Posts tagged Workspace
CoreView - Microsoft 365, Reporting, Management and Automation for Enterprises

If you are managing Microsoft 365 for a large organisation CoreView will allow you to easily create actionable reports to maintain organisational standards, securely delegate administrative tasks to the relative parties such as HR and maximise the use of your Microsoft 365 licencing with licensing optimisation reports and related actions.

You can learn more about CoreView over at their website https://www.coreview.com

The doodle above was created as part of a paid engagement with CoreView to understand the features of their platform and to doodle my thoughts. There has been no expectations set or influence on the content of the doodle or this blog post by CoreView. All thoughts are my own.

I recently had the opportunity to meet with Doug Hazelman - Senior Vice President and Cheif Evangelist of CoreView. Many like me from the virtualisation community will know Doug from his time at Veeam and it was great to catch up with him to hear all about CoreView.

CoreView is a SaaS platform designed to help enterprises that have a heavy reliance on Microsoft 365 within their organisations.

A quick look on their website summarises the product quite well in three given areas;

  • See it - Action Enabled Reporting

  • Manage it - Granular Privileges for Each User

  • Automate it - With cross-SaaS workloads

The reporting functionality is the core element of the platform with over 240 inbuilt reports and the ability to fully customise and filter what is included. The word ‘reporting’ to describe this functionality doesn’t really do it justice, the reporting within CoreView is fully actionable, so once you have found the information that is relevant to you, for example, users who aren’t configured with MFA, you can then undertake the relevant corrective action directly from inside CoreView. Even more impressively you can schedule these reports to run regularly including the corrective actions to easily maintain standards.

Reporting is available for all areas of Microsoft 365 and of particular interest to me, was licensing optimisation and user management as well as the application-specific reports including SharePoint and Teams.

One of the areas I was most impressed with was the ability to delegate administrative access to Microsoft 365 to anybody in the business, including none technical members of the team whilst maintaining security and governance.

CoreView has the concept of virtual tenants or V-Tenants, this allows you to granularly carve up administrative functionality to specific subsets of users within your business. With Microsoft 365 taking such a large role within organisations today there is increasingly becoming a large burden for IT teams to be able to manage the associated administrative tasks. This is exactly where virtual tenants within CoreView comes to the rescue, whether this is delegation from a central Microsoft 365 admin team to certain controls to a service desk or even delegating user management to a representative of an HR department.

The virtual tenant allows you to initially configure which users are within the virtual tenant (this is useful for dept specific delegations) and you are then able to granularly control which permissions are allowed and what should be included in the user interface for these users. Together this allows you to securely and effectively delegate granular administration tasks within Microsoft 365 without risk.

As previously mentioned there are full licensing optimisation reports available allowing you to review per user utilisation of features and functionality in line with the licensing that is in place across the organisation. With the virtual tenants mentioned above, it is possible to take this a stage further and carve up licensing into the virtual tenants, allowing departments to manage their own licensing and to review the relevant reports.

The final component I want to talk about is the ability to review and filter the Microsoft 365 audit logs, from the day you configure CoreView by default it will store a rolling years worth of history with the option to pay for further retention. The audit review capability allows you to quickly and easily search and filter the audit logs to get drilldown to the elements that matter to you. Further to this there are a number of out of the box reports that highlight certain activity from the audit logs such as failed logins and logins with impossible travel.

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I was really impressed by what I saw from CoreView and whilst it is focused on enterprise use cases I could see how the functionality would be useful to other organisations and managed service providers. I am hoping to get some time looking into the platform myself and will post any thoughts that I have.

Be sure to checkout CoreView for yourself https://www.coreview.com

IGEL Disrupt Munich 2019 Closing Keynote Doodle #disrupteuc
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Above is my final doodle from the IGEL Disrupt conference 2019 that took place in Munich Germany. 

The final keynote session was delivered by Eva Helen and covered Women in Tech, but most importantly the important role men need to play in growing diversity within business. She spoke about the 7 characters of men when it came to women in business / tech and how men had a responsibility to identify and mentor rising stars within organisations. 

Eva has a book coming out regarding this subject in the future.

all together this was a fantastic conference. Please see the video below for Megan and my final thoughts of the conference. 

IGEL Disrupt 2019 - Breakout Sessions #DisruptEUC
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Above is my doodle covering the second half of the general session on day 1 of IGEL Disrupt, including the announcement and on screen demo of IGEL on NVIDIA Jetson. Also covered in the doodle is some of the information from Simon Binder’s session covering Windows Virtual Desktop and IGELs changes to their licensing model in OS11. Finally a photo of the EUC Disruptors panel session that @BizTechMeg and more took part in at the end of the day 2 general session. 

VMware Workspace ONE and Okta - Zero Trust in the enterprise

Earlier this year VMware and Okta announced a partnership to integrate each others products to unify the user context with the device context provided by Okta and VMware Workspace ONE. At VMworld 2018 in Barcelona I sat the session regarding the use of their products to drive a zero trust approach but to enable the users with passwordless experience.

VMworld Barcelona 2018 Digital Workspace Keynote

The digital workspace keynote was one of my favourite sessions of VMworld 2018, Shawn Bass (VMware EUC CTO) and team demonstrated their modern management approach across heterogeneous devices as well as demonstrating the user focused experiences of mobile flow and the new Workspace ONE intelligent hub. Finally with Workspace ONE intelligence IT are able to be empowered with the intelligent information around the applications and devices to deliver amazing user focused support. 

Please see my doodle below  

VMworld 2018 US - Day Two General Session

Only half of the day two general session was live streamed, but above is my doodle covering what was featured. Sanjay Poonen VMware COO spoke about the engines that fuel VMware being innovation and the customer, VMware are the only company in NPS to be listed in the top 5 for customer satisfaction five years running. He also spoke about the growth of VMware and how every customer that has deployed VMware technologies has been able in turn been able to reduce costs, reduce complexity and reduce carbon. There were a number of customer references live on stage talking about how they are innovating with VMware tecnologies with a strong focus on the SDDC, VMware Cloud, PKS and NSX.

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Docker Containers

Azure Remote App

Simon Townsend of AppSense (Now Ivanti) spoke about good cyber hygiene with a Catch, Patch, Match strategy. He spoke about the importance of application white listing, appropriate user privileges and application white listing.

Workspace 2020 with Ruben Spruijt & Jeroen vande Kamp

Workspace 2020 with Ruben Spruijt & Jeroen vande Kamp