When dealing with Office 365 Email configuration you will find that Microsoft requires that your organization setup an SPF (Sender Policy Framework) record to go along with your Exchange Online tenant. This is a DNS text record that allows Microsoft’s messaging servers can send email for your domain. Let’s cover what you need to know […]
Large Address Book Latencies in VDI solved with FSLogix
Recently the FSLogix team was working with a customer, and was posed with a dilemma about whether their toolset would solve a problem with large address book latencies in VDI and Skype for Business. Essentially the problem is that the Skype address book would download every time a user opened Skype for Business which was […]
What happens when the entire IT industry shifts?
Our industry is currently in the midst of some monumental shifts. First of all, hardware is changing. Flash and NVMe are changing how we write to disks, opening up all sorts of opportunities for hyper-converged architectures, not to mention the ability for applications to write much faster to disk. Cloud is also beginning to be […]
The Importance of Identity Management within an Office 365 Implementation
Microsoft cloud offerings transition your organization into a modern enterprise providing access to your corporate information without having onsite infrastructure. If you are planning to implement Office 365, then there are considerations for designing proper organizational identity management. The decisions made should ensure a secure user login experience, and seamless access to corporate resources within […]
#CurrentStatus Episode 39: Mystery or Fact: Can Outlook Perform in VDI?
Join us Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 10:15 pm EDT for another episode of Current Status. During this episode of Current Status, co-hosts Theresa Miller and Phoummala Schmitt talk with guest Jarian Gibson(@jariangibson) Architect at Jarian Gibson Consulting and Citrix CTP. Are you implementing or have you implemented a desktop virtualization solution with Microsoft Outlook as one of your core […]
The Importance of Identity Management within an Office 365 Implementation
Microsoft cloud offerings transition your organization into a modern enterprise providing access to your corporate information without having onsite infrastructure. If you are planning to implement Office 365, then there are considerations for designing proper organizational identity management. The decisions made should ensure a secure user login experience, and seamless access to corporate resources within […]
Office 365 Backup and Recovery: What should your organization be considering?
Office 365 product offerings have become a common choice for organizational document sharing and email. These products deliver a high level of availability, reliability and security but do not provide native backup and recovery options for organizations, regardless of the level of criticality of the information. Administrators need to ensure that even in the most unanticipated […]
How to get started with Exchange Online Archiving
In earlier versions of Exchange On-Premises, organizations typically pursued 3rd party products for email archiving, so that older messages could be stored on more affordable disk while obtaining the ability to control how long archive data will be kept. Archiving, in general allows an organization to keep email data for legal and compliance reasons while keeping […]
IT/Dev Connections 2014: Office 365 Exchange Online Notes
Office 365 Exchange Online was a hot topic at IT/Dev Connections this year. The relevance of this has to do with the fact that many organizations are considering cloud based models for their future email deployments. This can be for many reasons of which can be cost savings, the benefit of not having to maintain […]
IT/Dev Connections 2014: Real Opinions about Microsoft Technologies
The first time I ever attended an IT/Dev Connections conference was back in 2006. At that point in time I had been in the industry for about 10 years. I recall attending sessions about the technologies that I used every day by the many well respected independent technical minds. Many of these great minds are still part […]