Lync – New Lync Connectivity Analyzer

Body: Microsoft Lync Connectivity Analyzer (32 Bit) ​ Microsoft has released a new version of the Lync Connectivity Analyzer, a tool which helps to determine if the deployment and the configuration of Office 365 (Lync Online) and Lync On Premises match the prerequisites to support connectivity. Go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=277056 to download the tool. As part of the improvements: support for Windows 8.1 improved accessibility support for Lync mobile deployment More…

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Windows Azure Active Directory Updates in 2013

Body: ​If you haven’t looked at Azure Active Directory for a while, look again: This baby’s had a growth spurt       The Azure Active Directory product group was on a tear in 2013. In previous years, it developed this multi-tenant directory service for the cloud (based on existing AD technology), put it into production, and built do-or-die services such as Office 365 on top of it. This service…

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Enable RMS on Office365 with PowerShell

Body: ​ Many of you already know what Rights Management Services (RMS) can do for us on an AD environment under the ADRMS role, and also are up to date that Office365 integrates this as a feature on enterprise plans. Well, there are some situations which you want to enable RMS on a tenant via GUI and just after clicking the activate now button, the process gets stuck with the following…

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Collaborate and Connect with Office 365: Working with Team documents

Body: ​In the previous post I talked about the use of SkyDrive Pro to work with personal documents. This post is dedicated to working with team documents stored on SharePoint project or team sites used to collaborate. Everyone wants to be able to access these documents anywhere, anytime on any device. These are often very valuable documents with critical information that influence business decisions on a day to day basis.…

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Collaborate and Connect with Office 365: Working with personal documents

Body: ​ People work with documents on a daily basis. I work with request for proposals, tenders, functional and technical designs and presentations. I don’t do this alone but with my colleagues, we really connect and collaborate. SharePoint Online is the perfect platform for storing your documents and collaborating with colleagues, partners or even customers. Before we dive into the possibilities and features of storing and working with documents in…

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Collaborate and Connect with Office 365: Anywhere, anytime on any device – An Introduction

Body: ​ Microsoft fully committed to the Cloud with Office 365. One example of this commitment is Power BI for Office 365 that’s exclusively distributed by Office 365. This is just the beginning. I am certain that all the latest features and improvements for SharePoint, and other Microsoft products, are released in the Cloud first before on-premises availability. Microsoft will use the Cloud to test and approve updates and new…

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RMS Logging and Analysis for Office 365 (Azure AD)

Body: ​ Using Azure RMS for Office 365 is a great way to secure important information within your environment, and Microsoft uses a 3rd party to ensure that the encryption keys are secure from even Microsoft employees themselves.  “Well great,” you might say, “but what’s the stop them from just accessing the 3rd party encryption keys and decoding the data themselves?”  Obviously that is a technical possibility, but auditing and logging…

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A Practical Demonstration of How Useful Mailbox Audit Logging Can Be

Body: ​To kick things off this year let’s take a look at mailbox audit logging, a very useful but under-utilized feature of Exchange Server 2010 SP1+ and Exchange Server 2013. If you’re new to this topic you can see this overview: Using Exchange Server 2013 Mailbox Audit Logging   In many organizations the Exchange Server administrator will encounter a situation where there is a need to determine who took action…

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A Practical Demonstration of How Useful Mailbox Audit Logging Can Be

Body: ​To kick things off this year let’s take a look at mailbox audit logging, a very useful but under-utilized feature of Exchange Server 2010 SP1+ and Exchange Server 2013. If you’re new to this topic you can see this overview: Using Exchange Server 2013 Mailbox Audit Logging   In many organizations the Exchange Server administrator will encounter a situation where there is a need to determine who took action…

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