Leadership in telephony is about much more than telephony

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Last month Gartner published the 2014 Magic Quadrant for Corporate Telephony, and I am thrilled to see Lync’s placement this year in the Leader’s Quadrant for the first time. In the report, leaders are defined as “high-viability vendors with broad portfolios, significant market shares, broad geographic coverage, a clear vision of how telephony needs will evolve and a proven track record for delivering telephony solutions.” The report also…

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Office 365 news round-up

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ We forget sometimes how quickly and completely mobile technology has transformed the world of computing. Not so long ago, when you wanted to use a computer, you had to go to wherever it was located. Early mainframe computers were as big as a room, and early PCs were called desktop computers for a reason. Mobile technology changed everything. Today, we have smartphones, tablets, and laptop computers. They’re easy…

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Office 365 – What’s new: October 2014

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:   October featured updates pretty much across all Office 365 services. First was the launch of Office Sway, the first completely new Office experience in over a decade. Students and teachers can look forward to updates for OneNote, a new class notebook app, Office Mix and more. Office 365 small and midsize business customers have new subscription plan options, security and protection services released plans for tons of new…

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Bringing Office to everyone

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Microsoft has done the next step in bringing Office to everyone and on every device with the start of Office for Android tablet Preview, new Office for iPhone apps, updated Office for iPad apps and more. Check out the Official Microsoft Blog for details on how we’re continuing to help people use Office everywhere so they can do more and achieve more. For a sneak peek and links to download…

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Do More with Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:    Here is a list of resources for high priority topics in Office 365​. Topics The following topics are available: Domain and DNS Management in Office 365Published October 31, 2014Last Updated October 31, 2014This page highlights content resources for configuring and troubleshooting domains and DNS records for Office 365. Mail Flow in Exchange Online and Exchange ServerPublished October 24, 2014Last Updated October 24, 2014This page highlights content resources for…

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From Inside the Cloud: What does Microsoft do to prepare for emerging security threats to Office 365?

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ If you have been following the From Inside the Cloud series, we regularly bring you an insider’s view on how we operate and manage the Office 365 service for security, privacy and compliance directly from the people behind the service. Recently, there have been a number of cyber security related news articles about vulnerabilities and exploits leaving you to wonder if the Cloud increases your data risk. In…

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Garage Series: Office 365 identity just got easier – learn about the options and see the new tools

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Want to know the most efficient way to get your users and co-workers into the cloud? This week Jeremy Chapman is joined by Paul Andrew to explain identity options and demonstrate a few tools to make it easier to synchronize your directory services with Office 365 and Azure Active Directory.   A few weeks back we used PowerShell and a CSV file to try and get 150 users…

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AAD Sync – Password Syncronization with Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: It’s available to Implement password synchronization with AAD Sync with Office 365. Password synchronization is a feature of the Azure Active Directory Synchronization Service (Azure AD Sync) that synchronizes user passwords from your on-premises Active Directory to Azure Active Directory (“Azure AD”). This feature enables your users to log into their Azure Active Directory services (such as Office 365, InTune, CRM Online, etc.) using the same password as they…

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Office and Dropbox to work together on phones, tablets and web

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Today we announced a partnership with Dropbox to provide more choice in how you work together and collaborate. You can do more with your Office documents when they are stored online. You can easily share your documents with others, and you can access those files from anywhere, on all your devices. If you use OneDrive and Office together, you already know how easy it is to work online…

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