Flexible SharePoint hybrid deployments

Since SharePoint 2016 was launched, the option of Hybrid became more widespread. Since there was no firm restriction to opt for SharePoint cloud or SharePoint Server, business can opt to approach SharePoint Cloud at their own pace based on various scenarios. The “Site and Search” deployment scenarios gained popularity where organizations can select the location of sites according to their convenience. Files like media assets that require more space can be hosted in Cloud, or files that contain sensitive information can be hosted in the server and it’s needless to shift them in the cloud until the organization is fully ready for it.

SharePoint Hybrid with Office 365

The harmony between SharePoint hybrid environment and other Microsoft technologies has proved to be a productive for cloud businesses. Microsoft service like Power BI, Office 365, Yammer, Planner, Exchange and many more are compatible with SharePoint Hybrid environments and provide all the functionality available in the cloud.

The Hybrid search experience

Hybrid search is one feature that makes SharePoint Hybrid a win-win for cloud business. With hybrid search, content from the Cloud environment and on-premises is readily available because it enables a unified search index.

More security and control

In a SharePoint hybrid environment, since you are more in control of your Cloud, things are more secure than you’d expect in a complete Cloud or complete on-premises environment. More certainly, you can’t expect to implement, while deploying SharePoint hybrid, the level of security Microsoft or other Tech giant implements in their Cloud and offers to its customers.

Hybrid auditing

This feature in SharePoint allows SharePoint Admins to push the audit logs of the company from On-Premises to the Office 365 Unified Audit Log. In this way, there is a single location from where you can view audit log that comes from both on-premises and SharePoint online.  However, this feature is yet available in SharePoint Server 2016 and at the time of this writing, the audit log feature is in public preview for SharePoint Server 2019. Once the feature is releases for SharePoint 2019, you can experience the unified Audit log experience for SharePoint Server 2019 as well.

Hybrid Business Connectivity Services

In order to have a secured view of data from external systems, you can make use of the Hybrid Business Connectivity Services. Data can be imported as a SharePoint List in Office 365 from systems like SQL Server Database and users can edit and view the data remotely. No on-premises connection is required for the purpose of accessing data.

MachPanel Automation module for SharePoint Hybrid

MachPanel is a Multi-Cloud Operations Management and Orchestration Solutions Platform designed for easy automation and management of Microsoft services in cloud business. The automation module for SharePoint makes the selling of SharePoint services manageable as a hosted cloud solution. It makes CSPs in control of their cloud whether it is SharePoint Online for which they are opting for or SharePoint Server 2019, 2016 and 2013. By easy billing, provisioning and management through built-in multi-tenancy and segregation for Microsoft SharePoint 2019 and previous versions, CSPs stay ahead of the curve with their cloud offerings in their cloud business.

Taking all these SharePoint benefits into account, it is high time you go for MachPanel’s services for Microsoft SharePoint hybrid deployments and lead in the cloud business with reliability and better management.

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Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) you heard it right. No, it’s not the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure that we are talking about today, its Desktop-As-a-Service. With technology innovating the norms around us, Desktops are offered as a Service too!

So, what exactly is DaaS? In reality, Desktop-as-a-Service is kind of virtual computing where employees are able to access their desktop environment on any device and it is stored in the cloud. Hence, the work environment along with data is available for access from anywhere!

What is the difference between DaaS and VDI?

The familiar concept of VDI comes in to the mind while introducing DaaS to the readers. The core difference is that VDI is an on-premises infrastructure. In this system, the virtual desktops are interrelated to servers within the organization. On the other hand, DaaS is hosted outside the organization. They are hosted in the Cloud by service providers.

DaaS is low cost and more flexible. Pricing and subscription model play a great role in companied preferring to switch to DaaS than a VDI. A virtual Desktop hosted in the cloud is available for longer hours, uses low power and consumes less hard disk space. Hence the overall costs are cut down by up to 60%.

