A Practical Demonstration of How Useful Mailbox Audit Logging Can Be

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​To kick things off this year let’s take a look at mailbox audit logging, a very useful but under-utilized feature of Exchange Server 2010 SP1+ and Exchange Server 2013. If you’re new to this topic you can see this overview: Using Exchange Server 2013 Mailbox Audit Logging   In many organizations the Exchange Server administrator will encounter a situation where there is a need to determine who took action…

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A Practical Demonstration of How Useful Mailbox Audit Logging Can Be

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​To kick things off this year let’s take a look at mailbox audit logging, a very useful but under-utilized feature of Exchange Server 2010 SP1+ and Exchange Server 2013. If you’re new to this topic you can see this overview: Using Exchange Server 2013 Mailbox Audit Logging   In many organizations the Exchange Server administrator will encounter a situation where there is a need to determine who took action…

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IdFix DirSync Error Remediation Tool

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ IdFix DirSync Error Remediation Tool     Language: English Download   IdFix is used to perform discovery and remediation of identity objects and their attributes in an on-premises Active Directory environment in preparation for migration to Office 365. IdFix is intended for the Active Directory administrators responsible for DirSync with the Office 365 service.   The purpose of IdFix is to reduce the time involved in remediating the…

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Find Objects In Dirsync: Search The Metaverse

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ DirSync, for the people that are new to Office 365 and have no idea what DirSync does, a small recap: DirSync syncs User, Groups and Contacts from a local Active Directory with the identity source of Office 365 called Windows Azure Active Directory. DirSync uses a software program engine called Forefront Identity Manager in a stripped version to do the job. If we go to C:Program FilesWindows Azure Active…

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Find Objects In Dirsync: Search The Metaverse

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ DirSync, for the people that are new to Office 365 and have no idea what DirSync does, a small recap: DirSync syncs User, Groups and Contacts from a local Active Directory with the identity source of Office 365 called Windows Azure Active Directory. DirSync uses a software program engine called Forefront Identity Manager in a stripped version to do the job. If we go to C:\Program Files\Windows Azure Active…

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Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft System Center 2012 R2

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:                Introducing Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 by Mitch Tulloch with Symon Perriman and the System Center Team. DOWNLOAD LINKS Download the  PDF – here Download the Mobi file for Kindle – here Download the ePub file – here   Introduction Microsoft System Center is one of the three pillars of Microsoft’s Cloud OS vision that will transform the traditional datacenter environment, help businesses unlock insights in data…

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Setting up ADFS 3.0 (Server 2012 R2) for Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ This blog post will detail the steps to setup Server 2012 R2 ADFS 3.0 for use with Office 365. Many new things have happened with ADFS 3.0 compared to 2.0. The biggest one being that 3.0 does not require IIS, the new ADFS is now built with IIS components it needs. Another big change is that Server 2012 R2 includes a new role for Proxy for ADFS call…

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Setting up ADFS 3.0 (Server 2012 R2) for Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ This blog post will detail the steps to setup Server 2012 R2 ADFS 3.0 for use with Office 365. Many new things have happened with ADFS 3.0 compared to 2.0. The biggest one being that 3.0 does not require IIS, the new ADFS is now built with IIS components it needs. Another big change is that Server 2012 R2 includes a new role for Proxy for ADFS call…

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Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​     While a lot of businesses are hesitant to jump into the cloud with their production workloads because of trust, security, performance, and availability concerns, there are some places where using the cloud can make a lot of sense. Two of them are in the area of backup and disaster recovery. First, let’s have a look at some of the Windows Azure options for backup and recovery…

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