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It seems like every week I see a new phishing story coming through my social media feeds. The stories are all basically the same, someone with access to financials in an organization receives an email from “an executive” and follows instructions to wire thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars overseas. While I’m admittedly […]

After attending some of the sessions at Build 2016 and talking with various Microsoft employees, it has become very obvious to me that Microsoft has made DevOps a first-class citizen in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).  Here are some of the notes that I was able to jot down about VSTS. Home Page and Work Items […]

Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Azure, hosted a session yesterday at Build titled “Building Resilient Services: Learning Lessons from Azure”. This was a great session where he detailed real world examples of how Microsoft has failed while deploying new features and functionality to Azure. Building, upgrading, and maintaining a platform where Enterprises deploy mission critical applications […]

Build Conference 2016 is now in day 2. I’m at lunch and finally have a chance to write-up my thoughts about day 1. Lots of cool new stuff coming down the pipe for developers – biometric identity, pen integration, Hololens, Cortana improvements, Xbox dev kit, and much more. Windows Hello This is Microsoft’s biometric identity […]

Quintiles, a biopharmaceutical services organization headquartered in North Carolina, has a global reach that demanded the highest of communication and collaboration standards. Quintiles maintains offices in over 60 countries, and nearly one third of its workforce is mobile. Security is also of the utmost importance, and after realizing the security safeguards Microsoft has established within […]

The feature support for Azure Resource Manager and ARM Templates has been a little light since it’s initial release. This is something that is slowly changing, however, an update to the Azure Portal released this week helps move ARM Template support forward in a big way. This new feature is the ability to Export any […]

The previous article in this series covered how to setup an Azure Resource Group project with ARM Template that creates an Azure Service Bus Namespace. This article build upon the previous, to create an Azure Service Bus Topic with a Subscription to catch all messages. Instead of starting from scratch, this article builds on the […]

Just a quick post today on a recent script I had to put together. The message trace feature within Exchange Online works pretty well but can be a challenge if you want to search based on a particular email subject. In a scenario where you want to know who received an email or a set […]

The Visual Studio 2015 support GUI support for Azure Resource Group projects and managing ARM Templates is still fairly new. As a result there isn’t full GUI and editor support in it for all features of Azure; although there are a lot of features already supported. One of the features that isn’t supported through the […]

Recently I was working on a contact form using Sitecore’s Web Forms for Marketers (WFFM) module and came across an instance that didn’t quite work out-of-the-box as I would expect. Some background on the Sitecore instance before I get into the rest of the details. Sitecore version is 8 update 4 (rev. 150621) and the […]

Despite all the new features that Microsoft has introduced around Retention Policies and Archiving, some clients that I work with still long for the day of “Managed Folders”. The “Managed Folders” feature left us with Exchange 2010 and the replacement, “Retention Policies” and “Retention Tags”, can be a difficult to adopt for some organizations. In […]

Earlier this month, I published some notes (“Office 365 – Have You Evaluated These Exchange Online Features?“) on features within Exchange Online that deserve a bit of scrutiny. One of these features is the “Default Role Assignment Policy” which, by its name, is assigned by default to every mailbox. What does this policy contain? Are […]