If you are a company with software assurance and you are using Operations Manager, one of the benefits that you receive is access to Global Service Monitoring in Operations Manager. While I have seen plenty of references to how to create a 90 day trial account, I didn’t find any documentation explaining how to activate…
This blog post will detail the steps to setup Server 2012 R2 ADFS 3.0 for use with Office 365. Many new things have happened with ADFS 3.0 compared to 2.0. The biggest one being that 3.0 does not require IIS, the new ADFS is now built with IIS components it needs. Another big change…
The first meeting of 2014 for the Office 365 International User Group will be on January 29th! Click below to access the meeting invite and add it to your calendar. Looking forward to another great meeting and great year for Office 365!
It seems that everyone is offering some kind of MFA or TFA these days. Microsoft is doing it, Google is doing it, Yahoo is doing it, Evernote is doing it, facebook is doing it, Twitter is doing it, Lastpass is doing it, and the list goes on. MFA/TFA helps secure a resource beyond your typical…
The third episode of the Office365fm.com Podcast is now available for your listening pleasure. It is actually in two parts and covers a recap of Office 365 in 2013! Highly recommend you listen to it: Episode 3 Part 1 Episode 3 Part 2 Enjoy the Podcast and hope you all have a very Merry Christmas…
As part of my lab, I have one server which provides storage for the Hyper-V servers with SMB3. The server uses Windows Storage Spaces to storage for each of the nodes of my Hyper-V cluster. Recently I started experiencing extreme issues with performance with some of my virtuals. After some digging I started finding indications…
After upgrading my SMB3 based file server from Windows 2012 to Windows 2012 R2 I missed that the file server was now in an Unknown status in VMM within the Fabric pane, Storage, File Server section. While the file server continued to function correctly, I was unable to add any other file shares on the…
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…
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