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Body: ​ In our last few From Inside the Cloud posts, we offered an insider’s perspective from lead engineers Perry Clarke, Vivek Sharma and Shawn Veney on how we protect your data at rest, who has access to your data within Office 365, and how Office 365 does continuous compliance. They explained the various mitigations that we have in place for data security, access control, and ensuring that customers have…

Body: Azure AD sync is now available – download from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44225 AADsync builds upon a solid metadirectory synchronization platform. The following sections introduce the concepts for metadirectory synchronization. Building upon MIIS, ILM, and FIM, the Azure Active Directory Sync Services provides the next platform for connecting to data sources, synchronizing data between data sources, as well as the provisioning and deprovisioning of identities. AADSync Technical Concepts    More Information and…

Body: ​ We are excited to announce that Microsoft has been positioned as a Leader in Gartner’s 2014 Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace! Vendors in the report were evaluated on ability to execute and completeness of vision, and Leaders are considered well-established vendors with widely used social software and collaboration offerings.   This is a great honor that reinforces our vision for Enterprise Social—to empower companies to…

Body: ​ We launched Microsoft Office 365 with the vision of helping people get more done, collaborate more effectively, and have greater flexibility in how they work. As we work, share and connect with others—discovering the right information at the right time becomes even more valuable. To this end, I’m excited to announce a significant step forward in making Office 365 even more personalized and tailored to each person. Starting…

Body: ​ Office 365 provides the best cloud productivity experience by giving businesses new ways to help their people to collaborate, gain valuable business insights and ultimately get things done.  As a cloud based service customers can move to Office 365 faster than a traditional on-premises solution and we’re focused on making that transition to the cloud as fast and seamless as possible. Continuous improvement of the Office 365 deployment…

Body: In this week’s show Jeremy Chapman is joined by cyber security expert and author, Mark Russinovich, to assess the most frequently heard cloud security threats. Mark describes each threat with its threat level and shares how Microsoft architects its cloud services to maximize data security and protect against data loss. Jeremy and Mark also give pro tips to protect against credential loss and contain the risk of user-driven shadow…