The Garage Series for Office 365: Enhancing online file sharing and storage with OneDrive for Business

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:     On today’s show, Jeremy is joined by lead OneDrive engineer, Michael Connolly, to explain the recent changes and announcements around OneDrive for Business. They talk about the trends and events leading up to the standalone offer, hybrid support for SharePoint on premises and everything leading up to Monday’s announcement of 1 terabyte storage per user.     If you wanted proof that the Microsoft Cloud and Office…

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Office 365 Message Encryption (& Decryption) – Steps – Understanding, Purchase Options, Configuration, Branding & Use

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Microsoft has replaced Exchange Hosted Encryption Service with the Office 365 Message Encryption Service. This article is a succession to my previous blog – Exchange Hosted Encryption – Steps for Configuration and Use. This article talks about the ways to purchase, configure and use this service. While doing so, I have included screenshots from my lab for reference. I have used excerpts from TechNet articles and Office 365 team…

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Office 365 Message Encryption (& Decryption) – Steps – Understanding, Purchase Options, Configuration, Branding & Use

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Microsoft has replaced Exchange Hosted Encryption Service with the Office 365 Message Encryption Service. This article is a succession to my previous blog – Exchange Hosted Encryption – Steps for Configuration and Use. This article talks about the ways to purchase, configure and use this service. While doing so, I have included screenshots from my lab for reference. I have used excerpts from TechNet articles and Office 365 team…

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Free Webcasts of Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Are you having problems with mail flow? View this Webcast that will help you resolving principal problems. Registration link_Office 365 mail flow troubleshooting (EGY- ENG) EMEA 743 View also this Webcast with tools to reduce incident support tickets. Registration link_Office 365 Dignostic tools(EGY- ENG) EMEA 744   Category: Office 365; How to do; Events; Ideas Published: 4/30/2014 12:44 ]]>

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How To Install ADFS 2012 R2 For Office 365–Part 2

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ In part one we installed the ADFS server on our corporate network, and tested that it was working.  Now we need to make the ADFS infrastructure available to the Internet in a secure fashion, so that Office 365 will be able to contact the ADFS proxy to authenticate user requests.  In part three we will add the ADFS infrastructure to the Office 365 configuration,    Planning And Prerequisites…

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How To Install ADFS 2012 R2 For Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ When discussing and reviewing Office 365 with customers, I wanted to have a series of posts to illustrate the steps involved when deploying Office 365.   In the burgeoning drafts folder ADFS was at the top, so that got finished first! The act of deploying and configuring ADFS 2012 R2 for Office 365 will be broken down into three separate blog posts Install ADFS (this post) Install ADFS Proxy…

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More Office Online: Commenting, printing, Tell Me, and more

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​Just over a month ago Microsoft had introduced Office Online at Office.com, making our online Office experience easier for you to find, so you can use it to help you get more done. Since then, the team has been working hard to finalize several updates across Office Online that will start rolling in 14 April. This post gives you the highlights. We’ve also included links to application-focused posts for a…

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Thinking outside the box

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Today’s business leaders are looking for ways to unleash their employees’ potential for greater impact, freed from limitations imposed by time and place. That’s one of the reasons that businesses are embracing the cloud to accelerate business performance while providing new, flexible ways for employees to collaborate and securely access data and documents. Of course they’ve been doing this for some time, but often in a piecemeal fashion.…

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Office 365 – Configuring AD FS & DirSync with an Alternate Login

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: When deploying AD FS for Office 365, the ideal deployment scenario is to have the userPrincipalName (UPN) value in Active Directory configured to match the user’s email address; at a minimum, your UPN suffix needs to be a publically routable domain. For many organizations, changing user UPNs is a fairly easily scriptable change with little to no impact. However, for some organizations, existing applications are using the current UPN…

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