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A quick guide how to set up Azure and Azure DevOps (VSTS) to automate the build process of your game made in Unity3D.
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Data-driven insights | Microsoft cloud services provide us with lots of new opportunities and information, but for it to be valuable, it needs to be refined and interpreted..
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The CIS Microsoft 365 Foundations Benchmark will help you get the most important security settings in place in Microsoft 365. It’s a guidance for establishing a secure configuration posture for Microsoft 365 running on any OS.
Read more » A quick guide how to set up Azure and Azure DevOps (VSTS) to automate the build process of your game made in Unity3D.
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Data-driven insights | Microsoft cloud services provide us with lots of new opportunities and information, but for it to be valuable, it needs to be refined and interpreted..
“You can reduce your odds of being compromised by up to 99.9% by implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA).” – Microsoft 2018 security research
There are countless of shortcuts in Excel that saves lots of time and energy! Here are some tips and trix to start the new year with!
To sum it up, Windows Autopilot is a new and more modern way to deploy Windows. The device can be delivered from the OEM straight to the end user without passing through IT. The OEM registers the device with the customers tenant at the time of order and when it boots up for the first time it will contact the Windows Autopilot service and receive it's configuration according to the organisations policies. The service is tightly integrated with Azure AD and Intune.
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With Ignite 2018 kicking of there is of course lots of news coming and actually its so much so that it is pretty hard to keep track of! | Well this post summarize most of the news from the book of news that Microsoft released.
Why usage data is important | The move to Office 365 is not just about moving a bunch of data to someone else’s datacenter. It is a more modern way of working which provides fantastic opportunities around collaboration both internally and externally, spreading information with audio and video, smart tools built upon machine learning and AI, intelligent security solutions that talks to each other and a lot more.
To buy an Office 365 license for a user means that he will get access to much more than just email and intranet. To drive adoption and to make sure that the users learn to get the most out of the new opportunities, you have to measure how the different services are used and how much. This is where usage data comes in.
In my previous blog post, we examined how we can configure our virtual machine to be a VSTS building agent with support for node.js. We will now continue to look at how we can automate the deployment to Azure using Infrastructure as code (IaC).
Do you ever wonder what would happen if a detail was changed? "What-if"? With Goal-seek in Excel, you can actually do this!.
During the first half of the year we have had enormous success and when we close the books we see that growth is + 40%. Of course, this is incredibly fun, as it is also proof that our "story" is true and that our employees are somewhat extraordinary.
On July 15th it´s time for Microsoft Inspire 2018. Altitude 365 will be in there to learn what Microsoft has planned for FY19. As usual, a number of interesting areas and lectures is up for grabs. Although I would like to see as many of these as possible,...
Organizations move from buying and managing products to consuming services. When this happens, knowledge about configure the services, their content and relationship, as well as a tool for managing and consuming the services over time is a must.
This is a blog in several parts where I will tell you how you can automate the deployment of VSTS building agents using ARM, DSC and VSTS.
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New dashboard in Security and Compliance center | Microsoft brings together the tools to make them more accessible based on the GDPR perspective.
In december 2016 the idea of Altitude lights was born. Now we need you help to finish the project.
As the world grows smaller and smaller, we need to do identity management smarter and faster. This post will help you to give Štěpán Horáčk a proper UPN / email address using PowerShell.
In this blog post, I will show you how to make your editing in Adobe Premiere Pro more efficient and secure by using Microsoft OneDrive for Business
We get a plethora of products in Office 365! Some seem to make the same things as well. How to know when to use what? I did not intend to immerse in just all of the products here, but I will list a number that can make your meetings easier!
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Cloud ransomware - and how to avoid it | A recent video on YouTube show and example of how an attacker can encrypt you emails in Office 365. Lets take a look at this and how this can be avoided.
Ready or not, Christmas is quickly approaching and not many days remain until ham, christmas gifts and Santa Claus seize all of our attention.
Flow vs IFTTT | As most of you already know, Microsoft Flow is the enterprise answer to IFTTT ("If This Then That") and IFTTT's ability to create receipts to automate your daily tasks.
