ExMon now Avalilable to Exchange 2016

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ExMon enables system administrators to view and evaluate individual users’ usage and experience with Microsoft Exchange Server. ​ Use the Microsoft Exchange Server User Monitor to gather real-time data to better understand current client usage patterns, and to plan for future work. Administrators can view details on server resource utilization as reported through server-side tracing. This tool works with Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 and 2016. The tool is provided as-is.…

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SharePoint Server 2016 is available today – What’s new for admins in SharePoint Server 2016

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​SharePoint Server 2016 is available today. If you’ve been evaluating the IT Preview and later releases since August, you’re aware of foundational updates we’ve made to SharePoint Server. For SharePoint admins this means improved provisioning and update management, new compliance tools to protect data and hybrid architectural options to link SharePoint Server 2016 with Exchange Server 2016 and Office 365. With today’s release, we’ve added a number of new…

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Raise your security – Privileged Access Workstations

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: To best secure your environment the best way is reach a goal of security and to accomplish is a best practice to create PAWs in your infrastructure. Privileged Access Workstations (PAWs) provide a dedicated operating system for sensitive tasks that is protected from Internet attacks and threat vectors. Separating these sensitive tasks and accounts from the daily use workstations and devices provides very strong protection from phishing attacks, application and…

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Introducing the Microsoft Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Running Exchange 2013 CU8 or higher? Download the new wizard! The Exchange hybrid team has been working hard over the past year getting the 3rd version of the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) ready. This new version is called the Microsoft Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard. This article tells you what’s new and shows you how to run the wizard. We also explain the various issues that have been…

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Introducing the Microsoft Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Running Exchange 2013 CU8 or higher? Download the new wizard! The Exchange hybrid team has been working hard over the past year getting the 3rd version of the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) ready. This new version is called the Microsoft Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard. This article tells you what’s new and shows you how to run the wizard. We also explain the various issues that have been…

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The small business’s guide to secure email

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​It probably comes as no surprise to most business owners that email is a primary way hackers can gain access to sensitive company data and information. But it may alarm you to know that small businesses are particularly vulnerable. Specifically, overall cyber-attacks on companies with 250 or fewer employees doubled in the first six months of last year—and the loss per attack was more than $188,000 on average. The…

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SharePoint Server 2016 update

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: In February, we shared our vision on the evolution of SharePoint, outlining our plans for continued cloud innovation with SharePoint in Office 365, and providing a glimpse of the work underway to deliver our next on-premises server release, SharePoint Server 2016.  With Ignite just a few weeks away, we’re getting ready to share more details on the innovation we’re bringing to SharePoint 2016. In the meantime, I wanted to…

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Office 365 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:   System Center Management Pack for Office 365 If you use Office 365 and SCOM you use this latest Management Pack to monitor Office 365. The Office 365 Management Pack for Operations Manager is designed for the following versions of System Center Operations Manager: • System Center Operations Manager 2012 • System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1 • System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 ​ Office 365 Management Pack…

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