Tag Archive: Cloud

Jul
09

Migrating to Office 365?

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Tweet I’ve done a few Office 365 migrations now from small 5 – 10 man companies to several hundred user multinational corporations. All migrations have been for the same reason: reduce internal infrastructure and increase email availability and take out the worry and concerns of one of the most important tools in your business if …

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Feb
24

Single Sign On for Office 365

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Tweet There are 2 ways to authenticate to Office 365, Authenticate using the Microsoft Online Services ID Authenticate against ADDS (Active Directory Domain Services) through implementing SSO (Single Sign-On) and DirSync (Directory Synchronisation). When deploying Office 365 you will need to think carefully how to go about your authentication as changing half way through your …

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Dec
06

DNS Settings for Office 365 in Power DNS

Tweet I was thinking about changing my name servers to point to my own DNS Server as the primary server and a “Friend of a Friends” name server as the secondary. My VPS is running PowerDNS which is simple enough to add in regular DNS entries, my biggest head ache was the SRV record as …

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Dec
05

Adding a new domain to users email in Office 365

Tweet I had an issue the other day where I needed to add a bunch of domains to an Office 365 account. Adding and verifying the domains was a bit of a pain but didn’t take too long. Adding the domain to each user account was even simpler using PowerShell. Here is how it was …

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Jun
17

Office 365 Initial Thoughts

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Tweet I’ve been spending the last week getting to know Office 365 from a Systems Admin point of view intimately! I have to say I am pretty impressed with it on the whole, the Admin interface is far better than its predecessor BPOS. It is much easier to use, the ability to manage Exchange in …

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