Session Video – Extend your Identity to the Cloud – Building the Future

The session “Extend your Identity to the Cloud” was delivered by me at: Building the Future Date: 29th and 30th January, 2019 Location: Pavilhão Carlos Lopes https://www.buildingthefuture.pt You can see the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wOSiInbcRE   In my session “Extend your Identity to the Cloud” you will learn and get the following take away points from this session: • Extending an on-premise Windows Server Active Directory ( AD ) infrastructure into the cloud is an…

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Office 365 Essentials Book – Published

I am delighted to announce the publication of my book Office 365 Essentials.   Introduction This book starts with an introduction to Office 365 and its fundamentals. We then move onto workload management and deployment. You will delve into identities, authentications, and managing Office 365. We also cover concepts such as collaboration with Microsoft Teams, and tools such as Delve and Skype for collaboration. Toward the end of the book,…

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#Office365 Essentials Book

A book called “Office 365 Essentials” will be available in May 2018. I’m glad to be the Author of a book about Office 365. Is a pleasure to write a book with passion about a Technology that I work everyday, evangelize, architect and implement in a daily basis. Leverage Office 365 to increase your organization’s efficiency by managing users, domains, licenses, and much more in your organization with most powerful…

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Exchange 2007 End of Life

The Exchange 2007 will end of Life on April 11, 2017. Microsoft has recently published a new resource to help you with your upgrade from Exchange Server 2007 to Office 365 or Exchange Server 2016. “Exchange 2007 End of Life Roadmap” helps you decide what migration path makes sense for your organization and it links you directly to the step-by-step information you’ll need to complete the phases of the process. The best…

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DirSync and Azure AD Sync end of support on April 13, 2017

At April 13 the support of DirSync and Azure AD Sync will be ending. Microsoft previously has offered two synchronization tools for hybrid identity implementation to extend the reach of on-premises identities to cloud services: Windows Azure Active Directory Sync (DirSync) for single forest directory implementations Microsoft Azure Active Directory Sync (Azure AD Sync) for multi-forest and other advanced capabilities. Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Connect now replaces these older…

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Tools for Troubleshooting Office 365

If you have any problems on Office 365, here you have the Tools to Troubleshooting your problem This set’s of tools is to identify the root cause of your problem. Checks Check your Office 365 configuration with Office 365 health, readiness, and connectivity checks ; Run checks to help determine the status of your on-premises or cloud configuration. Details | Prerequisites Check your on-premises Exchange Server with the Office 365…

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Azure Active Directory Connect pass-through authentication in public preview

Microsoft has released in preview pass-through authentication, provided by Azure Active Directory. Pass-through authentication enables users to sign in to cloud resources by validating their password against their on-premises local Active Directory. To learn more about this service, please visit the What is Azure AD Pass-through Authentication documentation webpage.   +

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SharePoint Online Planning Guide for Office 365 for business

Microsoft has released a guide to planning SharePoint Online on Office 365. This guide will help you to size and give you a detailed architecture to archive your needs. Use this guide before an implementation to design the project. More information here – https://support.office.com/en-us/article/SharePoint-Online-Planning-Guide-for-Office-365-for-business-d5089cdf-3fd2-4230-acbd-20ecda2f9bb8?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US  

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Exchange Server Role Requirements Calculator 8.3

Microsoft has released a new version of Exchange Calculator (8.3). Is a tool that you must update because all advantages of Sizing and Best Practices on Exchange. “This release focuses around two specific enhancements. Exchange 2016 designs now take into account the CU3 improvement that reduces the bandwidth required between active and passive HA copies as the local search instance can read data from its local database copy. The calculator…

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