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Email archiving for Exchange Online in Office 365

Retention and recovery of email data for ten years.

Email archiving and email archiving tools are important considerations for many businesses. Email archives help businesses with email retention policy, regulatory compliance, e-discovery and litigation issues, email disaster recovery and message...

25 Jun 2012 by Ben Chai

Bolstering Office 365 Email security

Think - e-discovery, email uptime and a host of the various email bolt-ons corporations have with on-premise Exchange

The Office 365 data centre is built like Fort Knox, providing not only data security but business continuity in duality of power supplies, servers, network cards and even data centres. However Email security in the data centre, business continuity...

25 Jun 2012 by Ben Chai

Finding the best Office 365 Microsoft Partners

Who and where are the best partners to help with your move to Office 365?

Microsoft Partners are an integral part of the Office 365 service and support for SharePoint, Lync, Exchange and many other aspects. In this video, we provide some tips on how to find the best Microsoft partner that is both closest to you and can...

25 Jun 2012 by Ben Chai

Tips for a smooth Exchange migration

Solving the big data issue

Migrating an on-premise Exchange to Office 365 has many challenges such as the big data issue, time to migrate depending on bandwidth, migration of multiple Exchange servers to one single point and many others. Mimecast is a company that has helped...

25 Jun 2012 by Ben Chai

Essential add-ons for Exchange Online

Exchange online may not have everything you need

Office 365 has many benefits that make it a powerful, but in spite of this, Office 365 is not without its shortfalls.  As a result Microsoft has collaborated with many third party companies to bolster its flagship business suite with additional...

24 Jun 2012 by Ben Chai

Exchange Online vs Exchange On-Premise

Which is best?

What exactly are the benefits of Exchange Online over Exchange On-Premise? And How can an enterprise class corporation with huge investments in its Exchange architecture migrate its existing Exchange estate into Exchange Online?

22 Jun 2012 by Ben Chai

Google to Office 365 Migration

Cloud to cloud migration

Google Mail and Google Apps make a viable alternative to Office 365. However, recently several companies have looked at migrating away from the Google offering due to business advantages such as Office 365 providing on-premise applications, when...

22 Jun 2012 by Ben Chai

Customer collaboration in the extranet

How to improve customer collaboration using Office 365.

One major benefit of Office 365 is collaboration with suppliers and/or customers. In this video, we examine how can you set up a secure extranet collaboration environment in Office 365 between your supplier or a customer.

20 Jun 2012 by Ben Chai

Office 365 based websites

Your own website in SharePoint - how do you do it and what are the benefits?

Office 365, provides a business with the ability to have its own website hosted within Office 365, but what are the benefits over a standard hosted website, how can Office 365 based websites benefit customer-supplier extranets and how quick is it to...

20 Jun 2012 by Ben Chai

Hybrid challenges and how to overcome them

On-premise and cloud systems can work well together.

For a variety of reasons, such as compliance and legal issues, some businesses may opt to combine Office 365 SharePoint online with SharePoint on-premise - a hybrid environment. What are the challenges of a hybrid environment and how can you...

20 Jun 2012 by Ben Chai

SharePoint online migration strategy

A roadmap to somewhere

Once you've decided which data to migrate into Office 365, it's important to ensure that the migration is performed in such a way to mitigate any potential business risks. This video, shows how your business can benefit using a data migration...

20 Jun 2012 by Ben Chai

The big data migration challenge

How to migrate terabytes of data in a couple of hours

Most organisations have terabytes of data held in databases, file and folder systems and email. Trying to migrate terabytes of data into Office 365 can be a headache. In this, Tim Wallis, CEO of Content and Code, provides advice on which data to...

20 Jun 2012 by Ben Chai

Choosing an Office 365 training course

Office 365 training to help staff make the most out of Office 365.

When any new technology is brought into a business, training is an important factor. The amount of training will depend on the business size, whether its IT support is in-house or out-sourced and whether the organisation has an IT support tier. This...

20 Jun 2012 by Ben Chai

Getting the most out of your mobile phone in Office 365

How can you make webapps work on a non-windows phone?

The SharePoint mobile device experience is one of the marvels of working in the cloud, however some aspects of the mobile experience aren't always straight forward and can be a little challenging when mobile phones are involved. In this video, Tim...

20 Jun 2012 by Ben Chai

How to design the best Office 365 front end

SharePoint to go.

Office 365 has such a flexible, customisable front-end with so many different components, that creating the best, most simple front end for your users isn't always easy. In this short video, Tim Wallis, CEO of Content and Code, discusses the best...

20 Jun 2012 by Ben Chai

SharePoint navigation made easy

How do you get from team site to personal site?

Accessing data in the Office 365 repository can be a bit bewildering for new users, because the repository is not structured in the same way as the standard file system on a computer. For example, how do you navigate between sites, subsites, team...

20 Jun 2012 by Ben Chai

Sites, Sub-sites, Libraries and Lists - What are they?

A quick overview of SharePoint components

Sites, lists, folders, libraries and subsites are all components of your Office 365 repository, but what are they, and why are they important? Tim Wallis, CEO at Content & Code, explains the importance of each of these SharePoint components.

20 Jun 2012 by Ben Chai

Security and confidentiality in Office 365 collaboration

Self destructing documents

Confidentiality and security are essential when collaborating with colleagues and partners. In this video, we look at the components provided by SharePoint that help provide collaboration in a secure manner to address the business needs of...

20 Jun 2012 by Ben Chai

How and where Office 365 collaboration is beneficial

What does collaboration really mean to an organisation?

The major marketing impetus for Office 365 is the benefit of collaboration but what does it mean? We understand the Exchange email communication and email collaboration and also how Lync promotes collaboration via IM and voice, but what...

20 Jun 2012 by Ben Chai

Admin and User Security in SharePoint Online

Tiers of application security

One issue that many businesses worry about, is the security of their data in the Cloud.  In addition to the overall protection offered by the Office 365 datacentre, Office 365 also offers two extra levels of security from the administrative...

20 Jun 2012 by Ben Chai

SharePoint Online vs SharePoint On-Premise

Which is best?

SharePoint is the backend server that many of the Office 365 services plug into. But what is the difference between SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-Premise and what does SharePoint Online offer a business? Tim Wallis, CEO at Content and Code,...

20 Jun 2012 by Ben Chai

Publisher 2010 Page Parts

If you want to create professional looking pages quickly, try supplementing your design with Publisher's Page Parts.

Publisher 2010 offers many methods for designing pages quickly and easily. Obviously, you can start with one of the hundreds of templates provided with the program, or downloadable from Office.com, but if you prefer to start with a blank page, you...

11 Jun 2012 by Simon Williams