We had a great end of year meeting for the Office 365 International User Group! The meeting started off with Emmanuel Dreux of www.cloudiway.com demonstrating his migrations tools, specifically www.migrationasaservice.com which is a very nice SaaS migration tool. He focused on Google Apps to Office 365 migration scenario, his tools are very nice and can…
Back in September of 2012 Microsoft announced that they would discontinue any future releases of TMG. There was a lot of unanswered questions about the future of UAG and on December 17th, 2013 Microsoft announced UAG’s future. Highlights from Microsoft’s announcement: Microsoft will not deliver any future full version releases of Forefront UAG and the…
With the recent release of Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD) Premium Beta release, you can now customize the Office 365 OWA Sign In Page and WAAD Access Portal pages. This is not the only features that are available with WAAD Premium beta, the other features are User Self-service Password Reset, Group-based Application Access and Additional…
I saw a Tweet talking about the ability to create a survey using SkyDrive and Excel Web App so I thought I would create one and I ask my faithful readers to please participate. Please go to http://sdrv.ms/1bLtCU0 to participate in the survey, I will post the results of the survey in another blog post.…
Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD) “Premium” is a paid offering that unlocks additional features of WAAD. It is currently in preview and can be unlocked in the Azure Preview Portal. WAAD Premium adds these features: User self-service password reset –Give your end-users the ability to reset their password using the same sign in experience they…
Passwords are not enough these days to protect someone from logging in as you. Many public websites have Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) as an added layer to their normal login process. Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Evernote, facebook and Twitter are just a few websites where you can enable MFA. There are also companies that offer MFA that…
A quick one from the forums: basically, don’t use special characters in your Endpoint Protection policy names. There is (apparently) a confirmed bug when doing so. I’d say this is generally a good practice for the naming of any and all objects in ConfigMgr (and other products) – stick to the normal alphabet (although using…
Up until now, upgrading the operating system (in-place) of a Configuration Manager site server or site system was strictly unsupported – that doesn’t of course mean it didn’t work, just that Microsoft never planned or designed for it and ultimately never tested it so all results and consequences of doing so were yours (and yours…
Rolling out WPA2/Enterprise and all Windows 8 clients could connect fine but Windows 7 clients could not connect. Client side errors in event viewer logged Event 8002 (Reason Code 16) “authentication failed due to a user credentials mismatch” and on the Windows NPS Server Event 6273 “Authentication failed due to a user credentials mismatch.”…
I upgraded my work laptop to Windows 8.1 over the weekend and immediately noticed there was something off with the screen resolution. Some of my applications were rendering blurry while others looked normal. It got even weirder when I moved the offending apps to my secondary monitor only to watch them transform back to normal…
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