Simplified login to Yammer from Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ In line with our Yammer and Office 365 roadmap, we’re releasing a new feature that more deeply integrates Yammer and Office 365: user mapping. When you opt into Yammer as your default social experience in Office 365, Office 365 users are mapped to their existing Yammer accounts. This means that when you click Yammer from your Office 365 global navigation bar, you do not need to authenticate again. Office…

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Office 365 Plan Selector Tool

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Overview ​Use this tool to recommend the right Office 365 plan for different customer scenarios. Download    https://readytogo.microsoft.com/en-us/_layouts/RTG/AssetViewer.aspx?AssetUrl=https%3a%2f%2freadytogo.microsoft.com%2fen-us%2fAsset%2fPages%2fOffice%20365%20Plan%20Selector%20Tool.aspx Category: How to do; News; Office 365 Published: 4/9/2014 14:53 ]]>

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Exploring Windows 8.1 Update – Start Screen, Desktop and Other Enhancements

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Welcome to Ask PFE Plat’s coverage of the next chapter in Microsoft’s on-going refinement of Windows. As with 8.1, we continue to evolve and improve the OS and last week, at the Build 2014 conference, we released “Windows 8.1 Update” to MSDN. On Tuesday, April 8th, the Update will be released to the Windows Update Catalog, Windows Update and WSUS channels. Our prior post on the “dot 1”…

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SharePoint Online announces 1TB site collections and unlimited tenant storage scale

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Last week at the SharePoint Conference 2014 in Las Vegas, Jeff Teper made some exciting announcements regarding SharePoint Online limit increases.  I wanted to provide more details so you can digest what this means to you and your business. We are making the following improvements to SharePoint Online: A 1TB site collection limit for OneDrive for Business and team sites: allowing your teams to store more content in a…

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The power of a decade

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Holster your smartphones, tablets and PCs, we’re going on a journey to the past–don’t worry we’ll get you back to 2014 in no time. A lot can change in over a decade. If you take a retroactive look at your past self, you most likely had different tastes, preferences, interests, and views than you do today. Not surprisingly, a lot has changed in the world over the past…

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Top 5 benefits of mobile working

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​     What are the main benefits of mobile working for businesses and their employees? An increasing number of businesses are using online solutions – such as Office 365 – to facilitate mobile and remote working, ensuring employees can remain productive despite being away from the office. The advent of broadband and Ethernet solutions has opened up a world of opportunities to firms with the vision to look beyond their…

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Microsoft Launches Revamped Azure Portal in Preview Mode

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:     One announcement coming out of Build 2014 this week, that Microsoft seems extremely excited about, is a completely re-envisioned Microsoft Azure portal. The new portal has released in preview mode, meaning visitors can get a glimpse of the current changes while Microsoft finishes it up in the background. The intent for the new portal is to help speed up software delivery by placing cross-platform tools, technologies, and…

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How to Connect to Office 365 Using a PowerShell Function and Exchange

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:   If you have to connect to Office 365 and Exchange Admin Centers at the same time, here you have this commands to connect to both services: ​Function Login-365 { $365Cred = Get-Credential Import-Module MSOnline Connect-MSOLservice -Credential $365Cred $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $365Cred -Authentication Basic –AllowRedirection Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted Import-PSSession $Session  You can run Get-Mailbox and Get-MsolUser at the same time. Category: How to do; Office…

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