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Introducing the new Office 365 Partner admin center | Office Blogs

06/02/201404/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: The new Office 365 Partner admin center provides Partners new and enhanced tools to manage their Office 365 customers. The new Office 365 Partner admin center is rolling out to partners worldwide over the next few weeks. Previously, with Partner tools in the Office 365 admin center, you could perform delegated administration tasks on behalf of customers and create trial invitations, purchase offers, and offers for delegated administration.…

Configure On-Premises Public folders for a Hybrid Deployment

06/02/201405/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Situation Exchange Hybrid environment (Office 365 – Exchange Online) with Exchange 2013 on premise. Public Folders are hosted on-premise and need to be accessed by online users. problem The only official documentation provided by Microsoft how to configure on-premises public folder access (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn249373(v=exchg.150).aspx), talks about “legacy public folders”. Which in this case are Public folders hosted on Exchange 2007 SP3 RU10 or 2010 SP3. So the first…

Microsoft details what’s new in Office 365 to kick off 2014

06/02/201405/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: We’re moving into the second month of 2014 and Microsoft has published a new entry on the Office 365 blog, detailing improvements implemented last month for a variety of products and features of the online Office suite. Just in case you managed to miss anything in January. Whether you’re a Home Premium subscriber or opted for the Office 365 business package, head past the break to see…

It’s Official: Microsoft Names Satya Nadella as CEO

04/02/2014 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it has selected Satya Nadella to be its new CEO, replacing Steve Ballmer. Cofounder Bill Gates will step down as chairman of the board of directors—to be replaced by John Thompson—and will act as technology advisor to the new CEO. “Our industry does not respect tradition, it only respects innovation,” Nadella said in a prepared statement. “The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is…

New Free ebooks are available

02/02/2014 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: From technical overviews to drilldowns on special topics, these free ebooks are available in PDF, EPUB, and/or Mobi for Kindle formats, ready for you to download. New ebooks Introducing Microsoft System Center 2012 R2Mitch Tulloch with Symon Perriman and the System Center teamJanuary 2014180 pages Get a high-level overview of System Center 2012 R2—and get a running start transforming your datacenter and cloud-optimizing your business. This guide introduces…

Windows Server 2012 R2 Keyboard Shortcuts for the Server Administrator

29/01/201404/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: A guide to where all your favorite admin tasks went in the new Modern UI Windows Server 2012, and now Windows Server 2012 R2, have added a huge variety of capabilities to the Windows Server operating system. In my opinion it’s a must-have upgrade. But like the first time I encountered the Windows 2000 Server interface after years of working with Windows…

New Posters for Fans of Microsoft’s Private Cloud and Storage Technologies

28/01/201404/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Despite what the industry marketing monkeys will tell you, actual customers are more interested in the Private Cloud than any of the other offerings such as hybrid and public. Cloud concepts and processes are a huge value bringing cost-savings, performance, and better reliability, but customers want to build their own Clouds, in their own datacenter, instead of outsourcing much of their operations. Microsoft is one of…

Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager Protects Hyper-V VMs

27/01/201405/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: If you think that Microsoft lags behind VMware in virtual machine (VM) site protection, you might want to take a look at Microsoft’s new Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager. On January 16, 2014, Microsoft announced the general availability of Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manger. Microsoft’s Answer To VMware’s Site Recovery Manager Hyper-V Recovery Manager is Microsoft’s answer to VMware’s Site Recovery Manager (SRM). Hyper-V…

How secure is your data on Office 365 and Azure ?

26/01/201404/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Is your business storing data in the cloud? Your clients and competitors are most likely already there. What do you have that’s valuable to criminals, identity thieves and hackers? Keep in mind that hackers target large volumes of consumer data; they want credit card numbers, member numbers, names, addresses and phone numbers by the thousands. Routine business data (except financial, IP and HR information)? Not so much. The…

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