eGroup | Enabling Technologies Earns Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program Solutions Partner Designation for Data & AI (Azure)

eGroup | Enabling Technologies Earns Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program Solutions Partner Designation for Data & AI (Azure) November 16, 2023 — eGroup | Enabling Technologies, a 9x Microsoft Partner of the Year award winner and leading Managed Services Provider, is excited to announce that we have been recognized and endorsed by Microsoft through the Microsoft AI Cloud […]

November 2023 Newsletter

November 2023 Newsletter What’s New in the Hybrid Data Center? Windows 2012 R2 Server Windows Server 2012 R2 has reached end of support on October 10, 2023. The October 2023 security update is the last update available for this version. After this date, devices running this version of Windows Server will no longer receive monthly security updates (unless […]

Web Content Filtering and Protection with Defender for Endpoint

Web Content Filtering and Protection with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Introduction When I was a technology executive in the days before Microsoft 365 and Defender for Endpoint, November and December always used to give me pause. Hectic end-of-year work schedules and vacations both drive people to use their employer’s devices for personal use: shopping, traveling, […]

eGroup | Enabling Technologies Joins the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association

eGroup | Enabling Technologies Joins Microsoft Intelligent Security Association November 2, 2023 — eGroup | Enabling Technologies announces its membership into the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA). This recognition underscores eGroup | Enabling Technologies’ commitment to providing cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions tailored to the unique needs of Microsoft customers. “I am proud to announce our acceptance […]

Microsoft Teams Voice: Extension Extinction

Microsoft Teams Voice: Extension Extinction Introduction When installing Teams Voice for our customers, we get a lot of requests to configure Teams to support extension dialing. Recently we’ve had a few cases where for technical reasons, we could not set up the clients’ Teams dial plans with extension dialing. We were able to offer a […]

Bringing Microsoft Purview and Copilot Together to Protect Sensitive Data

Bringing Microsoft Purview and Copilot Together to Protect Sensitive Data Over the past 5 months, this blog series has covered the fundamentals of Microsoft Purview. As we have shown, Purview provides a powerful layer of data-aware visibility and protection that complements more traditional security controls like identity management, access control lists, group memberships, endpoint security, […]

Google Migration Strategies: A Customer’s Perspective

Google Migration Strategies: A Customer’s Perspective After migrating my own institution from Google to Microsoft, I have been fortunate to take part in various customer transitions as a member of eGroup | Enabling Technologies’ Advisory practice. These experiences have granted me a bilateral perspective, where I am learning from multiple scenarios, while also having an […]

7 Lessons from the Intune Pros

7 Lessons From The Intune Pros Since Intune manages the entire lifecycle of such a broad array of hardware, it’s easy to assume it can do everything for every device. eGroup | Enabling Technologies’ field engineers deal with real-world challenges every day that push the boundaries. Recently, experts from eGroup | Enabling Technologies’ Intune practice discussed […]

October 2023 Newsletter

October 2023 Newsletter Welcome to Cybersecurity Awareness Month! It’s a great time to share resources for your organization to improve awareness. Here are three ideas: For end user awareness, did you know that Office 365 E5 (or M365 E5) licenses include security phishing testing, reporting, and training resources? In fact, Microsoft added cybersecurity training material […]

Teams Direct Routing Session Border Controller Certificate Support Change

Teams Direct Routing Session Border Controller Certificate Support Change Introduction On Tuesday, October 3, 2023, at 10:00 AM (UTC – 5:00 AM EST), all Microsoft SIP endpoints will be gradually switched over to use certificates based on the “DigiCert Global Root G2” Certificate Authority (CA). Your Teams Direct Routing Session Border Controllers (SBCs) may stop […]