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What’s New with M365: Quality of Life Updates – March 2024
For many of us, Microsoft 365’s variety of applications make the completion of our everyday workplace tasks possible. Excitingly, Microsoft...
Introducing The New Teams Discover Feed
Microsoft has begun rolling out their New Microsoft Teams application globally. This new iteration of Teams introduces a plethora of...
Copilot for Microsoft 365 Community Series – Session #2
RSM is excited to present the second session in our community series on Copilot for Microsoft 365, the AI-powered assistant...
5 Things to Know in Government Contracting This Week — February 26 – March 4, 2024
Here are the top 5 things to know in Government Contracting this week: New Government Contracting Opportunities and Emerging...
SharePoint Embedded: Unleashing the Power of Microsoft 365 Content Management
In the ever-evolving landscape of enterprise applications, SharePoint Embedded recently emerged as a major game-changer for content management. This innovative...
Top 5 Things to Know in GovCon this Week: February 17th-23rd, 2024
Here are the top 5 things to know in Government Contracting this week: Compliance and Regulation Updates: This week,...
Teams Premium Miniseries, Pt. 2: All About Your Brand – Explaining Teams Premium’s Custom Meeting Themes and How to Make Them
Microsoft has officially begun to roll out its suite of new features for Teams Premium. This new toolset brings a...
Welcome to the NEWest chapter of Microsoft Teams!
As we embrace this exciting era, let’s explore what makes the new version of Teams a standout upgrade from its...
Copilot for Microsoft 365 Community Series
RSM would like to thank everyone who was able to join the first session of our new community series on...
AI Copilots: From R2-D2 to Jarvis, How AI Technology is Transforming Our Digital Assistants
Welcome to the cutting-edge world of AI copilots, the latest innovation reshaping our interaction with technology in the workplace. These...
2024 RSM Microsoft Events
RSM plays an active role in the Microsoft community across all product areas. We regularly sponsor and attend conferences and...
Utilizing Microsoft Mesh in Teams Meetings
Microsoft Mesh is a new platform that enables immersive and collaborative experiences across multiple devices and locations. With Mesh, you...
Strengthen Your Cybersecurity with Microsoft’s New Conditional Access Policies – Act Now!
As your first-choice advisor in the middle market, we at RSM are committed to keeping you informed about the latest...
SharePoint Look Book – Learning Pathways
Have you ever heard of the SharePoint Look Book? If not, there’s no need to worry; you aren’t alone. The...
Microsoft Nonprofit Global Summit
Welcome to the heart of innovation! RSM is excited to participate in the Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit, an exclusive event...
Unlocking the Potential ROI of AI: A Physics Perspective
Technology has always been a catalyst for transformative growth, and today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds tremendous potential to reshape businesses. Like potential...
Microsoft Copilot Dashboard: A Copilot and Viva Collaboration
Microsoft has finally released Copilot to the general audience, and the AI train has been moving full speed ahead ever...
Turning an ask into a task with Microsoft Teams and To Do
When working on multiple projects, committees, organizations, and workgroups we often fall behind on the little things. These simple asks...
RSM’s Approach to Content Migration to Microsoft 365
One of the most common challenges that RSM’s clients face is document management. Typically, outdated and disorganized files cause inefficiencies,...
Copilot for Microsoft 365 (M365): M365 Chat First Looks
“Captain’s log, Stardate 77302.3; Chat is now mainstream…” Chatting with a computer used to be science fiction… “Computer, engage.” But...
The New Wave of Teams Premium: Three Invaluable Features Available Now
Microsoft Teams has been heavily utilized across businesses everywhere for a few years, and now that we are in the...
Microsoft Secure Score: What is it and what does it mean for you?
What is Microsoft Secure Score? Microsoft Secure Score is a security analytics tool that helps organizations assess and improve their...
Using the Updates App in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams has changed the way we work and remain productive in the evolving business landscape. Microsoft Teams provides the...
Microsoft 365: Is Your Organization RaMPing UP?
