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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Office 365 Network Analysis Tool

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ With BPOS and the first iteration of Office 365, Microsoft provided the Speed Test web tool to assist in determining if an organization’s internet connection could support Microsoft Online services, mainly focusing on Exchange Online and Lync Online. This tool was available from www.microsoftspeedtest.com.   However, for some reason, this tool has not been available for many months now, leaving organizations and IT professionals without a tool to…

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Office 365 DirSync Filtering

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ How many of you knew that we never had an option to partially sync your AD infrastructure to the Microsoft cloud using DirSync tool? Until now, one of the problems of DirSync was that it would sync your entire AD to Office 365. This means that if you had 10,000 AD users and only wanted 500 in Office 365, you would have all 10,000 users listed in Office…

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Office 365 DirSync Filtering

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ How many of you knew that we never had an option to partially sync your AD infrastructure to the Microsoft cloud using DirSync tool? Until now, one of the problems of DirSync was that it would sync your entire AD to Office 365. This means that if you had 10,000 AD users and only wanted 500 in Office 365, you would have all 10,000 users listed in Office…

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The Cloud OS!

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:    Over the last year, Microsoft have made some incredible developments with Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, and the new release of Windows Intune – and I am incredibly excited for these products to reach general availability today! Leading up to this, Microsoft team has worked incredibly hard to share as much information as possible about this new platform and its vast array of capabilities – and…

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