How to Easily Create a Chatbot for Your Website
Part 1 of a 2-part series focused on building chatbots. We show you how to use QnA Maker, PowerVA, Power Automate, and Flow to create a chatbot for a website.
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How to Deploy a React app to Azure using DevOps Pipelines
React has quickly become one of the most popular JavaScript front end frameworks to build production grade applications. Whether it’s using ReactJS for a web app or React Native for a mobile app, this versatile framework is well suited to deliver large scale applications quickly and effectively. In this post, we will cover how to set up and host a ReactJS application from scratch. We will be setting up a new app and configuring DevOps pipelines for continuous integration and delivery to an Azure App Service.
Read MoreGet Your Game Face On III: Play Match Game in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams does many things – including serving as a platform for group-based games
Read MoreGet Your Game Face On: Play Family Feud on a Microsoft Teams Call.
Microsoft Teams does many things – including serving as a platform for group-based games
(Note: This is the first in a series of posts we’ll be producing that focus on the fun and games possible with Teams.)
Read MoreUncertain Times Leading to Definitive Rise in Scams
Be wary of attackers seeking to exploit the pandemic
Reports from organizations around the world indicate a significant uptick in phishing and malware attacks as bad actors seek to exploit the instability resulting from the coronavirus outbreak. As if you didn’t have enough on your plate.
Read MoreFree Customizable Microsoft Teams Backgrounds
We were excited to hear that there was a way to create custom backgrounds for Microsoft Teams video calls. We found several backgrounds online and customized them by adding our logo to the images. We were impressed with the results!
Read MoreHow to create a custom background in Microsoft Teams
Recently, Microsoft announced that the ability to use a custom background when on a Teams video call. This was a nice upgrade from the background blur feature that allowed you to blur out the guest bed or your kids pouring a bowl of cereal in the background. But, the 24 options Microsoft has given us are simply not enough. We want to create our OWN custom backgrounds!
Read More5 Tips for Conducting Successful Virtual Meetings
The Modern Workplace is undergoing a big test. Here’s some advice on how to make sure your meetings earn a passing grade.
Thrust into an unusual – and for some, unprecedented – working environment, everyone with the good fortune to still be employed is doing their best to replicate the familiar tropes of office life in a remote setting. Chief among those endeavors is almost certainly conducting virtual meetings.
Read MorePlanner Momentum – Best Practices for Leveraging Microsoft Planner
If you’re reading this there is a high likelihood that you’re doing so in an unfamiliar environment. Our comfortable workplaces have been upended by global events and your organization may be experiencing chaos, uncertainty and disconnectedness. While Office 365 offers an array of apps to help us bridge some of the gaps we’re now confronted with, there’s one in particular that we think deserves your attention – Microsoft Planner. This article will help set the wheels in motion and help you leverage the oft overlooked application that many organizations may not even realize has been included in their Office 365 subscription.
Read MoreUse your Microsoft Software Assurance Vouchers
Many of our clients use Microsoft Software Assurance Training Vouchers (SATVs) to help in deploying, managing, supporting, and driving the adoption of Microsoft software. Kiefer clients with Microsoft Enterprise Agreements can use the SATVs by contacting us and scheduling sessions with Kiefer subject matter experts (SMEs).
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