What’s New in Hybrid Exchange 2013 On Prem & Exchange Online Deployments

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Now that Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 is out, many organizations are beginning to seriously evaluate the latest iteration of Microsoft’s messaging platform. Many of these same organizations may have divisions, offices, or even vast swaths of their company using Exchange Online or Office 365 and Microsoft’s hosted Exchange platform. Helpfully, Service Pack 1 enables some key functionality in Exchange as it relates to hybrid on premises…

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Improving visibility to service updates

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Those of you who have been following this blog have seen dozens of great improvements that we’ve shipped to Office 365 for business services over the last 18 months. In that time I’ve had the opportunity to discuss our roadmap and release processes with customers across the globe, and two major trends have become apparent to me. First, many of you are really excited about the new update…

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Envisioning cyberspace in 2025

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ As originally published in Microsoft On the Issues   On Monday, Microsoft released a new report entitled “Cyberspace 2025: Today’s Decisions, Tomorrow’s Terrain” that looks beyond today’s technological trends to anticipate future catalysts for change in cyberspace. Cloud computing, the Internet of Things, big data and cybersecurity loom large on today’s—and tomorrow’s—agenda. In the report is a Cyber 2025 Model, developed to determine potential cyber trends, as well as revealing…

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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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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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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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Join the Office 365 Technical Network

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Great news! Microsoft recently launched a new Yammer external network called the Office 365 Technical Network, where you can discover and share your knowledge and firsthand experience of Office 365 with technical professionals worldwide. Join more than 10,000 Office 365 IT Pros and technical experts from Microsoft for discussions about Office 365, Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, Project, and Visio. And today this network is better than ever with the addition of…

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