During the days at TechDays we got a lot of questions if we built something "cool" in Azure that would handle the draw itself? Although we initially intended to run a more old-fashioned method of nameplates with correct answers in a bowl, we felt that this was a challenge we could not leave unmarried.
This year, it’s no problem to come extra thirsty for TechDays, because we at Altitude 365 have bought 4,000 bottles of water that will be distributed at the fair. Also note that the bottles are the key to our TechDays lottery that has many great prizes in the pot, so do not miss to register.
Under en vecka i Orlando, USA så har Altitude 365 varit representerade. Vi har deltagit i otaliga sessioner och träffat branch människor, diskuterat och lärt oss massor. Klicka på bilden nedan så kan ni i denna sway ta del av lite av de godbitar som presen...
What is SPF, DKIM and DMARC? These three components are used in combination to prevent someone outside your domain from sending emails as if they were sent from inside your organization, aka Spoofing.
Many organizations have standard templates for how documents are produced. So how can we facilitate and make sure we have a default theme chosen from the start? It is actually very simple.
We are expanding and are now looking for a Consultant manager with Project manager responsibility, to help Sweden become world leader in digitalization!
Microsoft released the long-awaited Adoption content pack to Power BI. Here I’ll describe how to maximize the value from the preview available!
Villes Productivity Tips – divide text in Excel | There are lots of occasions when it may be good to separate text in lists. In the example below, a poor fellow has encountered a malicious virus that renamed all the users files and added a new file extension, which means that the files are unreadable unless they are renamed. (This is a real scenario encountered by one of my customers).
I have just come home from my first Microsoft Inspire (formerly Microsoft WPC (World Partner Conference)) and I would like to share my top 5 reflections based on my own preconceived opinions, hoping that other first-time visitors can get even better prepared.
Inspire is over for this year and in this blog post, my best experiences and the kind of gold I want to share most of me sum up! This is blog post number 2 of 2
Inspire is over for this year and in this blog post I will summarize my best experiences and the kind of golden grains I want to share! This is blog post number 1 of 2.
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is coming and that is fast. In end of May 2018, the new directives will be in motion. How will you prepare for this and are you aware of all the advantages that you already have in your Office 365 environment?
What do I mean by official, you might be thinking. Altitude 365 is included in the High Touch Partner Program and we had a pre-day on Sunday so it felt like we were already running today. There are, of course, lots to write about after this day, but I have chosen 3 main tracks for the blog post.
Altitude 365 is delighted to be Selected as a Finalist in the IAMCP 2017 Global Partner-to-Partner Awards Program. Awards will be presented at Microsoft Inspire in Washington, DC on Tuesday, July 11th at 1:30 pm in the Commons Community Hub Theatre.
Got problems after updating to MABS may update? | Microsoft recently released an update for Microsoft Azure Backup Server, “May 2017 update for Microsoft Azure Backup Server”. If you like me where protecting VMware server, you may have encountered this problem.
Ran into this issue a few weeks ago and thought I would drop a short post about it since I’ve never seen it happen before. Symptom was the provisioning getting stuck, it just showed the: “sorry for the wait. Your OneDrive is almost ready”...
Have you ever wondered what the big differences are between Office 365 licensing Business Premium, E3 or SPE E3 and why is SPE E3 in round numbers are three times more expensive than a Business Premium?
Everyone works in different way. However, the important thing is not how you work, but what results are achieved. If I can do more efficient work and save time, I get less stressed and can spend more time for something else.
What I like with Microsoft Teams is how it sort of puts itself like a shell over Groups, putting together a nice package that I customize and, above all, I can...
To install or buy IT are two completely different things. If you want to become a good buyer, you have to let go of the thought of daily control and quick fixes. Instead it’s all about long-term work with focus on how the average delivery is working.
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I work a lot with onboarding of Office 365. Many people think it's boring with all these guides that have to be produced, but one thing that might not be well known is that there are loads of...
We are now looking for a salesperson with full focus on Public, to help Sweden become world leader in digitalization! We handle applications on a regular basis and the position may be fulfilled before the deadline date. Deadline for application is 16 June.
IT WORKS! finally! We can now start deploying OD4B in EDU tenants with IT handling provisioning here is the steps needed to perform this as of today, hoping it won’t break down on us again. Firstly connect to Sharepoint online: Information from https...
