Securing your Hybrid Office 365 and Azure Environments

Organizations are adopting Office 365 rapidly.  In fact, according to Radicati, the Office 365 install base will grow from 49M (2015) to 250M (2019) and according to Microsoft they are reporting more than 10M tenants for Azure AD.  Being that when you go to Office 365 you also are standing up Azure Active Directory, you should then be aware of some of the challenges and limitations of your newly formed hybrid environment.   

In this live webcast, Microsoft MVP, Nathan O'Bryan and Quest Software's Principal Solutions Consultant, Bryan Patton plan on identifying some of the pitfalls you may encounter so you can plan accordingly for a secure environment

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Planning Your Migration to the Microsoft Cloud

Date: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

The Microsoft cloud is clearly the future of enterprise IT services. Whether your organization is going all in with the Microsoft cloud, or just dipping your toes in the water, properly planning your migration is essential for long term success.

In this webcast Nathan O’Bryan (MVP Office Servers and Services, MCSM: Messaging) will walk through the important planning steps that can make your migration into Office 365 successful.

  • Planning for Identity
  • Preparing your environment to be migration-ready
  • Potential pitfalls with specific data types
  • Ensuring a smooth transition for your users
  • Planning for long term hybrid

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Sponsored by Binary Tree

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How Public Key Encryption Works

Date: December 8, 2016 @ 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST

Speaker: Nathan O'Bryan, Microsoft MVP

Encrypting your data is becoming more important in a world where IT services are moving toward the cloud. In this sixth webcast in a series of six 30-minute sessions, we’ll explore cloud encryption strategies and what they mean to your organization.

  • When was public key encryption first used?
  • How does public key encryption work?
  • What “math tricks” make SSL certificates possible?

Drawing on his personal experiences assisting clients of all sizes, Microsoft MVP Nathan O’Bryan will answer the questions that small and mid-sized organizations are asking. He will cover how to properly implement protection for your systems in addition to real world tips and practical lessons learned for protecting your data in the cloud.

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Using SSL Certificates To Secure Your Email Part 2

Date: November 15, 2016 @ 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST

Speaker: Nathan O'Bryan, Microsoft MVP

Encrypting your data is becoming more important in a world where IT services are moving toward the cloud. In this fifth webcast in a series of six 30-minute sessions, we’ll explore cloud encryption strategies and what they mean to your organization.

  • How does S/MIME encryption work in Exchange?
  • What is different between on-premises and cloud versions of S/MIME?
  • Can I use PGP encryption to secure my email?

Drawing on his personal experiences assisting clients of all sizes, Microsoft MVP Nathan O’Bryan will answer the questions that small and mid-sized organizations are asking. He will cover how to properly implement protection for your systems in addition to real world tips and practical lessons learned for protecting your data in the cloud.

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Using SSL Certificates To Secure Your Email Part 1

Date: October 20, 2016 @ 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST

Speaker: Nathan O'Bryan, Microsoft MVP

Encrypting your data is becoming more important in a world where IT services are moving toward the cloud. In this fourth webcast in a series of six 30-minute sessions, we’ll explore cloud encryption strategies and what they mean to your organization.

  • How are SSL certificates used to secure on-premises Exchange servers?
  • How does TLS protect email messages?
  • What is “Domain Secure”, and how does Exchange use it?

Drawing on his personal experiences assisting clients of all sizes, Microsoft MVP Nathan O’Bryan will answer the questions that small and mid-sized organizations are asking. He will cover how to properly implement protection for your systems in addition to real world tips and practical lessons learned for protecting your data in the cloud.

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Optimize Exchange Performance

Date: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

Speakers: Nathan O'Bryan, Microsoft MVP; Steve Fox, Senior Product Manager; Corey Rivers, Systems Consultant, Virtualization

Organizations are moving to a hybrid model, using some Office 365 online services but maintaining others on-premises, behind a secure firewall. Exchange Server 2016 is here now, featuring a simplified architecture, smarter inbox, and better data loss protection. But does it police itself? How does it connect with the rest of the infrastructure? And how do you detect and resolve performance and availability issues that may be affecting your Exchange servers?

Attend this webcast for an introduction to troubleshooting Exchange on-premises, hybrid, and Exchange Online. You’ll also see how a large banking organization consolidated their disparate messaging platforms into a single optimized Microsoft Exchange platform using Foglight and other management solutions from Dell Software.

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Why Secure Encryption Matters

Encrypting your data is becoming more and more important in a world where IT services are moving toward the cloud. In this third webcast in a series of six 30-minute sessions, we’ll explore cloud encryption strategies and what they mean to your organization.

  • What is the difference between various types of encryption?
  • Are some types of encryption better than others?
  • How do I educate my end users about encryption and its use?

Drawing on his personal experiences assisting clients of all sizes, Microsoft MVP Nathan O’Bryan will answer the questions that small and mid-sized organizations are asking. He will cover how to properly implement protection for your systems in addition to real world tips and practical lessons learned for protecting your data in the cloud.

