Microsoft to integrate new social, machine learning technologies into Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Microsoft is about to make some big changes as to how Office 365 looks and works. At the company’s SharePoint 2014 conference, which kicks off on March 3, executives will preview some of these coming changes — specifically ones involving social and machine-learning technologies that Microsoft is baking into its cloud suite of Office apps. Once these technologies begin rolling out later this year, the lines between Exchange,…

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How to use a free SSL certificate for Exchange testing

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​   Occasionally you’ll need to test a specific Exchange functionality in the real world, and that demands a publicly registered domain, MX records, a public IP address and so on. You may already have a publicly registered domain, or you are probably using a service such as DynDNS or FreeDNS that gives you automatic and *free* DNS registration and a public (sub)domain name that is valid on the…

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Microsoft announces cheaper Office 365 Personal for individuals

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​   At last week’s SharePoint Conference Microsoft on Thursday announced a new Office 365 subscription meant for individuals, dubbed Office 365 Personal. The company says it recognizes there are “households of all shapes and sizes”, whether one person or an entire family.   Office 365 Personal will be available to individuals at a lesser price than Office 365 Home Premium, which now as the company identifies, is meant for households.…

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Office 365 Message Encryption — now rolling out!

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: In November 2013, Microsoft has announced Office 365 Message Encryption, a new easy-to-set-up-and-use email service that allows you to send encrypted mail to anyone. Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Office 365  Message Encryption. To start using the message encryption service today, you can purchase a subscription for Windows Azure Rights Management, which  also includes Information Rights Management capabilities, giving you a comprehensive solution to help protect your…

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Converting ADFS domains to DirSync with Password sync, step by step

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​  In this post I’m not going to cover the advantages of dirsync with password sync. You can find a lot of articles on this blog to help you with that. But what do you do when you are convinced that you want to transition from ADFS to DirSync with password sync. First you have to realize is that it’s a completely different user experience. So make sure your…

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Converting ADFS domains to DirSync with Password sync, step by step

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​  In this post I’m not going to cover the advantages of dirsync with password sync. You can find a lot of articles on this blog to help you with that. But what do you do when you are convinced that you want to transition from ADFS to DirSync with password sync. First you have to realize is that it’s a completely different user experience. So make sure your…

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Overview on the types of Migration of Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

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:…

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SharePoint Conference 2014 Recap – Doing Business with Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

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…

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Work like a network! Enterprise social and the future of work

Nuno Árias Silva

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…

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