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The latest resources, events and guidance from Transparity experts.

Welcome to our resource hub where you’ll find the latest expert advice, guidance and research from Team Transparity. Catch up on past events on-demand, download in-depth whitepapers and access short video guides to get the most out of Microsoft Cloud, security, 365 and more.

White papers

Discover insights into Microsoft products and how we at Transparity can support you in in your Cloud journey.

Webinars on demand

Learn more about Microsoft solutions and gain a deeper understanding through our on demand webinars.

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M365 tutorials

Optimise the way you use and adopt Microsoft 365 by watching our quick top tip videos and tutorials.

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Thought Leadership

Read the latest thought leadership from our experts, spanning all that Microsoft products have to offer.

Webinars on demand

Data: From Source to Power BI | Webinar

Your organisation’s data holds the key to improving and innovating your processes and offerings. Hidden in your data sets may be the answers to your most common challenges and new-found potential. Microsoft’s Power BI allows you to quickly create interactive dashboards to make it easier than ever to gain insights from your data and use it for data-led reporting. We’ll demonstrate how you can take an existing data set and, using the tools available in Microsoft Azure, stage the data and use it in Power BI for essential reporting.

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What's New in Microsoft Defender for Cloud with Live Attack Demo | Webinar

Microsoft Ignite 2022 brought new updates to Microsoft Defender for Cloud. In this event we’ll share the key updates, new features and the new capabilities you need to know about, coming to Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Then, our Head of Security will demonstrate an end-to-end attack and show you how Microsoft Defender for Cloud helps protect your environment against hostile threat actors.

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What is the Digital Workforce & Why You Need Adoption and Change Management | Webinar

User adoption can often be an afterthought when planning and implementing cloud technologies. But, to get a full return on your investment, adoption and change management is crucial. In this event we’ll explore this new digital workforce, what it means for your organisations and how ACM factors into it all. Our experts will share their extensive experience and the lessons we’ve learnt.

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Manage and Govern your on-premises workloads using Microsoft Azure Arc Webinar

In this event, we look at how Azure Arc can be used to govern, manage, protect and configure workloads that are located outside of the Azure platform to drive efficiencies and agility with your business.

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Modernise your VDI solution using Azure Virtual Desktop | Webinar

In this event, we’ll look at how Microsoft’s Azure Virtual Desktop service can empower your business by providing a scalable, secure, high-performance VDI solution. We’ll demo some new features and provide information on out to optimise your AVD costs.

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An Introduction to Converged Communications | Webinar

In this event we’ll introduce you to all things converged communications, covering what that means, how it compares to unified communications and what it means for you. Is converged communications just the latest buzz word or does it hold the key to smoother, more free-flowing collaboration?

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Winning from Anywhere with Viva Insights | Webinar

The pandemic has changed the world of work forever, as people reassess their “worth it” equation. With 43% of employees considering changing jobs, now is the time for leadership teams to make work, work for their people. Join our webinar to learn how Microsoft Viva Insights can unearth the data you need to understand your organization’s exposure to these risks and what you can do to address them.

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NextGen Windows Experiences | Webinar

Do you want to better support hybrid working, a truly elastic workforce? Or maybe you just want to ensure secure working platform for the next few years and beyond? Quite simply, it’s about more than just the operating system but also a look at the device types and experiences your users will need to be productive and secure. During this session, we’ll go through the core concepts of NextGen Endpoints in a modern Microsoft world.

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An Introduction to Microsoft Entra Permissions Management | Webinar

Entra Permissions Management is Microsoft’s latest addition to their security suite. The Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) tool allows users to enforce least privilege access across multicloud infrastructure, a key component of Zero Trust. In this webinar, we showcase all you need to know about the new tool, its features and how to automate remediation.

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Protect your Data and Automate Resiliency in Microsoft Azure | Webinar

This webinar looked at how Microsoft Azure can be used to backup data, build resiliency into your workload and automate the failover of enterprise-level environments.

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Build a Business Hub successfully with SharePoint Online | Webinar

In this webinar, our SharePoint and Modern Work experts explore the features of SharePoint, the potential it has to align your whole organisation and how you go about implementing it using our Hub solution.

