Birmingham hosts UC and Cloud Day Neil and myself travelled to Birmingham to attend the UC and Cloud Day. It was a first for us, but had been recommended to us by James from Binary Tree who has been a couple of times. We had some logistical hiccups with thinking is was at the NEC […]
Wrapping up Ignite 2016
Ignite 2016 is once again behind us, farewell Atlanta! Our team again travelled to Ignite to try to see as many sessions as possible, meet as many people as possible and have a good time while doing so. This year Ignite was held in Atlanta and we arrived a day or two early to get […]
Enabling Remote Administrators for O365
By Carl Baumann, CEO 4ward North America, and Twan van Beers, Nero Blanco The administration tasks for an Office 365 deployment are really designed around a centralized management model. Within the free admin toolset provided by Microsoft there is no way to setup regional management rights for administrators who ONLY want to take care of […]
Azure network error 1233, error 53 path not found
If you have an Azure VM that is suddenly getting errors including Error 53: The network path was not found Error 1233: The network location cannot be reached Server can’t be pinged but can ping out After ensuring that the firewall settings are ok (or if you know 100% this was working and now after […]
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 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 […]
The BEST reason to keep a Hybrid Exchange Server
We are often asked about should I have a Hybrid Server (be that for administration only or for full Hybrid) and so last year we blogged TEN good reasons to keep a Hybrid Exchange Server. We left out the best and most important one, which is that Microsoft do not support making changes to Exchange related attributes […]