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Forums are fantastic. They provide a free community based support platform with contributions from a wide range of users and professionals.
Many Microsoft employees, Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals), GPUG All Stars and experienced users donate their time to help the community. There only reward being thanked and having their responses marked as answers.
Following on my previous Public Service Announcements (PSA) about scammers and user credential hacks, today I have one on ransomware.
A while back, I posted a warning about Backups and Cloud Storage and how ransomware and in particular crypto viruses could destroy your cloud backed up files if they are automatically synchronised with your local files.
You are still safest to have a back up on a drive or system that is not always connected, and avoid getting ransomware on your system.
Unless you have been hiding under a rock somewhere, you would have heard about Pokémon GO.
Pokémon GO is an Augmented Reality (AR) game for Android and Apple devices that brings the world of Pokémon (made famous by the Nintendo games) into the real world. The game has had both positive and negative feedback in the mass media, but primarily has been responsible for getting many people out and about walking around, getting fit and interacting with others.
But if you don’t own an Android or Apple device, you have been unable to join the fun…. or have you?
Are you coming to the reIMAGINE 2016 conference in Fargo, ND, USA?
If you are a Microsoft Dynamics GP Partner, you should be there as it is the best place to discover what’s new from Microsoft and engage with your peers during dedicated networking opportunities only available to partners.
Over the last few years there have been some high profile security breaches where hackers have been able to steal user information and credentials from various websites and publish the details.
Would you like a way to know if your credentials have been caught up in the hack?
Recently, I posted an article: Friday Funny: Fake Microsoft Scammer Tries to Scam Ex Microsoft Employee, where an ex-Microsoftie had some fun with a scammer using a virtual machine which could be damaged without any actual risks to his computer.
Today, I came across a scam site that could catch the unwary. So I decided to write this Public Service Announcement (PSA) article to help keep people safe.
While we are highlighting videos of really cool technology from Microsoft, a video on Hololens Holoportation was recently published and it also shows amazing possibilities.
Microsoft Research have taken the three dimensional camera technology to capture people and objects in an environment and combined this with the Augmented Reality ability of the Microsoft Hololens to display the captured virtual people and objects in your field of view at a remote location.
Last week, to coincide with the Build 2016 developer conference, Microsoft’s YouTube channel released a new video demonstrating the Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) being used to create a Seeing AI (Artificial Intelligence) app.
This is a great example of why I love working in the technology and computer industry. To see technology being used to make people’s lives better and easier is what gives me hope for a future where computers improve our lives rather than making us work harder and be more stressed.
This is just a quick note to wish everyone in the Microsoft Dynamics GP community and all my friends and readers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
I will be taking some time off between now and late January and so don’t expect too many posts in that period.
While David was away in the USA and Mexico, I got to accompany Rohan to the RoboCup Junior Australia 2015 National Championships on 26th and 27th September 2015. You may know from past blogs that robotics has been a bit of a hobby for David and our sons. This year, being in the National Competition meant travelling to Gawler, South Australia.