Category Archives: Office 365

Resources for IT Apprentices

Today I went to talk to a group of IT Apprentices at QA’s centre in Birmingham, thanks for a good day guys and especially to Lorette who organised the day.  If you aren’t sure what apprentices are then you should find out more about IT Apprent… Continue reading

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Resources from my Modern Desktop Presentation

You might have just seen my UK TechDays 2011 presentation which will be available online after the show, however if you didn’t get time to make a note of the resources, here you go: •Springboard: http://bit.ly/W7SB •Download Windows 7 Eval: … Continue reading

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You BETT ya! (or why I went to an education fair to meet IT Pros)

I spent much of last week at the crazy busy BETT education fair at Olympia showing people Office 365 and meeting some very interesting techies working in schools, collages and universities all over the country.  I had a lot of misconceptions abo… Continue reading

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Connecting Office 365 and FOPE

Office 365 Beta gives you automatic access to Forefront Online Protection for Exchange to protect the mail flow into your Office 365 environment.  We recently released a guidance document that includes some of the known issues and some of the scen… Continue reading

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You should connect your Active Directory to the cloud

Sound scary?  Well it’s not, but it’s critically important in spurring cloud adoption in your organisation and therefore a set of key skills for IT Professionals.  We have a technology toolset called Active Directory Federation Service (A… Continue reading

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Why not Gmail?

I was just surfing about our sites as you do and happened across this rather interesting little video that covers some of the reasons that Outlook is better for business than Gmail.  As an ex Gmail user I wasn’t thinking about this stuff when it… Continue reading

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Productivity in the cloud with Office 365 – beta now available

Microsoft Office 365 brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communications and collaboration products with the latest version of our desktop suite for businesses of all sizes. Take a look at the posh new website here.   Technorat… Continue reading

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