Configure On-Premises Public folders for a Hybrid Deployment

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Situation Exchange Hybrid environment (Office 365 – Exchange Online) with Exchange 2013 on premise. Public Folders are hosted on-premise and need to be accessed by online users.   problem The only official documentation provided by Microsoft how to configure on-premises public folder access (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn249373(v=exchg.150).aspx), talks about “legacy public folders”. Which in this case are Public folders hosted on Exchange 2007 SP3 RU10 or 2010 SP3. So the first…

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Microsoft details what’s new in Office 365 to kick off 2014

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:                                                          We’re moving into the second month of 2014 and Microsoft has published a new entry on the Office 365 blog, detailing improvements implemented last month for a variety of products and features of the online Office suite. Just in case you managed to miss anything in January. Whether you’re a Home Premium subscriber or opted for the Office 365 business package, head past the break to see…

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Windows Server 2012 R2 Keyboard Shortcuts for the Server Administrator

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​A guide to where all your favorite admin tasks went in the new Modern UI                     Windows Server 2012, and now Windows Server 2012 R2, have added a huge variety of capabilities to the Windows Server operating system. In my opinion it’s a must-have upgrade. But like the first time I encountered the Windows 2000 Server interface after years of working with Windows…

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New Posters for Fans of Microsoft’s Private Cloud and Storage Technologies

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​     Despite what the industry marketing monkeys will tell you, actual customers are more interested in the Private Cloud than any of the other offerings such as hybrid and public. Cloud concepts and processes are a huge value bringing cost-savings, performance, and better reliability, but customers want to build their own Clouds, in their own datacenter, instead of outsourcing much of their operations. Microsoft is one of…

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Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager Protects Hyper-V VMs

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​       If you think that Microsoft lags behind VMware in virtual machine (VM) site protection, you might want to take a look at Microsoft’s new Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager. On January 16, 2014, Microsoft announced the general availability of Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manger.    Microsoft’s Answer To VMware’s Site Recovery Manager Hyper-V Recovery Manager is Microsoft’s answer to VMware’s Site Recovery Manager (SRM). Hyper-V…

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Enable RMS on Office365 with PowerShell

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Many of you already know what Rights Management Services (RMS) can do for us on an AD environment under the ADRMS role, and also are up to date that Office365 integrates this as a feature on enterprise plans. Well, there are some situations which you want to enable RMS on a tenant via GUI and just after clicking the activate now button, the process gets stuck with the following…

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Collaborate and Connect with Office 365: Working with Team documents

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​In the previous post I talked about the use of SkyDrive Pro to work with personal documents. This post is dedicated to working with team documents stored on SharePoint project or team sites used to collaborate. Everyone wants to be able to access these documents anywhere, anytime on any device. These are often very valuable documents with critical information that influence business decisions on a day to day basis.…

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Collaborate and Connect with Office 365: Working with personal documents

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ People work with documents on a daily basis. I work with request for proposals, tenders, functional and technical designs and presentations. I don’t do this alone but with my colleagues, we really connect and collaborate. SharePoint Online is the perfect platform for storing your documents and collaborating with colleagues, partners or even customers. Before we dive into the possibilities and features of storing and working with documents in…

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RMS Logging and Analysis for Office 365 (Azure AD)

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Using Azure RMS for Office 365 is a great way to secure important information within your environment, and Microsoft uses a 3rd party to ensure that the encryption keys are secure from even Microsoft employees themselves.  “Well great,” you might say, “but what’s the stop them from just accessing the 3rd party encryption keys and decoding the data themselves?”  Obviously that is a technical possibility, but auditing and logging…

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