Microsoft recently released a new subscription called Microsoft 365. It is available in Business, Enterprise E3 and Enterprise E5 variants. The Microsoft 365 Business is effectively Office 365 Business Premium, EMS (simplified for Business) and Windows 10. The Enterprise variants add more configurable options and deeper insight. So why would you want to buy a […]
Office 365 new Inactive Mailbox Licenses
Important: Microsoft has decided not to go ahead with the plan. One of the advantages of gathering at Ignite is the chance to have some in-depth conversations about topics. Microsoft was gracious enough to understand that they need to do some more work to understand how tenants use inactive mailboxes before they should introduce new […]
The Banker Technology Projects of the Year Awards 2017
Did you know, Nero Blanco has a long-lasting relationship with HPe (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), BT (Binary Tree) & HSBC? For the last 4 years we have been the leading technology consultancy, developing and customising the back bone of the migration and coexistence environment for HSBC’s 300,000 mailboxes. From the pilot stage of the Mercury programme […]
Additional Mailboxes in Office 365 – More delegation woes
As at today we have an interesting problem and an open ticket with Microsoft Office 365 that is being escalated to Product Support. The scenario is pretty straightforward. Sharing a Mailbox via Full Access (no automapping) + Send on Behalf of Rights and attaching it in Outlook as a “New Account” (NOT as an additional Mailbox) […]
Outlook Personal Mailbox Delegation Wizard – The ins and outs
Unexpected Results of User Initiated Outlook Delegation Without getting too much into it, all Exchange Administrators have had to deal with this scenario at some stage or another. In my opinion Microsoft still have not address this very well for enterprise or even small customers. The whole end user experience is misleading, it creates the […]
Summarizing GDPR
You may well have heard about GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) but do you know what it means for you? The detailed information is found on the ICO website, but let’s summarize it for you Does GDPR apply to me? That broadly depends on the question “Do you hold or process ‘personal’ or ‘sensitive’ information […]
Introducing a new product Microsoft 365
At Inspire there was the announcement of a new product ‘Microsoft 365’. At the enterprise level this replaces ‘Secure Productive Enterprise’ which has been available in E3 and E5 SKUs. Microsoft 365 includes Office 365, Enterprise Mobility and Security as well as Windows 10 Enterprise. So not much new so far aside from a new […]
Redirect your standard folders like My Documents to OneDrive for Business
Have you ever wondered wouldn’t it be better if every document I worked on was saved to the Cloud without me having to copy or move it there, wouldn’t it be nice if my Default Save As location was OneDrive for Business? Well, you can and it’s easy. What we need to show you is how […]
Enhance Notes and Outlook Coexistence – Policy Suggestions
Introduction Recommendations for new customers moving to Microsoft Outlook from IBM Lotus Notes. Despite the presence of 3rd Party Coexistence solutions such as Binary Tree Coexistence Manager for Notes the rescheduling of repeating meetings is still not able to be resolved in certain scenarios. Specifically: “this and all future instances”, and to a lesser importance […]
New exciting partnership – All-in-One Management Solution for Office 365
Here at Nero Blanco we are really proud to announce our newest partnership with 4ward365 . 4ward365 has a proven track record, really helps our customers maximise their investment, provides real world insights and alerts when embracing Microsoft cloud services. Have a read from one of our valued customers Karen Hardy Studios how they transformed their efficiency […]
Migrating Personal Contacts from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Outlook
Introduction This document is a short form version containing the basic steps to help a fairly competent basic user that has some IT skills to complete the task of exporting their Lotus Notes personal contacts and importing them into Microsoft Outlook. This document should definitely be sufficient for an IT Support Person or Helpdesk consultant. […]
Outlook now asks for attachment type
A new feature is coming in Outlook which will make some of you very happy indeed… If you have been using Outlook with Office 365 and have added cloud attachments, i.e. the default up to now, by mistake then this will be for you! Finally no more accidental sending of cloud documents and people coming […]