Step-By-Step: Creating A Windows To Go Workspace

Body:   One of the great additions Microsoft included in Windows 8 was the ability to create a supported Windows workspace on a approved bootable USB drive.  Further enablement was added to the Windows To Go offering this past October alongside the upgrade offering of Windows 8.1.  The Windows Store is now enabled by default allowing Windows To Go users to roam to any number of machines and access the Windows Store and use its apps.  With this…

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Office 365 Message Encryption

Body: ​Introducing Office 365 Message Encryption: Send encrypted emails to anyone! Shobhit Sahay is product marketing manager on the Microsoft Exchange team. We’re pleased to announce the upcoming release of Office 365 Message Encryption, a new service that lets you send encrypted emails to people outside your company. No matter what the destination-Outlook.com, Yahoo, Gmail, Exchange Server, Lotus Notes, GroupWise, Squirrel Mail, you name it-you can send sensitive business communications…

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Exchange Online get 90 days Message Trace

Body: ​ Message trace enables administrators to trace email messages as they pass through Exchange Online or Exchange Online Protection (EOP) service. It helps you determine whether a message was received, rejected, deferred, or delivered by the service. You’ve told us that you need to be able to trace messages older than the current period of one week. We’re excited to announce that we’re increasing the look back period for…

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Introducing the new Office 365 Partner admin center | Office Blogs

Body: ​ The new Office 365 Partner admin center provides Partners new and enhanced tools to manage their Office 365 customers.  The new Office 365 Partner admin center is rolling out to partners worldwide over the next few weeks.  Previously, with Partner tools in the Office 365 admin center, you could perform delegated administration tasks on behalf of customers and create trial invitations, purchase offers, and offers for delegated administration.…

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Configure On-Premises Public folders for a Hybrid Deployment

Body: ​ Situation Exchange Hybrid environment (Office 365 – Exchange Online) with Exchange 2013 on premise. Public Folders are hosted on-premise and need to be accessed by online users.   problem The only official documentation provided by Microsoft how to configure on-premises public folder access (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn249373(v=exchg.150).aspx), talks about “legacy public folders”. Which in this case are Public folders hosted on Exchange 2007 SP3 RU10 or 2010 SP3. So the first…

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Windows Server 2012 R2 Keyboard Shortcuts for the Server Administrator

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…

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

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…

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How secure is your data on Office 365 and Azure ?

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…

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Lync – New Lync Connectivity Analyzer

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…

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