Posts Tagged ‘Office 365’

If you are exploring cloud offerings, join us on Thursday, May 23, to learn how the new release of Office 365 can help people do their best work in a world of devices and services, and hear colleague and Microsoft MVP David Greve talk about how Office 365 is transforming the way clients deliver productivity tools […]

While directory sync provides a much needed service for Office 365 tenants one pain point that comes up pretty regularly is distribution group management once you’re in the cloud. Sure the groups get synced to the cloud but if you’ve been used to managing the group memberships with Outlook when everyone’s mailbox used to be […]

This is a reminder for some or heads up for new tenants about an issue you might have run across that occurs when you try to change a user’s userPrincipalName in your local AD when using dirsync. If you change the UPN (left side of @) and keep the user in the same domain, dirsync […]

I recently came across an issue when one of my peers in the enterprise voice group helped integrate their existing on-premise Lync 2010 environment with hosted voicemail in the cloud. We followed the recommended steps outlined in these series of TechNet articles and other publications and everything seemed to work fine with a few test […]

Finally, a little clarity.  Yesterday’s roadmap post by Jared Spataro on the official SharePoint blog shed some much-sought-after public light on the question of how Microsoft intends to rationalize the Yammer and SharePoint 2013 newsfeeds. “Which newsfeed do we use for enterprise social?  The native SharePoint 2013 feed, or Yammer?”  It’s a question Microsoft customers […]

If you have a Windows Intune environment and are moving to Office 365, Intune will make this move a lot easier on getting the client machines ready. You can use Windows Intune to run reports, to gather information on machines in your current environment, and to verify software requirements that are needed before deployment. Then you […]

Remote Assistance is a great feature in Windows Intune; it’s a feature that a lot of companies are excited about. A user can go to the self-service portal and choose to allow a service technician to access their machine. Sounds great, unless you run Windows 8. Microsoft Intune D no longer supports Windows 8 Remote Assistance. However, it still supports […]

Office 365 has officially launched.  Make no mistake, this is a big deal for enterprise social.  Later this month, I’ll be doing a webinar around Microsoft’s direction in that space with Rob Koplowitz of Forrester Research (you can sign up here).  The latest reports published by Mr. Koplowitz and his team have taken a hard […]

Today marks an important milestone with the general availability of the new Office 365 for business. If you are exploring cloud offerings, it’s not too late to join the Virtual Launch Event. Sign up here, and tune in at 5 PM PST to learn how the new Office 365 can help people do their best […]

Now that the December 2012 release for CRM Online has been applied and the Update Rollup 12 for CRM On-Premises has been re-released  (kind-of), I wanted to share my most recent thoughts after spending some time with the product.  If you want details on what was to be included please review one of my recent […]

If you have been working with Office 365, you have probably been extracting mailbox data and exporting it to CSV for various reporting tasks. You may have also gone further and attempted to pipeline data from multiple Cmdlets into Export-CSV. Let’s use the following scriptlet as an example: Now the problem with the previous scriptlet […]

As Perficient continues to be a very strong player in the Healthcare IT consulting space, the issue of where data can/will reside is an important question on how to architect solutions from raw BI to CRM related data across the enterprise. Just the question of the cloud itself can be confusing to people. Take the […]