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25Apr2019
Two philosophies for deploying Microsoft Teams in an organization
IT admins throughout the world subscribe to one of two worldviews today: Control mindset: IT's job is to control and restrict, and of course, to protect the clueless users from all of those scary threats out there in the world today (including themselves)Empower mindset: IT's job is to educate and...
19Nov2018
How to configure Mobile Application Management (MAM) with Microsoft 365 Business (and Intune)
With a traditional MDM solution, the goal is typically to impose management controls at the device level--enforcing policies like pass code with automatic screen lock, encryption, and remote device wipe. It can also be helpful in tracking inventory of mobile devices. All of these "MDM" features are important, especially when...
15Nov2018
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,...
22Aug2018
Why MDM for Office 365 may be obsolete, with updates to Exchange Active Sync
Disclaimer: This is not breaking news, what I am about to describe has been available for a while, but I just haven't gotten around to blogging about it. Previously I wrote about MDM for Office 365, and I had to update that article since Microsoft keeps changing the interface and...
16Jul2018
How to bundle even more security into your Office 365 subscription
In a previous post, I covered some of the most common SKU's that are frequently purchased by small businesses, who are migrating to the Office 365 platform. In a nutshell, by FAR the most common of those are Office 365 Business Premium and Office 365 Enterprise E3--and the latter of...
17Nov2016
How OneDrive changed the way I work
My Documents, on steroids I kind of think about OneDrive like the My Documents folder of yore. Back in the olden days, "My Docs"--as it was affectionately referred--would be redirected to a company file server and backed up there by your administrator. But it meant you had to physically (or via VPN)...
10Nov2016
How Skype for Business changed the way I work
This platform can do way more than what I'm using it for right now (I don't have the extra fancy features where you can get a phone number, call land lines, forward to your cell, etc.). My understanding is that Skype can do all that, but I mostly use it...
03Nov2016
How Office 365 has changed the way I work
Office 365 as a Gateway to Mobility Nothing is more intriguing to me right now in our industry than the concept of mobility (and to some extent, BYOD). I am an avid fan and believer: I think that Office 365 has, more than any other product, delivered on the promises of cloud and...
29Sep2016