Azure services announcements and pricing updates at TechEd North America

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ At TechEd North America 2014, Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure ExpressRoute, Virtual Networking enhancements, compute-intensive A8 & A9 VirtualMachines, IP Reservation, Import/Export Service, Managed Cache Service, Traffic Manager support for external endpoints, and several other features. In addition, we announced the public preview of RemoteApp, API Management, Redis Cache, Files, BizTalk Hybrid Connections, and Internal Loadbalancing. Support plans from the providers of top Linux distributions…

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New research shows rise in “deceptive downloads”

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​   According to the latest cybersecurity report from Microsoft, “deceptive downloads” were the top threat for 95 percent of the 110 countries surveyed. What are deceptive downloads? Deceptive downloads are legitimate downloadable programs (usually free) such as software, games, or music that cybercriminals bundle with malicious items. For example, you might receive a file in email or through social networking, but when you try to open it you…

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Microsoft reveals new enterprise services and products at TechEd 2014

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ TechEd North America 2014   As promised, Microsoft launched its TechEd North America 2014 conference in Houston, Texas today with a keynote address led by Brad Anderson, the company’s Corporate Vice President for its cloud and enterprise businesses. Anderson also wrote a blog post that reveals some of what he discussed during the keynote address.   Anderson told the attendees at TechEd this morning that Microsoft is working on a “mobile-first”…

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Enterprise-grade cloud services: a high bar required for security, compliance, and privacy

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ IT Pros today are focusing more than ever on how to give employees access to information, provide collaboration tools for inside and outside the company, and to do it all across a multitude of devices. While end-user expectations and demand for the latest tools is high, IT has to balance this pressure to meet users’ needs with meeting corporate policies, industry regulations, and government laws. Historically, security and compliance technologies…

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Outlook Connectivity with MAPI over HTTP

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Among the many new features delivered in Exchange 2013 SP1 is a new method of connectivity to Outlook we refer to as MAPI over HTTP (or MAPI/HTTP for short). We’ve seen a lot of interest about this new connection method and today we’ll give you a full explanation of what it is, what it provides, where it will take us in the future, and finally some tips of…

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Outlook Connectivity with MAPI over HTTP

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Among the many new features delivered in Exchange 2013 SP1 is a new method of connectivity to Outlook we refer to as MAPI over HTTP (or MAPI/HTTP for short). We’ve seen a lot of interest about this new connection method and today we’ll give you a full explanation of what it is, what it provides, where it will take us in the future, and finally some tips of…

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Top 7 Office 365 Troubleshooting Tools

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ As an Office 365 Partner and implementing project, it’s nice to have a collection of tools to turn to when troubleshooting issues with Office 365. Below I’ve shared a few of my favorites by Microsoft.   1. Office 365 Outlook Connectivity Guided Walkthrough One of the most common problems is troubleshooting Outlook connectivity to Exchange Online. This guided walkthrough is intended for Office 365 Administrators to help diagnose…

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Office 365 Content Delivery Networks

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Using Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) helps keep Office 365 fast and reliable for end users. With CDNs, cloud services like Office 365 quickly download generic content, like icons, to your users’ browser when they’re using the service through a web client. How should I set up my network so that CDNs work best with Office 365?   If you’re planning the network connectivity for your Office 365 setup,…

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Step-By-Step: Migration of Exchange 2003 Server to Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​   While most of the focus happening this week was centered around end of support for Windows XP, many IT professionals also had Microsoft Exchange 2003 top of mind as it too had official support end on April 8th. Those currently running Exchange 2003 do have Office 365 as an option and preparation around a cut over migration might be in order. Cutover migrations are great as they take advantage of…

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