It’s not uncommon for an organization to make some avoidable mistakes as they prepare for and then execute a migration from a legacy email platform to Microsoft Exchange (and that applies to Exchange 2013 on premises migrations as well as those moving to Office 365 / Exchange Online). If you are hoping to mitigate those […]
Posts Tagged ‘Exchange’
What’s New in Microsoft Azure Active Directory
Azure Active Directory is a comprehensive identity and access management cloud solution. It combines core directory services, advanced identity governance, security, and application access management. Azure AD also offers developers an identity management platform to deliver access control to their applications, based on centralized policy and rules. In the last few months there’s been significant […]
Office 365 – Hybrid Wizard Fails Due To WPAD / PAC
The Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) was introduced back with SP2 for Exchange 2010; while it has been a vast improvement over the former manually-intensive process, at times it can feel more like the “Hybrid Configuration Gremlin”… Like most aspects of Office 365, the HCW has seen continual improvement from it’s initial introduction and […]
Yammer Roadmap and Work-like-a-network
So much is changing each day with Office 365 suite of services and applications, that it’s hard to keep up. This post is an attempt to get you up to speed with the exciting new features on Yammer roadmap slated for this year. Work Like a Network If you are asking yourself what is this, then […]
Office 365 – What’s the Best Plan?
Didn’t you always wonder which plan to pick in the O365 family? So many different SKU’s providing distinct features, storage capabilities, tools, etc. I know while talking to customers one of the initial and biggest question has been around which plan is perfect for them and can they downgrade or upgrade from there. Looks like Microsoft […]
Compelling Case for Office 365
Everyone has an opinion on “Cloud’ and its effect on the business, for some it’s scary in terms of data security and for some it’s revenue generation and cost savings. There are a number of reasons why cloud computing is so widely used among businesses today. Some of them include Reduction of costs – lower […]
Cargill Showcasing at #Lync Conference
Lync Conference 2014 came and went this year with great success. Over the course of 3 days, it was impossible to attend all the breakout sessions because there were so many. To get caught up and watch the sessions you may have missed, they are now posted on the MicrosoftLync YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/MicrosoftLync I recommend […]
Office 365 – Hybrid Wizard Fails To Update Default Address Policy
In my last post “Migrating From Exchange 2003? – Watch Those Address Policies!“, I documented some of the issues that can arise when running the Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) in an Exchange 2003 organization. No Exchange 2003, no problems right? Well unfortunately that’s not always the case; the odds are pretty good that […]
Microsoft’s Roadmap for Social: Detailed Analysis from SPC14
“Work like a network.” Spend just a few minutes at SharePoint Conference 2014 and you’re bound to hear or see this phrase sooner than later. It’s here in the keynote and it’s here in the signage. It’s here on the lips of the Yammer and Social product marketing people I had the good fortune to […]
Migrating From Exchange 2003? – Watch Those Address Policies!
Despite reaching end of mainstream support back in 2009, there still seems to be a good amount of Exchange 2003 out there. This also means with each Exchange 2003 migration, you’re dealing with as much as 10 years of management and mismanagement of that environment. One area of potential mismanagement that can quickly become a […]
SharePoint 2013 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Released!
In further anticipation of SharePoint Conference 2014, today Microsoft announced the release of Service Pack 1 for all Office products, including SharePoint 2013. This has been a long time coming. Most of us in the industry were expecting SP1 to arrive sometime last fall, right around the 1 year mark of the product release. There […]
Managing Office 365 with Powershell
A recent Office Blog highlights new resources for Managing Office 365 with Windows Powershell. Powershell is an incredibly robust tool for managing your SharePoint, Lync, and Exchange environments. It was released around the 2010 product lines and most of us in the industry remember its predecessor, STSADM, for managing SharePoint 2007. If you are new to Powershell, you’ll find the […]