I thought I’d write about the various programs that are available through Microsoft and Nero Blanco’s journey so far… It may help other partners choose their track and or make them aware of what is out there. Individual Certification It all started with us as consultants looking to increase our knowledge of the products. My […]
Reaching Gold Cloud Productivity
Our aim for 2016 was to reach Gold Partner status with Microsoft, in particular in the Cloud Productivity competency, and we’re not even half way through the year yet and we’ve got there! Thanks to everyone’s hard work and dedication to get people onto the Microsoft cloud platform! Our next focus will be Tier-1 Cloud Solution […]
Exchange Online, On Premise for Small, Midsized Businesses – The Costs
Exchange Online is of course part of Office 365 and people are migrating to it in droves. The attractions from a feature perspective are obvious, for a mere £8 a month small businesses (under 300 users) can get all of the following Exchange Online SharePoint Online OneDrive Skype for Business Exchange Online Protection Office 2016 […]
How can I reduce SPAM for my domains?
As any mail administrator will know SPAM is rampant on the Internet. I’ve work in organizations where over 95% of all mail received at the perimeter is dropped as SPAM mail… In previous blogs we have looked at the Sender Protection Framework (SPF) and DomainKey Identified Mail (DKIM). Now it is time to look at […]
What is an SPF record?
What is an SPF record? An SPF record, or Sender Protection Framework record, is a DNS entry that allows a receiving mail server to verify that the email was sent by the correct server. An SPF record is read from left to right, with the aim being to get a pass or fail for the […]
Winners at the UK Cloud Awards 2016
Nero Blanco are proud to announce that they were awarded the Best Newcomer award at the UK Cloud Awards 2016. We would like to congratulate all of the other winners in the various categories, which included many different companies including Xero, Salesforce, Deloitte, Amazon, and Microsoft. The event run by the Cloud Industry Forum and […]
Free Office 365 Setup & Migration
Free Office 365 Setup, Migration and Support too good to be true? No it is a real offering from Nero Blanco, and we believe it is the first time that an offer like this has ever been made by anyone other than Microsoft themselves. The reason we can make this offer is that Microsoft reward […]
What is this signed by onmicrosoft.com? DKIM
tenant.onmicrosoft.com What is this signed by onmicrosoft.com? Microsoft has introduced a new feature called DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM). What this does is it takes the body of the email and uses that content to sign the email with a digital signature. This then allows a receiving mail server to verify that the message has arrived […]
We Are An UK Cloud Awards Finalist
Nero Blanco has been shortlisted in the Best Newcomer category for the UK Cloud Awards! We are thrilled to have been shortlisted and we look forward to the award ceremony on the 12th April at Skylon. Congratulations to all those that have been nominated, there are some projects listed that are quite familiar to us. […]
Your Partner of Record for Office 365
Nero Blanco as your Office 365 Partner of Record By designating Nero Blanco as your Office 365 Partner, we receive financial support from Microsoft that enables us to provide you with assistance in creating a new Office 365 tenant, migrating to Office 365 and supporting you once you are on Office 365. Designating Nero Blanco […]
Marking email as Private
Tagging a message as private (this doesn’t prevent sharing or printing) If you just want to let people know that you’d like them to treat your email as private, you can tag it as such. This doesn’t stop them from forwarding or printing your message. Instead, it includes “Please treat this as Private” at the […]
Deleting an Outlook Profile
We’ve all been there. The time comes when we resort to deleting the Outlook Profile and simply start again. For IT Professionals this is pretty straight forward and we understand the implications of doing so – and the inevitable new OST download. If you are a big user of email, this could be a pretty […]