Month: January 2014

Body: ​ Using Azure RMS for Office 365 is a great way to secure important information within your environment, and Microsoft uses a 3rd party to ensure that the encryption keys are secure from even Microsoft employees themselves.  “Well great,” you might say, “but what’s the stop them from just accessing the 3rd party encryption keys and decoding the data themselves?”  Obviously that is a technical possibility, but auditing and logging…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…