16Nov
15Nov
Showdown: Exchange Active Sync vs. Office 365 MDM vs. Intune (MDM and MAM)
The Microsoft 365 platform offers customers not one, not two, but three distinct Mobile Device Management solutions (well, technically four, as we'll see). In my experience, most small business customers will be fine with nothing more than a well configured Exchange Active Sync policy, requiring basics like a pass code,...
13Nov
Deploying Microsoft Office applications using Microsoft 365 Business (and Intune)
Microsoft 365 Business is an excellent subscription--the best bundle available for the money in my opinion (in the SMB space). One of the benefits of this subscription is the ease of deployment for Office 365 Business (the desktop apps)--shaving precious time off any new PC setups. It is a trivial...
11Nov
Exciting: Teams sites now visible in SharePoint admin center!
I just ran across this and had to share. I'm sure it was previously announced somewhere and I've just been behind the times on reading up, BUT--there are new Admin center updates coming soon to a tenant near you, and... THE NEW SHAREPOINT ADMIN CENTER EXPOSES SITES CREATED VIA MICROSOFT TEAMS!!! Yes, I...
09Nov
My three wishes for Teams in 2019
Everyone knows that Teams was a late answer to Slack. But it's done a lot of catching up over the last year or so, and is starting to gain some real traction now. Nevertheless, there is always room for improvement, so let's keep pushing Microsoft on this one. Now that...
07Nov
Configure alerts for your 365 Tenant from the Security & Compliance Center
If you have an Office 365 or Microsoft 365 subscription, then you should check out the Security & Compliance Center--there are plenty of tools in here to help you step up your game. Generally speaking, nothing is really configured by default, so if you want to be secure or compliant,...
01Nov
How to migrate from Windows Server Active Directory to Azure AD and Microsoft 365 Business (including Teams) in 5 easy steps
Microsoft 365 Business is a very compelling platform for the small business, particularly those that are "born in the cloud," or, those who have shed most of their on-premises server weight already, by moving their line of business apps to cloud-based alternatives. I can't tell you how many clients I...
29Oct
Windows Server 2019, Windows Server Essentials 2019, Office 2019 and other 2019 Microsoft products for the SMB
So the 2019 lineup of products are basically all here now--Office 2019, Windows Server 2019, Exchange Server 2019, etc. Now with regard to the SMB space, I would usually be recommending that most organizations, especially very small sized business of 25 users or less, be looking toward the Microsoft 365...
25Oct
12 Steps you can take to up your Office 365 Security & Compliance game
I don't mean to oversimplify things here. This is not a comprehensive guide or anything like that. Every organization has different goals and business objectives, and depending on your industry, etc., you could have very different compliance regulations or whatever, that you need to consider. My goal is just to...
22Oct