Tag - Office 365

The Cloud is Faster Because it is More Iterative

It is perhaps no surprise that many organizations have been adopting cloud and mobility the way they would have adopted a new server upgrade in the past, but that's not quite right. We have been trained to take changes in larger leaps and bounds, and less often. In the cloud, there cloud be several...
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Should I Supercharge Office 365 with the Enterprise Mobility Suite?

Hello! Now that I have amassed a few different posts that outline differences between Microsoft's Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) and the built-in features that are included with certain Office 365 plans, I thought it would be nice to summarize our findings in one place.  If you are having trouble deciding whether or not...
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How to Enable Information Rights Management for SharePoint Online & OneDrive for Business

This is a four-part post on Azure Rights Management for Office 365. The Azure RMS service is a powerful tool that we can use to prevent data leakage and share information securely with users inside & outside of the organization. Follow along as we explore how to: Activate Azure Rights Management for Office 365  ...
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Office 365 Email encryption vs. Rights Management templates

This is a four-part post on Azure Rights Management for Office 365. The Azure RMS service is a powerful tool that we can use to prevent data leakage and share information securely with users inside & outside of the organization. Follow along as we explore how to: Activate Azure Rights Management for Office 365  Configure...
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How to configure Email encryption for Office 365

This is a four-part post on Azure Information Protection (formerly Rights Management) for Office 365. The Azure RMS service is a powerful tool that we can use to prevent data leakage and share information securely with users inside & outside of the organization. Follow along as we explore how to: Activate Azure Information Protection for Office...
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How to Activate Azure Information Protection for Office 365

This is a four-part post on Azure Information Protection (formerly Rights Management) for Office 365. This service is a powerful tool that we can use to prevent data leakage and share information securely with users inside & outside of the organization. Follow along as we explore how to: Activate Azure Information Protection for...
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Azure AD Premium vs. Azure AD with Office 365

If you have an Office 365 subscription, then you already rely on Azure Active Directory. If you have DirSync or Azure AD Connect enabled, then that means your on-premises user identities and passwords are being synchronized to your Azure Active Directory tenancy in the cloud. I recommend this configuration, especially if you...
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Azure Rights Management with EMS vs. RMS with Office 365

The purpose of Azure Rights Management Services is to allow users to encrypt certain files and messages for sharing safely only with those colleagues and business associates whom they choose. You can obtain Azure RMS licensing separately or with an EMS subscription, but if you have an Office 365 E3 plan...
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How-to migrate Email from Small Business Server 2008/2011 or Exchange Server 2007/2010 to Office 365 with Zero Downtime

Update: Please refer to this newer article. Some of the details here are very dated--like there is no hybrid key anymore--and the activation only works on 2016, not 2019, plus we have minimal hybrid now, etc., etc. A "minimal hybrid" approach is preferred if you're just doing a quick...
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