Office 365

Office 365 – Use Right Management Services

With the new Office 365, Microsoft has introduced a new functionality to secure document sharing: Right Management Services. This service is (should be) well know as this is available since Windows Server 2003 as additional component for internal deployment. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771234(v=ws.10).aspx for more details about RMS. So, going back to Office 365 and Windows Azure […]

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Office 365 – Use Excel to view Exchange Online reports

UPDATE March 8th: to know more about Office 365 Reporting Web Service (and maybe build a solution) go there http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj984325.aspx Following my previous post presenting the new Office 365 administration portal UI, I will explain with this post how to use Excel for viewing (and analyzing) Office 365 reports. The Office 365 reports are covering

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Office 365 – Add email aliases with Exchange Online 2013

With the new Office 365 there is some actions which have changed to manage user properties. As part of this, adding an email alias is now more simpler. Logon to the Office 365 administration portal with an administrator account Then go to the Users and Groups section from the left menu On the Active Users

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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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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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