In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses are constantly seeking ways to optimize their operations, enhance productivity, and stay competitive....
Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Outlook Email First Looks
Copilot for Microsoft 365 (M365) was released for enterprise customers on November 1, 2023. The scale of the Copilot for...
Are you ready for Microsoft Copilot?
Written in collaboration with Kaleb Dombeck Your everyday AI Companion Microsoft Copilot is designed to revolutionize how we work, offering...
New Service Overview: Implementing Microsoft Syntex
Biotech uses automation to simplify data extraction process RSM recently implemented Microsoft Syntex for a biotechnology company specializing in therapeutics....
RSM US LLP Expands Microsoft service offering for Government Contractors with D365 Finance and Supply Chain now supported in GCC High
Washington, DC – RSM US LLP, a leading provider of audit, tax, and consulting services focused on the middle market,...
RSM Presents: New Veeam BaaS Solutions
Are you looking for an easy to use and reliable method for protecting your Microsoft 365 and Azure data? If...
Community Summit – RSM Speaking Sessions
RSM is thrilled to be a premier sponsor of North America Community Summit in Charlotte, NC (Oct. 15-20, 2023). We...
2023 Microsoft Innovation Summit
Event Overview Event Date: 9/20/2023 Time: 1pm – 4pm ET As a Microsoft user, staying updated with the latest advancements...
Microsoft GCC High Portal URLs
The following list includes all portal URLs for Microsoft GCC High: Microsoft 365 Admin Portal GCC High – office365.us Intune...
On the Path to GCC High: How to Validate Your Organization with Microsoft
In a previous article, we discussed each of the currently available editions of Microsoft 365. These ranged from the base...
RSM Wins Microsoft US Defense and Intelligence Partner of the Year 2023!
We at RSM, a leading global provider of audit, tax, and consulting services, are thrilled to announce that RSM has...
Microsoft Viva Insights & The “Quiet-Quitting” Concept
The Great Resignation denotes the massive wave of employees who – resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and other economic factors...
Microsoft 365 Commercial, GCC, & GCC High: What are they and how can RSM help?
RSM provides end-to-end, industry-specific Microsoft solutions for thousands of our clients across the world. We are an award-winning Microsoft Cloud...
Microsoft’s New AI Assistant: Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft recently announced the revolutionary new Microsoft 365 Copilot service, which is poised to help businesses and individuals maximize productivity...
Prevent Your Sensitive Data from Being Stored in ChatGPT
Artificial Intelligence and a machine’s ability to mimic human speech has always fascinated humankind. Recently, OpenAI’s artificial intelligence language model...
How Microsoft Dynamics 365 Helps You Navigate the Complexities of Working with USAID
The various sub-groups of the Government Contracting industry each have their own rules, regulations, and standard operating procedures. Contractors working...
Microsoft’s Deadline – Migrating from Microsoft D365 Modern POS to Store Commerce by October 2023!
We are roughly halfway through Q1 2023, and as such the Dynamics 365 Commerce platform continues to evolve at a rapid...
NRF – Retail’s Big Show – RSM Digital Collateral
RSM is excited to be a sponsor at NRF’s Big Show January 14-17, 2023. Visit our NRF event page As...
Microsoft Announces Intune Premium Suite
At this year’s Microsoft Ignite 2022 conference, the tech giant announced that a new, premium version of their Microsoft Intune...
Azure Active Directory and Microsoft Endpoint Manager
This article details the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) services. RSM recommends Azure AD and...
RSM Can Sell GCC-High
RSM provides end-to-end, industry-specific Microsoft solutions for thousands of our clients across the world. We are an award-winning Microsoft Gold...
Review of Revenue Contract Management Cycle as it Relates to ERP
RSM is a leading provider of Revenue Contract Management services and software in the Life Science industry. With years of...
TechnoMile – Elevate Conference
We proudly announce that RSM US LLP is the Platinum Sponsor of this year’s inaugural Elevate conference with our partner...
Power Automate – Automatically Move a Note Attachment to SharePoint
Use Case: A user needs to submit a document on the portal by attaching a file to a CRM record....
