Office 365 Helper Scripts

Body: Office 365 Helper Scripts Microsoft has released some nice script to support your transition to Office 365. The scripts released supports you as an Office 365 administrator with your daily administration tasks like Assigning Licenses, Creating usage reports and reset passwords. The following script are provided: • AssignLicenseByDG(assign lisences to O365 users)• GetMsolTenantSkuUsage(collects all O365 lisencing information)• GetSyncedObjectCount(returns the number of synced objects to O365)• NewDirSyncPowerShellShortcut(Create PS shortcuts for Dirsync)•…

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Top 10 Free Microsoft eBooks

Body: ​ Office & Office 365       Deployment guide for Office 2013 EPUB MOBI PDF Microsoft Office 365 for professionals and small businesses: Help and How To EPUB MOBI PDF Free is always a great price! In the Internet era, more and more great—and completely free—IT information resources are available all the time. Not surprisingly, one of the most prolific providers of IT information is Microsoft. Microsoft offers…

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Wipe your stolen/lost mobile device in 5 easy steps

Body: ​ We all have mobile devices which we use to read our mails, documents and other sensitive stuff… What to do when you’re precious device is lost or even stolen or you just fired somebody and want to wipe their device before the leave with sensitive data … When you are not an admin Open your mailbox by clicking on outlook Open the Gear Wheel and go to options…

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What is an HSM in Office 365′s Azure RMS?

Body: ​ Security is a big focus for Microsoft, especially with Office 365; their enterprise-class data centers are some of the most secure in the world.  Above and beyond data center security, Microsoft has implemented technologies that allow organizations to further secure their data, even from Microsoft themselves.  One way this is done is with Rights Management Services, or RMS.  The mile high explanation for RMS is that it “provides…

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Released: Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator Update v6.1

Body: ​  What’s new with Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator V6.1 Version 6.1 Fixed operator mistake in calcNumActiveDBsSF formula Fixed missed validation scenario where the calculator could recommend a copy count that could not be deployed on the custom disk architecture Optimized remaining servers formula Fixed an issue where single datacenter, multiple databases per volume architecture with lagged copies didn’t calculate the correct number of copies/volume Fixed VirtCPUFactor reference Various…

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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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