The ransom-ware out the have been around for a while and people have finally seen the benefits of cloud storage. But files are still synced to a local folder on the computer and are therefore still vulnerable. Microsoft helps customer to restore batches of...
Get the latest updates and tips from the cloud. Todays episode is about the Azure Information Protection and why.
Snart går TechX 2017 av stapeln och Altitude 365 kommer ha flera talare på plats och just nu ser det ut som vi kommer köra runt sex stycken olika sessioner. Vi kommer ha sessioner om alla de områden där vi fokuserar dvs Azure, EMS till Office 365 och ni ka...
A report on news, roadmaps and other stuff from the Ignite conference in Atlanta. Ignite is the Microsoft Conference that gathers IT people from all over the world. It got tons of sessions, all from news to deep technical howtos. This time we were 23 000 a...
You may have an Azure SQL misconfigured allowing any address to connect, this is a bad idea and needs to be fixed. The problem comes when you need to limit your firewall and don’t know what addresses normally connects to your database. If you miss an...
This post tells you how to optimize you Azure SQL performance to make quick ROI....
We all know that retention works on SharePoint, and since OneDrive For Business and Office 365 Groups file areas are all SharePoint underneath, retention works just fine there too. Only issue is.. where the hell do I find the retention folder that the poli...
Because I found pretty much nothing on this issue, I decided to write a post about it because it can put a big halt in IT driven onboarding. We all know there is a way to provision OneDrive for the user, there are KB articles on how you do it and a lot of...
Microsoft recently announced a new feature in Azure Web App service called MySQL In App, as you can tell by the name this is an PaaS version of MySQL and it’s not ClearDB. The service is now in public preview and I like to show you how easy it is to...
The scenario I have a new empty subscription, in it I create a new empty resource group and I add a user as owner to that resource group. The permission definition of “owner” is {*}, full access to everything. I also added the user as “Reader” on subscript...
We are constantly learning new things and I like to share a couple of things that I’ve learned that i think all sysadmins need to know. So I have created a list of my first 17 Powershell tips and tricks. #1 If you are scripting against an external da...
Your Azure datacenter is growing and more and more administrators is getting access to your resources. RBAC have been around for a while in ARM (Azure resource manager) but perhaps you need an extra level of security especially from human error. On the 6th...
Soon it’s time for Server 2016 and next-generation server management is here! With nanoserver and server-core, where we do not have a GUI, this is perfect. Server Mananagement tools include a web GUI where we can control such as services and processe...
Hi!! If you haven’t read Part 1 do it. It’s been a while but not without results. Let’s recap, I left you with a drunk driving ML and some new tasks to solve. Minimize latency problem / remove the drunk driver Make the ML predict Accelera...
I had this problem with a customer that did a tenant to tenant migration and after the migration users where not able to access our internal SharePoint sites as external users. luckily I found out how to fix it, here we go! First go to your Azure AD/office...
Did you know that Azure have a public DNS service? It is a part of Azure resource manager, and is currently in public preview.
Starting with version 1.1.105.0 of Azure AD Connect we have the great improvement of having a 30minute sync schedule as default in via the new scheduler. If you’ve been running on SQL express, you might have run in to a problem where the sync engine won’t...
At this moment Azure Automation is using Powershell version 5.0.10514.2 and for me this was a bit problematic. Because I was using a newer version, I know I have only myself to blame for all the testing and headache but here is a fun fact. .where() methods...
In this scenario we have three networks one on premise and two in Azure, one ASM (vNet1) and one ARM (vNet2). External users access the network using Azure P2S VPN but are unable to reach vNet2 and the office network....
Can Azure Drive Your Car – I got the idea after making my GA code in PowerShell and then saw George Hotz self driving car ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTrgRYa2wbI ). I thought, I might be able to make mine own self driving car using Azure Machine Lear...
Backup is really important, perhaps one of the most important task we have to work with. Since I’m a Ninja Azure it is obvious that I use Azure Backup to handle my backups. I have previously encountered a couple of problems that I intend to share wit...
Microsoft Intune is Microsofts cloud based MDM system, I’m sure you all are aware of that. But do you now what it can do for an iOS device? Well I will try to let you now what’s matter with Intune and iOS today. I want to add a bold on TODAY, what Microsof...
