Enable RMS on Office365 with PowerShell

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…

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Collaborate and Connect with Office 365: Working with Team documents

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.…

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Collaborate and Connect with Office 365: Working with personal documents

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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RMS Logging and Analysis for Office 365 (Azure AD)

Body: ​ Using Azure RMS for Office 365 is a great way to secure important information within your environment, and Microsoft uses a 3rd party to ensure that the encryption keys are secure from even Microsoft employees themselves.  “Well great,” you might say, “but what’s the stop them from just accessing the 3rd party encryption keys and decoding the data themselves?”  Obviously that is a technical possibility, but auditing and logging…

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A Practical Demonstration of How Useful Mailbox Audit Logging Can Be

Body: ​To kick things off this year let’s take a look at mailbox audit logging, a very useful but under-utilized feature of Exchange Server 2010 SP1+ and Exchange Server 2013. If you’re new to this topic you can see this overview: Using Exchange Server 2013 Mailbox Audit Logging   In many organizations the Exchange Server administrator will encounter a situation where there is a need to determine who took action…

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A Practical Demonstration of How Useful Mailbox Audit Logging Can Be

Body: ​To kick things off this year let’s take a look at mailbox audit logging, a very useful but under-utilized feature of Exchange Server 2010 SP1+ and Exchange Server 2013. If you’re new to this topic you can see this overview: Using Exchange Server 2013 Mailbox Audit Logging   In many organizations the Exchange Server administrator will encounter a situation where there is a need to determine who took action…

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IdFix DirSync Error Remediation Tool

Body: ​ IdFix DirSync Error Remediation Tool     Language: English Download   IdFix is used to perform discovery and remediation of identity objects and their attributes in an on-premises Active Directory environment in preparation for migration to Office 365. IdFix is intended for the Active Directory administrators responsible for DirSync with the Office 365 service.   The purpose of IdFix is to reduce the time involved in remediating the…

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This is a great video describing SkyDrive Pro

Body: ​So you’re confused about the difference between Microsoft SkyDrive Pro and Microsoft SkyDrive. In this post we’re going to break down what SkyDrive Pro and what Skydrive actually is.  We’ve also got a video you can view with more info.                 What is the difference between SkyDrive and SkyDrive Pro? Skydrive Pro is a way to store documents and access them anywhere, at home at the office or on…

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Find Objects In Dirsync: Search The Metaverse

Body: ​ DirSync, for the people that are new to Office 365 and have no idea what DirSync does, a small recap: DirSync syncs User, Groups and Contacts from a local Active Directory with the identity source of Office 365 called Windows Azure Active Directory. DirSync uses a software program engine called Forefront Identity Manager in a stripped version to do the job. If we go to C:Program FilesWindows Azure Active…

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