How to Integrate Office 365 with an On-Premises Environment

It’s a beautiful sunny day, and the uninterrupted horizon stretches for miles. Your phone rings. One of your biggest clients begins sharing his hesitation about the plan to integrate Office 365 with his on-premises environment. You notice that the once clear view is now being obstructed by ominous-looking clouds. Your client is worried because he […]

The Minimal Hybrid Configuration option is best for clients who want to keep directory synchronization in place and move all their mailboxes to Exchange Online in a short amount of time, as it performs a one-time sync of all users and then migrates their mailboxes to Office 365 with minimal disruption.

Outlook calendar issues are quite common, and they can severely impact the operational efficiency of an organization if left unresolved. Indeed, meetings run everything for a company, from stock shipments to software implementations.

Shared mailboxes are widely used. They permit performing a wide range of coordinated activities with a team. Essentially, a shared mailbox acts as a centralized service allowing many people to work in a synchronized manner.

Security is always a concern because SharePoint Online needs to keep confidential files safe, so it raises many security and compliance-based questions. In this article we will be sharing some rich security and compliance features with you; some are already in place and others can be configured by you with only a few clicks. We hope this will boost your confidence in this product.

Office 365 provides eDiscovery capabilities within the Security and Compliance Center. To utilize these components there are 5 core steps that you need to follow.

Office 365 will not behave differently simply because you use a VPN. However, because all network traffic will be redirected to the VPN adapter, you might experience connectivity issues or even complete connectivity loss.

PowerShell is a command-line environment that's designed specifically for system administration. PowerShell helps you control and automate the administration of the Windows operating system, server applications, and cloud-based services such as Office 365.

Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant for Office 365 is an application introduced by Microsoft that helps users fix problems within Office 365 applications like Outlook, Power BI, and Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) through a few simple steps.

Most of the administration functions in Office 365 work with the user interface. However, there are times where you are performing repetitive tasks that can be scripted using PowerShell.

As the name suggests, the Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer tool analyzes remote connectivity for some Microsoft services and checks if they are set up and configured properly. As it is a local tool, it uses your local DNS and network routing. Also, you can use it in lab and testing environments before making final changes.

Skype for Business desktop clients connect to the server through many components and several configuration settings. In this article, we’ll look at what needs to be done to fix authentication (connection) issues.

PowerApps allows you to can manage organizational data by using either an app that you created or one created by someone else who shared it with you. Apps run on mobile devices, or you can run them in a browser.

A number of companies use Outlook for their email handling. As a consequence, many helpdesk managers list Outlook among the so-called first-call generators (FCGs)—software, services, or products that frequently lead corporate users to call helpdesks to resolve any issues they experience. In this article, we'll explore two approaches for troubleshooting Outlook if it refuses to open.

Connectors are a set of instructions that customize the way your email flows. It controls the flow of email to and from your Office 365 organization. Learn how to set it up here.

Active Directory Federation Services is a feature and web service in the Windows Server Operating System that allows sharing of identity information outside a company’s network. It authenticates users with their usernames and passwords. Users can access some applications (i.e. Office 365, Salesforce.com, etc.) without being prompted to provide login credentials again.

Having the ability to monitor all traffic within Office 365 means that you can not only see what is happening at any point in time but also be alerted about specific activities. The Audit log search feature within the Security & Compliance Center is the go-to tool for reviewing this usage by activity and component.

This article looks at how you can deploy the OneDrive Sync client in your work environments. It focuses on deployment methods and security controls.

Exchange Server Deployment Assistant is a web-based tool that provides deployment advice for the following scenarios: deploying Exchange on-premises, configuring a hybrid deployment between your organization and Office 365 as well as migrating completely to Office 365.

Data Loss Prevention helps businesses follow industry regulations and protect sensitive information. It also prevents inadvertent disclosure. Sensitive information that you need to prevent leaking outside your organization includes financial data, such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, or health records. With a DLP policy, you can identify, track, and protect sensitive information across Office 365.

Microsoft introduced a replacement to the old version of OneDrive for Business synchronization. Previously, there was only one way to synchronize and that was to update all of the users’ libraries on their machines. Many times, the cache was corrupted and it resulted in a lot of downloading & monitoring sync files of the users. However, the wait has ended with the new version. How to set up OneDrive for Business to all your tenants? Make sure that OneDrive.exe is enabled in Office 365. Download and Install the Sync client.

Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) was designed to help manage and protect users, devices, apps, and data. This integrated suite of products enables companies to manage who has access to corporate resources, while protecting and securing business and customer information on all devices, anywhere, in real-time.