Microsoft 365 insights from the field

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

Skype for Business is Here – What to know !

Microsoft has just released Skype for Business today, together with this months patch Tuesday. Skype for Business (Skype4B) was announced a while back and has been expected in April 2015. At least the client to begin with. Next is the rollout in Office 365 with Lync Online being upgraded and renamed to Skype for Business, this is going to happen from now until end of May for all existing Office 365 customers. The Skype for …

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Free Load Balancer from KEMP

KEMP Technologies has just launched www.FreeLoadBalancer.com, where you are able to download a free version of their popular KEMP LoadMaster. The free version is available for unlimited use and is perfect for certain scenarios, although it got some limitations (particular around throughput and SSL/TLS TPS) compared to their commercials products. The Free LoadMaster Includes: Layer 4/7 load balancing Content switching Caching, compression engine MS Exchange 2010/2013 optimized Pre-configured virtual service templates IPS engine High Availability …

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Slides from my sessions at NIC 2015 in Oslo

Last week, I attended the Nordic Infrastructure Conference 2015 in Oslo, as a speaker. It was my first time at NIC and it is an awesome conference. Thanks for attending my sessions (those of you who did) and a huge thank for the organization behind NIC, for arranging a true International Conference in Scandinavia. Here you will find the Slides from my sessions: Understand how Exchange Online Protection works and how to deploy it successfully in …

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Updated set of free Visio stencils for Office 365, Exchange, Lync, and SharePoint

Microsoft has once again, updated their Visio Stensils for Office 2013, covering Office 365, Exchange 2013, Lync 2013 and SharePoint 2013. These stencils contain more than 300 icons to help you create visual representations of Microsoft Office or Microsoft Office 365 deployments including Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, Microsoft Lync Server 2013, and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013. The zip file now includes both stencil sets from 2012 and 2014. This is a must for everything working …

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Speaking at Nordic Infrastructure Conference 2015

In approx. a month, Nordic Infrastructure Conference 2015 will be held in Oslo, Norway. The dates are Feb. 11th – 13th 2015. Nordic Infrastructure Conference (NIC) was held for the first time in 2012 as a major event on both national and international scale. In February 2015, NIC is ready for its 4th Edition – it has become Northern Europe’s definitive event for IT-Pros. It has a solid agenda in Microsoft technology and 3rd party …

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