Increase your Productivity with Windows 10

In the 4th week of our event we talked about making our work easier along with digitalizing our routine processes with Windows 10. In the previous weeks we mentioned importance of OneDrive and backed up our data. This week we talked about synchronization settings and smartly managing the files occupying our computer with “Storage Sense”. Storage Sense makes the not regularly used files Online Only and thus prevents them to take up unnecessary storage. We managed to have our computers locked when we got away from them with “Dynamic Lock“ by pairing our mobile devices with our computers via Bluetooth.

We talked about synchronizing all our choices from language settings and password to backgrounds between devices with “Sync Your Settings”. Also how to access the pages we worked on, the pages we opened in all devices with Windows’ Timeline feature; how to access everything we copied from one clipboard without copy-paste on “Clipboard” were important details. We wouldn’t skip mentioning the new Edge application. We asked “How can we pin the websites we opened in the browser to the taskbar as an app? We created the problem of opening millions of tabs and getting lost among them by creating Collections. While carrying the PostIt experience to digital with Sticky Notes, we introduced the new screenshot tool Snip&Sketch. And last but not least, we took a look at the Whiteboard feature we mentioned the first week, and left another event full of information behind.

Enterprise Video Portal, Task and Feedback Management

We divided the 3rd week of our Working from Home Practices event into 3 main sections: Stream & Forms & Planner and Teams collaboration functions.

We started our video portal Stream with a general view of easy but very effective features like searching in the portal, uploading videos, adding videos to “Watchlist” and being able to watch them later. Cutting and sharing a video, editing sharing permissions, making the videos interactive by adding polls and quizzes to the minutes we want on Stream we can find our meeting videos is very useful.  Moreover we can obtain integrity by viewing our portal’s channels or videos within Teams.

In the second part we took a look at question types, theme settings for personalizing, sharing options by digitalizing our form and quizzes with our survey application Forms. It is possible to edit questions together by sharing a link to work together, enable one person to answer only or in a certain period of time, register names in answers or answer anonymously with Forms. Also, you can transfer the results to Excel and zeroize the error margin and connect to different reporting tools. These surveys can be used under one app only like Stream by publishing within Teams.

Our last topic the Planner application is our task management tool where we can assign tasks to people and get graphic reports. You can categorize tasks with this tool and filter by these categories or assigned people, and transfer it to Excel. We can add our tasks to Outlook calendar and receive reminders. We included this app as well under the roof of Teams and finished this week’s event.

 

Strengthen Your Communication with the Right Infrastructure

During these times we see the world from a different window. When we look through this window, which companies are the ones that will maintain their strength, quality and economy? Actually, the answer is pretty simple, each company that managed to play its role in digitalization well will be able to take advantage of the change. It is easy to be one of them by benefiting from the blessings of easy adaptation, practical and fast technological solutions. So, how can we do it and what are these applications? 

Velocity for Teams

Since strengthening communication with a right infrastructure is the most important thing, having Microsoft Teams and Velocity will be enough for you.  While Microsoft Teams, actively used chat-based teamwork platform with Over 70 million users,  shows its features from working on a shared file together to sharing ideas and socializing; from doing group conferences to sharing meeting notes; using Velocity, Intranet Communication Portal, in your Teams gets ahead of all the other portals with its successful integration structure.  

Make tracking your work easier with hundreds of application cards  

Velocity enables the HR to give the most correct information about Carrier, Performance and all the procedures the most practical way possible while the announcements you make about LPPD, OHS and other topics reach out to all your workers and off day for birthday-advances can be created with work flow applications on the same channel. Corners exported from external sources like weather forecast, exchange rates, news and twitter will enable you to get informed while staying in the portal. Velocity also supports integration to a lot of applications that are used by HR, Finance and other departments with the infrastructure it has. On top of that, with Velocity that you can customize however you want with its design suitable for the corporate identity, you create an amazing connection between your workers and the identity of your company.  

How Can you Access Velocity? 

When it comes to accessing the indispensable pair Velocity for Teams, let us tell you that it is very easy. There are tabs for Activity, Chat, Teams, Calendar, Files on the left navigation bar of Microsoft Teams Apps. When you search Velocity on Global Store on the Apps section below, it will appear on the corner you added the app on.  

Moreover, another amazing news for Velocity&Teams is that it is among the best 8 applications in the world in Global. Velocity was chosen among the first 8 applications in all the applications that can be integrated to Microsoft Teams in global. In the evaluation that has been conducted, the first 8 applications were identified and the statute they all have is the same.  

We would like to walk with you on your way to digitalization, to have the best application in global by planning an online demo.  