Microsoft Innovation Summit (June 14th)
Event overview As a Microsoft user, you need to stay current with the latest the product has to offer. RSM...
Industrials: Warehouse Comparison Webcast
Do you struggle with warehouse efficiencies? Do you struggle with pick, pack and ship processes, barcoding or inventory management? The recorded webcast...
Upgrading to Classic Workspaces in Power BI
Workspaces are areas within Power BI where you can collaborate with colleagues and clients to create a collection of dashboards,...
Listing Records Related Through an N:N Relationship in Power Automate
N:N relationships can be a great way to identify related records, however, they don’t provide us much value in the...
Microsoft Extended Reality – Remote Assist and Guides
What is Extended Reality (XR)? Extended reality refers to all real and virtual combined environments and human-machine interactions generated by...
Ignoring Null Fields When Mapping Field Values in Power Automate
Automating standardized record creation can save users a great amount of time. Traditionally this is easier using legacy workflows, so...
Determine If Records Were Returned From A List Rows Step in Power Automate
Querying for the existence of records is a common requirement. If you are familiar with the ‘list rows’ step, you...
Previewing Azure Purview
What is Purview? We are going to be talking about Azure Purview in this post. No, that is not a...
Azure Express Route Considerations
Middle market organizations are deploying Azure Express Route to provide reliable, low latency connections between their primary office(s) – where...
What’s New in Dynamics GP? October 2020 Release Features
With the most current release of Microsoft Dynamics GP that came out last month, many new and exciting features and...
Power Automate Date Filtering on Today’s Date
Using Power Automate I often need to filter records based on date to find only those matching a certain date....
How to embed PowerApps into Dynamics 365 Dashboards
Dynamics 365 is already a robust suite, but what if you could get access to your data faster and in...
Common Data Service (Current Environment): Now Outside of Solutions!
Have you been working hard on your Power Automate Flows for CDS/Dynamics 365 Sales outside a solution only to find...
Add Dynamic Hyperlinks in Emails Sent by Microsoft Power Automate
Microsoft Power Automate is a powerful tool with many capabilities to help automate your business processes. By using Microsoft Power...
Microsoft Teams Live Events Offers Affordable Solution to Nonprofit Organizations
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, strategies employed by governments to slow the spread of the virus have massive impacts on...
Latest FSLogix release simplifies remote logins for Microsoft VDI admins
Organizations that are equipping remote workers with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) are finding that leaps in technology change can roll...
Audio Conferencing in Microsoft Teams
In the current working environment that we are in, we are getting quite a few requests for Microsoft Teams conference...
Updates to M365 Licensing – April 2020
The licensing world at Microsoft is always a challenge for our customers to keep up with, as new products, features...
10 things to consider when relying on Microsoft Teams for the remote worker
Remote working is here to stay (for a while). While most of us are adapting to video calls, pictures of...
Enhancements to Microsoft Teams to foster further collaboration while working remotely
We’re in unprecedented times during this COVID-19 pandemic and it has forced many businesses to shift to a remote working...
Embracing Technology to Work Remotely with Microsoft Teams
Many companies are now discovering the flexibility of working remotely. For many of us, this has become part of our...
Understanding Private Channels in Microsoft Teams
What is a Private channel? Private channels in Microsoft Teams have long been a top requested feature in Teams user...
Using Search in the Microsoft Cloud
Moving your enterprise content to the cloud allows you to capitalize on an underused (or underappreciated) tool of Office 365:...
Applications Templates without Programming for Microsoft Power BI
One of the newest ways to extract data from Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operation, Enterprise edition is to...
Microsoft Office 365 Collaboration – Office 365 Groups, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Team Sites and Yammer
There are several apps in Office 365 which provide collaboration features and support to enable the collaboration within different teams...
Two Different Apps – Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Web App
RSM recently helped resolve an Office 365 case related to the creation of an Outlook group intended to enable collaboration among select...
