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Office 365 Charge Back Reporting by Department or Group

Office 365 License Billing Report by Department, BU or AD Group Office 365 charge back reporting is a must due to the growing popularity of subscription based services like Office 365. Many organizations turn to charge back reporting to distribute subscription costs across different budgets or departments that share a single tenant. Cayosoft Administrator

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Optimize & Reduce Office 365 License Costs

6 Methods to Optimize & Reduce Office 365 License Costs Trying to reduce Office 365 License Costs can be tricky. Microsoft’s Office 365 licensing plans are perhaps the most flexible ever offered. Whether operating as a large corporation, small business, non-profit organization or an educational institution, Office 365 provides options

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Enable Office 365 Litigation Hold for Sustained Compliance

What is Litigation Hold and How do I Enable Office 365 Litigation Hold? Many organizations for Legal or Compliance reasons must preserve electronic records for a specific period of time; this almost always include e-mail. Both Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 offer a feature that retains e-mail so that those messages can

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How to Copy the Office 365 Signature to Outlook Client

Last month I blogged about how our Admin Assistant product automatically creates Office 365 Signature blocks using company information stored in either Active Directory or in Office 365. This post shows how end-users can get the same signature from Office 365 into their Outlook 2013 in two steps. There are

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How to bulk create Office 365 E-mail Signature Blocks

The simple and affordable way to standardize e-mail signatures The video shown in this post will explain how to bulk create Office 365 e-mail signature blocks for your office 365 users automatically. If you really want to know why Signature Blocks are useful, read the entire post. If you understand

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Office 365 Identity in hybrid Office 365 deployments

Paul Andrew, author for one of the new Office 365 blogs, describeds how customers can use 3rd party vendors for user federation in hybrid Office 365 deployments. A big focus here is how Microsoft is streamlining certification of vendors who wish to deliver 3rd party federated identity providers. Current providers

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Active Directory Best Practice Avoid Reversible Encryption

Just say no to Storing Passwords with Reversible Encryption There are several dozen settings settings within Active Directory that if used can weaken security and open your environment to the threat of compromise. The Store password using reversible encryption option is one of those settings. Normally when a password is

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Disable Active Directory Group

How to disable Active Directory Groups The ability to an Disable Active Directory Group is completely missing from Active Directory. Cayosoft’s Free Suspend Tool will allow effectively disable AD groups. “Disabling” groups is preferable to deleting the group because the group SID (Security ID) is retained for auditing and management purposes,

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Top 10 Security Myths from Gartner

Top 10 Security Myths from Gartner “It won’t happend to me was the #1 myth in Gartner’s Top-10 Myths IT security. Most security experts agree that IT should prepare as if a security breach is an eventually rather than a mere possibility. In Summary It won’t happen to me. IT

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