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One place for all your work files — introducing OneDrive for Business

07/03/201405/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

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.…

Engage in direct conversation IT Pros, MVPs and Microsoft Product Groups in a new public Yammer network for Office 365

07/03/201404/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

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.…

Microsoft Adds Connectivity for SAP BusinessObjects to Power BI for Office 365

06/03/201405/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

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…

Windows Azure Active Directory vs. Windows Server Active Directory

04/03/201405/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

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…

Multi Factor Authentication in Office 365 vs Azure

03/03/201405/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

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…

Enabling and Configuring Multi-Factor Authentication for Office 365

02/03/201405/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

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…

Windows Server 2012 R2 and Exchange 2013 SP1 Database Availability Groups

26/02/201405/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 (SP1) has released, and among other features and improvements, SP1 includes support for Windows Server 2012 R2. This means that a database availability group (DAG) running Exchange 2013 SP1 on Windows Server 2012 R2 automatically takes advantage of the improvements in and changes to Windows Failover Clustering (WFC) in Windows Server 2012 R2. In addition, an administrator can manually take advantage of even…

Exchange 2013 SP1 : DLP Policy and Mailtips in Outlook Web App

26/02/201404/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: One of the new features of Microsoft Exchange SP1 is the support of mailtips in OWA (Outlook Web App). In this article I will show you how to work with DLP Policy and mailtips to prevent your user to send emails outside your organization with Passport number or Credit card number inside their emails. First, if you don’t know what is DLP you should watch this short video done…

Microsoft Exchange 2013 Service Pack 1 (KB2926248)