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Office 365 Service Descriptions

25/03/201404/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Microsoft Office 365 is a cloud-based service that is designed to help meet your organization’s needs for robust security, reliability, and user productivity. The topics in this library provide detailed descriptions of the services and features that are available with Office 365. To get started, see the following service descriptions: Office 365 Platform Service Description Exchange Online Service Description Exchange Online Archiving Service Description Exchange Online Protection Service…

Q: How does the Windows Azure ExpressRoute differ from the current site-to-site VPN solution?

25/03/201404/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: A: Within Windows Azure, virtual networks are created which contain virtual subnets into which virtual machines (VMs) are placed. The high level sequence of operations goes like this: Create an affinity group in a Windows Azure region. Create a virtual network in the affinity group. Create a new cloud service in the affinity group. Create VMs in the new cloud service and the virtual network/virtual subnet. All VMs…

The cloud, Big Data, wearable devices, smart machines – should we humans be worried?

24/03/2014 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Big Data, Bioinformatics, and Blurring the Human-Robot Battle Lines If there was any consolation for humanity’s wounded pride in the face of defeats by machines in brainy arenas like chess, in which Deep Blue beat world champion Gary Kasparov in 1997, and Jeopardy, in which Watson outshone the prodigy Ken Jennings in 2011, it was that we organic beings could count on dominating the more physically demanding sports…

Email your notes into OneNote with me@onenote.com

19/03/201404/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Microsoft has announced three major OneNote developments, including me@onenote.com. One of the goals is to make it easy to get content into OneNote, no matter where you are or what app you’re using. me@onenote.com is a big step towards that goal. Now, you can use any ‘Email this’ button to send content to OneNote. Email to OneNote is a great way to forward receipts, travel itineraries or documents that you…

Tools for validating a hybrid deployment

17/03/201404/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: As described in the Office 365 CON 2014 Virtual Conference sessions, “Stairway to heaven – Best practices for Hybrid Deployments”, it is very important that you validate your on-premises environment before getting started with the hybrid bits. The reason why this is so important has to do with the many interactions between Office 365 [the cloud] and your on-premises environment. Let’s take a look at what components are…

Microsoft to integrate new social, machine learning technologies into Office 365

17/03/201405/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Microsoft is about to make some big changes as to how Office 365 looks and works. At the company’s SharePoint 2014 conference, which kicks off on March 3, executives will preview some of these coming changes — specifically ones involving social and machine-learning technologies that Microsoft is baking into its cloud suite of Office apps. Once these technologies begin rolling out later this year, the lines between Exchange,…

How to use a free SSL certificate for Exchange testing

17/03/201404/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Occasionally you’ll need to test a specific Exchange functionality in the real world, and that demands a publicly registered domain, MX records, a public IP address and so on. You may already have a publicly registered domain, or you are probably using a service such as DynDNS or FreeDNS that gives you automatic and *free* DNS registration and a public (sub)domain name that is valid on the…

Office 365 Message Encryption — now rolling out!

15/03/201404/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: In November 2013, Microsoft has announced Office 365 Message Encryption, a new easy-to-set-up-and-use email service that allows you to send encrypted mail to anyone. Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Office 365 Message Encryption. To start using the message encryption service today, you can purchase a subscription for Windows Azure Rights Management, which also includes Information Rights Management capabilities, giving you a comprehensive solution to help protect your…

Converting ADFS domains to DirSync with Password sync, step by step

14/03/201405/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: In this post I’m not going to cover the advantages of dirsync with password sync. You can find a lot of articles on this blog to help you with that. But what do you do when you are convinced that you want to transition from ADFS to DirSync with password sync. First you have to realize is that it’s a completely different user experience. So make sure your…

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