New Exchange Online Protection (EOP) video series is live

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ The EOP documentation team has partnered with the EOP Support team to create a video series for getting started with EOP. This series is intended for new EOP customers and customers who have transitioned from FOPE. In this series, you will learn how to: Set up mail flow Configure IP allow and IP block lists Configure spam content filtering Find and release messages from the quarantine Configure the outbound…

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DirSync Change: Forcing/Manual Syncs

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ With the latest version of the DirSync tool, the method for how you perform a manual synchronization has changed. So up until the latest version of the DirSync tool (at the time of this writing version 6862.0000), in order to force a sync, we first had launch a Windows Powershell 2.0 console on the respective server and then navigate to “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Online Directory Sync” or “C:\Program Files\Windows…

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DirSync Change: Forcing/Manual Syncs

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ With the latest version of the DirSync tool, the method for how you perform a manual synchronization has changed. So up until the latest version of the DirSync tool (at the time of this writing version 6862.0000), in order to force a sync, we first had launch a Windows Powershell 2.0 console on the respective server and then navigate to “C:Program FilesMicrosoft Online Directory Sync” or “C:Program FilesWindows…

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Managing Office 365 Identities and Services

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ This course targets the needs of IT professionals who take part in evaluating, planning, deploying, and operating Office 365 services, including its identities, dependencies, requirements, and supporting technologies. This course focuses on skills required to set up an Office 365 tenant, including federation with existing user identities, and skills required to sustain an Office 365 tenant and users.  http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/managing-office-365-identities-and-services  Category: How to do; Office 365 Published: 6/7/2014 0:07…

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Welcome to the Office 365 Readiness and Adoption Kit

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​This kit will help you browse through resources available to help you drive Office 365 end-user adoption within your organization, including awareness and communications materials, learning resources, and change management guides.   Download – http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/8/8/888235E5-583B-47A0-B600-E2D7A45CB2A4/Office%20365%20Adoption%20Kit_Final.zip Category: How to do; Ideas; News; Office 365; Opinions Published: 6/5/2014 17:24 ]]>

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Office 365 – What’s new: May 2014

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ May has brought a slew of updates to both mobile apps, like OneNote and Lync, and web experiences, like optimizations for OneDrive for business, Office 365 admin experience, and developer APIs. Make sure you read about Office Mix, a new presentation format for creating reusable learning content. Power BI continues to add more data connections, this month through a partnership with SAP to help customers bring disparate data…

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Yammer brings conversations to your OneDrive and SharePoint Online files

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​At SharePoint Conference 2014 Microsoft had announced new enterprise social experiences across Office 365 helping businesses work more like networks by leveraging the power of the cloud to bring people together, gain quicker access to relevant insights and help make smarter decisions, faster.   Today we’re announcing the release of one of those features–document conversations–which essentially embeds the social collaboration capabilities of Yammer into the Office apps you use…

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How to obtain an Exchange Hybrid Edition product key

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​How to obtain an Exchange Hybrid Edition product key for your on-premises Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2003 organization.   If your on-premises Exchange organization is running Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2003, and if you want to connect your organization to Office 365 and your Exchange Online organization, you must install at least one on-premises Exchange 2013 or Exchange 2010 Service Pack 3 (SP3) server. This server is used for…

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From Inside the Cloud: Who has access to your data within Office 365?

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Perry Clarke is the corporate vice president in Office Server and Services. Vivek Sharma is the director of program management in Office Server and Services. Vivek Sharma: In our last From Inside the Cloud post, “Is your data safe at rest?,” we looked at possible physical and logical threat vectors and the various mitigations in place with our defense-in-depth approach, including penetration testing. We also summarized some of…

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