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On September 27th at Microsoft Ignite 2016, we announced that Cogmotive would be joining the Quadrotech Group, a leading provider of tools to manage the migration of the entire email ecosystem. Fast forward 12 months, and we’ve had a very busy year, and our teams, solutions and approaches are fully integrated. We’ve spent a lot […]

Having been with Quadrotech for just over 2 years now, I have been lucky to work with our customers, Microsoft, and industry leaders to understand not only how organizations adopt Office 365, but also how those organizations prepare for the future. 

Microsoft Ignite is next week. I repeat, Microsoft Ignite is NEXT WEEK! The event runs from September 25-29 and is once again sold out, which is pretty amazing!

If you’re planning an archive migration, chances are you’ve got to move your mailboxes too. Coordinating the migrations of these two systems, keeping them in sync,

We’re hosting a Twitter Chat on Thursday, September 21st at 9 PM BST / 4 PM ET. What’s a Twitter Chat?  A Twitter Chat is a live conversation joined together by one hashtag on Twitter, enabling you to follow and participate in the discussion. As long as you use the hashtag, everyone else involved will […]

We are excited to announce the imminent release of Quadrotech Cloud Commander, our new tenant-to-tenant cloud migration tool!

As we’ve discussed in previous posts, there are various potential locations for legacy public folder data in Office 365, and choosing the most appropriate target can be a challenge. 

Cogmotive Reports is now Radar Reporting! Same great reporting application, but a brand new name and look. Find out more here. The most powerful way to manage Office 365 is by using PowerShell, a command line interface that connects to Office 365 via the Internet. Whilst it may seem daunting to people unfamiliar with working […]

We are pleased to announce that we have added a new widget to Cogmotive Reports based around Microsoft’s Secure Score program. Secure Score is a Microsoft offering, free to any Office 365 tenant, that calculates a security risk score, called Secure Score- it allows you to drill into the tasks that you can undertake to […]

If you’re a Solutions Provider you’ll know that the world of Office 365 offers a whole new set of opportunities just waiting to be realized.

In July we hosted our inaugural Twitter Chat to find out if the Microsoft community favoured Yammer or Microsoft Teams. We had several enthusiastic participants and you can relive the Twitter chat by searching for the hashtag, #O365AdminChat on Twitter. Here’s an overview of what was discussed.  Question 1. What was the deciding factor between […]

While many enterprises are taking steps to become compliant with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a recent YouGov study on GDPR revealed some concerning insights. Out of 2,000 businesses surveyed: 71% were unaware of the fines they could face under the new ruling. 38% of decision makers said that they were not aware […]

An inventory of Office 365 aliases is one of the most commonly requested Office 365/Exchange Online reports. The script in this post generates a list of all addresses (aliases) in the company. A quick search will return plenty of similar scripts for this report, but the one we’ve demonstrated here is a fully up to […]

A day doesn’t go by that we don’t hear of another accidental or intentional security breach. If you’re reading this post around the time it was published, we’ve just seen the HBO Hack  which saw ransom notes, leaked episodes, and internal data leakage. There’s also been a significant event that occurred in our own part […]