Microsoft 365 insights from the field

A blog by Peter Schmidt about Security, Identity, Email Protection, Compliance, AI & Copilot, and Tenant-to-Tenant migrations

Microsoft Released New Visio Stencils for Office Server and Office 365

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  A few months ago, Microsoft Released an update to their Office Server Visio package. This new version now includes 300+ Visio Stencils for to help you create visual representations of Microsoft Office or Microsoft Office 365 deployments including Microsoft Skype for Business, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013. Basically a package for Visio, that everyone working with deployments and architecture, cannot work without. The zip file now includes both stencil sets …

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CoLabora User Group meeting announced – June 24th 2015

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CoLabora has announced the next User Group meeting, for June 24 th 2015. This time the meeting will be held as an online event (Skype for Business).   The agenda for the day is (Event is in Danish): 13.00 – 13.05 Kort velkomst og intro. 13.05 – 13.50 – Exchange Online Protection – hvordan kommer man igang og hvad er EOP. (Taler: Peter Schmidt, MVP) 13.50 – 13.55 Pause 13.55 – 14.40 – Skype for …

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RunAs Radio – Modern Public Folders with Peter Schmidt

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I recorded an episode of the RunAs Radio podcast as a guest with MVP Richard Campbell a couple of of weeks ago, where we talked about Exchange Modern Public Folders: Are Public Folders evil? Peter Schmidt says no! Richard chats with Peter about Modern Public Folders that come with Exchange 2013. Treated more like regular mailboxes (only BIGGER), the public folders in Exchange 2013 are much easier for the administrator to handle while being essentially …

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Microsoft Ignite Starts Today

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This week is Conference time – The Microsoft Ignite Conference starts today with the keynote at 9.00am (Chicago time) or 16.00 European Central Time. If you are not attending the Conference in Chicago, you are able to follow the conference online. The Keynote will be streamed live at 9.00am (CDT) or 16.00 (European Central Time). Follow the Live Stream on the Ignite website: http://ignite.microsoft.com/ All sessions will also be made available online, some might be …

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Microsoft Releases Updated version of Azure AD Sync Tool

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Last week (more precisely Thursday Apr. 16th 20145 Microsoft silently released a new updated version of Azure Active Directory Sync Tool (Azure AD Sync), previously known of DirSync. Altough Azure AD Sync now targets more than just connecting your Directory with Office 365 Services, it’s The tool to Connect your AD Foest or Forests with Azure and Office 365 services. This new version is build: 1.0.0491.0413. The Azure AD Sync Version Release History has not …

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