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Uncle Rob’s O365 Licensing Primer
O365 licensing seems to confuse a lot of people so I’m going to attempt to demystify it somewhat for all concerned. Hopefully, my explanations will help dispel confusion! The first thing to understand is that O365 is a subscription service; you purchase a subscription that is valid for a certain period of time then you …
Read onA (Non) Profitable Journey – Part 5
One BIG feature of Server 2012 R2 Essentials (either the full on Essentials install or the Essentials role) is the built-in ability to integrate your local Windows user accounts with your Office 365 accounts. To be clear, this is not exactly the same as the full on “DirSync” abilities that Microsoft offers admins who want …
Read onOffice365, Office 2016 and Windows 10 – notes from the field
You will undoubtedly be aware that Windows10 and Office 2016 are live and ready for you unless, of course, you have been hiding away somewhere with zero access to the outside world. We (itgroove) have pretty well completed the move internally and I have a customer that has made the leap for a number of …
Read onAzure AD Connect install over AADSync
Azure AD Connect install over AADSync Just upgraded my install of AADSync to Azure AD Connect, no issues to speak of. Just some screen shots of the install in case anyone is curious. List of features
Read onOffice 2016–The New Office
Microsoft will be rolling out Office 2016 today and with it they will also be rolling out a change of focus. Yes, Office 2016 will build on past releases of Office just as new builds of Office have always done but, with Office 2016, the focus will move away from Office just being “Office” to …
Read onThe Cloud and Trust
We were having a discussion in the office yesterday that was triggered by a discovery we made about our Office365 backup solution (we use SkyKick). In a nutshell we discovered that the backup vendor has to make a few manipulations with provided credentials in order to back up site collections inside SharePoint Online. The provided …
Read onOffice 365 Support and Recovery Assistant Outlook 2016 / Win10
Office 365 Support and Recovery Assistant I was having issues creating a Office 365 Outlook profile on my newly created Windows 10 PC with the preview build of Office 2016. It would hang on the Autodiscover portion indefinitely. Since Outlook 2016 (well at least the preview) can only be configured via Autodiscover I thought I …
Read onEmailing internal Office 365 Groups from external sources
Emailing internal Office 365 Groups from external sources This is how to turn on the ability to email an internal Office 365 group from external sources. Log into your Office 365 portal and go to ADMIN –> Exchange Then go to groups under recipients Select your group and click edit Under delivery management select the …
Read onExchange almost gone KABOOM?
There is an old Bugs Bunny cartoon where Marvin the Martian is working with his illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator and it doesn’t work. “Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!”, says Marvin when nothing happens. For Marvin this wasn’t good, for you with what looks to be a dead Exchange …
Read onA (Non) Profitable Journey–Part 3
I migrated Swan Lake out of their Small Business 2011 environment into a new Server 2012 R2 environment built on top of Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V. Swan Lake had purchased the server licenses and CAL’s through Tech Soup and it only made sense to make use of that licensing as we move forward. I migrated …
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