Back in April 2015, Microsoft announced their new Exchange Online “Advanced Threat Protection” (ATP) feature. A month later, I saw it for the first time at the Microsoft Ignite conference and it looked like something well worth checking out later. Microsoft later made it available as a purchased add-on for existing licenses and released a […]
Posts Tagged ‘Office 365’
Introducing Microsoft Graph: formerly Office 365 Unified API
As more and more data moves to the cloud and adoption of cloud SaaS products continues to increase, we need more sophisticated ways to extract, transform, and interact with that data. This spring at the //build conference, Microsoft previewed the “Office 365 Unified API”. That product is now in full production and has been renamed […]
Office 365 – SPF, DKIM and DMARC in Exchange Online (Part 1 of 2)
The fight against email spam is an on-going battle for mail administrators and while cluttering up a mailbox with junk mail is undesirable, phishing campaigns can be a serious security issue. Those with malicious intent are highly motivated and their practices have evolved over the years; fortunately, the technologies available to protect against such attempts […]
Office 365 – Better Ways to Schedule Meetings w/ External Parties
When it come to scheduling meetings with external parties, it seems like we fail to leverage technology more times than not. While there are several options available to make scheduling meetings easier, we almost always fail back to the default “what times work for you” conversations. This is everyone, I see it with clients, with […]
Office 365 – Getting Closer To “True” Single Sign-On For Outlook
One of the Office 365 concepts that gets glossed over a bit is “single sign-on”, in particular when it comes to Outlook. Many will provide the statement that if you implement AD FS, then you have single sign-on. While it is true that AD FS provides single sign-on for some workloads, I’ve often argued that […]
Office 365 – Azure AD Connect: Did You Know?
Azure AD Connect is the synchronization tool formerly known as “Azure AD Sync” which was formerly known as “DirSync”. Regardless of what you call it, Azure AD Connect is the tool you’ll use to synchronize your on-premises Active Directory with Azure AD. With each name change, new features have been added to the product. Below […]
Azure Powered Rights Management and Document Tracking
Moving your data to the cloud is not a trivial task, not only from technical standpoint but even from user adoption and business justification. Every organization deal with their challenges in different ways, some take the route of implementing least disruptive workload like exchange (mail) and some go with higher business impact workload like SharePoint Online. Which ever route […]
Perficient buys Rise Foundation for SharePoint from Blue Rooster
We have some exciting news to share! Perficient announced today that we have closed an asset purchase agreement with Blue Rooster to acquire the intellectual property Rise Foundation, a UX-as-a-service offering designed to help enterprises and teams offer a consumer-style experience for their SharePoint-based intranet, enabling them to enhance employee engagement and communication, while achieving […]
Office 365 – Excel Tips For Mail Migration Data Manipulation
While a good percentage of my mail migrations are part of an Exchange Hybrid environment, I don’t always have that luxury. We still work with plenty of migrations to Office 365 from non-Hybrid environments, each with different migration toolsets. When you get to a migration that is something like Google, Zimbra or even an Office […]
How Is The Office 2016 Release Relevant To My Office 365 Users?
On September 22nd, Microsoft announced the release of Office 2016. The latest version of the Office suite, as you can imagine, brings with it a number of new features. In addition to the new features, Office 2016 will be deployed to users with a new deployment strategy for those using the “click-to-run” installations. New Version! […]
Office 365 – Why You Should Be Using The “Service Admin” Role
When it comes to security “best practices” there are some that are debatable and others that are fairly well accepted. One that is difficult to argue against is that administrators should maintain an account with elevated access that is separate from their day-to-day user account (see note at the bottom for a possible argument against […]
Office 365 – Can OWA Be A Replacement For Outlook?
I’ve had a few clients recently that have asked about using OWA instead of Outlook as their primary mail client. It’s a valid question given that users are very familiar with web-based email and likely use a similar interface with their personal email. If OWA meets all of your users’ needs, using OWA can help […]