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We’ve outlined some compelling reasons to embrace Microsoft Teams, but how do you gauge successful Office 365 user adoption throughout your organization? Here are a few ways to monitor progress to help ensure your team is making the most of Teams: Fewer emails As noted, one of the proclaimed benefits of utilizing the platform is […]

One fateful day in Lisbon last year, Mike Weaver (another Quadrotech product owner) and I became responsible for the creation of a new Office 365 tenant to tenant migration tool. We were going to deliver it within an amazingly short (translation: nearly impossible) timeframe. Finally, Cloud Commander was launched just before Ignite last year. Mike […]

A few weeks ago, Microsoft rolled out an update to the User Interface (UI) used for the Content search and eDiscovery functionalities as part of the Security and Compliance Center (SCC) in Office 365. Whilst in general the workflow for either Content Searches or eDiscovery cases remains largely unchanged, there are some differences and newly […]

Retaining primary SMTP addresses This blog is the second post in a two-part series on ‘Handling email domains during an Office 365 tenant migration’ – read part one here. The more challenging aspect of migrating email addresses in an Office 365 tenant to tenant migration scenario is where the primary SMTP email address (or reply […]

Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures are commonplace, and a potential problem that sooner or later many Office 365 administrators will need to overcome. When you set up Office 365 for your organization, you are a tenant within their environment – all the resources you own, including user accounts, mailboxes, file data, chats, and additional data like […]

Skype Meeting Broadcast promises a low-cost alternative to a webinar and other broadcast methods, enabling Office 365 users with the correct licences to host up to 10,000 attendees. It offers a fairly quick setup and configuration, and little to no real infrastructure for both attendees and presenters. Despite these clear benefits, Skype Meeting Broadcast can […]

We were excited to see the new OneDrive sync client launch a few months ago. In the past, we’ve had a lot of issues with trying to get everything to sync correctly, which meant that sometimes we struggled to access SharePoint Online documents on a local device, or that the items we were working on […]

It’s day 1 after your migration to Exchange Online, and it’s likely you’ll have questions about your new environment, particularly – is it secure, and how do I begin to manage it? This guide will help you get through the initial stages of configuring Exchange Online. While many folks start full steam ahead after setup, there are […]

When an employee leaves your company you will most likely disable their Office 365 user account but leave their mailbox around – so the person who is replacing them can access any pertinent historical mail.  It is also incredibly likely that this employee is the member of one of more Distribution Groups. The last thing […]

Guest blogger Bradley Wyatt is the creator of the O365 Administration Center, a free tool that helps administrators manage their Office 365 environment quickly and easily. My name is Bradley Wyatt, I’m 23 years old and I work as a Network Operations Engineer in Chicago, Illinois. I went to school at SIU (Southern Illinois University), […]