An Overview of Microsoft Azure Active Directory Premium

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Azure Active Directory’s subscription offering is aimed at the enterprise     General Manager, Office Division Julia White demonstrating Azure Active Directory Premium Yesterday, Microsoft announced general availability on April 2nd of Microsoft Azure Active Directory Premium, an advanced offering that includes identity and access management (IAM) capabilities for on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. This new Premium offering is a collection of features for Microsoft’s identity management as a…

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Demo Scripts for Using Remote Windows PowerShell to Manage Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Demo Scripts for Using Remote Windows PowerShell to Manage Office 365   Sample scripts that enable users to explore the use of remote Windows PowerShell as a tool for managing Office 365 in general, and Lync Online in particular. These sample scripts walk users through common Office 365 and Lync Online management scenarios, including such tasks as listing all of your Office 365 users; adding domains to your…

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Announcing support for SAML 2.0 federation with Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Today we’re announcing Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 as a federation option for Office 365 customers. This is part of a set of new features that benefit Office 365 customers who are using an on-premises Identity Provider other than Active Directory. Together, they provide account synchronization, sign-in federation and wider use of passive authentication which enables single sign-on for Office web-based applications and, in the future, for…

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How to assign Static IP to Azure VM

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ When you start working with Windows Azure IaaS offering, you quickly realize that the age old ways of dealing with infrastructure configuration immediately becomes invalid. Let me give you an example: when you setup a new server in your datacenter, one of the first things you do is acquire an IP address from your network. It doesn’t matter how, maybe just a simple ping test to see which…

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How to assign Static IP to Azure VM

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ When you start working with Windows Azure IaaS offering, you quickly realize that the age old ways of dealing with infrastructure configuration immediately becomes invalid. Let me give you an example: when you setup a new server in your datacenter, one of the first things you do is acquire an IP address from your network. It doesn’t matter how, maybe just a simple ping test to see which…

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Configuring Azure Multifactor Authentication with Exchange 2013 SP1

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ In case you missed it, Azure has a very cool new feature called Azure multifactor authentication, using MFA in Azure you can perform multifactor for Azure apps and for on-premise apps as well. In this blog, we will see how to configure Azure Cloud MFA with Exchange 2013 SP1 on premise, this will be a long blog with multiple steps done at multiple levels, so I suggest to…

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Configuring Azure Multifactor Authentication with Exchange 2013 SP1

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ In case you missed it, Azure has a very cool new feature called Azure multifactor authentication, using MFA in Azure you can perform multifactor for Azure apps and for on-premise apps as well. In this blog, we will see how to configure Azure Cloud MFA with Exchange 2013 SP1 on premise, this will be a long blog with multiple steps done at multiple levels, so I suggest to…

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Announcing the Office you love, now on the iPad

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​Today in San Francisco, Microsoft made some exciting announcements about our company’s mobile first, cloud first approach. Office played a big part in today’s news. Over a billion people on the planet use Microsoft Office to get more done at work and at home. Every day we hear from you how important it is to have a great productivity experience on all the devices you use. We take that…

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Excel Online vs. Google Sheets

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​People expect existing Excel documents from their desktop to look identical when they share them in the cloud. In this demo, you see completely different results when viewing the same document via either Excel Online or via Google Sheets. Move your cursor over the circles below to see the differences.   The same Excel file is saved on Microsoft OneDrive (or SharePoint) and Google Drive. Below highlights some of…

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