Azure Sentinel Fortinet Connection

Hello everybody! As you know we had the chance to talk about Azure Sentinel before. In this article I want to take a look at the integration with agent, the most important one of the Azure Sentinel Data Connectors. As you might remember, we mentioned that we need to use the integration with agent in order for the Forti Firewall logs to be taken on Azure Sentinel.

We need a linux server on our existing Azure subscription for integration with agent on Azure Sentinel. Python should be installed on the server before setting up agent on the relevant server. I don’t want to lose time on the steps of creating linux server so I will assume that you have set up the linux server and connected with Putty. After we connect with Putty we can move on to the steps of installing python. After setting up the linux server and python, we can move on to the steps necessary for collecting logs in CEF Format.

Command We Need to Run on the Linux Server:

sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/master/DataConnectors/CEF/cef_installer.py&&sudo python cef_installer.py de8f7beb-7100-4d76-a8e1-3d25537a985f dGVvuS4ixQxJhn+R9L0aKep4VpTXinjoBZwNWVqeitXNwYxW485TfZVNvsoVOe0o/mJOzSJ7ivSN0fY8GaTOzw==

 

ICT Media Ahmet Toprakçı Exclusive Interview

PEAKUP CEO Ahmet Toprakçı stated that:

Covid pandemic increased the importance given to technology. Using fast growing technology in agriculture has become more common. Toprakçı, who stated that this situation causes a great efficiency on labor-intensive agriculture system, said: “New technologies that started to be used in industry and that become more common everyday, brought along a more efficient cultivation for the farmer.”

Toprakçı ,who pointed out that technological innovation in agriculture is a developing notion that existed every since the industrial revolution, stated: “But most countries remain behind when it comes to following these developments and using them. In research conducted by McKinsey Global Institute, it is mentioned that compared to any other industrial sector agricultural sector has the lowest digital penetration rate.

Even though the agricultural sector has fallen behind in efficiency and adding new services, it is important to accelerate this process. Because using the applications of internet of things (IoT) efficiently and correctly is the most helpful matter when it comes to meeting farmers’ expectations.”

Toprakçı put emphasis on the fact that we face problems like high costs, foreign-dependency, destroyed harvest, unexpected conditions, not making good use of the land. He stated that using new technologies minimizes the problems in the agriculture and stock raising sector and added: “It enables following more closely hence enables to control and measure it and makes it faster. Fastening and using digitalization correctly, is one of the most important steps to adapt the farmers to this process, make them use and understand them easily. Easy actions like motivating, explaining, talking about experiences will play an important role in breaking the biased stance and standing back,  and breaking the habit. Business Insider premium research service BI Intelligence foresees that the number of IoT devices in agriculture which is 30 million as of 2015 will increase to 75 million in 2020 and this will reach a growth rate of 20%. One of the best examples to prevent increasing waste in agriculture and stock raising and detect problems has been developed by PEAKUP as a farm IoT platform with internet of things.”

Toprakçı gave information about NOVA IoT Platform developed by PEAKUP. Toprakçı stated that NOVA platform makes instant analyzes by collection different environmental data like quantity of light, wind velocity and carbon dioxide in hen-houses and other similar raising habitats and told:”All the networks with microprocessor that makes instant transactions in extreme points and all the hardware are developed by the engineers in PEAKUP r&d center.

Data collected via Cloud Technologies and artificial intelligence is processed through a variety of algorithms in order to minimize the waste rates and create more efficient production areas. With its advanced-level analytical structure it can control monitoring areas in dozens of different locations remotely.

The system takes action on its own in the area that exceeds the defined values and prevents spread of possible diseases as well as doing smart henhouse management to the data to maximize the output. At the end of the day improving quality standards of  chicken producers and egg, meat and similar sectors that are in the same chain with NOVA IoT Platform causes positive results on process efficiency, decreasing energy loss, decreasing worker costs and decreasing stress, diseases and waste in living animals.

In this area where the environmental factors can analyze the living efficiency, the digital platform is obtained to make the fowls reproduce and live more efficiently. Instant measuring with sensors and following living following process decreases the waste of living in hen-houses.

Thanks to Nova IoT Platform we get fast and positive results like increasing efficiency, decreasing energy loss, faster solutions, decreasing worker costs. Today data processing and reporting by analyzing provides a huge convenience and productivity for most sectors. Developing software and paving the way of digitalizing requires accelerating this change for all sectors.”

We Got the Microsoft in Education Global Training Partner Status

As PEAKUP, we continue to provide solutions to our business partners and support their periods of change with our leading team by using innovational education applications in unity with technology .

We were awarded with Microsoft in Education Global Training Partner Status to give our training and consultancy services aimed at digitalization in educational institutions and designing new generation education areas globally. We continue to provide training on a lot of topics  –Microsoft Teams, Office 365 and Microsoft Azure technologies being in the first place like smart classroom management, distance learning, advanced level machine learning and deep learning.

