The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Category: Cloud

  • SharePoint Online Service Descriptions – Hidden Gem

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    TL; dr – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dn788955

  • Office 365 Service Descriptions

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    TL; dr – http://www.office365sd.com

  • SPS Events – Baltimore 2014

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    It’s surprising how quickly time passes when you plunge yourself into the world of technology. Nevertheless, SPS Events Baltimore was a great success – especially considering the competition of the Preakness Stakes up yonder in Baltimore proper. This year we were at the Anne Arundel Community College Campus just north of Annapolis, MD. As Rob…

  • Azure Files…

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    With Microsoft TechEd going on this week there are several announcements of new technological releases from the Redmond teams. Looks like the Azure team is at it again, taking things a step further, pushing the fabric envelope as they take yet another component to 11. This go round they’re adding in Microsoft Azure Files, an…

  • Seeing through the sensationalism…

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    I do have to say that it cracks me up seeing authors try to spin different information from a non-technical perspective to explain things to consumers rather than just stating, “Hey, it’s a service that already exists, they’re just allowing you to buy it separately.” In this case it’s an article on CMSWire on the…

  • SharePoint Online versus On-Premise (v15)

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    If you’re looking for a comparison of the SharePoint Online offering that’s a part of Office 365 broken down by product SKU with what is provided for with SharePoint 2013 Enterprise for your on-premise implementations, you can! Microsoft released this in the form of an Excel Web App as a link off of the SharePoint…

  • Office 365 Cmdlets

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    Much of the documentation out there for Microsoft Office 365 (books, blog articles, etc.) still seem to reference “Microsoft Online Services Module for Windows PowerShell”. If you try to go to this page to pull down such cmdlets, you’re going to be a little let down. They’ve been pushed into the Azure AD Cmdlets to…

  • Office 365 Security

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    So recently in the download center for Microsoft the Office 365 Security document popped up as being published on 3/7/2013… not quite certain if there were any changes since Microsoft still doesn’t maintain standardization around documents, the download center and change logs, the document was published back in June 2011. If you’ve not read this…

  • Office 365 Dedicated – SLAs and SDs updated…

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    Microsoft has published an update for their Office 365 Dedicated Service Level Agreements and Service Descriptions. If you’re not working with an Office 365 Dedicated client, but are instead working with an OnPremise deployment these documents provide a great starting point when defining your O&M strategy as well as helping to define processes and service…

  • Office 365 Dedicated – Content Migration

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    Starting April 15, 2013, Microsoft will no longer process outbound migrations for SharePoint Online dedicated plan customers. Outbound migrations will instead be accomplished by third-party independent software vendor (ISV) solutions, just like Inbound migrations are today.