New transactable offers from Exasol, FileMage, and FlashGrid in Azure Marketplace

New transactable offers from Exasol, FileMage, and FlashGrid in Azure Marketplace

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Microsoft partners like Exasol, FileMage, and FlashGrid deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Azure Marketplace. Learn about these offers below:

















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Exasol Analytics Database: Exasol Analytics Database is a platform- and vendor-agnostic solution that helps you add real value to your data. Enable cost predictability for your cloud, on-premises, or hybrid setup and consolidate AI, ML, and BI for both standard and advanced analytics, directly in the database.


OIP.jpg FileMage SFTP/FTP Gateway for Linux: Designed for speed, ease of use, reliability, and security, FileMage Gateway provides a flexible file transfer solution backed by Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, enabling customers to take advantage of the reliability of Azure Blob Storage for exchanging files with business partners or clients.
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SkyCluster for Oracle RAC: Designed for database high availability, FlashGrid SkyCluster for Oracle RAC solves the problem of achieving strict uptime SLAs for mission-critical databases and enables lift-and-shift migrations of existing Oracle RAC clusters from a traditional datacenter to Microsoft Azure.



Cisco Releases Security Updates for Jabber Desktop and Mobile Client Software

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Original release date: December 11, 2020

Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Jabber for Windows, Jabber for MacOS, and Jabber for mobile platforms. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) encourages users and administrators to review Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sa-jabber-ZktzjpgO and apply the necessary updates.

This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use policy.

Fraud Affects Every Community

This article was originally posted by the FTC. See the original article here.

Scams can target specific communities, but they affect people in every community.

Brought to you by Dr. Ware, Microsoft Office 365 Silver Partner, Charleston SC.

Eloops employee engagement platform now integrates with Microsoft Teams

Eloops employee engagement platform now integrates with Microsoft Teams

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Today, when more and more organizations are using Microsoft Teams on a daily basis, we are happy to add more apps to our Marketplace that help our users, managers and employees enjoy using Teams more. This week we added Eloops, an employee engagement platform at Microsoft AppSource. With Eloops employees get to earn company virtual currency through engaging with content and activities like quizzes, challenges and a Peer-2-Peer recognition program and then redeem for rewards of their choosing in their virtual and customized company store. Eloops adds value by bringing a fun element to Teams.



Eloops helps HR professionals engage and align employees with company culture, values and goals at scale. The secret sauce behind the platform is endless pre-made content and virtual activities available in the Eloops marketplace that HRs can choose and customize based on short or long-term company needs. The content is designed to boost engagement, build company culture and improve overall employee experience.


 


Onboarding
Once you’ve added Eloops as an app to your Microsoft Teams account, you’re able to log into your Eloops account and you are immediately in the loop! (if If you don’t have an Eloops company account, you can easily create one and sign up using your Microsoft SSO!)



Engage & Earn Coins
Each company’s ‘Admins’ use the Eloops Dashboard to customize and send activities to their employees in Teams. Employees engage with the different content and earn themselves virtual coins.


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Appreciate And Recognize Colleagues
Admins are able to customize the Peer-2-Peer Recognition feature by adding their company values. Employees are then able to reward their colleagues with virtual coins for ‘living’ these values as well as for other reasons.


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Collect and Redeem Virtual Coins
Admins create their virtual currency by choosing its name, color, and how much employees will earn for participation and engaging with different activities.



The company store can also be customized with different gifts, experiences, and perks.


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Measure and improve
Through the Eloops Dashboard, Admins can instantly find out which content works best, who are the most engaged employees or teams or departments, who are the most recognized employees, what are the most valued company values, and more!


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Personalized Communications
Eloops allow managers to schedule, automate and send targeted and personalized messages to specific audiences and employees with special announcements, updates, birthdays and work anniversaries, or any kind of message from the Eloops dashboard.


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How to get started?
If you haven’t already, you can install Eloops directly from Microsoft AppSource.



For more info and to see how Eloops works, go to https://eloops.com/microsoft-teams-app/.



Or if you prefer, watch this video to learn all about how to use Eloops in Microsoft Teams:


Friday Five: Azure Durable Functions, Admin Center, More!

Friday Five: Azure Durable Functions, Admin Center, More!

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Azure Durable Functions and External Events

Jaliya Udagedara is a Developer Technologies MVP based in Auckland, New Zealand. Originally from Sri Lanka, Jaliya is currently working as a Technical Lead for a US-based software development company. He has found his most significant interest in the world of Microsoft Software Development Technologies and Azure Stack. He likes to write blog posts and maintains his personal blog. Follow him on Twitter @JaliyaUdagedara

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How to fix the borderless window “problem” in Windows Virtual Desktop

Robin Hobo is an Enterprise Mobility MVP and Senior Solutions Architect from the Netherlands who advises companies about the modern workplace. Robin is broadly oriented and has in-depth knowledge of various solutions like Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) and Microsoft EM+S (including Microsoft Endpoint Manager – Microsoft Intune). For more, check out Robin’s blog and Twitter @robinhobo

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Stay Up To Date With Power BI

Mohamed El-Qassas is a Microsoft MVP, SharePoint StackExchange (StackOverflow) Moderator, C# Corner MVP, Microsoft TechNet Wiki Judge, Blogger, and Senior Technical Consultant with +10 years of experience in SharePoint, Project Server, and BI. In SharePoint StackExchange, he has been elected as the 1st Moderator in the GCC, Middle East, and Africa, and ranked as the 2nd top contributor of all the time. Check out his blog here.

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Windows Admin Center with Azure Security Center integration

James van den Berg has been working in ICT with Microsoft Technology since 1987. He works for the largest educational institution in the Netherlands as an ICT Specialist, managing datacenters for students. He’s proud to have been a Cloud and Datacenter Management since 2011, and a Microsoft Azure Advisor for the community since February this year. In July 2013, James started his own ICT consultancy firm called HybridCloud4You, which is all about transforming datacenters with Microsoft Hybrid Cloud, Azure, AzureStack, Containers, and Analytics like Microsoft OMS Hybrid IT Management. Follow him on Twitter @JamesvandenBerg and on his blog here.

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WPF: HOW TO CONVERT BASE64 IMAGE TO BITMAPIMAGE

Asma Khalid is an Entrepreneur, ISV, Product Manager, Full Stack .Net Expert, Community Speaker, Contributor, and Aspiring YouTuber. Asma counts more than 7 years of hands-on experience in Leading, Developing & Managing IT related projects and products as an IT industry professional. Asma is the first woman from Pakistan to receive the MVP award three times, and the first to receive C-sharp corner online developer community MVP award four times. See her blog here.