Date: Thursday, May 20th at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT

The need to support a “work-from-anywhere” workforce isn’t going to go away when everyone is vaccinated. Microsoft Teams can be a complete collaboration solution when deployed properly.

Getting started with a Microsoft Teams deployment is straightforward and simple, but completing your Teams experience with real integration to the public switched telephone network is a much more complex problem.

In this webcast, Nathan O’Bryan and Tom Minifie will cover the obstacles you will likely encounter on your way to a full Teams deployment and tips for how to overcome those obstacles.

This webcast will cover:

• What Teams can do for your organization

• How to take advantage of Teams features

• How to integrate telephone service into your Teams deployment

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Date: Thursday, April 1st at 11am PST / 2pm EST

Active Directory is the living heart of most IT organizations. No matter if your organization is on-premises, in the cloud, or in some hybrid situation somewhere in-between your on-premises Active Directory is most likely the most important part of your IT infrastructure. When it becomes necessary to plan an Active Directory migration or consolidation, making sure you understand the tools available is a vital part of the planning process now more than ever given the effects of the pandemic on organizations.

There can be many reasons why your organization might need to do an Active Directory migration. No matter the reason, you are going to have to make a decision about what tools to use. Microsoft provides a limited set of native tools. But are they right for your situation?

In this webcast Nathan O’Bryan and Joe Sharmer will discuss the available options on how the choices you make will affect your migration. We’ll cover:

• Planning migrations for mergers and divestitures

• How does a remote workforce effect your AD migration

• Choosing the right tools for the job

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Date: Wednesday, February 24th at 9 a.m. PST / 12 noon PST

An expert-led dive into everything new that enterprises need to know about in Microsoft's Office 365 cloud productivity suite.

Microsoft has made so many changes in Office 365/Microsoft 365 that's it's almost impossible to keep up!

In this half-day summit, join the editors of Redmondmag.com plus independent experts to learn everything you need to know in one fast-paced and informative half-day seminar. Join one or all sessions!

Here is the AGENDA for the summit.

9 a.m. PST / 12 noon EST
What's New for Enterprises in Office 365 in 50 Minutes

10 a.m. PST / 1 p.m. EST
Top 10 Security Features in Office 365/Microsoft 365

11 a.m. PST / 2 p.m. EST
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Date: 02/24/2021

Time: 9:00am PT

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Date: Thursday, November 5th at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT

Moving to Office 365 means never having to do another email migration, right? Business requirements like mergers and acquisitions can mean having to do an Office 365 tenant to tenant migration even after your organization is all in the cloud. What happens when the need arises to consolidate multiple Office 365 tenants into a single tenant, or when you need to split some of your organization’s data off into a new tenant?

As many admins have learned, this seemingly easy project turns out to be an extremely complex task especially if long-term coexistence is required. To add further complexity, the most basic native tools are noticeably missing to accomplish this task in a seamless manner.

Join the experts Nathan O’Bryan, Microsoft MVP and Joe Sharmer, Principal Solution Engineer at Binary Tree/Quest as they candidly discuss the essential questions that the admin will need to answer before heading into a tenant-to-tenant migration.

This webcast will cover:

• How to maintain productivity for both orgs in a M&A situation
  

• Keeping collaboration up with merging environments
  

• Limiting impacts to end users
  

• Setting an efficient and effective timeline of migration
  

• Meeting surprising deadlines in a divestiture
  

• How can IT teams show success in M&A

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Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Time: 02:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Duration: 1 hour

Microsoft Teams deployments and usage has exploded in the wake of global stay-at-home orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While maximizing productivity is the goal, added security measures may be needed to protect against escalating cyber threats. After all, any time you rapidly implement new technology, it can be easy to make mistakes that leave you vulnerable to attack.

During this 60-minute webinar, security experts Nathan O’Bryan (MCSM/MVP) and Curtis Johnstone (MVP) will share their top Microsoft Teams deployment considerations and explain how these choices can have a lasting impact on your Teams security and governance.

The webinar will specifically cover:

• How security requirements differ for cloud and on-premises applications.

• Why Teams requires unique security and reporting configurations.

• Methods for understanding who's using your cloud resources and how to secure these resources.

• Best practices in protecting and monitoring Teams.

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Date: Tuesday, November 12th at 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET

Microsoft provides rudimentary data protection capabilities as part of their Office 365 SaaS solution, but it falls short from being able to deliver the data protection and recovery needs most organizations require to meet both business SLAs and compliance requirements.

Attend this webinar and learn about the gaps left by Microsoft’s Office 365 protection, the risks posed and how to overcome them all with a comprehensive 3rd-party data protection solution. Learn how to get the Office 365 backup and recovery strategy you need and want.

We’ll cover:

• Typical market needs for protecting Office 365 – especially when it comes to Exchange Online (email) – to address internal corporate SLAs as well as legal/industry compliance requirements

• Some of the Microsoft capabilities (short-term backup; versioning; archiving, etc)

• Gaps in the Microsoft capabilities and risks they pose – like against accidental deletions, system errors, viruses, malware, ransomware; need for long-term data retention for compliance; need to store backups in other clouds or at least on multiple storage devices (for 3-2-1 backup strategy); need to replicate backups to multiple sites for disaster recovery

• Best practices in protecting Office 365 – being able to control what you back up, how often, where backups are stored, options for recovering, granular file, folder, mailbox and email recovery; (discuss specifics on Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint, Active Directory protection)

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Active Directory is the living heart of most IT organizations. No matter if your organization is on-premises, in the cloud, or in some hybrid situation somewhere in-between  your on-premises Active Directory is most likely the most important part of your IT infrastructure. When it becomes necessary to plan an Active Directory migration or consolidation, making sure you understand the tools available is a vital part of the planning process.

