The cloud - also known as ‘somebody else’s computer’ - provides a lot of benefits that we’re all aware of these days. However, it IS somebody else’s computer, located somewhere else. Moving around large amounts of data from your physical location to somewhere else is a lot slower compared to moving files around on your […]
Office 365 E3 vs E5 - What’s Extra Part 2
Continuing on from Part 1, here’s the second half of extras contained in a Microsoft 365 E5 license, compared to what you get with the much more common Microsoft 365 E5. Here we will take a look at whether or you should be considering when looking at Office 365 E3 vs E5 licensing. The word […]
Office 365 E3 vs E5 - What’s Extra Part 1
The most expensive tier of licensing for Microsoft 365 is their ‘E5’ service. Many companies will be on E3 which is one step down, but there’s several other tiers too. This article will look at what’s in the E5 suite and clarify what each service does, to help you decide if E5 is something worth […]
Getting Ready for the Microsoft Teams Upgrade
If you are a user of Microsoft’s Skype for Business, chances are you have been hearing the buzz about Microsoft Teams. After all, Microsoft is set to sunset Skype for Business in favor of the Microsoft Teams product. While many of us are hesitant when it comes to changing the platforms we use every day […]
Full Stack Monitoring of Microsoft 365 with eG Innovations announced at Ignite 2018
Amongst the many announcements at Microsoft Ignite 2018, one that caught my attention was a press release from eG Innovations. At Ignite 2018, eG Innovations has now introduced several new features to their enterprise monitoring solution for Microsoft 365 (M365). I was able to get a demo of the new capabilities, of which we will […]
What FSLogix Cloud Cache can do for your Office 365 Deployment
It’s no secret that organizations that have a native Microsoft Office 365 deployment and non-persistent VDI will experience latencies when using Outlook. This will happen with the full Outlook client, because Outlook uses a cache file for email called an .ost file. The size of the .ost file is often quite large, is always changing, […]
Microsoft outage makes Cloud grey
Earlier this month, some Microsoft Cloud services had an unexpected outage. It didn’t affect all regions globally and wasn’t a direct services failure, but an issue with the authentication platform Azure Active Directory. The bad parts I noticed the issue when my phone popped up an error about being unable to sign-in to my Office […]
Do you know what Office 365 features and updates are coming to your Office 365 Tenant?
Do you know what Office 365 features and updates are coming to your Office 365 Tenant? If you answered “no” to this question then I would encourage you to keep reading. Recently I had the opportunity to learn a little bit more about how Microsoft is communicating their changes about what is going on in […]
What you NEED to know about Office 365 Email and SPF Records
When dealing with Office 365 Email configuration you will find that Microsoft requires that your organization setup an SPF (Sender Policy Framework) record to go along with your Exchange Online tenant. This is a DNS text record that allows Microsoft’s messaging servers can send email for your domain. Let’s cover what you need to know […]
The Office 365 roadmap for 2018
Disclaimer: While the author is a Microsoft MVP in the Office Servers & Services category, this article is provided based on information publicly available at https://products.office.com/en-US/business/office-365-roadmap?filters=#abc No spoilers here, sorry! The official Microsoft roadmaps are moving targets. They give us some indication of what to expect in the Microsoft products and when to expect them, […]