Office 365 Message Encryption — now rolling out!

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…

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SharePoint Conference 2014 Recap – Doing Business with Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: The annual SharePoint Conference has been in the past the setting for important SharePoint announcements and this SPC14 is no exception!  Clearly Microsoft has embraced the cloud model and social collaboration is at the forefront.   Office 365 SharePoint Online will no longer be the limited version of SharePoint, rather it will be at the forefront for new features and enhancements. As part of the Keynote, Microsoft laid out its…

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Work like a network! Enterprise social and the future of work

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ As customers gather this week for the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas and Convergence in Atlanta, I want to update you on our enterprise social vision and road map—including several new announcements. The world has become a giant network Over the last few years, the world has become a giant network, and social media has rewired the way we connect with people and information. Today we build relationships…

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One place for all your work files — introducing OneDrive for Business

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​                Earlier today at the SharePoint Conference 2014 in Las Vegas, Jeff Teper made some exciting announcements regarding OneDrive for Business.  I wanted to share some additional details about them with you.   OneDrive for Business (formerly SkyDrive Pro) is personal online storage for a company’s employees.  It’s the place where people can store, sync, and share their work files across multiple devices with ease and security.…

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Engage in direct conversation IT Pros, MVPs and Microsoft Product Groups in a new public Yammer network for Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ https://www.yammer.com/itpronetwork/ Yammer yammer.com Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: What are you working on? This week we’ve had the chance to connect with more than 10,000 of our customers at the SharePoint Conference.  If you’ve been following the blog, you’ve seen our vision for enterprise social and the announcements from the event.…

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Microsoft Adds Connectivity for SAP BusinessObjects to Power BI for Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Last month, Microsoft has released Power BI for Office 365, our cloud-based business intelligence service that gives people a powerful new way to work with data in the tools they use every day – Excel and Office 365. We continue to add capabilities to Power BI and today at the SharePoint Conference we’re announcing the public preview of Power BI connectivity to SAP BusinessObjects BI, a joint business…

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Windows Azure Active Directory vs. Windows Server Active Directory

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ There’s been a lot of confusion about Windows Azure Active Directory since it was unveiled to the public last year, though it has been running at scale for a while. Over the next few months, I’m going to cover the various combinations of Azure Active Directory and Windows Server Active Directory that you can use to support your company, and talk about the scenarios in which you might…

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Multi Factor Authentication in Office 365 vs Azure

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ On February 10th Microsoft announced the general availability of Multi-Factor Authentication for Office 365. Multi-Factor Authentication for Office 365, powered by Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication, works exclusively with Office 365 applications at no additional cost and is managed  from the Office 365 portal. Multi-Factor Authentication for Office 365 offers a subset of Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication capabilities as shown in the following table: Multi-Factor Authentication for Office 365…

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Windows Server 2012 R2 and Exchange 2013 SP1 Database Availability Groups

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 (SP1) has released, and among other features and improvements, SP1 includes support for Windows Server 2012 R2. This means that a database availability group (DAG) running Exchange 2013 SP1 on Windows Server 2012 R2 automatically takes advantage of the improvements in and changes to Windows Failover Clustering (WFC) in Windows Server 2012 R2. In addition, an administrator can manually take advantage of even…

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