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Discover Cross Platform Development with .NET MAUI and Xamarin | Webinar

Discover how you can use MAUI and Xamarin for cross platform development, including Android and Apple tablet and smartphone devices and Windows desktops. We will cover what it does and why you should use it for your business with Geoff Ballard & Russell Fleming at Ballard Chalmers.

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Accelerate your Cloud Adoption using Infrastructure as Code

Join our Azure experts to get an overview of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), as well as the relevant tools, processes and how it can provide value to any business working in the cloud by accelerating deployment and reducing errors.

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Threat Protection Series: Defender for Office 365

Microsoft Defender for Office provides protection for your business against malicious threats via email, links and collaboration tools and includes threat protection policies, reports, threat investigation and response capabilities and automated investigation and response capabilities.

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Adoption and Change – Reinforcement: Life after a Project

So your Adoption and Change project has finished, but how do you keep adoption levels high in order to increase ROI? In this event you will understand best practice approach as well as 'Monitor, Review, Repeat'. Again, we will share real life experiences within other organisations and open up the floor to a question and answer session.

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Microsoft Teams with Recording | Webinar

Recording interactions with colleagues and customers through Microsoft Teams – is this an add-on to Modern Communications that brings with it new features or a business requirement? This topic in our ‘Teams with…’ series will cover all aspects of recording features (both Microsoft and third-party), how it can be implemented and managed.

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Awareness, Communication, Knowledge and Education | Adoption and Change | Webinar

Within the adoption process, you must think about awareness, communication, knowledge and education for your users. In this event you will discover the best practice approach, as well as real life experiences of this within organisations and a question and answer session.

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Threat protection series

Join Transparity's security experts as we showcase features and answer your questions on how to maximise value, effectiveness, and most importantly, how to protect your business from threats with the use of:
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Defender for Cloud

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Application Integration | Webinar

Application integration is all about the automated integration of these applications to ensure they all behave like a single application, and there are no manual tasks and no double data entry. Join us as CTO of Ballard Chalmers, Geoff Ballard, deep dives into the world of Application Integration in Azure, covering Biztalk, Design Patterns, Integrations Services and Demos.

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Change Planning | Adoption and Change Webinar

In this event, we will discuss the what, why and how of change planning. This will cover strategy creation, project management and engaging stakeholders. You will get a gain a good understanding of what needs to be included within the plan and key workstreams.

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Best Practice Approach for Teams Adoption

In the first event of the series, we will take you through best practice approach for Teams Adoption within Organisations. Discover how other organisations managed Teams Adoption, followed by an open question and answer session.

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Event Series: How to Simplify Cloud Adoption in your Organisation

In this 5 part webinar series, we will uncover what it takes to prepare: building your plan, aligning your teams, determining skilling requirements, and building your landing zone. Then, we will go through how to get your workloads into Azure, either by migrating them or using cloud-native technologies to enhance them.

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Application Modernisation in Azure

Modern Applications are cloud-native and are developed in the cloud for the cloud. They are agile, scalable, resilient, service based, able to integrate with other systems and above all faster to develop. The modern application developer creates small self contained and focused microservices that consume other services and are themselves consumed by other services. These microservices are deployed and orchestrated in the cloud.

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Transform your organisation with DevOps

DevOps practices can help overcome organisational challenges around ownership, quality, automation, and continuous improvement. During this event, we will touch on common pitfalls to avoid and how to develop a successful DevOps strategy.

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Build a successful intranet with SharePoint Online

Discover all the ways in which this can benefit your business, as well as work-arounds to any problems you could experience along the way. Our experts will cover the pros and cons and best practices.

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What security components are there within E5 licences?

Staying secure and productive anywhere and on any device is an essential for today’s working professionals and this webinar will show you just how you can ensure this security with E5 licences. Our security expert will take you through all the security features within the E5 licences.

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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: a deep dive into its best-kept secrets

Join Transparity as we take you on a journey through Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, showcasing some of its best hidden features and answering some of your questions on how you can maximise value, effectiveness, and most importantly, the protection of your infrastructure with Defender for Endpoint.