We will continue to provide solutions, work and produce in order to support change and creativity in workplace with the thought of technology and future, contribute and help companies to adapt to period of change.

A Day in Teams While Working From Home

We talked about administering our corporate and non-corporate meeting routines and how we can organize our conferences with Live Event in the first week of our Working from Home Practices event under the title of A Day in Teams. Using the features of whiteboard, presenting with screen sharing, isolating oneself from what is going on at home by using background blurring in order to have the same experience with Microsoft Teams as the way we did at the office were our main topics.

Also being able to send notifications with the @mention feature while making announcements to our team members, work together on the flies that we share, get instant feedback by creating fast questionnaires were among the main topics that increase collaboration in Teams  that we touched upon.  It is also important to remind that we can pin the apps that exist in Store and use them comfortably.   

You can access this event easily in the video below:  

Office Insider Program – How to Join

What is the Windows Insider Program?

Microsoft Insider

was created for all Microsoft 365 users.

  • Office insider participants are granted first-hand access to new features and updates.
  • You can access dynamic array formulas.
  • In addition to this, you can share your comments about developments with the developers.

Click here to become an Office Insider member.


Access to the Insider Program

The procedure below is the simplest and most complete one.
For a long time it was blocked to go back to “standard” Excel version after you became an Insider .

But with this method you can change between channels anytime you want. smiley

When you go to File> Account menu and want to see information about Microsoft Account like synchronized files, you will see that there are 3 standard buttons that enable you to know your software version number and Office news. If you cannot see the Office Insider button there, follow the steps below.

1st Step: Add Office Insider Button to your Account

After yo do the settings below, you will see that the 4th button is added too. Click on the Insider button.
To do it you need to add a key into registry.  To open your registry type regedit on your Windows taskbar.

Normally Office, 16.0 and Common arrays are not on registry, you need to create them.

Path : HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftOffice16.0Common
Key Name: insiderslabbehavior
Value type : REG_DWORD
Value : 1

After you restart Office you will see that on the File > Account menu you have the Office Insider button.

 

2nd Step: Changing Office Channel 

Then, to see both of the recommended levels click on the Insider > Modification Level button.

You can see 2 levels of the available update by clicking on the popup menu: Monthly Channel or Insider.
Needless to say you need to accept terms of use to change the channel of your application.

3rd Step: Differences between the Two Programs

 

Insider Channel
This is the level that open the latest Office updates. Some of them didn’t have the chance to be tested by the developers or to be completed. Thus, it carries a risk to fail your Excel functions and collapse your workbooks (it is pretty common). However, it is the only way to access latest features like XLOOKUP.

My recommendation: Don’t set up this version on a professional environment. Would be better in a test machine.

Monthly Channel
This channel is not for test users, it is for very advanced level Excel users. This version opens up persistent features that are usually non-existent in Office standard version (six month channel). For example, to be able to use dynamic array functions you need to subscribe to one of the 2 levels of Insider. If not, you cannot use them.

For this, if some of your employees want to access features that require Insider, this channel is the one that needs to be set up.

4th Step: Update Office

Whatever Office level you choose, it is a must to update your Office.
Single selection of Office channel is not enough to open the Insider program.

After you choose one of the insider levels and click on update button, upgrade will start automatically.

 

5th Step: Restarting Excel

It is enough to restart your Office apps once or twice to see the changes.

 

Going back to the Six Month Channel (standard version)

The only thing you need to go back to the six month channel which is Office’s basic version:

  • Click on the Insider icon.
  • Uncheck Save to Preview new versions of Office option
  • Update Office again.

 

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Digital Workplace – The notion that entered into our lives with the new normal

Even if the pandemic ends, a lot of companies stated that they will be changing to working from home system and to flexible working method. The notion of digital workplace will start to have a bigger place in our lives.

We talked about the “Digital Workplace” notion we started to here a lot lately, the importance of working correctly and efficiently on online systems and how companies should organize their digital work processes with Peakup COO Kadircan Toprakçı in this interview.

Let PowerAutomate Do All your Routine Work

This week’s Working From Home Practices topic was the PowerAutomate application  on which you can create work flows. While you can create a new work flow from scratch with PowerAutomate, you can also utilize templates in the application. For the work flows to be created there must be a Trigger and an Action in consequence.  PowerAutomate automatizes your work by connecting to 3rd party applications (Google Sheets, Jira, Twitter, SalesForce etc.) with connectors. So this week we created work flows by utilising templates like receiving approval from specified people for a file added to SharePoint Online, notifying when a task is created on Planner by sharing a post on Teams, automatically saving e-mail attachments from Outlook to any area we want on OneDrive and reporting our location with one click. Also it is as easy to create a work flow from scratch without using templates!