Body: This content elucidates the topic of Office 365 migration and of its various types. An individual can use the dashboard migration thing in the Exchange Administration Center to migrate mail content as well as the mailboxes from an on-premises messaging system to Office 365 organization. The migration services of Office 365 are divided in two types: Service and Hybrid migrations. Service migration comprises: 1. PST Migration:…
Read MoreSharePoint Conference 2014 Recap – Doing Business with Office 365
Body: The annual SharePoint Conference has been in the past the setting for important SharePoint announcements and this SPC14 is no exception! Clearly Microsoft has embraced the cloud model and social collaboration is at the forefront. Office 365 SharePoint Online will no longer be the limited version of SharePoint, rather it will be at the forefront for new features and enhancements. As part of the Keynote, Microsoft laid out its…
Read MoreWork like a network! Enterprise social and the future of work
Body: As customers gather this week for the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas and Convergence in Atlanta, I want to update you on our enterprise social vision and road map—including several new announcements. The world has become a giant network Over the last few years, the world has become a giant network, and social media has rewired the way we connect with people and information. Today we build relationships…
Read MoreOne place for all your work files — introducing OneDrive for Business
Body: Earlier today at the SharePoint Conference 2014 in Las Vegas, Jeff Teper made some exciting announcements regarding OneDrive for Business. I wanted to share some additional details about them with you. OneDrive for Business (formerly SkyDrive Pro) is personal online storage for a company’s employees. It’s the place where people can store, sync, and share their work files across multiple devices with ease and security.…
Read MoreEngage in direct conversation IT Pros, MVPs and Microsoft Product Groups in a new public Yammer network for Office 365
Body: https://www.yammer.com/itpronetwork/ Yammer yammer.com Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: What are you working on? This week we’ve had the chance to connect with more than 10,000 of our customers at the SharePoint Conference. If you’ve been following the blog, you’ve seen our vision for enterprise social and the announcements from the event.…
Read MoreMicrosoft Adds Connectivity for SAP BusinessObjects to Power BI for Office 365
Body: Last month, Microsoft has released Power BI for Office 365, our cloud-based business intelligence service that gives people a powerful new way to work with data in the tools they use every day – Excel and Office 365. We continue to add capabilities to Power BI and today at the SharePoint Conference we’re announcing the public preview of Power BI connectivity to SAP BusinessObjects BI, a joint business…
Read MoreWindows Azure Active Directory vs. Windows Server Active Directory
Body: There’s been a lot of confusion about Windows Azure Active Directory since it was unveiled to the public last year, though it has been running at scale for a while. Over the next few months, I’m going to cover the various combinations of Azure Active Directory and Windows Server Active Directory that you can use to support your company, and talk about the scenarios in which you might…
Read MoreMulti Factor Authentication in Office 365 vs Azure
Body: On February 10th Microsoft announced the general availability of Multi-Factor Authentication for Office 365. Multi-Factor Authentication for Office 365, powered by Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication, works exclusively with Office 365 applications at no additional cost and is managed from the Office 365 portal. Multi-Factor Authentication for Office 365 offers a subset of Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication capabilities as shown in the following table: Multi-Factor Authentication for Office 365…
Read MoreEnabling and Configuring Multi-Factor Authentication for Office 365
Body: I am going to show how to enable and configure Multi-Factor Authentication for Office 365. Microsoft recently expanded the ability to utilize Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to all users, previous it had only been available for Admin users. You can also review the Multi-Factor Authentication guide to assist with you deployment. To begin with login to the Office 365 Portal with Administrative credentials and navigate to the User and Groups section Select…
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