December 2013 – Nuno Árias Silva Website

Office 365 – 2013 Recap By The Office 365 FM Radio Show

23/12/2013 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: It’s almost over, the year 2013. And what a year it’s been for the Cloud Service Office 365. A year with migrations, new features, new storage, … But who’s better in telling the story than 5 of the leading Office 365 MVPs & Community Leaders in the world. These 5 experts do a full recap of 2013 divided into 2 episodes of each 45 minutes: Episode 1: http://www.office365fm.com/episode-3-part-1-now-available/ In…

Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery

23/12/201304/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: While a lot of businesses are hesitant to jump into the cloud with their production workloads because of trust, security, performance, and availability concerns, there are some places where using the cloud can make a lot of sense. Two of them are in the area of backup and disaster recovery. First, let’s have a look at some of the Windows Azure options for backup and recovery…

Introducing Curah!

22/12/201304/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Introducing Curah! Curah! is a new way to stop searching and start finding great technical content. Become a curator and get started today. Curah! is a way for experts in a particular technology to share the best links on the web that help answer specific questions. Curators can add their own advice about each link and by doing so enhance their own reputations in the community. Follow this…

Identity and Authentication in the cloud: Office 2013 and Office 365 (Poster)

20/12/201305/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Identity and Authentication in the cloud: Office 2013 and Office 365 (Poster) This poster illustrates and explains the new world of identity and authentication in Office 2013 and Office 365. Two scenarios illustrate how identities are provisioned and how those identities are authenticated completely in the Microsoft cloud or in a hybrid (on-premises and Microsoft cloud) topology. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38193 Category: Servers; How to do Published: 12/20/2013 10:25 ]]>

Windows PowerShell Command Builder

19/12/201305/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Free tool and of the best little tools you can get for Office 365, SharePoint Online is the Windows PowerShell Command Builder. This free tool lets you build scripts for a number of products like: SharePoint Online SharePoint Foundation 2013 SharePoint Server 2013 SharePoint Foundation 2010 SharePoint Server 2010, and Office 365 Windows PowerShell Command Builder It is super simple to use as well. You select your desired action (verb)…

Exchange 2013: What’s New and What’s been Discontinued

19/12/201305/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: I know a lot of you might consider upgrading to Exchange 2013, so I decided to provide you with some information on what you can expect straight from the source…Microsoft Exchange’s Principal Technical Writer, Scott Schnoll. The latest features of Exchange offer some exciting features to make your life a lot easier. Below you will find a list of what’s new and what has been left behind from…

Customize Your Office 365 Login Page

17/12/201305/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: One of the cool features of Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD) is that we can brand the login page of Office 365. This makes it a lot more comfortable for companies to use the WAAD for all the web/cloud services. The first thing you need to do is to Opt Your Login Page. Go to https://login.microsoftonline.com/optin.srf and Opt in your login page. You can test by browsing to http://aka.ms/aaddemo001 or…

Announcing the release of MAP 9.0!

17/12/201304/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Microsoft has announced the general availability of version 9.0 of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit. This release of the MAP Toolkit helps increase the agility and cost effectiveness of deploying the latest Microsoft technologies. It also enhances usage tracking to include accounting for Remote Desktop Services as well as Server and Cloud Enrollment licensed deployments. MAP 9.0 additionally helps organizations assess their…

Office 365 Admin app is now on Android and iOS

14/12/201305/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: The Office 365 Admin app enables administrators to view the service health of their Office 365 environment on-the-go. Since it first launched on November 21st on Windows Phone 8, thousands of Office 365 administrators have downloaded the app. As of today, the app is now available for Android and iOS 7 as promised in the original blog post, Check the service health…

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Month: December 2013