11Feb2016
08Feb2016
Azure Multi-factor Authentication vs. MFA included with Office 365
I have previously described MFA for Office 365. It's a great way to add an extra layer of security to your cloud-based applications. Here are the features included with MFA for Office 365: Administrators can protect accounts with MFA Mobile app as a second factor Phone call as a second factor SMS as a...
04Feb2016
How-to set up Multi-factor Authentication for Office 365
Note that there are multiple layers to Microsoft's Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) service. In this post, we are only covering the MFA included with Office 365.  Additional Azure MFA features are available, for example, through a subscription to the Enterprise Mobility Suite. In order to begin setup for multi-factor authentication, go to theÂ
01Feb2016
Office 365 MDM Enrollment Process
I added an account named "clouduser1" for the purposes of this demo.  Before enabling MDM for this user, I added the email account to my iPhone. The reason I did this is so that we can see the enrollment process for a user who may have previously configured their device for company Email....
28Jan2016
How-to Configure MDM for Office 365
This article updated 8/22/18 with new screenshots, since they moved some items around. Today we're going to take a deep dive with the Mobile Device Management (MDM) features available through Office 365, powered by Microsoft's Intune cloud service. Note: This is not the same as enabling a full Microsoft Intune subscription. Think...
25Jan2016
Manage Office 365 Mailboxes using Directory Synchronization w/o Hybrid Exchange
When you have a hybrid environment configured between Exchange 2010 or 2013 and Office 365, then you will probably have noticed that mailbox creation and management happens on-premises. For example, to create a new mailbox, you would initiate this process from the local Exchange server instead of the Office 365...
21Jan2016
How-to Complete your Office 365 Setup and Exchange E-Mail Migration
When setting up a new Office 365 tenancy or migrating from an on-premises or hosted Email system to Office 365, one last step will be to add all the necessary DNS records to your DNS zone file, and then make the appropriate changes to your on-premises Active Directory and Exchange...
14Jan2016
Exchange Hybrid Licensing
I have mentioned previously on this site that hybrid Exchange is the best way to migrate to Office 365. Hybrid enables rich co-existence between your on-premises Exchange server and Office 365 / Exchange Online in the cloud. Hybrid is emphatically NOT a "special" version of Exchange Server, nor does it require...
14Jan2016
Comparing Office 365 Migration Methods
At the time of this writing, Microsoft offers three primary migration paths from on-premises Exchange servers into Office 365: Cut-over, Staged and Remote Move.*  In this series I would like to discuss each of them, and highlight the differences.Cut-over migration
The first option is the cut-over migration. Cut-over can be used with...
11Jan2016