With the RackSpace situation looking to be beyond worst hitting the sacrosanct “Thou Shalt NOT Lose Data” wall, a little digging was done here to find some info on who is responsible for what when the data is in the cloud. In this case, Microsoft is the focus but one […]
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After an evaluation of the various cloud storage vendors and their cost to store our backups there we decided on the following: Veeam Backup & Replication v10 StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL) BackBlaze B2 At the bottom of the B2 link is a calculator showing the savings over the others. […]
A key feature that has always been a selling point for SharePoint for us is in the Check Out/In, Versioning, and Review functionality. To set up mandatory check out/in and versioning log on to your Office 365 SharePoint portal with the admin account. https://YourPortal.SharePoint.Com Click Documents Click Edit Click Return […]
We are not exactly sure about the motivation behind Microsoft allowing company users to purchase their own Microsoft 365 subscriptions to do their work on company time. It’s called: Self-Service Purchases As an administrator of client companies large and small this step by Microsoft is mind boggling. We’ve put in […]
We’re in the process of digging in to the methodology for securing our Office 365 (O365) and Azure resources. One of the things we are doing is building an on-boarding checklist for setting up O365 and Azure tenants as we sign them up. The first place to start is the […]
When clicking on the Outlook App (2019) to get it set up with our Office365 account we hit this: Outlook: Something went wrong and Outlook couldn’t set up your account. Please try again. Well, nothing worked. With Office365 we can’t set up our Outlook client manually either. Logging in to […]
The following were drawn up during a mentoring session this morning. How do I start? The first thing we need to do is get the business essentials in place. A business identity and a professional presentation are very important. An @Hotmail.Com address, or other such generic e-mail services, is definitely […]