Today I got a call from an IT admin whos environmet we onboarded two weeks ago. One shared mailbox had the issue that when an incoming e-mail arrived it instantly was moved to trash. No rules on the mailbox and no transport rules. Weird but I discovered th...
Well in the north it’s already here… But some more warm and fuzzy feeling is coming.. Office 365 with 2016 apps. Just a reminder that during February the new version will be starting automatically to rollout on click-to run installations...
The “Send to Sway” Add-in lets you easily create a new Sway from the images and text of the selected OneNote page. This turns the thoughts you’ve organized in OneNote into an interactive, visually compelling digital story in one click Download here...
I had a discussion with a customer the other day (again) and realized that there are some misunderstanding about conditional access. Setting conditional access is not a tick box and it will not give You total control!! There are some things about the condi...
The Calendar Checking Tool for Outlook (CalCheck) is a program that checks the Microsoft Outlook Calendar and items for problems or for potential problems. And it just got updated! Download here How do you use it? The following examples descr...
The Office 2016 Deployment Tool allows the administrator to customize and manage Office 2016 Click-to-Run deployments. This tool will help adminstrators to manage installations sources, product/language combinations, and deployment configuration options fo...
Use these scripts to migrate public folders from Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 to Office 365 and Exchange Online, Exchange 2013, or later. Download here...
This is not a step by step guide, but rather a collection of the problems I encountered when configuring a vSphere 6.0 environment to use Azure Site Recovery as a second DR site. This is the main topics Cspsconfigtool accounts Storage Account Documentation...
If you have Windows 10 or Windows Management Framework 5.0 (WMF5), you have PowerShellGet. To install the module run the following command, in a elevated powershell....
We are moving to an era with fewer people managing more servers. With Azure Operational Insights we are able to collect and search data from multiple servers for analysis. When the data is collected by an agent, we can either use intelligence pack provided...
https://github.com/jonjander/Stuff/blob/master/xmas.ps1 @Meapax...
This blog describes how to onboard multiple VM’s to Azure Automation. From an administration computer: First login to both ASM and ARM Here is the function that installs the Azure Automation DSC extension on the VM. The script originated from this si...
If everything works fine with AD sync running the AD Connect Tool and suddenly it stops working and nothing seems to be wrong. It could be to many deletes in the local AD. A feature of the AZure AD Connect Tool is the deletion threshold. This feature is de...
Last week when I was deploying some VMs in Azure I got this nice water stamp....
I know that you have used export-csv one too many times and each time it’s a pain in the ass. For example, you make a huge dump of data to a csv and two weeks later you import the file to restore your dump. This simple task step may take unnecessaril...
The users OneDrives are only access by the users itself and the ones who the users have given access to. Of course there are some time when IT or some other user need to get full control of a OneDrive. One scenario could be that the user needs document tha...
I think that Office 365 and Azure is a great tool for consolidation separate environments. When a company had dispersed IT environment in different countries or when a company acquires another one. What we need to think thoroughly through here is the admin...
A couple days ago Microsoft started to rollout support for Mac OS X in Intune. These features will show up under the coming weeks in Your tenant. It’s easy as with Windows to get started for the user, just logon to the portal and enroll. The support...
Yeah it’s 60 seconds, 60 minutes or perhaps 60 days depending on how good you are. To get started you’ll need this....
Are you running your azure commands on the right subscription? I have made a PowerShell function that helps you add or change subscriptions simple and easy. This saves you time if you jump between multiple subscriptions, it also let you see what your curre...
I want to tell you about something I came across a while ago then I was testing Azure SQL. I’m talking about Row-Level Security or RLS. RLS was GA on 19 Aug 2015 for Azure SQL v12 and is a security feature for filtering SQL data on row level… As you...
We all like the user interfaces and are using that daily but we all know that running some tasks in PowerShell is inevitably. We need to administrate all the Office 365 services with PowerShell. It can get frustrating to start modules, snappins or whatever...
This is just a small post about a problem I come across when I tried to do a test failover in Azure Site Recovery statusCode:Conflict serviceRequestId: statusMessage:{“error”:{“code”:”MissingSubscriptionRegistration”,...
