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ExchangeServerPro Podcast: Public Folders with Nathan O’Bryan

My guest for this episode is Nathan O’Bryan.

Nathan is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Master, and a Microsoft MVP, living in Portland, Oregon. He specialises in Exchange, Office 365, AD, Azure, and Skype for Business, and currently works as a consultant for SPS.

This episode of the Exchange Server Pro Podcast is brought to you by Office 365 for Exchange Professionals, the most comprehensive and up to date guide to Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud services. Find out more at Office365forExchangePros.com.

In this episode Nathan and I discuss migrating and managing Public Folders in Exchange Server 2013 and 2016.

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Office 365 MESSAGE ENCRYPTION

IRM, OME, S/MIME, and more: Managing Encryption in Exchange Online

In this webinar we’ll cover all the different types of encryption available in Exchange Online. We’ll talk about everything from how to set each encryption technology up, to when is the best time to use each technology. If your organization is using Office 365, but is not taking advantage of the built-in encryption technology available, you won’t want to miss this session.

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Auditing and Reporting for Office 365

As organizations move to Office 365, sometimes the finer details of the service can get over looked. To be able to manage your Office 365 tenant, you need to understand what auditing and reporting capabilities are built into Office 365, as well as what functionality is missing. A complete understanding of the features and functionality in place to protect your systems is essential to identifying threats, and planning a reaction.

Drawing on his personal experiences assisting clients with migrations, Nathan O’Bryan (MCSM: Messaging, MVP: Office Servers and Services) will dive into the auditing and reporting features and functionality that are included with Office 365. He will cover how to properly implement protection for your systems in addition to real world tips and practical lessons learned for protecting your data in the cloud.

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Migrating public folders to Exchange Online: Doing it right the first time

Public Folders have been a part of Exchange since 1996, and thanks to customer demand they are not going away anytime soon. As more customers migrate to Exchange Online in Office 365, they are finding out that the migration path for public folders is not always as straight forward as you would expect. For instance, Microsoft currently does not provide a direct path to migrate from modern public folders to Exchange Online. Additionally, Outlook for Mac or Outlook on the web users that have been migrated to Exchange Online will not be able to access legacy on-premises public folders. What should be done in situations like these?

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Office 365 Provisioning and SSO Deep Dive

Date: Wednesday, April 13 at 11am PT / 2pm ET

Speakers: Nathan O’Bryan, MCSM: Messaging and MVP: Office Servers and Services, Anat Shiwak, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Okta and Marc Jordan, Senior Technical Marketing Manager, Okta

As we approach the fifth anniversary of the release of Office 365, many of the “easy” Office 365 migrations are done. Customers that are migrating to Office 365 now have much more complex requirements. Multiple services, multiple Active Directory forests, complex on-premises Exchange, SharePoint, and Skype for Business deployments, and many other factors contribute to making Office 365 migrations more difficult.

In this webcast, we’ll explain how to take complex identity management requirements and make them manageable.  We’ll discuss how instead of relying on legacy tools Microsoft gives away,  you can remove the identity barriers for your Office 365 migration while building a foundation from which to launch your entire future cloud strategy.

This webcast will show how you can:

  • Configure SSO for Office 365 in minutes
  • Easily manage user provisioning on one pane of glass
  • Automatically assign service-level licenses in Office 365
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Best Practices for Migrating to Exchange 2016 and Office 365

Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Speakers: Nathan O’Bryan, MCSM: Messaging, MVP: Office Servers and Services and Ron Robbins, Product Manager, Dell Software

Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 is here. As with each of the previous major releases — Exchange 2013 and 2010 — the Exchange 2016 release is driving migration activity. Many organizations are taking this time to evaluate their existing environment and consider whether they will upgrade to Exchange 2016 or move to the cloud in Office 365.

In this webcast, you’ll learn the key steps and best practices you need to follow to ensure a successful migration such as:

  1. Performing a thorough pre-migration assessment
  2. Why a streamlined Active Directory is critical
  3. The importance of coexistence
  4. How to evaluate migration solutions carefully
  5. And many more!

Register today!

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Universal Collaboration for the Healthcare Marketplace: A Day in the Life of Office Collaboration

Many IT professionals in the healthcare industry are currently operating in a Microsoft environment, but the growing mobile workforce presents a new set of challenges: How to secure information across all devices? How can a tablet or laptop be more effective as a collaboration tool than a desktop PC and phone? Finding the right answers requires an understanding of the use cases and compliance requirements driving adoption of these new applications – and that’s a challenge!

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Securing Your Office 365 Mailbox – Lessons Learned

As organizations move to Office 365 for their messaging platform, sometimes the finer details of the service can get over looked. There are a number of different options and configurations that you can use to protect your mailboxes, but this protection needs to be properly configured. A complete understanding of the features and functionality in place to protect your systems is essential to identifying threats, and planning a reaction. It is also important to understand what security features and functionality you do and do not get as part of your Office 365 subscription is key to a successful deployment project.

