The power of a decade

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Holster your smartphones, tablets and PCs, we’re going on a journey to the past–don’t worry we’ll get you back to 2014 in no time. A lot can change in over a decade. If you take a retroactive look at your past self, you most likely had different tastes, preferences, interests, and views than you do today. Not surprisingly, a lot has changed in the world over the past…

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How to Connect to Office 365 Using a PowerShell Function and Exchange

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:   If you have to connect to Office 365 and Exchange Admin Centers at the same time, here you have this commands to connect to both services: ​Function Login-365 { $365Cred = Get-Credential Import-Module MSOnline Connect-MSOLservice -Credential $365Cred $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $365Cred -Authentication Basic –AllowRedirection Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted Import-PSSession $Session  You can run Get-Mailbox and Get-MsolUser at the same time. Category: How to do; Office…

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Managing change with Message Center

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ The power of cloud based services such as Office 365, is that they are always up to date and an experience that gradually improves over time.  You also get quick access to the latest product innovations like the recently announced Office Groups and Office Graph. Microsoft has realize that change can be daunting and IT administrators need tools and information to manage the ongoing change. Starting last summer,…

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An Overview of Microsoft Azure Active Directory Premium

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Azure Active Directory’s subscription offering is aimed at the enterprise     General Manager, Office Division Julia White demonstrating Azure Active Directory Premium Yesterday, Microsoft announced general availability on April 2nd of Microsoft Azure Active Directory Premium, an advanced offering that includes identity and access management (IAM) capabilities for on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. This new Premium offering is a collection of features for Microsoft’s identity management as a…

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Demo Scripts for Using Remote Windows PowerShell to Manage Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Demo Scripts for Using Remote Windows PowerShell to Manage Office 365   Sample scripts that enable users to explore the use of remote Windows PowerShell as a tool for managing Office 365 in general, and Lync Online in particular. These sample scripts walk users through common Office 365 and Lync Online management scenarios, including such tasks as listing all of your Office 365 users; adding domains to your…

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Announcing support for SAML 2.0 federation with Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Today we’re announcing Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 as a federation option for Office 365 customers. This is part of a set of new features that benefit Office 365 customers who are using an on-premises Identity Provider other than Active Directory. Together, they provide account synchronization, sign-in federation and wider use of passive authentication which enables single sign-on for Office web-based applications and, in the future, for…

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How to assign Static IP to Azure VM

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ When you start working with Windows Azure IaaS offering, you quickly realize that the age old ways of dealing with infrastructure configuration immediately becomes invalid. Let me give you an example: when you setup a new server in your datacenter, one of the first things you do is acquire an IP address from your network. It doesn’t matter how, maybe just a simple ping test to see which…

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