Office 365 email signature management for company-wide consistency is made possible with mail flow rules. There are a number of reasons why you might want to append an email signature to your emails. The foremost reason is making it easier for customers to contact you. An Office 365 signature looks professional and consistent, distinguishes your organisation, […]

Email continuity is critical. Learn how to protect email with simple, and old hat, methods in tandem with Exchange Online for email continuity & email disaster recovery. Email continuity & Email Disaster Recovery: I’m not sure if it’s just me, but there does seem to be an incessant whine regarding the demise of email. Usually from […]

Those who work or study network or communications infrastructure will know how difficult it is to remember all the details of all the versions of all the technologies. Fortunately, over at community site Packet Life, they have produced cheat-sheets covering everything from point to point protocols, VOIP, MPLS, to physical terminations. Whether you need to […]

Office 365 pricing is competitive and the first choice for organisations that need a cloud-based suite of productivity and collaboration applications. Office 365 Pricing: Of course I’m someone who uses this suite in the office, and almost everywhere in fact. I’m not at all surprised to see so many other organisations choosing Office 365, even if […]

Part One | Part Two In Part One we learnt: Install and update Windows Server with Active Directory Federation Services version 2.0 (AD FS 2.0) with update Rollup 2, KB2681584. Set-up AD FS for Office 365 for Single Sign-On. To continue . . . Add five claim rules to the Active Directory Claims Provider trust. Use the following procedure to […]

Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 provides a way to configure access restriction policies. Office 365 & Exchange Online customers using Single Sign-On (SSO) who require these policies can now use Client Access Policy rules to restrict access based on the location of the computer or device that is making the request and prevent access […]

If you’re an Apple Macintosh user and you want to migrate and synchronise your Outlook 2011 for Mac or Outlook 2016 for Mac data to Office 365 Exchange Online it’s not all that easy. Outlook for Mac will only export an OLM file, which can’t be transported to Azure in order to use the data […]

The Admin Centres for Office 365 and for Exchange Online are great for simple and singular tasks regarding password management and policy, however, if you wish to carry wider tasks or bulk user management PowerShell is the best option. You can manage multiple domains simultaneously, or script the commands to include a CSV file of as […]

In Office 365 and Exchange Online the simplest and easiest place to change the expiry term for passwords is in the Admin Centre. The expiry term is set at 90 days by default, with a default 14 day notice prior to the expiry. You can also disable password expiry, however as always, this is not […]

Open Office 365 reports from directly in Excel and get your Exchange Online reporting! Predefined reports in the Office 365 Admin Portal are fine for overview, however, if you require more granularity then Office 365 reporting has to be performed via PowerShell or some other development language to access the Office 365 Exchange Online reporting […]