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Uncle Rob’s Primers — WiFi and a Secure Network
This is another one of those oh-so-obvious things that you think are “self-evident” but which seem to get lost is the overall scheme of things. So what is it that I am talking about? Well, I’ll tell you, it’s about practicing “safe wireless” within your organization! OK, so what am I referring to with the …
Read onConfiguring Office 365 Contacts to email to a Yammer Group with a plus sign
Configuring Office 365 Contacts to email to a Yammer Group The request was to transition from a distribution group to a contact that would email a Yammer group. The first problem was creating the contact. Office 365 wouldn’t let me create a contact with a plus (+) sign in the external email address, a structure …
Read onHow to empty all the recycle bins at once
How to empty all the recycle bins at once I run into this every now and then when I’m trying to free up space on a server and other users have left lots of data in the recycle bins. This may be old news to most, but I just found it! First turn off “hide …
Read onPost Exchange mailbox database cleanup after migration to Office 365
Post Exchange mailbox database cleanup to Office 365 My initial issue was thus. I had done a cut migration from Exchange 2013 to Office 365. Everything was working fine and I had kept my existing server intact to be used in conjunction with DirSync for a Hybrid solution. The existing on premises server was still …
Read onOffice 365 – Apples and Giraffes Comparisons
I was chatting with a long-term customer of ours the other day. They have been using a “cheap” hosted email service (POP/IMAP) from their web site hoster for years. The cost of providing email services to their 150 or so users has been ridiculously low (like tens of dollars per month) but, as you might expect, …
Read onOffice 365 – Switch Plans Wizard
Office 365 gives you the ability to switch your plan, generally so that you can move up to a bigger, more comprehensive plan. If you have no need to change then you probably don’t need to read any further. However, there is a situation that has come up where you might need to switch plans …
Read onOffice 365 – Skype for Business
Microsoft just keeps the release train rolling! Here they annonce that the next version of Lync will, in fact, become Skype for Business. We all “knew” that is was coming, well now it’s official. Stay tuned to my blog for more about this as it becomes available and as it rolls out. This is going to …
Read onOffice 365 – Clutter is here!
Office 365 is rolling out a new feature — Clutter — that is starting to show up in user tenancies as of today (November 11, 2014). It is a tool that is designed to help manage the mass of email flowing to your Inbox. While it does not replace proper email management practices (you DO …
Read onOffice 365 — Federation, Domains and Subdomains
Office 365 and Azure both offer the ability to fully integrate (federate) your on-premise domain with the Microsoft Cloud (O365 and Azure). This is a great benefit to many organizations but there are some caveats that come along with federation. I’m not going to go into those caveats in this post but I do want …
Read onOffice 365 “First Release”
If you have been following the news about Microsoft over the last 8 – 12 months you will undoubtedly have come to the realization that they have changed! Microsoft has made a 180 degree turn and are now on the path of being “agile”; things are happening almost at lightspeed within all of their product groups with …
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