rhipe’s New Zealand team have been on the road in November with our first New Zealand roadshow event. We’ve toured across 8 locations over the last 2 weeks and are wrapping up with our final show in Whangarei on the 15th November. The team have met with many local Managed service providers (MSPs) and Independent Software…
The Board of rhipe today announced it has won the 2018 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award for Australia. The company was honoured among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of Cloud solutions and services based on Microsoft technology. “This is great recognition from Microsoft:…
What is the Microsoft Partner Center? Servicing Office365 and Azure customers can be difficult for partners to manage efficiently and easily on a large scale. The Microsoft Partner Center allows partners like to easily manage their clients’ Office365, Dynamics 365 and other Microsoft Online services without having to store and share administrator credentials. In Partner Center you can also manage membership, customer referrals, incentives, and all other…
Remotely accessing your Azure VM couldn't be easier. Afterall, you just click on Connect after building your VM and connect via RDP over the Internet. The problem is that it leaves port 3389 exposed to the Internet where attackers are only a userid and password away from compromising your VM. There are a variety of ways…
Prime Portal is a self-service portal purpose built for Tier 2 CSP resellers. Feel empowered to sell more and do less by managing your customers software programs in Prime. Pre-requisites: This documentation assumes that you already have a Partner Admin Center (PAC) tab enabled on your Office 365 tenant for managing your customer tenants as a Tier…
Automation and scripting Azure deployments might sound like a tough task for partners running a thin IT team. While spending the time and energy to learn automation through scripting is desireable, its often simple to start with a few readily available scripts from script repositories like Github. But wait...! What if Azure can get you…
You might have heard news of the ransomware attack last week named WannaCrypt, WannaCry, WannaCryptor, or Wcry, that affected millions of users in more than 100,000 organisations, across 150 countries around the world – and counting. As one of the largest ransomware offensives in history, this attack highlights the critical need for businesses to protect…
We all know someone with a cluttered desktop I was at a cafe with my colleague recently, preparing and sorting out some documents to present at a partner meeting that followed and observed that his desktop was filled with PDF, Word and PowerPoint files. I reminded him that he could access the files from the cloud by…
Microsoft CSP is a licensing model and program first announced at WPC 2014 as an evolution of the Syndication program. Microsoft CSP is designed so that partners can own the full scale management of the customer life cycle. Unlike the Microsoft Open program, CSP is optimised for the reselling of Microsoft online services. CSP customers…
