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If you have had any experience of managing Active Directory, either on-premises or in the cloud, you will know how quickly it can become cluttered. Whether it’s the details of users and machines that are inactive, accounts that have expired or been disabled, or groups made for projects that finished a long time ago – it […]

Last week we blogged about the challenges of IT charge-backs in a cloud-based, SaaS world, where the bill for services like Office 365 is typically dealt with monthly or quarterly. But there is another option we didn’t cover – what if you’re part of a larger enterprise and your licences are purchased as part of […]

Many of our large enterprise customers need to configure their Cogmotive Reports account for thousands of site collections when getting started with SharePoint Online Reports. Until now, adding site collections to your account involved manually selecting the specific site collections – but at high volumes (like 500-1000 site collections) that’s time-consuming and tedious. That’s why we […]

Five days. More than 20,000 attendees. 296 sponsors and exhibitors. 1,091 sessions from 518 speakers. One MASSIVE party. Microsoft Ignite kicks off one month from today, and we’re fit to burst with excited anticipation. Here are five reasons why:

We’re over halfway through 2016, and if you’re anything like us, you’ll be feeling like your transition from January to August was courtesy of a high-speed catapult – leaving you stunned, blinking, and looking around, asking where did the last few months go?  Here at Cogmotive, we’ve had such an exciting year so far, so we wanted to […]

IT has undergone a rapid transformation in the past few years as services and software move into the cloud, and the impacts of this are being felt beyond the IT industry – especially when it comes to managing IT costs and spending. For many organisations, long gone are the days when you research, select, and invest […]

Do you use our Archive Mailbox Sizes Report? To make it even more useful we have added two new columns to the report: ‘Archive Deleted Item Size (MB)’ and ‘Number of Deleted Items’. The report shows you the sizes of your users’ archive mailboxes, allowing you to understand how this additional storage is being used across […]

Office 365 migration is a big task, no matter the size of your organisation. Almost no IT department can approach a migration on a ‘greenfield’ basis where they can design the perfect environment from scratch. So you have to manage legacy equipment, your current configurations, newly redundant on-premises solutions and the sheer volume of data you’ve […]

Recently, I visited a customer, a large company with over 10,000 Seats to talk to them about their Office 365 Migration Project. As many others, the customer wants to move the email workload first and, in parallel, activate the users for Skype for Business. The customer currently has an Exchange 2013 Environment archived by an […]

Office 365 uptake is growing rapidly – with over 70 million active users connecting to it each month. While this popularity is undeniable, there are still many people out there who have not yet tried it out, especially in an enterprise setting. So what if your newest employee has never used Office 365 before? They may have […]

Unity Connect 16-18 November in Haarlem, Netherlands Get the guidance and perspective you need to solve technology challenges and maximize the value of Office 365, SharePoint, Exchange, Skype, Yammer, and Azure for your business at Unity Connect. More than 75 sessions and 3 full-day workshops covering deployment and upgrade, governance and adoption, administration and security, and application […]

Migrating to Office 365? Groups are the way to go for better collaboration For around 20 years, public folders in Microsoft Exchange provided shared access and an easy, effective way to collect, organize, and share information with others in your workgroup or organization.

Balance criticality with cost by planning ahead According to a Microsoft blog, studies suggest that three-quarters of an organization’s intellectual property is contained within email and messaging systems. That’s why archiving has almost always been so important. I say ‘almost’ because – back in the bad old days of expensive storage, slow networks and small […]

In November 2014, Microsoft introduced Clutter – a feature of Exchange Online which used machine learning to sort through your inbox, moving any emails that were not spam but were low priority into another email folder called ‘Clutter’. From June last year, Clutter was automatically enabled for all Office 365 subscribers, and had to to be […]