Drawing on his personal experiences assisting clients with migrations, Nathan O’Bryan (MCSM: Messaging, MVP: Office Servers and Services) will dive into the ways you can protect your Office 365 mailboxes from threats like spam, malware, phishing attacks, spoofing, etc. using both 1st and 3rd party tools. He will cover how to properly implement protection for your systems in addition to real world tips and practical lessons learned for protecting your mailboxes in the cloud. Register today to join us!

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Migrating Public Folders to Office 365

Public Folders have been a part of Exchange since 1996, and thanks to customer demand they are not going away anytime soon. As more customers migrate to Exchange Online in Office 365, they are finding out that the migration path for public folders is not always as straight forward as you would expect. For instance, Microsoft currently does not provide a direct path to migrate from modern public folders to Exchange Online. Additionally, Outlook for Mac or Outlook on the web users that have been migrated to Exchange Online will not be able to access legacy on-premises public folders. What should be done in situations like these?

Join Nathan O’Bryan (MCSM: Messaging, MVP: Office Servers and Services) for this Redmond Tech Advisor webcast covering everything you need to know about migrating Public Folders into Office 365. Register to join us!

BONUS: “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals” eBook is the 'go to' technical resource for enterprises moving their mailboxes to Microsoft's cloud. Register to win one free copy compliments of Binary Tree.

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Get Ready for Exchange 2016 and Office 365

Microsoft’s recent release of Exchange 2016 has prompted organizations to begin evaluating their next move. Many will choose to go to the cloud, some will implement a hybrid environment and others will just upgrade their existing platform. Remember that all organizations are different, so there are several considerations that you need to keep in mind as you start your own project planning.

Join experts to hear how to get ready for Exchange 2016 and Office 365, and get the most out of your new environment once you have made your move. Attend and you will:

  • Learn what’s new in Exchange 2016 and Office 365
  • Discover key considerations for implementation
  • Hear tips for preparing your environment now to ensure future success
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Building a Cyber Resilient Enterprise

Webcast Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET

Cyber Resilience is more than high availability (HA) or disaster recovery (DR). Cyber Resilience is combining HA and DR with integrated programs in order to provide sustainability of essential enterprise services. This webcast explores the important questions that need to be asked and answered for any enterprise level IT department to achieve true cyber resiliency.

Join Nathan O'Bryan (MVP Office 365 & MCSM: Messaging) and Keri Farrell (Sr. Product Manager, Dell Software) for this discussion of how to achieve a cyber resilient enterprise. They’ll cover the points that need to be considered, as well as real-world examples of customer successes and failures that you can use to ensure your organization does not suffer a catastrophic data loss. Register today.

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Identity and Authentication Management for Office 365

The most important decisions you need to make while planning your migration to Office 365 all focus on identity and authentication management. In this webinar, we’ll explore the configuration options you need to consider for AD FS and Directory Synchronization as you’re planning your migration into Office 365.

  • What are the differences between the various versions of AD FS?
  • Should I use DirSync, AAD Connect, AAD Sync, FIM, MIM, or something else for Directory synchronization?
  • What high availability options are available for my identity and authentication configuration?

Join Nathan O’Bryan (Office 365 MVP & MCSM: Messaging) for this deep dive into identity and authentication management for Office 365. Whether you’re planning your first migration to Office 365 or you are a consultant who has done dozens of migrations, this webinar is for you.

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Understanding the Threats to Your Online Business

Date: Thursday, November 19th at 11am PT / 2pm ET

Understanding website security is absolutely vital for today’s IT professional. In this webcast, we will explore some of the most common vulnerabilities effecting websites today based on theOWASP top ten project. 

  • What are common website vulnerabilities that can affect my business?
  • How can I tell if a website is vulnerable to any of these attacks?
  • What do I need to do to keep current with web security procedures?

Join Nathan O’Bryan (Office 365 MVP & MCSM: Messaging) on this deep dive into web security. Whether you’re a security professional, or you just want to learn how the internet works, this webcast is for you.

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TLS and SSL: What You Need To Know

View Live on Thursday, 12th November 2015 at 11am PT / 2pm ET

SSL is one of the foundational technologies on which the internet is built. In this webcast, we will dive into SSL and TLS past, present, and future. We’ll explore where SSL has been and where it is going and what you need to know to go along.

 

  • What version(s) of SSL and TLS are secure? What versions are not?
  • How does SSL work?
  • What does key length mean?

Join Nathan O’Bryan (Office 365 MVP & MCSM: Messaging) on this exploration of SSL. Whether you’re a security professional, or you just want to learn how the internet works, this webcast is for you.

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