Office 365 – Employee Portal, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint
Recently, one of our clients shared with us that they will start building their new employee portal using Microsoft Teams....
Office 365 – Document Life Cycle
Document Life Cycle is the process and set of various stages that a document goes through when a new document...
Microsoft Sway Application Simplifies Communications
The Microsoft Sway application is included in most Office 365 plans, but many organization have struggled to find a purpose...
Office 365 Error – “Additions to this Web site have been blocked” – Mystery Solved
Recently, we encountered a very misleading error from SharePoint Online / Office 365 which took a long time to figure...
Exploring Visualizations for Power BI
When working with Power BI, a great way to test the functionality is to attach your desktop to a sample...
Joining Windows 10 Devices to the New Microsoft Azure Active Directory – Part 1
Configuring Azure Active Directory for AD Join Microsoft has made sweeping structural changes within the new Microsoft Azure portal. Gone...
New Apple Update Creating Issues with Office 365 and Exchange 2016
The new iOS 11 Apple update was released this week and some users are experiencing issues with Office 365 and...
Four Ways to Leverage Your Existing Infrastructure for Office 365 Authentication
When it comes to having a successful Microsoft Office 365 deployment, it is important to keep the end user’s experience...
Microsoft Azure Internet of Things (IoT)
As compute power continues to grow at an exponential rate, companies are constantly looking for new ways to harness and...
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and SharePoint for Financial Institutions
Microsoft SharePoint is an easy to use intranet/extranet, and internet sites that make it simple for everyone to access critical information, regardless of...
Using Microsoft To-Do for effective task management
A new task management product, Microsoft To-Do, wasn’t recently released by Microsoft and is available to consumers and Office 365 subscribers. To-Do...
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies in Office 365
In today’s society, technology plays a vital role in our everyday routine and it is heavily depended upon. What we tend...
Roaming VMware Horizon credentials with Microsoft Office Click-to-Run
One of the great things about Office 365 and VMware Horizon is that it makes life as the IT administrator...
Information Rights Management (IRM) for Office 365
Information Rights Management (IRM) is a form of IT security technology used to protect documents containing sensitive information from unauthorized...
Layer2 Cloud Connector for SharePoint and Office 365
Line-of-business connectivity and enterprise search are core capabilities within SharePoint that drive user adoption, productivity and ROI across the organization....
Create A Video In Microsoft PowerPoint Using Office Mix
Microsoft PowerPoint is one of the most frequently used slide-based presentation programs on the market. It’s likely that, at some...
Work Smart with the Microsoft Surface Product Family
There is more to the Microsoft Surface family of products than just tablets! Microsoft envisioned a complete line of products...
Use Office 365 Admin App to Manage your Dynamics CRM Online
If you are a Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online organization, Microsoft created a mobile application that allows a system administrator to...
Overlooked steps for an Office 365 exchange migration
With more and more organizations moving to Office 365 and taking advantage of the cloud and more and more online...
Introducing the New Cloud POS in Microsoft Dynamics AX
With the new version of Microsoft Dynamics AX, one of the most exciting changes is Cloud POS. Microsoft has replaced...
Using Azure Stack to deploy Microsoft Azure on premise
Microsoft Azure Stack enables you to deploy a private Microsoft Azure cloud platform that you can run and manage in...
Migrating large on-premises SharePoint sites to Office 365
Many organizations have adopted SharePoint, in it’s beginning stages, and today are faced with a lot of content that has grown...
Adding Bing maps in Office 365
Maps are in virtually any app or portal we use on a day-to-day basis. SQL server consumers have utilized this...
Excel services in SharePoint
Imagine a scenario where an organization leverages Microsoft Excel to generate and share reports and charts with their stakeholders and...
Utilizing your Office 365 investment
Welcome to the cloud, new Office 365 subscriber. Do you know what you actually get with your shiny new subscription? Sure,...
Take advantage of browser profiles in Office 365
“Let me show you what that looks like on our Office 365 tenant!” Many of us in consulting, whether sales,...
What is Microsoft’s ECM strategy?
