January 2014 – Nuno Árias Silva Website

Windows Server 2012 R2 Keyboard Shortcuts for the Server Administrator

29/01/201404/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: A guide to where all your favorite admin tasks went in the new Modern UI Windows Server 2012, and now Windows Server 2012 R2, have added a huge variety of capabilities to the Windows Server operating system. In my opinion it’s a must-have upgrade. But like the first time I encountered the Windows 2000 Server interface after years of working with Windows…

New Posters for Fans of Microsoft’s Private Cloud and Storage Technologies

28/01/201404/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Despite what the industry marketing monkeys will tell you, actual customers are more interested in the Private Cloud than any of the other offerings such as hybrid and public. Cloud concepts and processes are a huge value bringing cost-savings, performance, and better reliability, but customers want to build their own Clouds, in their own datacenter, instead of outsourcing much of their operations. Microsoft is one of…

Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager Protects Hyper-V VMs

27/01/201405/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: If you think that Microsoft lags behind VMware in virtual machine (VM) site protection, you might want to take a look at Microsoft’s new Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager. On January 16, 2014, Microsoft announced the general availability of Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manger. Microsoft’s Answer To VMware’s Site Recovery Manager Hyper-V Recovery Manager is Microsoft’s answer to VMware’s Site Recovery Manager (SRM). Hyper-V…

How secure is your data on Office 365 and Azure ?

26/01/201404/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Is your business storing data in the cloud? Your clients and competitors are most likely already there. What do you have that’s valuable to criminals, identity thieves and hackers? Keep in mind that hackers target large volumes of consumer data; they want credit card numbers, member numbers, names, addresses and phone numbers by the thousands. Routine business data (except financial, IP and HR information)? Not so much. The…

Lync – New Lync Connectivity Analyzer

22/01/201404/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Microsoft Lync Connectivity Analyzer (32 Bit) Microsoft has released a new version of the Lync Connectivity Analyzer, a tool which helps to determine if the deployment and the configuration of Office 365 (Lync Online) and Lync On Premises match the prerequisites to support connectivity. Go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=277056 to download the tool. As part of the improvements: support for Windows 8.1 improved accessibility support for Lync mobile deployment More…

Windows Azure Active Directory Updates in 2013

21/01/2014 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: If you haven’t looked at Azure Active Directory for a while, look again: This baby’s had a growth spurt The Azure Active Directory product group was on a tear in 2013. In previous years, it developed this multi-tenant directory service for the cloud (based on existing AD technology), put it into production, and built do-or-die services such as Office 365 on top of it. This service…

Enable RMS on Office365 with PowerShell

21/01/201405/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Many of you already know what Rights Management Services (RMS) can do for us on an AD environment under the ADRMS role, and also are up to date that Office365 integrates this as a feature on enterprise plans. Well, there are some situations which you want to enable RMS on a tenant via GUI and just after clicking the activate now button, the process gets stuck with the following…

Collaborate and Connect with Office 365: Working with Team documents

19/01/201405/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: In the previous post I talked about the use of SkyDrive Pro to work with personal documents. This post is dedicated to working with team documents stored on SharePoint project or team sites used to collaborate. Everyone wants to be able to access these documents anywhere, anytime on any device. These are often very valuable documents with critical information that influence business decisions on a day to day basis.…

Collaborate and Connect with Office 365: Working with personal documents

19/01/201405/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: People work with documents on a daily basis. I work with request for proposals, tenders, functional and technical designs and presentations. I don’t do this alone but with my colleagues, we really connect and collaborate. SharePoint Online is the perfect platform for storing your documents and collaborating with colleagues, partners or even customers. Before we dive into the possibilities and features of storing and working with documents in…

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Month: January 2014