Critical Office 365 External Sharing Security Gotcha

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: In an Office 365 Tenant, you must be careful with External Sharing in a few different scenarios: 1)      If your organization has migrated from an existing on premise Farm in which you used “NT Authority\Authenticated Users” to grant permissions 2)      If your organization is making use of External sharing via “Everyone” (including external users) in Office 365 If your organization’s Office 365 Admin has allowed External Sharing for Authenticated…

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Critical Office 365 External Sharing Security Gotcha

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: In an Office 365 Tenant, you must be careful with External Sharing in a few different scenarios: 1)      If your organization has migrated from an existing on premise Farm in which you used “NT AuthorityAuthenticated Users” to grant permissions 2)      If your organization is making use of External sharing via “Everyone” (including external users) in Office 365 If your organization’s Office 365 Admin has allowed External Sharing for Authenticated…

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IE11 for Windows 7 Globally Available for Consumers and Businesses

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) is available worldwide in 95 languages for download today. We will begin automatically updating Windows 7 customers to IE11 in the weeks ahead, starting today with customers running the IE11 Developer and Release Previews. With this final release, IE11 brings the same leading standards support–with improved performance, security, privacy, and reliability that consumers enjoy on Windows 8.1—to Windows 7 customers. And with Windows 8.1,…

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November 2013 Update for the Lync 2013 Desktop Client

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Nikolay Muravlyannikov, Lync Program Manager IIDebbie Arbeeny, Lync Program Manager IITim Woo, Lync Technical Product Manager In the November Update for the Lync 2013 Desktop Client, the Lync team is pleased to introduce several new features to enhance your Lync experience. These were created based on the feedback we received from our partners and customers through Microsoft field personnel and Technology Adoption Programs (TAP). So please continue to provide feedback to your…

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Activating Yammer Enterprise for existing Office 365 E subscriptions

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ You may have seen this exciting announcement from Yammer, on the 6 Nov announcement in the Office Blog – Getting it done with social: Yammer introduces new features, expands to all Office 365 enterprise customers “Today, I’m excited to announce that we’ve expanded that program and now include Yammer Enterprise with all Office 365 Enterprise plans. As part of this update, all existing Office 365 Enterprise plan customers will…

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BIG NEWS ABOUT YAMMER AND 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​Microsoft Updates Office 365, Brings Real-Time Collaboration To Free Office Web Apps, Adds Yammer To All Enterprise Versions It’s been six months since Microsoft launched Office 365, its subscription-based version of Office for businesses and consumers. Over 2 million consumers now subscribe to Office 365 Home Premium (the Office 365 “family pack” with five licenses) and 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies are using it in some form. This,…

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DIRSYNC can now be deployed on a domain controller

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ The latest release of DIRSYNC (version 6553.0002) can now be installed on a domain controller according to the release notes at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/18429.windows-azure-active-directory-sync-tool-version-release-history.aspx   The details on how to go about this are located at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/17370.best-practices-for-deploying-and-managing-the-windows-azure-active-directory-sync-tool.aspx#A11 DIRSYNC is a stand alone application that copies information from the local active directory (user names, passwords etc) and copies them to Office 365, saving you from having to create these attributes in…

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End user training resources for Office 2013 and Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​Office 365 training resources are available. You just need to know where to look.   Buried deep down in the TechNet Office 2013  Resource Kit is the following list of training pages and videos. End user training resources for Office 2013 and Office 365 Resources like this need to be consolidated / aggregated / [enter unifying word here] into one place such as the Office 365 for Business Learning…

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