Cyber Essentials Certification
A well done to the team for obtaining Cyber Essentials certification! A4S is now working on the pro certification in May as we continue...
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- Mar 3, 2021
- 5 min
Webinar Meeting Notes: Head In the Clouds S01E01 - Azure Costs Management & Optimisation
About the Event Welcome to our first webinar event where we will discuss the activities and processes behind successful cloud cost...
- Feb 15, 2021
- 1 min
Webinar For Shared Cloud Challenges & Questions
Many of our clients are sharing the same challenges and questions when it comes to cloud adoption, these are hurdles that can often be...
- Feb 11, 2021
- 1 min
WVD Monitoring & Alerting
Quick example of a clients Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) dashboard showing session host performance, this is achieved through log...
- Feb 9, 2021
- 1 min
Avaya IP Office In Azure
We're shortly to embark on Migrating a client's Ayaya IP Office in Azure as part of an Azure migration project, the Avaya instance is a...
- Feb 9, 2021
- 1 min
Transparency & Trust
It's important a client can work with their chosen partner and have maximum trust, for this reason; our project documentation, schedule,...
- Feb 9, 2021
- 1 min
Taking Care During VM Migrations
Keeping a client's environment safe and functional during a migration effort is important, for this reasons we take extra care by using...
- Jan 28, 2021
- 2 min
Disaster Recovery Using Azure Site Recovery Services
We're speaking with a valued client about a potential Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Services project, this is an exciting and very powerful...
- Dec 17, 2020
- 1 min
Remove Azure Migration Blockers With Azure SQL Managed Instances
In a recent project to migrate our client Staffordshire County Council's first applications into Azure we utilised Azure SQL Managed...
- Dec 15, 2020
- 1 min
Microsoft App-V to MSIX Conversion, Retain Your Investment
Microsoft MSIX now natively supports the conversion of App-V packages into MSIX application delivery, this is huge news for the many...
- Dec 4, 2020
- 3 min
A4S Win Opportunity To Support South Lakes Housing Into The Cloud
More amazing news from the A4S Cloud Solutions team who are supporting South Lakes Housing on their Azure cloud journey, this is a...
- Dec 3, 2020
- 1 min
Another Successful Moment For A4S Monitor
A4S Monitor is able to monitor almost anything, in this case we managed to get to the bottom of a long standing issue with a clients VPN...
- Dec 2, 2020
- 1 min
Public preview Announced: Azure Monitor for Windows Virtual Desktop
Microsoft have now announced the public preview of Azure Monitor for Windows Virtual Desktop, providing a centralised overview of virtual...
- Nov 30, 2020
- 1 min
A4S Win The Opportunity To Help Another Client On Their Cloud Journey
Great news, A4S have secured another client project that that will be announced shortly, we're honoured to have won the opportunity to...
- Nov 24, 2020
- 2 min
Wanted to share a managing directors perspective....happy to share and hear from others!
We feel trust is everything in a supplier client relationship, and like any relationship; behaviours such as honesty and transparency are...
- Nov 24, 2020
- 5 min
Improve Business Continuity and Lower Risk with Azure Site Recovery Services
What is ASR? Our clients and potential future clients are often interested in the use Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to improve their current...
- Nov 23, 2020
- 1 min
Monitor Application Performance With Azure Monitor & Application Insights
The below videos provide an insight to how you could gain valuable performance information for your applications estate using Azure...
- Nov 23, 2020
- 1 min
Why Microsoft Have Replaced SCOM With Azure Monitor
Very interesting articles as to why and how Microsoft moved their monitoring and alerting from SCOM and into Azure Monitor and Log...
- Nov 23, 2020
- 1 min
Windows Virtual Desktop Pilot Started
We've just started a Windows Virtual Desktop Pilot for one of our clients, this is a Microsoft ECIF funded exercise and allows the client...
- Aug 17, 2020
- 1 min
Infrastructure-as-Code versus Manual Deployment
The shift from manual infrastructure deployment to hybrid cloud deployments using Infrastructure as code (IaC) is becoming the next big...
- Jul 1, 2020
- 2 min
Plan DR Before You Implement
Before you begin to protect any workloads using Azure Site Recovery, allocate sufficient bandwidth, based on your daily data-change rate,...
- May 10, 2020
- 1 min
A4S Silver Partner Cloud Platform
We're proud to announce another recent achievement and benefit to our customers! We're now certified to deliver Microsoft Software...
- Mar 2, 2020
- 1 min
Housing Tech Magazine Article
We just can't stay away from Housing Technology Magazine, the magazine has been kind enough to include us again on page 18 of their...
- Jan 7, 2020
- 2 min
Microsoft Planning Services Vouchers
It's now easier than ever before to work with A4S Cloud Solutions, check out our procurement page to find out how you can procures our...
- Sep 4, 2019
- 2 min
Windows 10 Multi Factor Authentication
Here's a brief description of how to improve the security of your Windows 10 logins at the same time as improving the user experience....
- Sep 1, 2019
- 1 min
Azure Storage Explorer 1.10.0 – September Release
Has anyone tried the new version of Storage Explorer released this month? It brings in some exciting features that really help with...
