While catching up with a good friend yesterday we were talking about implementing DirSync and ADFS for their Office 365 for education deployment. If we want to be able to log into Office 365 with our domain name such as @bfcnetworks.com we need to have this set in our users Active Directory UserPrincipalName attribute. Over … Continue reading Edit all users UserPrincipalName through PowerShell for DirSync & Office 365
You may have received an email entitle ‘SERVICE ALERT: Take action on these Office 365 administrative tasks’. This is not a standard email and should be logged as a call within your service or help desk. The email is customised to your tenancy where Microsoft have evaluated your connectivity and how you use it and … Continue reading Upgrading your Office 365 tenancy to Wave 15: Part 2 – Addressing Issues
It is now getting to the point where Microsoft are upgrading current Office 365 tenancies from the 2010 wave of technologies to 2013 giving you the new and best experience of the Office products. But what do those emails looks like, so you know what to look out for in your inbox. Marketing Email The … Continue reading Upgrading your Office 365 tenancy to Wave 15: Part 1
Office 365 and SharePoint Online is an ever growing and evolving cloud service from Microsoft and in the migration to wave 15 of the Office product, Microsoft have released a set of PowerShell commands to manage your SharePoint Admin console. Its important to note that these PowerShell commands are not the normal PowerShell commands you … Continue reading Office 365 SharePoint Online Admin PowerShell Cmdlet – With Samples
It’s always a pleasure to be able to speak about Office 365 and how it can be used and I’m delighted to be speaking and the SharePoint Evolution Conference run by Combined Knowledge. This year, like it has for many years it is hosted at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London just over … Continue reading I’m Speaking at SharePoint Evolution Conference 2013
In the last week Steve Ballmer (CEO of Microsoft) has announced the release date for new tenancys of Office 365 running the new wave of Office technologies. The announcement which included the release of the new Office 365 Home Premium (now available) has set a date of the 27th February for the new wave available to business. … Continue reading The new wave of Office 365 for education technologies coming 27th February
One of the hot topics in the IT industry for 2012 was the subject of Bring Your Own Device and how these can be managed on a secure network, data leakage and the general day to day operation when user can do what ever they want with their admin permissions. When considering one of our … Continue reading SharePoint Design when consider BYOD – QR Code
There many important pages to keep an eye on for Office 365 including information in your tenancy around Planned Maintenance and Service Health but there are two that are worth keeping any eye that are hosted on the Office 365 community page. System Requirements Microsoft are always updating their products and one of the fastest … Continue reading Office 365 System Requirements and Admin Tasks Wiki
I wanted to give people a heads up on an outstanding issue we have with our customers in Office 365 who have had their Office Web Apps upgraded in their tenancy. Office Web Apps have had an architectural change in the 15 wave and Microsoft have started to prepare for these changes in Office 365. … Continue reading This Site Template required feature 738250ba-9327… in Office 365
Last week it was great to be able to talk about a few of the Office 365 for education projects I am currently working on and sharing how the product is being used in 3 very different ways. In the recording which you can watch at any time we talk about 3 different setups. 8.47 … Continue reading Recording: Using Office 365 for education
