Very few organizations that are deploying Office 365 are deploying a brand new communications and productivity solution. For the most part, they will be migrating an existing service or set of services to Office 365. Over the last few years, the team at Cistel has been involved in dozens of Office 365 migrations and we’ve
Read MoreOffice 365 – Managing a Skype for Business Meeting
on November 1, 2016In one of my previous posts, Office 365 – Beyond Email with Skype for Business I described some of the basic features of Skype for Business. In this post and video I present an overview of how to run a simple Skype for Business meeting including: Sending the invitation Managing the Lobby Managing participants Screen Sharing
Read MoreOffice 365 – Beyond Email with Skype for Business
on October 27, 2016In one of my previous posts, Ten features of Office 365 you should know about, I described some of the valuable tools that you get as part of your Office 365 subscription. Today I am going focus on just one of them – Skype for Business. You can consider this Skype 101. The video below
Read MoreTen things to consider before evaluating Microsoft Intune
on October 13, 2016Cloud services promise easy setup and no infrastructure to manage. Even your grandmother setup her own Gmail account and iTunes subscription. How hard can it be to setup an Intune Subscription? You could just go off and sign up for the free 30-day trial accept the defaults and try it out. What you miss out
Read MoreSystem Center Configuration Manager Long Term Servicing Branch (LTSB)
on October 12, 2016Today Microsoft announced that System Center Configuration Manager will be available in a Long Term Servicing Branch (LTSB) version with support extending for 10 years. Background Over the last year, Microsoft has been working hard at transforming System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) into a product that gets regular updates to keep pace with all of
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