Thursday, March 17, 2016

SharePoint Audit Log




SharePoint is one of the very important Workloads of the hugely popular Office365 , the Cloud Productivity Suite from Microsoft. One extremely important use case for SharePoint is its rich feature set which enables it to act like a complete Document Management System.

SharePoint also comes bundled with extensive Audit Logs which assist in Document Security  and Compliance .

To know more about the SharePoint Audit logs , click   here.

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with warm regards
 Suresh Ramani


Microsoft MVP 2009
Microsoft Worldwide Partner of the Year 2011 & 2007

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Skype For Business External User Restriction



Skype for Business is a Complete Communication Platform which is bundled with Office 365 , the Productivity Platform of choice all over the World. It  takes all the features of Skype which are loved by the users all over the World and adds stuff which are needed to make it a Platform of choice for Businesses. To know the differences between the 2 offerings , click here .



One of the requirements at many Customer locations is a need to put some restrictions on Communication with External Users . There are many ways allowed by Skype for Business.  
To know more about how it works  here.



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with warm regards
 Suresh Ramani


Microsoft MVP 2009
Microsoft Worldwide Partner of the Year 2011 & 2007


Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Centrally Manage Mobiles, Tablets and Computers with the Cloud



Almost every Company allows users to access Corporate Data from their personal mobiles and tablets and Home Computers.  But one strange fact is that while the I.T. Team takes great care to protect the Work PC by applying patches centrally , locking down the device and monitoring them, they are absolutely clueless when it comes to managing the User owned device like Mobiles , Tablets and personal Computers. It’s like putting 3 locks on your main door but leaving your Windows wide open. As a result , the User Devices constitute the biggest threat to Companies in terms of data loss and Cyber Crimes.


Now there is a Way !  A Cloud based Solution from Microsoft , which is a combination of 3 essential services , addresses this problem in an elegant and cost effective manner and  offers a Comprehensive  Solution for  end to end Security for Mobile Devices and even Corporate PCs. And being subscription based Cloud Service , it is possible for even Companies with as low as 5 users to adopt this Solution.



To know more about how it works  here.



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with warm regards
 Suresh Ramani

Microsoft MVP 2009
Microsoft Worldwide Partner of the Year 2011 & 2007



Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Partial Offline Sync of Cloud files in One Drive For Business





Office 365 Productivity Platform comes bundled with One Drive for Business which can store One Terabyte of Documents . You can also sync the One Drive For Business ( ODFB) with your PC . However , so far the issue was that the complete ODFB would sync offline. A common feedback from Customers was that it would be great if they could selectively sync the folders offline as they were not keen to have their full ODFB synced. This functionality was always present in the Consumer One Drive .


The good news is that the selective sync is  finally available on ODFB


To know more about how it works  here.


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with warm regards
 Suresh Ramani


Microsoft MVP 2009
Microsoft Worldwide Partner of the Year 2011 & 2007


Thursday, January 14, 2016

Improve Team work with Office 365 Groups




Many Companies still use Emails with attachments for Team Collaboration . This is a very inefficient method to Collaborate. Office 365 Cloud Productivity Platform offers multiple ways to Collaborate . Some of the tools are Yammer , SharePoint , OneDrive for Business , Skype for Business.


There is one more method available for Team Collaboration. Its called Office 365 Groups . And the best part is that it is available within Outlook  or can also be used with Outlook Web Access.

To know more about how it works  here.


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with warm regards
 Suresh Ramani


Microsoft MVP 2009
Microsoft Worldwide Partner of the Year 2011 & 2007



Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Email Security. Monitor Email Forwarding



Email is the de facto mode of Communication in any Organization. But it is also emerging as number one source of data leakage due to its wide use. One common way of data leakage is when a user puts a forwarding rule by which all his mails get auto forwarded to his personal Email id. When such a setting is done without proper authorization , it leads to Data Leakage. And even the poor IT Admin cannot do anything as he does not get notified about this.

However, with Exchange Online , which is the World’s BEST Email system and is part of the Cloud Productivity Suit  Office 365 , the IT Admin can  run series of commands to identify such users.  


To know more about how it works  here.

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with warm regards
 Suresh Ramani

Microsoft MVP 2009
Microsoft Worldwide Partner of the Year 2011 & 2007



Friday, December 11, 2015

Backup Your Data to the Azure Cloud



I work extensively with the Small & Mid sized Companies . One thing which is a worry is that in majority of the Companies , Data backup is a very inefficient process . And in many cases, it is actually not done . Reasons could be that process is Expensive or Cumbersome or tedious or manual . That’s dangerous!

Well, no worries ! We finally have a Solution which is efficient , cost effective , reliable and automatic. Its Azure Cloud Backup.

To know more about how Azure Cloud Backup works, click here.

To know more about Azure , click here

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with warm regards
 Suresh Ramani



Microsoft MVP 2009
Microsoft Worldwide Partner of the Year 2011 & 2007