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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Ignite live webcast series March 24 – 28

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:       Register to attend the Ignite live webcasts March 24-28; 10 a.m.-11 a.m. PDT each day. Office 365 delivers the capabilities that users demand while allowing IT to stay in control. As you plan strategies for meeting your IT goals for the year, this Ignite webcast series will help you understand your options and show you how Office 365 can help. This series is designed specifically for…

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Office 365 Service Descriptions

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Microsoft Office 365 is a cloud-based service that is designed to help meet your organization’s needs for robust security, reliability, and user productivity. The topics in this library provide detailed descriptions of the services and features that are available with Office 365. To get started, see the following service descriptions: Office 365 Platform Service Description Exchange Online Service Description Exchange Online Archiving Service Description Exchange Online Protection Service…

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Q: How does the Windows Azure ExpressRoute differ from the current site-to-site VPN solution?

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ A: Within Windows Azure, virtual networks are created which contain virtual subnets into which virtual machines (VMs) are placed. The high level sequence of operations goes like this: Create an affinity group in a Windows Azure region. Create a virtual network in the affinity group. Create a new cloud service in the affinity group. Create VMs in the new cloud service and the virtual network/virtual subnet.  All VMs…

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Mailbox Migration Performance Analysis

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:   ​When you’re migrating on-premises mailboxes to Office365, there are a lot of factors that can impact overall mailbox migration speed and performance. This post will help you investigate and correct the possible causes by using the AnalyzeMoveRequestStats.ps1 script to analyze the performance of a batch of move requests to identify reasons for slower performance.  The AnalyzeMoveRequestStats script provides important performance statistics from a given set of move request…

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Mailbox Migration Performance Analysis

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:   ​When you’re migrating on-premises mailboxes to Office365, there are a lot of factors that can impact overall mailbox migration speed and performance. This post will help you investigate and correct the possible causes by using the AnalyzeMoveRequestStats.ps1 script to analyze the performance of a batch of move requests to identify reasons for slower performance.  The AnalyzeMoveRequestStats script provides important performance statistics from a given set of move request…

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The cloud, Big Data, wearable devices, smart machines – should we humans be worried?

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​Big Data, Bioinformatics, and Blurring the Human-Robot Battle Lines      If there was any consolation for humanity’s wounded pride in the face of defeats by machines in brainy arenas like chess, in which Deep Blue beat world champion Gary Kasparov in 1997, and Jeopardy, in which Watson outshone the prodigy Ken Jennings in 2011, it was that we organic beings could count on dominating the more physically demanding sports…

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Understanding Hyper-V Networking with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ In most IT environments, there are different types of networks, different ways the networks are used, and different types of connectivity for the different hosts. System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012 R2 provides the various architectural components (e.g., port profiles, logical networks, logical switches, virtual networks) to enable even highly complex network environments to be configured, which simplifies future administration. However, the initial networking configuration can be…

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Comparing the differences between Antispam agents from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Microsoft has built in Anti spam feature which can be enabled from Exchange 2003 versions. We can enable this feature as a part of additional security along with additional spam configurations and settings that have been configured before it reaches our network. But we need to always ensure that we are aware of all the settings configured in the spam filtering in our organization in all the levels…

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