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Office 365 – Simpler mail protection management with Exchange Online

With the new Office 365 version running Exchange 2013, Microsoft has provided a simpler way to protect your email flow, including spam quarantine management. With the new Office 365, all security email options are now available directly through the Exchange Control Panel. To manage these security options, log on using an Exchange administrator account on […]

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Office 365 – The new administration portal

With the release of the new Office 365, running 2013 product version, the administration portal has changed. The user interface is now reflecting the Modern UI, formerly called Metro, which is now shared between all Microsoft products (Windows 8, Exchange 2013, SharePoint 2013…). This new administration interface is more clear and more simple, even if

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Office 365 – Office 365 for Business now available, compare features

With the commercial availability of Office 365 for Business since yesterday, you can now evaluate RTM version of Office 365 for Business running latest Microsoft product: Exchange 2013, Lync 2013 and SharePoint 2013. To compare each plan with which features are available go to http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/business/compare-office-for-business-plans-FX102918419.aspx If you already have Office 365 subscription (running 2010 product

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Office 365 – You can manage if your users are allowed to connect to Office 365 Community

Microsoft has recently deployed a small update for the Office 365 Administration portal to allow customers to manage if their users can connect to Office 365 Community forum for posting question. To manage this permission, connect to the Office 365 administration portal with a Global Administrator user account and define the Community parameter – located

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Office 365 – Launch date of the new Office 365 version

As you already may know, Office 365 will be updated to use the latest major version of Exchange, Lync and SharePoint (ie 2013 version). As the On Premises version of these products have been launched few weeks ago (last October), now it’s time for Office 365 to be upgraded. The launch of the new Office

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SharePoint 2013 – Add a language refinement to your search results

With SharePoint 2013, and SharePoint Online 2013 (currently still in beta), you can add a language refinement to your search results to filter results based on content language To do so: You must have a search center available (I used the Enterprise Search Center site template) Edit the result page (results.aspx) Edit the refinement webpart

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Office 365 / SharePoint – Living in a Hybrid World: Compliance and Governance meet Cloud

Live from SharePoint Conference 2012. This is a partner session by AvePoint. Governance 20% CIO’s will lose their jobs for failing to implement discipline of information governance (Gartner Research 2016 Prediction). Requirements for IT Governance: people have to be involved; an Executive sponsorship is mandatory to make governance project successful IT: Architect, IT operation &

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SharePoint – Deep Dive on Information Rights Management and SharePoint

Live from SharePoint Conference 2012.   RMS is securing the data by encrypting and attaching license usage (usage rights) onto the document protected by RMS. This prevent the accidental disclosure of sensitive data. All of this process is done on the client side. On SharePoint, document libraries, with RMS policy applied, are ‘replacing’ the client

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Office 365 / SharePoint – Overview of eDiscovery across the Office Platform

Today, at the SharePoint Conference 2012, we talk about eDiscovery within the Office system products. eDiscovery is how records managers and litigators discover content in electronic format. Typically, eDiscovery requires searching for documents, websites, and email messages spread across laptops, email servers, file servers, and other sources, and collecting and acting on content that meets

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