When using federation and SSO with Office 365 there will be AD FS servers involved. You may at some point get e-mail or in the portal see something like this: This is normal behavior and should actually be solved by itself. If you are using AD FS 2.0 or la...
You may have heard of Azure AD Application proxy and perhaps you are already using it in your environment. A couple of days ago a new feature was released in azure called “Connector Groups”. If you are using the proxy connectors today, this wil...
So the Office 365 ProPlus Click to run has been upgraded to match the Office 2016 version. But unfortunately it has come with a small bug when accessing the preview for Excel. I’m sure this will be updated soon and when running click to run enabled updates...
Hello, For those of you that have been on email migration assignments, especially from Lotus Notes and Novell Groupwise, you probably know that the TargetAddress attribute is your best friend for basic coexistence. What does that mean? Well, the most basic...
Okey, you need to merge two object arrays in Poweshell. In this example we are going to match the name of your PC’s running processes and the names of all the services available on your machine. In this example I use “-like”, witch is not...
Cumulative Update 9 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 was released on June 16, 2015 and its now been a week without any mayor issues. Altitude have installed it on a couple of our customers Exchange Online Hybrid servers and it seems stable. The cumulativ...
One of the most common error people do when configuring Office 365 is doing so with the wrong default language! And trust me this is so common that we are doing language migrations almost weekly. It might sound like that’s just something that you cha...
So what have we been up to latley? Well its been a super busy spring for us all! We have been buzy with migrating 10s of thousands of mailboxes to Office 365 and enabled a lot of those for Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS), the Azure projects we are working...
The road trip team has arrived in Memphis, Tennesse and are planing on doing a little longer stay than planned. The Memphis Grizzlies are playnig in the NBA Play-offs tonight and we dont want to miss that!! This time the pod is about how You should...
Today the roadtrip has left New Orleans, Louisiana and arrived at Vicksburg, Mississippi. We started our jorney in thunderstorms and under tornado warnings. The trip went well after all and we had agood time as ususal. During the distance for the day we al...
So it begins… A long planning for the roadtrip has come to its end, now it’s time for action! We are starting our journey in New Orleans, Louisiana and heading for Chicago and the MS Ignite Conference. As we all in Altitude 365 love technical stuff a...
UPDATE on 2014-12-30 Today had my second exam and I got the same problem. The only difference was that the Chat window connected, but still no photo for ID or head shot. Got another incident number for Pearsson Vue help line. This time the greeter asked be...
A question that always comes around is the central assigned permissions for mailboxes For example a receptionist application is using a service account that needs read access to everyones calendar to show what’s up with the users today. Some of the applica...
Hello IT-Pros Let’s say you have an array that contains data. The values are not unique. What is the simplest way to only keep the unique values? Simply try “unique”! Very simple and very useful By Magnus Göransson...
Hello folks, You have probably, more than once, explained the pros and cons on the different ways to assign permissions to Shared Mailboxes in Exchange and Exchange Online / Office 365? The problem You have two ways to go: – The group method This inc...
In today’s time it might feel like there is more than just one tool for the task. In Office 365 there is Yammer, Groups, Lync, Skype, Shared Mailboxes, Site Mailboxes etc, etc… This post will try to explain what solution you should use and match it t...
We are proud to say that we will have Magnus Björk, Office 365 MVP, on stage during the biggest IT related event in Sweden, TechDays! Magnus will talk about Office 365 and how to get there. Be there on Thursday November 20 to see and hear how your organiza...
Last week i enabled a couple of users for Enterprise Mobility Suite and the SKU id is fairly simple, EMS. So its absolutely possible to add the EMS suite via PowerShell, in this case we wanted ALL users that had an Office 365 E3 licens to also get an EMS l...
A Exchange hybrid server is not a special role nor a special installation of Exchange 2013. A hybrid server is a regular Exchange 2013 with CAS and Mailbox role. The purpose of the hybrid server is to have rich co-existence between the internal Exchange en...
In our previous post titled What is EMS (Enterprise Mobility Suite) and should you get it? We discussed the EMS (Enterprise Mobility Suite) and touched upon Azure Active Directory Premium that is part of EMS briefly, but in this post we will dig a little d...
