A small silver lining in the upcoming end of life woes facing companies in 2020. The Microsoft Exchange Team announced on Monday, September 16^th that they are extending support for Exchange 2010 from January 14^th to October 13^th, 2020. This will only be a benefit for customers with Exchange 2010 running on Server 2012/R2. Microsoft is not changing the end of support date for Server 2008/R2.

Microsoft recently released some very exciting news- Microsoft Teams will be replacing Skype for Business Online and retirement is effective July 31, 2021. New tenants created now in Office 365 will be provisioned to Microsoft Teams and no longer in Skype for Business Online. Our talented engineers live and breathe in the world of Microsoft and technology every single day, and we've had a flood of excitement, along with lots of questions around this announcement… So the big question is, are you ready for Microsoft Teams?

Original blog post by Zoltan Erszenyi

I was fortunate enough to attend the Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando, FL this year. During the conference, there was a TON of information to gather, experts to network with, and vendors to see in the Expo Hall.

I was recently working with a customer on ADFS claims rules and thought to share the experience of how to make some simple customizations within ADFS to lockdown authentication to Office 365 services, in this case. The requirement was that if the authentication connection came from an External IP not listed (any of their many remote locations), then block the connection UNLESS you are part of a specific AD group.

For all Hybrid O365 Exchange environments, Microsoft has released a blog post stating that come April, they will be updating their TLS certificate for Office 365.

As we’re seeing more and more in technology, identity is everything. It’s what authenticates us against all of the systems we interface with day to day. Having single sign-on (SSO) or same sign-on with 3^rd party applications is gaining more and more momentum.