Office 365 – Configuring AD FS & DirSync with an Alternate Login

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: When deploying AD FS for Office 365, the ideal deployment scenario is to have the userPrincipalName (UPN) value in Active Directory configured to match the user’s email address; at a minimum, your UPN suffix needs to be a publically routable domain. For many organizations, changing user UPNs is a fairly easily scriptable change with little to no impact. However, for some organizations, existing applications are using the current UPN…

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Office 365 Garage Series

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:  ​ The Office 365 Garage Series brings the latest news and backstories from Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync and Yammer cloud services. The app links to award-winning Garage Series videos, the latest Office blogs and Office IT pro news straight from the source.    http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/office-365-garage-series/c3ceafe8-dfb0-4adf-bb68-dc1987422557 Category: How to do; Ideas; News; Office 365; Opinions Published: 4/16/2014 15:55 ]]>

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Roadmap update: Increase in Recoverable Items Folder Quota For Users on Hold

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ I wanted to share some info regarding an upcoming enhancement to In-Place Hold for Office 365. A current limit of In-Place Hold / Legal Hold has been that when 30 GB Recoverable Items Quota is reached an administrator must call Office 365 support to increase this to allow the end user to continue to use the service uninterrupted. This has emerged as a key request from some customers,…

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Managing change with Message Center

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: The power of cloud based services such as Office 365, is that they are always up to date and an experience that gradually improves over time.  You also get quick access to the latest product innovations like the recently announced Office Groups and Office Graph. We realize that change can be daunting and IT administrators need tools and information to manage the ongoing change. Starting last summer, we released…

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Exchange Server Deployment Assistant

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Microsoft is happy to announce updates to the Exchange Server Deployment Assistant! These updates offer you more deployment options and outline new features that make deployments more flexible and easier to configure. We’ve updated the Deployment Assistant to include the following: Support for the Exchange 2013 Edge Transport server role in all on-premises and hybrid deployment scenarios Support for the new, automated process for requesting an Exchange 2013 or…

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The Garage Series for Office 365: Work like a network. A first look at enterprise social updates with Yammer

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ This week Jeremy Chapman is joined by Yammer and enterprise social expert, Christophe Fiessinger, to give a preview of what’s coming with Yammer and Groups spanning Office 365 services for mail, collaboration and social. Christophe demonstrates upcoming changes within inline commenting and integrated collaboration experiences – proving that social is not just a single browser-based destination, but woven throughout Office 365.     Today we have a special…

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Understanding the Azure AD Sync Preview

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Directory Sync isn’t everybody’s cup of tea, but if you are working with Office 365, it’s quite important. Before I explain what’s new about Azure AD Sync – let’s take a moment to quickly recap on what Directory Sync does, what your current options are and why Azure AD Sync is especially interesting.     If you plan on keeping Office 365 connected to your on-premises Active Directory,…

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Office 365: Assign licenses based on groups using PowerShell – Advanced version

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:   The never ending story about Office 365 licensing continues… This time it’s an extension of Johan script to assign licenses based on groups, with additional functionality to remove and change licenses for users.I’ve come across scenarios where this have been a requirement a couple of times, and wanted to see how much work that was required to get the job done. 🙂 If you just want to assign…

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Privacy authorities across Europe approve Office 365 privacy commitments

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ When you make a decision to entrust your data to a cloud services provider for productivity services, privacy—along with security and compliance—is uppermost in your mind. With Office 365, we are continually developing technologies and best practices to enhance privacy in our services. Beyond this, we make contractual commitments to protect your privacy as an Office 365 customer. On April 10, in a blog post by Brad Smith,…

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