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Azure Active Directory Conditional Access Policies and the Office 365 Portal
Microsoft is rolling out a change from August 9th 2017 for Azure Active Directory conditional access policies. Before this change rolls out any user logins to the Office 365 portal are not subject to...
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Surprise! New Office 365 Sign-In Experience for End Users
Microsoft is releasing a new Office 365 sign in experience to end users, a change that has not been communicated on the roadmap, Office Blog, or in Message Center. Upon visiting the login page for...
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What’s New in Office 365 for July 2017
Office 365 for IT Pros, 4th Edition is continually updated with new information, changes and corrections. Customers who bought the book from this website can download the updated files from their...
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Using Exchange Shared Mailboxes for Help Desk and Customer Service Scenarios
Shared mailboxes in Exchange Server and Exchange Online are a great way for a team of your users to share the workload of reading and responding to emails. Shared mailboxes are often used in customer...
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Does OneDrive for Business Prevent Ransomware Attacks?
I delivered a talk about ransomware risks for businesses at an industry event last year. Since then, awareness of ransomware has grown due to a number of high profile outbreaks around the world. This...
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Removing On-Premises Exchange Servers after Migrating to Office 365
For some customers after a migration from on-premises Exchange Server to Exchange Online there is a desire to completely decommission the on-premises Exchange servers. Whether it can actually be done...
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Review of Mailscape 365 Office 365 Monitoring from ENow Software
During my career, I’ve worked in many internal operations teams. I've also worked alongside ops teams when I’ve been delivering projects to customers. Over the years I’ve seen a broad range of...
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Managing Adoption of Office 365 by Controlling Access to Apps
A reader asked me how to limit access to Office 365 services so that their organization can migrate to Exchange Online first, and then gradually adopt more services over a period of time. That's a...
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What Can Microsoft Intune See On Your Managed Mobile Devices?
When mobile device management is being used there are often concerns by end users about what the company can see on their mobile devices. For most people the concerns are around private information...
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Too Soon to Kill the Groove.exe OneDrive for Business Sync Client?
Over at the Microsoft Technical Community, a forums member asks: A colleague reported not being able to sync using OneDrive for Business using the older groove.exe app today. I tried myself and got the...
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The Curious Case of LinkedIn Data Sharing with Microsoft Azure Active...
I have a long-standing gripe with LinkedIn for the aggressive harvesting of contacts from their users. I use LinkedIn to a limited extent for professional connections, but I'm always careful to keep it...
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What’s New in Office 365 for August 2017
Office 365 for IT Pros, 4th Edition is continually updated with new information, changes and corrections. Customers who bought the book from this website can download the updated files from their...
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Is Outlook for iOS and Android a Free App?
A recent discussion among MVPs and Microsoft reminded me of a question I was asked back when Outlook for iOS and Android were first released – is the Outlook app for iOS and Android devices a free...
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How to Decommission an Exchange Server After Office 365 Migration
In a recent article I discussed the requirement to retain an on-premises Exchange Server after migrating to Office 365 when directory synchronization is being used. That article addresses a very...
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Do You Really Need an SPF Record?
For some time now I've considered Sender Policy Framework (SPF) records an essential part of domain name ownership. As it turns out there's still some debate in tech forums as to whether SPF records...
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Review of Mailscape Exchange Server Monitoring from ENow Software
When I give conference talks about Exchange Server, there are two stories that I like to tell. The first story is about the company that hired me to join their IT ops team as an Exchange specialist....
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Office 365 for IT Pros (2020 Edition) – a missing reference and notes from...
Tony Redmond and team provide an unparalleled level of depth in a book that makes essential reading for anyone managing Office 365 for their company Sitting down to read a Tony Redmond led book is...
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Outlook Updates 2019
It’s been a while since we last looked at Outlook clients, so in this article, I’m providing a rundown of the most noteworthy updates from the past few months. New OWA experience is GA Announced over...
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How to run PowerShell scripts to automate manual processes in Office 365
Automation is centric to our role as IT professionals in order to make manual tasks such as managing servers, endpoints or processes, more streamlined and efficient. However, since the proliferation...
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Evolve Conference on Tour – Teams in Two Days
In July, myself and the Evolve Conference organizer team put on a two-day event at Microsoft’s Reactor in London – Teams in Two Days. If you haven’t heard of the Evolve Conference, let me give you a...
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