Benefits and Downfalls of DaaS

DaaS has both advantages and disadvantages over native solutions. Let’s have a look:

Advantages

Flexibly: DaaS environment is flexible. For Windows users, desktops are offered in Windows, for Linux users, desktop service is offered in Linux. The two environments can be switched between too.

Disaster Recovery: DaaS is not a DR solution, but it can help employees continue work after a Disaster much faster.

Security: with DaaS, viruses and other security compromising factors affect the working environment.

Disadvantages

Resources: DaaS requires a high internet connection speed. So, employees should have good internet resources whenever they are accessing the device form the cloud.

Single Point of Failure: Well, that’s costly, not in terms of money but in terms of time. If the providers go down, employees of companies who have consumed DaaS form the provider will be left to waiting for the Provider to get back up again so they can resume their work. Good providers take measures for Disaster Recovery, though.

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MachPanel – the Multi-Cloud Service Orchestration & Delivery Platform (MSOP)

MachPanel is a globally trusted Cloud Business Automation Solution Control Panel. It provides Cloud Service Providers to automate their business, deploy turnkey solutions, Manage SharePoint Services and many other services without much hassle. This control Panel provides everything needed to manage entire Lifecycle of end-to-end Service Delivery. There are self-service tools present for Provider, Resellers, Customers and Active Directory Users. User friendly reporting and overall comfortable user experience makes MachPanel a popular Control Panel in the market.

Get started with MachPanel today for better business automation and management of your cloud services.

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As promised in the public preview, there are many new features that were expected from SharePoint 2019 user all over theworld like trends in team collaboration, blending of cloud and on-premise versions, better cross-device user experience and many more. It’s built on the same platform as SharePoint Server 2016; the new SharePoint Server 2019 fulfills the needs of performances and scalability expectations to the maximum.

Let’s have a closer look at what compelling features are there in this new release:

1. Trendy Sites:

Connecting Team and content together, sites have always played the role of core collaboration across organization. Modern design is effective and captivating, with a touch of flexibility and ease-of-use.

1. Excellent User Experience:

In today’s era, user experience is everything, when it comes to new technology. Not even the new SharePoint Server 2019 is catchy in ‘look and feel’, but is engaging, entertaining and rich with contextual content. It ensures reliability, security and minimum complexity.

1. Modern Pages:

SharePoint 2019 introduces a new way of sharing content using Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word documents, images, embedding video content, and many more. Modern pages shall be published efficiently and in a quicker manner that are good for each display.

1. Improved Lists:

The modern list experience in SharePoint Server 2019 is more responsive, more intuitive and provides the best combination of Microsoft SharePoint with OneDrive usability.

1. Communication Sites:

Next Gen mobile collaboration and better intelligent intranet makes working together a fruitful experience in the newest version of SharePoint server.

1. OneDrive for Business:

Providing improved mobile experience to SharePoint mobile users, it also makes collaboration and file storage people-centric and supports latest sync client generation with on derive for Business.

1. SharePoint Mobile:

Microsoft SharePoint 2019 provides all the necessary resources needed for a collaborative work flow within organization, and improved mobile experience for intranet is one of the core elements. It makes file sharing on-the-go which is more personalized and intelligent.

1. Growing File Support:

The offered file sizes have increased: up to 15GB, a few character restrictions are maintained with file names and path length restriction has been increased from 260 Unicode code units to 400.

MachPanel Automation Module for SharePoint Server 2019

Yes, you heard it right. MachPanel supports the services offered by SharePoint Server 2019 and hence can assist you in deployments smoothly and efficiently. Customers all over the world trust MachPanel with their SharePoint solutions and turnkey solution deployment services. Automation module for SharePoint Server supports other versions like SharePoint 2019, 2016 and 2013. It provides entire automation for on-premises SharePoint Server. It also offers selling of sell fully segregated multi-tenant hosted SharePoint environment.

It’s a great opportunity for CSPs to get their hands on MachPanel and deploy SharePoint Server 2019 in the most hassle-free manner.

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