How Microsoft Does Windows Azure Active Directory PowerShell

Body: ​   It seems like “The Cloud” is all we hear about these days, and it’s often capitalized as if it were a single monolithic thing. But it’s not a single entity. There are many clouds, including the Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD) cloud and Microsoft Office 365 cloud, both of which offer a vast array of services. You can use the services to augment your on-premises capabilities, or…

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Introducing Office 365 Message Encryption: Send encrypted emails to anyone!

Body: ​ 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 with an additional level of protection against unauthorized access. There are many business situations where this type of encryption is…

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Critical Office 365 External Sharing Security Gotcha

Body: In an Office 365 Tenant, you must be careful with External Sharing in a few different scenarios: 1)      If your organization has migrated from an existing on premise Farm in which you used “NT Authority\Authenticated Users” to grant permissions 2)      If your organization is making use of External sharing via “Everyone” (including external users) in Office 365 If your organization’s Office 365 Admin has allowed External Sharing for Authenticated…

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Critical Office 365 External Sharing Security Gotcha

Body: In an Office 365 Tenant, you must be careful with External Sharing in a few different scenarios: 1)      If your organization has migrated from an existing on premise Farm in which you used “NT AuthorityAuthenticated Users” to grant permissions 2)      If your organization is making use of External sharing via “Everyone” (including external users) in Office 365 If your organization’s Office 365 Admin has allowed External Sharing for Authenticated…

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Activating Yammer Enterprise for existing Office 365 E subscriptions

Body: ​ You may have seen this exciting announcement from Yammer, on the 6 Nov announcement in the Office Blog – Getting it done with social: Yammer introduces new features, expands to all Office 365 enterprise customers “Today, I’m excited to announce that we’ve expanded that program and now include Yammer Enterprise with all Office 365 Enterprise plans. As part of this update, all existing Office 365 Enterprise plan customers will…

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End user training resources for Office 2013 and Office 365

Body: ​Office 365 training resources are available. You just need to know where to look.   Buried deep down in the TechNet Office 2013  Resource Kit is the following list of training pages and videos. End user training resources for Office 2013 and Office 365 Resources like this need to be consolidated / aggregated / [enter unifying word here] into one place such as the Office 365 for Business Learning…

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Office 365 Network Analysis Tool

Body: ​ With BPOS and the first iteration of Office 365, Microsoft provided the Speed Test web tool to assist in determining if an organization’s internet connection could support Microsoft Online services, mainly focusing on Exchange Online and Lync Online. This tool was available from www.microsoftspeedtest.com.   However, for some reason, this tool has not been available for many months now, leaving organizations and IT professionals without a tool to…

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Office 365 DirSync Filtering

Body: ​ How many of you knew that we never had an option to partially sync your AD infrastructure to the Microsoft cloud using DirSync tool? Until now, one of the problems of DirSync was that it would sync your entire AD to Office 365. This means that if you had 10,000 AD users and only wanted 500 in Office 365, you would have all 10,000 users listed in Office…

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