ways to be sure that the data provided by SharePoint and your
SQL environment is the best accurate data for your users.
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11. Headache 4: Enhancing your environment
Issue
How can you know if an action will improve the user experience if you can’t measure it?
In order to measure the benefit of any change in their environment, administrators have to be
able to measure the user experience before and after the change. For that, they desperately
need data.
The GSX cure
You can perform several performance tests alone before, during and after the change,
spending days and days, collecting data, or you can just let a tool doing that for you.
GSX constantly tests your environment as a user, performing actions, using web services,
checking the availability and the size of your SQL environment, and so on. When you make a
change, or undertake a major project, be sure to start collecting data before you begin.
GSX will inform you on the performance delivered to your users before and after any change
that you’ve made in your environment.
When you click the Performance Tab, for example, you will find a way to constantly measure
the time it takes for a user to access any SharePoint site you define. GSX will try to connect
to these sites exactly the same way a user would. Scan after scan, you can see the impact of
your changes from a user perspective.
Figure 10 SharePoint Performance Graph
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12. Under the Main view, you can see various LEDs regarding your SharePoint environment. The
first one shows you the real-time availability of your SharePoint frontend server from a user
perspective.
When you click the Server Setting tab, you can define how often you want to perform user
simulation of your web services via scanning frequency and retry settings.
Figure 11 GSX Monitor: SharePoint Server Settings
Then you can select what types of web services you want to test. GSX will use them, as a
user, and display in the SharePoint statistics view the time it takes a user to use these
features. You will then be able to check the impact of any improvements to your
environment, before and after the changes you’ve made, again, from a user perspective.
Likewise, you can run various SharePoint scenarios from a user perspective, as previously
described.
You can also create trends on availability with GSX Analyzer reporting tool. Under the Trends
tab, you can create automatic reports on availability, including the use of the web services,
to see evolution over a defined period. You can configure and receive these reports
automatically, in PDF and CSV, according to the schedule you define.
Finally, if you have SLA’s or you want to track the performance of all your servers across
several Key Performance Indicators, GSX analyzer offers you a single view for all your servers,
comparing one with another to prioritize any potential actions.
Figure 12 GSX Analyzer: Environment Health
In sum, GSX gives you the tools you need to test your changes, and to easily see if your
actions to improve user experience are really worth the money.
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13.
Headache 5: Resources constraints
Issue
Skilled SharePoint architects and administrators are scarce commodities. You need whatever
experts you have to focus on user acceptance, SharePoint applications, business analysis,
upgrades, and new technologies in order to improve your company’s ROI. Unfortunately, they
often get bogged down by the routine tasks of monitoring and reporting.
How GSX can free up the time of your SharePoint expert by automating monitoring and
reporting of your SharePoint user experience and SQL environment.
The GSX cure
GSX is an out of the box solution that does not require any agent on your server. Just set it up
on any VM or workstation, configure the servers and SQL databases with our wizard, and let it
run. There are no scripts to write, and everything is configured for you.
In the Main view, the first LED shows the availability of your SharePoint frontend servers and
web services from a user perspective. The second LED shows the log scanning status, and last
shows the availability of the SQL database.
Figure 13 GSX Monitor : SharePoint Servers Mainview
To configure the LEDs, you can just use the wizard or go directly to server settings. Then,
click on the web services that you want to test, define the scanning frequency, retry and see
where the alert is going.
To check logs, just go to the log configuration and enter any string you want to look for.
To check the disk space, just define your threshold.
To check the performance of user scenarios, just click on those you want to perform.
Finally, to check the availability, from a user perspective, of your critical sites, just enter
their URL in the SharePoint performance section.
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14. It’s done! GSX will perform the testing regularly, automatically. GSX will display the statistics
in the statistics view for you. You will have real time information on your systems and the size
of your environment.
This information is also available in GSX Analyzer to create automatic reports on the
availability and size of your environment over a determined period.
For example, to create a report forecasting the size of your environment, open GSX Analyzer
and go to the Trend section. Create a new trend, select the statistics of the size of your
environment, define the scheduling option, distribution option, and pdf customization. Then
just click on the Forecasting box and click on Generate.
Figure 14 GSX Analyzer: Customized Report
It’s done. You will receive a customized report including your brand guidelines, showing the
statistics and graphs you have defined.
With GSX, anyone can monitor and report on your SharePoint environment, freeing your
valuable experts to focus on value added tasks.
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15. Headache 6: Managing user complaints
Issue
SharePoint
users
often
complain
that
the
service
is
slow,
that
it
doesn’t
work
right.
Sometimes
users
are
right,
even
when
you
think
they
are
wrong.
Why?
Because
users
access
SharePoint
from
the
outside,
not
from
inside
your
datacenter.
For
example,
when
it
takes
a
user
five
minutes
to
upload
a
document,
your
system
management
tool
may
still
tell
you
that
everything
is
fine.
Not
only
do
you
need
data
to
make
your
user
experience
better,
you
also
need
to
anticipate
their
complaints
and
work
on
problems
before
you
receive
a
call.
The GSX cure
GSX
acts
as
a
user,
accessing
web Lotus Domino, Microsoft
services
and
critical
sites,
to
provide
you
with
response
times
from
a
user
perspective.
In
the
main
view,
the
first
LED
shows
a
user’s
ability
to
connect
to
the
SharePoint
server
and
use
web
services.
If
there
is
any
problem,
GSX
will
alert
you
based
on
your
profiles.
Hence,
you
will
be
able
to
take
action
usually
before
users
notice
that
there
is
a
problem.
Figure 15 SharePoint Alerts Configuration
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16.
Under
the
server
setting
tab,
you
can
choose
the
web
services
you
want
GSX
to
use.
Each
of
them
is
very
important
because
it
represents
the
common
SharePoint
features.
GSX
will
test
them
as
a
user,
so
you
can
see
how
long
it
takes
for
a
user
to
display
an
image,
access
versioning,
access
a
webpart,
use
a
form,
copy
a
document,
and
so
on.
In
testing
SharePoint
site
performance,
GSX
again
acts
as
a
user,
trying
to
access
your
critical
sites
and
giving
in
real
time
how
long
it
takes
to
access.
In
sum,
GSX
lets
you
constantly
track
performance
from
your
users’
point
of
view,
to
head
off
their
complaints,
and
justify
system
enhancements.
About GSX
GSX Solutions is the global leader in proactive, consolidated monitoring, analysis, and
management of enterprise collaboration and messaging environments, including Microsoft
Exchange, SharePoint, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Lotus Domino, as well as LDAP and SMTP
ports, and any URL.
Monitoring millions of mailboxes for over 600 global enterprises, GSX is headquartered in
Geneva, Switzerland, with R&D in Nice, France, and offices in the UK and the US. For more
information, please visit www.gsx.com.
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