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    Microsoft Viva Topics - First Look and Behind the Scenes

    Watch a short video of Microsoft Viva Topics as it appears just after the initial set-up process in ClearPeople's own Microsoft 365 tenant.

    Microsoft Viva Topics - walk-through of set-up

    Want to know how to set-up Microsoft Viva Topics? Here is a short walk through of the steps to get Microsoft Viva Topics set-up in a Microsoft 365 tenant.

    What is Collective Intelligence? And how does it apply in the workplace?

    Collective intelligence is the process by which a large group of individuals gather and share their knowledge, data and skills for the purpose of solving issues.

    What is Microsoft Viva Topics (Project Cortex) and SharePoint Premium (Syntex)?

    In 2020, ClearPeople was announced as one of just 17 Microsoft global launch partners and recognised with Preferred Partner status for Project Cortex (now called Microsoft Viva Topics), Microsoft’s initiative to make AI capabilities available within Microsoft 365.

    Use Authenticator Apps and move away from SMS and voice

    Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) has now been widely accepted and used as a best practice. All your creds are belong to us, is a nice blog that outlines vulnerabilities in credentials other than passwords and highlights the promise of passwordless, cryptographically protected creds like FIDO, Windows Hello, and the Authenticator App.

    YAML and Classic UI in Azure DevOps Pipelines

    In this post we are aiming to clarify the advantages of one over the other in a daily use from a development team point of view.

    How to fix the Yammer API authentication issue

    The purpose of this article is to give a bit more visibility and to comment one issue that we have been facing off during the last months with a React component based on the Yammer API.

    Adding Azure DevOps release notifications to Microsoft Teams

    Everyday we spend a number of hours diving in Microsoft Teams. There are a lot of actions that we can perform from there; opening documents, attending meetings, chat with different members of the team, and much more.

    Siloes of One

    Here we go again… lockdown mk2.

    The Remote Internship

    So how has the world of work changed here within QA at ClearPeople since the lockdown in March because of COVID19, and we all had to work remotely?