Depending on what you read, Microsoft’s ECM (Enterprise Content Management) strategy of cloud first, mobile first which are the tools...
What is missing from Microsoft Office 2016?
For all of the new features being offered in Microsoft’s rollout of Office 2016 there is one essential tool missing:...
Does my organization have a disaster recovery solution or a backup solution
By now, I assume we have all heard the statistics that 80% of organizations that face a catastrophic event, without...
Don’t get caught with your phone system down
Many people talk about the dark days of IT as cloudy days. However, the cloud has been a significant improvement...
Dissecting the administrator’s Microsoft Office 365 experience with Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Last week I attended the CRMUG Summit in Reno and leda session called Dissecting the Administrator’s Office 365 Experience with...
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Update 1: Getting Started with Office 365 Groups
The Dynamics CRM 2015 Spring Update contains a wonderful new preview feature titled Office 365 Groups which will allow for...
Security vs. Control: Airplanes, the Cloud and Office 365
So, I had time to write this on an airplane tonight, and it was fundamentally uncomfortable. It was hot, crowded,...
Microsoft Windows 10 – A Paradigm Shift Toward Simplicity & Empowerment
As you may have heard, Microsoft is busy preparing for it next big operating system release, Windows 10. Over one...
Microsoft Cloud Platform Roadmap
I have been working with Microsoft for the largest portion of my career; be it as a customer, a partner,...
Protect business data with Microsoft Azure RMS (Rights Management Services)
Protect your business and don’t make the news for the wrong reasons We’ve all seen the stories about security breaches...
Get me a “SharePoint Type”
There is an old Hollywood joke about the four stages of an actor’s career, with apologies to Mr. Bacon: Who...
SharePoint Online with Office 365 vs. SharePoint Server
I’m sure you all have been hearing a lot about Office 365 and SharePoint Online over the past several months...
Sway – Microsoft Office 365 New Core Application Introduced
RSM Technology Management Consulting representatives recently attended one of Microsoft’s U.S. stops in their global Office 365 Summit Tour. The...
Using Power BI to light up Microsoft Dynamics Business Applications reporting
Power BI, simply stated, is a Microsoft business intelligence platform designed to combine the familiarity of Microsoft Office (with over...
O365 SharePoint 2013 Folder Creation Code Using the Client Object Model
A lot of organizations today are taking advantage of Microsoft Dynamic CRM’s integration into SharePoint because SharePoint is by far...
Reasons to Migrate to Microsoft Exchange 2013
Today there is a lot of buzz around Cloud and when it comes to communications and collaborations, Office 365 is...
Microsoft Office 365: Enterprise Plans Explained
One major advantage of a product offering like Microsoft Office 365 is being able to mix and match Enterprise Plans. ...
Microsoft Collaboration Technology Supports Refresh Success
I am pleased to have presented my first RSM webinar with Microsoft. It’s on a set of topics near and...
Microsoft Office 365 – Enterprise Features for Any Size Business
The cloud is one of the hottest buzzwords in business today. I can summarize the mission statement of Microsoft® Office...
Microsoft Office 365 – Business Drivers for SMB’s to Take the Cloud Plunge
Cloud computing continues to be more affordable and accessible than ever before and is becoming the great equalizer for SMB’s...
Dynamics CRM 2011 Online – Office 365: Internet Explorer Certificate Errors Windows Server 2003
You may notice that there are many articles regarding Certificate Errors in Internet Explorer. Most of what you will find...
Installing the Outlook client for Microsoft Dynamics CRM – Office 365 Subscriptions
I am posting this article as a response to the video tutorial, Installing and Configuring the Outlook client for Microsoft Dynamics...
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Online with Office 365 – Plug-In Registration and Scribe Adapter – an unsecured or incorrectly secured fault was received – Solved
Microsoft is now moving the 30 day trial versions of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Online to its Office 365 platform. ...
What’s Up With The Microsoft Office Add-Ins?
Microsoft Office Add-Ins In the past few months, I have been asked countless questions about the new Microsoft Office Add-Ins...