There can be many reasons why your organization might need to do an Active Directory migration. No matter the reason, you are going to have to make a decision about what tools to use. Microsoft provides a limited set of native tools. But are they right for your situation?

In this webcast Nathan O’Bryan (MCSM/MVP) and Stephen Texeira (Solutions Architect at Quest Software) will discuss the available options on how the choices you make will affect your migration.

Join us to learn:

• Where to start planning an AD migration

• When is the right time to use Microsoft AD migration tools

• Why use Quest AD migration tools

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Date: October 23rd at 11am PT / 2pm ET

As data stores increase not only in volume and variety, they are also increasing in value. The modern enterprise runs on its data. Protecting and managing this modern “currency” requires careful planning, solid processes and effective application of technology. The best approach is an integrated approach; not simply rolling out discrete plans for backup, recovery, management and so on. Your backup, data governance and IT resiliency efforts should all work together and support each other.   

During this editorial webcast, we’ll discuss best practices for ensuring your organization has a bombproof backup and recovery plan for Office 365, and that it is tightly integrated into your overall data governance program. You’ll come away from this webinar with high-level strategic considerations and actionable tactics you can put into place right away to increase the efficiency of your backup and IT resilience programs.

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Date: Thursday, August 23rd at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT

While many organizations are embracing the convenience and flexibility of Office 365, most aren't adequately protecting themselves against data exploits or loss. Certain features and functions of Office 365 are particularly prone to exposing data to accidental loss.

This editorial webcast, produced by Redmond magazine, will provide an overview of the most glaring data protection gaps in Office 365 and some high-level steps you can take to mitigate the risks and ensure your data is protected.

We’ll look at common data loss risks and proper responses to those risks. Then our experts will run through specific threats to your data and techniques to ensure it is protected.

Finally, we’ll provide some fundamental steps on how to best monitor and detect malicious activity in order to protect Office 365 data and prevent data exploits.

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Date: August 30, 2018 @ 11:00 AM PST

Speakers: Nathan O'Bryan Microsoft MVP & Ron Robbins, Quest

All the “quick and easy” migrations into Office 365 have been done. Many of the organizations that are migrating into Office 365 now have requirements that mean the migration process is going to be more complicated than a “standard” cloud migration. Could be  a very large organization, or due to a more complex feature that wasn’t previously available.

If your organization is one that has a complex migration into Office 365 coming up, you’re not going to want to miss this webcast. Nathan O’Bryan (MCSM/MVP) and  Ron Robbins will talk about some of the ways these complex Office 365 migrations can go wrong, and what you can do to ensure yours is completed successfully.

We’ll cover common mistakes, and the proper way to plan for a successful Office 365 migration.

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Date: Tuesday, June 12th at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT

Securing your cloud based resources can be difficult. When you move to the cloud, you give up a certain level of control over your machines. That doesn’t have to mean you accept all the default configurations for the security of your virtual machines in Azure.

In this webcast Nathan O’Bryan (MCSM/MVP) will cover some simple steps you can take to secure your virtual machines hosted in Azure.

We’ll cover:

• Changing the default Administrator account name

• Improving security for the public port

• Removing the RDP endpoint for Azure VMs

Join us for this and much more!

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Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 11am PT / 2pm ET
Featured Speaker: Nathan O'Bryan, Microsoft MVP

Office 365 has a number of built-in data security tools, making it possible scan for keywords with regex filters or even upload document fingerprints to identify company-specific data. This can be enough for some organizations.

But what if you need more advanced capabilities? In this webinar, we will look at the built-in DLP capabilities and demonstrate how you can apply advanced data classification tools provided by Symantec, McAfee, GTB or any of the leading DLP vendors. We will show how you can integrate them into policy workflows that manage share policies, interact with users and even incorporate your choice of file encryption. 

We will show how you can take your Office 365 data protection policies and enforce them across Azure and all of your other enterprise SaaS. Then, we will integrate all the compliance event logging into your existing SIEM for centralized reporting.

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Date: Thursday, May 31, 2018 at 11am PT / 2pm ET

There is a widespread misconception that data created and stored in the cloud does not need to be backed up. When data is deleted or corrupted, companies face three major problems: Lost data, lost time and lost cash. When Office 365 fails, backup and recovery are a crucial component for any business.

Learn about cloud data recoverability and how to take control of your Office 365 data in our upcoming webinar.

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Date: March 20th at 11am PT / 2pm ET

In the era of cloud mailboxes, finding the right protection for end-user mailboxes of the constant threat of spam and phishing attacks takes a lot of work. Email administrators need to understand the basic features that are available with your Office 365 subscription as well as the add-on features that are available to fill in the gaps.

In this webcast Nathan O’Bryan (Microsoft MVP) will dive into the default features and functionality of your Office 365 subscription, and Andrey Pozhogin will cover the additional protection that can be provided by Kaspersky services.

Join us to find out what protection your organization has, and what additional protection is available.

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Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET

Active Directory is the heart and the brain of your organization’s IT infrastructure. When it becomes necessary to undertake an Active Directory migration project, experience is always going to be your best ally. In this webcast Microsoft MVP Nathan O’Bryan and Ron Robbins of Quest Software will cover some of the important lessons learned from your peers and share their experience successfully performing this type of migration.

Drawing on vast experience in successfully performing Active Directory migrations in environments of all shapes and sizes, these experts will dive into lessons learned from AD migration customers like:

• Know your data prior to starting the migration
• Legacy applications take extra time and care
• Always think security

Join us for this informative webcast.

 

Date: 03/21/2018

Time: 11:00am PT

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