I had a discussion when I was at a customers site the other day regarding the need to be in a specific location to be able to work. One of the employees told me he is not allowed to work from home and we had a discussion around that. The reason why they wh...
…and how to avoid them Hello IT-pros! I have been migrating mailboxes from Lotus Notes to Exchange and Exchange Online for almost ten years now and in this post I will share some of my notes from the field. In this first post I will share a couple of thing...
On the OneDrive blog it is announced that it will offer unlimited storage to the OneDrive for Business customers. This is the second storage boost that Microsoft has given to Office 365 subscribers this year, last June users where upgraded to 1 TB. But rem...
To customize a Click-to-Run for Office 365 installation, administrators run the Office Deployment Tool and provide a custom Configuration.xml configuration file. The Office Deployment Tool performs the tasks that are specified by using the properties in th...
Today Anders Green started at Altitude365. Anders has a long experience as an architect of communication and infrastructure solutions. He comes from Infozone where he spent four years working as a Senior Unified Communications Consultant with Lync, Exchang...
There are so many good sayings in this video but the last thing they say in it is something i find more and more true for every day. “And really what it comes down to is we are letting Microsoft be good at what they are good at, managing a datacenter...
This blog post will break down EMS (Enterprise Mobility Suite) by first giving you an overview including some YouTube videos. And you will then get a detailed look at the three different services that Enterprise Mobility Suite is built upon. You might thin...
I love how this relates to how we use technology to do our dayly work. Play to learn. For us its more like “lets create an Office 365 tenant and build ADFS in azure and se how that ipad behaves when we add it via workplace join in Intune and Azure...
Ben’s must have some fun at work since his entire job is to try and breaking into the Office 365 services. In this weeks codechat he gives some insights into how Microsoft protects Office 365 by trying to break it!...
Well they do a lot of things keeping it secure, one of those things is “assuming breach” which is important so that they never let the guard down. You can learn more on how they employ a Red VS Blue team to attack and defend Microsoft Azure (an...
While we were touring the United States of America on our MEC Road Trip I started receiving these emails to our admin account and I had not seen them before so it sure got my attention. I could not remember turning anything on or seeing or hearing about th...
As you may have seen we have had a quiz during our road trip, with 10 Exchange or Office 365 questions. The winner will be chosen from the persons that answers all of the questions correct, attends MEC and sends in the best one-liner, we will give a score...
Altitude MEC QUIZ Question 10 What is the size limit of an Archive mailbox in Exchange Online with an E3 subscription? To answer this question, send an email to quiz@altitude365.com Good luck, The Altitude Crew...
Altitude MEC QUIZ Question 9 What is an ImmutableID and how is it generated? To answer this question, send an email to quiz@altitude365.com Good luck, The Altitude Crew...
Altitude MEC QUIZ Question 8 What is your favorite Exchange Online Powershell oneliner? To answer this question, send an email to quiz@altitude365.com Good luck, The Altitude Crew...
Hey experts, The quiz is still open for all MEC attendees and you still have an equal chance to win our prizes! The last question will be published during Sunday 30/3. During Monday we will publish all questions in one blog post so you can make sure...
UPDATE: The question was missing, so the post is updated. Thanks, John B, for pointing this out! Altitude MEC QUIZ Question 7 Scenario: You are the administrator of an Office 365 tenant. You are asked to assign licenses to 250 users. None of...
The Altitude crew has been on the road for a week now, travelling from Los Angeles to Tucson by car. When driving on unknown roads its really useful to have a GPS and for that matter we use the built in Here ™ GPS in the Nokia Lumia 1020. The GPS has all t...
Altitude MEC QUIZ Question 6 Question: Is it possible to get free busy coexistence between on premise Lotus Notes and Office 365 / Exchange Online? If possible, extra points for giving a high level explanation on how! To answer this qu...
Altitude MEC QUIZ Question 5 Question: What mechanisms for encrypting a single e-mail are available from Office 365/Exchange Online? To answer this question, send an email to quiz@altitude365.com Good luck, The Altitude Crew...
When we are travelling we use Lync Online to connect to partner, customers and colleagues. However, there is one gap and that is how to connect to our families. To connect to our families we use Skype because that gives us both voice and video and at no co...