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Get to know Azure Virtual Desktop & Windows 365

Our experts will cover fundamentals of AVD including a demonstration as well as talking around Microsoft’s new Windows 365 service and compare the two to ensure you choose the correct product moving forward.

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Microsoft Ignite November 2021 Roundup

Our Technical experts share their key takeaways from Ignite 2021, offering a snapshot of the news and features within Security, UC & Voice, Modern Workplace and Azure.

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FastTrack: an overview

An overview of Microsoft FastTrack from Transparity's FastTrack expert, covering what FastTrack is and the benefits.

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M365 tutorials

Microsoft 365 Top Tips Video Series

Quick easy tips to make the most of Microsoft 365 presented by our own experts in a series of short videos.

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The latest thought leadership from our experts

Blog

Azure Governance – Part 1 – Defining and Applying Azure Tags

This blog looks at how Azure Tagging plays a significant part in establishing a strong Governance posture in your Azure subscriptions. Tags are similar to clothing tags, in that the tag would be used to identify a brand, colour, size, cost, record of demand, and ultimately its value to your business.

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September 13, 2023

Windows Server 2012 /R2 – End of Support is nearly here!

Microsoft is ending support for Windows Server 2012/R2 on 10 October 2023. Read this blog to discover your best options.

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August 31, 2023

How machine learning and AI can help you stay ahead of cyber threats

How Machine Learning and AI Helps You Stay Ahead of Cyber Threats

Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are tools at the cutting edge of threat management, keeping your environment secure.

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August 21, 2023

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Resources

The latest resources, events and guidance from Transparity experts.

White papers

Webinars on demand

M365 tutorials

Thought Leadership

White Papers

Webinars on demand

Data: From Source to Power BI | Webinar

What's New in Microsoft Defender for Cloud with Live Attack Demo | Webinar

What is the Digital Workforce & Why You Need Adoption and Change Management | Webinar

Manage and Govern your on-premises workloads using Microsoft Azure Arc Webinar

Modernise your VDI solution using Azure Virtual Desktop | Webinar

An Introduction to Converged Communications | Webinar

Winning from Anywhere with Viva Insights | Webinar

NextGen Windows Experiences | Webinar

An Introduction to Microsoft Entra Permissions Management | Webinar

Protect your Data and Automate Resiliency in Microsoft Azure | Webinar

Build a Business Hub successfully with SharePoint Online | Webinar

Discover Cross Platform Development with .NET MAUI and Xamarin | Webinar

Accelerate your Cloud Adoption using Infrastructure as Code

Threat Protection Series: Defender for Office 365

Adoption and Change – Reinforcement: Life after a Project

Microsoft Teams with Recording | Webinar

Awareness, Communication, Knowledge and Education | Adoption and Change | Webinar

Threat protection series

Application Integration | Webinar

Change Planning | Adoption and Change Webinar

Best Practice Approach for Teams Adoption

Event Series: How to Simplify Cloud Adoption in your Organisation

Application Modernisation in Azure

Transform your organisation with DevOps

Build a successful intranet with SharePoint Online

What security components are there within E5 licences?

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: a deep dive into its best-kept secrets

Get to know Azure Virtual Desktop & Windows 365

Microsoft Ignite November 2021 Roundup

FastTrack: an overview

M365 tutorials

Microsoft 365 Top Tips Video Series

The latest thought leadership from our experts

Blog

Azure Governance – Part 1 – Defining and Applying Azure Tags

Windows Server 2012 /R2 – End of Support is nearly here!

How Machine Learning and AI Helps You Stay Ahead of Cyber Threats

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Data: From Source to Power BI | Webinar

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What's New in Microsoft Defender for Cloud with Live Attack Demo | Webinar

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What is the Digital Workforce & Why You Need Adoption and Change Management

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Modernise your VDI solution using Azure Virtual Desktop | Webinar

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An Introduction to Converged Communications | Webinar

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Winning from Anywhere with Viva Insights

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NextGen Windows Experiences