Exchange Online Mail Protection Reports

Body: ​ Aside from the great reporting options available directly within the Office 365 portal, there is also an Excel add-in that allows administrators to download information directly in to Excel for data manipulation.  Obviously once the data is in Excel, then all of the various options with Office also exist, such as exporting to Word, PowerPoint, etc. and choosing which charts are appropriate for different organizations.   The Mail…

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How Microsoft Does Windows Azure Active Directory PowerShell

Body: ​   It seems like “The Cloud” is all we hear about these days, and it’s often capitalized as if it were a single monolithic thing. But it’s not a single entity. There are many clouds, including the Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD) cloud and Microsoft Office 365 cloud, both of which offer a vast array of services. You can use the services to augment your on-premises capabilities, or…

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How Microsoft Does Windows Azure Active Directory PowerShell

Body: ​   It seems like “The Cloud” is all we hear about these days, and it’s often capitalized as if it were a single monolithic thing. But it’s not a single entity. There are many clouds, including the Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD) cloud and Microsoft Office 365 cloud, both of which offer a vast array of services. You can use the services to augment your on-premises capabilities, or…

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Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 3 (CU3) disponível!!

Body: ​O Exchange Server 2013 CU3 já está disponível para download no site da Microsoft, segue o link: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41175 Cumulative Update 3 for Exchange Server 2013 (KB2892464) Alguns detalhes importantes sobre o CU3: Caso você esteja instalando Exhange Server 2013 do zero já pode começar com o CU3, não é necessário instalar uma versão anterior e depois o CU3 porque o mesmo é o pacote completo do Exchange Server 2013…

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Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 Announced

Body:   The Microsoft Exchange Server team has announced the upcoming availability of Service Pack 1 for Exchange Server 2013, scheduled for release in “early 2014″. Among the changes and improvements planned for Service Pack 1: Support for running Exchange Server 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2 The return of the Edge Transport server role S/MIME support for Outlook Web App Many more fixes and improvements The team also said…

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Critical Office 365 External Sharing Security Gotcha

Body: In an Office 365 Tenant, you must be careful with External Sharing in a few different scenarios: 1)      If your organization has migrated from an existing on premise Farm in which you used “NT Authority\Authenticated Users” to grant permissions 2)      If your organization is making use of External sharing via “Everyone” (including external users) in Office 365 If your organization’s Office 365 Admin has allowed External Sharing for Authenticated…

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Critical Office 365 External Sharing Security Gotcha

Body: In an Office 365 Tenant, you must be careful with External Sharing in a few different scenarios: 1)      If your organization has migrated from an existing on premise Farm in which you used “NT AuthorityAuthenticated Users” to grant permissions 2)      If your organization is making use of External sharing via “Everyone” (including external users) in Office 365 If your organization’s Office 365 Admin has allowed External Sharing for Authenticated…

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Activating Yammer Enterprise for existing Office 365 E subscriptions

Body: ​ You may have seen this exciting announcement from Yammer, on the 6 Nov announcement in the Office Blog – Getting it done with social: Yammer introduces new features, expands to all Office 365 enterprise customers “Today, I’m excited to announce that we’ve expanded that program and now include Yammer Enterprise with all Office 365 Enterprise plans. As part of this update, all existing Office 365 Enterprise plan customers will…

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DIRSYNC can now be deployed on a domain controller

Body: ​ The latest release of DIRSYNC (version 6553.0002) can now be installed on a domain controller according to the release notes at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/18429.windows-azure-active-directory-sync-tool-version-release-history.aspx   The details on how to go about this are located at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/17370.best-practices-for-deploying-and-managing-the-windows-azure-active-directory-sync-tool.aspx#A11 DIRSYNC is a stand alone application that copies information from the local active directory (user names, passwords etc) and copies them to Office 365, saving you from having to create these attributes in…

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