Body: A hybrid cloud enables an organization to optimize IT resources by keeping critical data on-premises, while providing limitless scale, compute, storage, and networking for the countless day-to-day needs of your operation and your workforce. This course introduces best practices for planning, building, deployment, and operation of a Microsoft hybrid cloud for IT Pros. Here is a Virtual Academy to learn more. http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/the-microsoft-hybrid-cloud-best-practices-guidance?prid=ca_ITProMVP_ALL Category: How to do; News; Servers Published: 12/11/2014 17:20 ]]>
Read MoreOffice 365 – From Inside the Cloud—How do we monitor and safeguard your data in the Office 365 service?
Body: In our last post, From Inside the Cloud: What does Microsoft do to prepare for emerging security threats to Office 365?, we looked at the Red team’s activities and what goes into our “Assume Breach” approach for preparing for emerging security threats to Office 365. The rigor and discipline required to testing ourselves continuously to keep your data safe within the service, is by nature an operation of…
Read MoreSupport corner webcast—troubleshoot Mail Flow for hybrid cloud environment
Body: In this video, learn about the components of hybrid Mail Flow, the connector differences between Exchange 2010 and 2013 hybrid Mail Flow, header differences between centralized and decentralized transport, and typical issues that adversely affect hybrid Mail Flow. Presenter: Vincent Yim is a senior premier field engineer who specializes in Exchange deployments, Exchange Online migrations and Office365 identity. His primary activities includes consulting, training delivery and content…
Read MoreOffice 365 – Need to update Exchange Federation trust with Office 365 by 23 September with Hybrid Solutions
Body: Microsoft has published an announcement in the Message Center on the Office 365 Administration portal to request you to update you federation trust by 23 September 2014. If you don’t do it, your authentication may stop working after this date. This is because they have updated the certificate associated with the tenant to secure the federation trust. Message posted Update your Federation Trust by September 23 On September 23,…
Read MoreADFS – Active Directory Federation Service – STEP by STEP for Office 365
Body: ADFS – Active Directory Federation Service – STEP by STEP installation for O365 A main tool for corporate network to maintain on-prem and cloud-prem on a single sign-on environment. Deployment of ADFS is always happening on-prem and will sync to the cloud to maintain the AD structure and security through..secure tunnel Office 365 – cloud configuration – Live ADFS or Active directory Federation Service is to deploy a…
Read MoreReleased: Cumulative Update 6 for Exchange Server 2013
Body: The Exchange team is announcing today the availability of our most recent quarterly servicing update to Exchange Server 2013. Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 6 and updated UM Language Packs are now available on the Microsoft Download Center. CU6 represents the continuation of our Exchange 2013 servicing and builds upon Exchange 2013 CU5. The release includes fixes for customer reported issues, minor product enhancements and previously…
Read MoreExchange Hybrid Migration Endpoints
Body: This tips describes Exchange Remote migration endpoints in a Hybrid scenario A migration endpoint is a management object in Exchange Online that contains the connection settings and administrator credentials for the source server that hosts the mailboxes that we want to migrate to Exchange Online. For certain migration types such as a cutover or staged migration, the migration endpoint also defines the number of mailboxes to migrate simultaneously…
Read MoreExchange Hybrid Migration Endpoints
Body: This tips describes Exchange Remote migration endpoints in a Hybrid scenario A migration endpoint is a management object in Exchange Online that contains the connection settings and administrator credentials for the source server that hosts the mailboxes that we want to migrate to Exchange Online. For certain migration types such as a cutover or staged migration, the migration endpoint also defines the number of mailboxes to migrate simultaneously…
Read MoreCall Quality Methodology scorecard for Lync Server
Body: The Lync team wants your users to be delighted about the quality of every Lync call they make. We built the new Call Quality Methodology (CQM) scorecard to help you reach this goal. The CQM scorecard was released in the June update of the Lync Network Guide. The Call Quality Methodology is described in Appendix C of the guide. The scorecard is an Excel spreadsheet that loads all…
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