In today's competitive industry landscape, it is more important than ever to get the best value for money that is available to you and your business. Nonetheless, defending against cyber threats and preserving business data will remain a major issue for companies over Christmas this year and in 2022. If there's one thing we've learned about cyberattacks in 2020 and 2021, it's that nothing is off-limits. With...
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Sometimes, Microsoft Teams is just running very slow. When this happens, there are a number of factors to consider, including the quality of your internet speed and connection and whether or not someone else on the same network is doing something "bandwidth-intensive" (3 of the five kids are watching Netflix while the other two are gaming for example). Regardless of these factors, Microsoft Teams is a...
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Microsoft’s latest operating system is starting to take the world by storm. But before jumping ship and upgrading to the new OS, better read this first. Make sure to download our free guide at the end of this article as well. It’s finally here. After six years, Microsoft has just released the latest version of its operating system — Windows 11 — for the world and, of...
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If you have read the other articles in this series. You will know about Office 365, and you will know about the shared responsibility model. (If you missed the last two article entries find them in the hyperlinks in the sentence before.) So, you know about the shared responsibility model and how secure Microsoft keep their share of the responsibility. What would the impact be...
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Back in August 2021, we ran a webinar on Office 365. Looking into exactly what it is and everything that is included. We also looked at the impact of using such a tool, both the positives and the negatives. We concluded that Microsoft 365 was a premium application suite offering, complete enough to help any business operate smoothly. Saying that Microsoft does not have a monopoly over such...
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This is the second article of our Microsoft 365 series. Here is the first post if you haven't read it already: What is Microsoft 365? Office 365? How does Microsoft manage Your Data? If you did read it, you already know what Office 365 is and the different variations of it on offer. You also know that Microsoft’s data management policy means you are responsible for...
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Microsoft Office 365 comes in 3 flavours. Personal, Business, Enterprise. All of them have their benefits but in total, Enterprise offers the biggest variety of security features and the most advanced toolset. It comes down to preference and budget to find what a company needs....
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You may receive error messages below: Having Office 365 mailbox spread across multiple data centres can cause issues when accessing shared resources. The issue can demonstrate it self by an inability to send as a shared mailbox or losing access to it completely in Outlook or Web-mail. Outlook error The specified object was not found in the store., Can’t connect to the mailbox of user Mailbox database guid:...
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The quick version: Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned $UserCredential = Get-Credential $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection Import-PSSession $Session New-Mailbox -Name "John Contoso" -RemovedMailbox "John Contoso" -MicrosoftOnlineServicesID [email protected] -Password (ConvertTo-SecureString -String 'NewPassword' -AsPlainText -Force) The long version: From time to time mistakes happen and, at least with Microsoft technology, there are ways to recover an Office 365 Mailbox and recovering data that has been deleted. Now, usually with Office...
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If you are an Exchange administrator then you will come across the issue with leavers mailboxes needing to be transferred to another users mailbox. If you are looking after on-site exchange, then the process is slightly shorter as you don't need to connect to the remote PowerShell. You simply log in to one of you exchange servers and run PowerShell as Administrator. Then you run following...
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