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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Leveraging Microsoft Online Subscriptions on-premises
I know that sound like a weird title right? How can you leverage Microsoft Online Subscriptions on-premises? After all Office 365 is in the cloud? What is not obvious is that a number of the subscriptions actually do grant you usage rights that are for on-premises use cases! The key document to refer to is the […]
Autodiscover exposed
for Exchange & O365 Autodiscover is a fundamental technology in Exchange and Office 365. When Outlook first starts the ‘out of the box experience’ is that it will first of all figure out if it can find an email address for you on the account you’re logged in with and then takes you through a […]
O365 Groups, Teams, Distribution Lists or Yammer
In Office 365 there are now many similar options available for collaboration. You now have the traditional Distribution Lists (aka Distribution Groups), Office 365 Groups, Yammer and more recently Teams, and of course there is also SharePoint, OneDrive and Skype for Business. So with all this choice… how do you choose? What is available Microsoft’s […]
Tenant Isolation in Microsoft Office 365
I have often wondered how Microsoft have architected their cloud solutions to ensure that there is no cross-talk between tenants (be that accidental or malicious) and hey presto a document from Microsoft has surfaced which outlines exactly that. In summary it talks about Azure AD being stored in partitions and these partitions being replicated in […]
Office 365 Persistent Chat (Microsoft Teams)
A common complaint from people who are used to using Skype and who are moving to Skype for Business is where is persistent chat? I mean in Skype I can be part of a group conversation and even if I’m not actively logged into Skype the next time I log in I can see the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]