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The Evolution of SSL Certificates

Date: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT
Speaker: Nathan O'Bryan, Microsoft MVP

SSL is one of the foundational technologies on which the internet is built. In this second webcast in a series of six 30-minute sessions we’ll dive into TLS. We’ll address questions like:

  • When is it safe to use SSL vs TLS?
  • What version(s) of TLS should I be using?
  • How do I keep current on protocol vulnerabilities?

Drawing on his personal experiences assisting clients of all sizes, Microsoft MVP Nathan O’Bryan will answer the questions that small and mid-sized organizations are asking. He will cover how to properly implement protection for your systems in addition to real world tips and practical lessons learned for protecting your data in the cloud.

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Best Practices for Managing SSL Certificates

Date: Wednesday, August 10th at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT

SSL is one of the foundational technologies on which the internet is built. In this first webcast in a series of six 30-minute sessions, we will take you through an introduction to managing SSL certificates.

We’ll address questions like:

  • How does Public Key encryption work?
  • What does key length mean?
  • What versions of SSL or TLS are secure?

Drawing on his personal experiences assisting clients of all sizes, Microsoft MVP Nathan O’Bryan will answer the questions that small and mid-sized organizations are asking. He will cover how to properly implement protection for your systems in addition to real world tips and practical lessons learned for protecting your data in the cloud.

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Microsoft Office 365 Security: Beyond the Basics

Date: Wednesday, July 27th at 8am PT / 11am ET

Speakers: Nathan O’Bryan, Microsoft MVP
Doug Lane, VP of Product Marketing, Vaultive

While Office 365 adoption is growing rapidly, organizations with more complex security needs still find it difficult or impossible to migrate their data to the cloud using native Microsoft Office 365 security features alone.

 

Advanced security challenges like changing data privacy laws, secret government data requests, and the looming possibility of a cloud provider security breach are areas not covered natively by Microsoft’s cloud solution. Join Microsoft MVP Nathan O’Bryan and Vaultive’s VP of Product Marketing, Doug Lane, as they discuss when and how you can use third-party tools meet your organization’s security requirements and confidently migrate to Office 365.

Attend this webinar to learn about:

  • What security features you and do and don’t get out of the box with Office 365    
  • The most common security roadblocks for Office 365 adoption
  • How is Microsoft responding to advanced security use cases
  • What are Cloud Security Alliance best practices for securing cloud data
  • How third-party tools can help you fulfill advanced requirements
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Securing Your Data in Office 365

In this class we’ll cover everything you need to know about what encryption options are available to you in Office 365. We will cover all the different encryption technologies in Office 365, and how you can best use them to ensure your organizations data remains secure. In the first hour long session, we’ll do a complete review of what encryption technologies are in Office 365, and an overview of how each of them work. In the second session will dive deep into Right Management Services and Office 365 Message Encryption. This session will include live demonstrations of how to setup and use these technologies. In the third session we’ll dive into S/MIME and how you can secure the content of your files and email outside of Microsoft’s systems, ensuring that only you and the people you grant access can access your data. These three sessions will include all the information you need to know about these technologies, as well as live demonstrations that show you exactly how to configure and use encryption.

In addition to the technical sessions, Nathan will be available during each session for LIVE Q&A.

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Unraveling the Mysteries of Tenant-to-Tenant Migrations

Date: Wednesday, July 20th at 11am PT / 2pm ET

Speakers: Nathan O’Bryan (MCSM: Messaging and MVP: Office 365)
Justin Harris (Microsoft Exchange MCM, MCSM and MVP), BinaryTree

The expectation exists that the life of an admin becomes progressively easier as on-premises collaboration workloads like Exchange and SharePoint are moved to the cloud. However, what happens when the need arises to consolidate multiple Office 365 tenants into a single 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 (MCSM: Messaging and MVP: Office 365) and Justin Harris (Microsoft Exchange MCM, MCSM and MVP) as they candidly discuss the essential questions that the admin will need to answer before heading into a tenant-to-tenant migration.

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Office 365 Business Driven Provisioning Deep Dive

Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 11am PT / 2pm ET

As we approach the fifth anniversary of the release of Office 365, many of the "easy" Office 365 migrations are done. Customers that are migrating to Office 365 now have much more complex requirements. Modern companies have to work around unique user access and governance challenges that may involve their employees, customers, partners and providers. During this webinar we'll discuss how Okta can help manage these unique challenges and provide seamless access across your user populations.

In this webcast, we explain how to take complex identity management requirements and make them manageable. We discuss how instead of relying on legacy tools Microsoft gives away, you can remove the identity barriers for your Office 365 migration while building a foundation from which to launch your entire future cloud strategy.

This webcast shows how you can:

  • Configure SSO for Office 365 in minutes
  • Easily manage user provisioning from one pane of glass
  • Automatically assign service-level licenses in Office 365
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What You Need to Know about Active Directory Hybrid Governance

Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 11am PT | 2pm ET
Speakers: Nathan O'Bryan, Microsoft MVP; Alvaro Vitta, Principal Solutions Consultant, Dell Software

Microsoft calls Office 365 its fastest-growing commercial product ever. In fact, 70% of Fortune 500 companies has purchased Office 365 in the last year. The cloud is not a fad. It’s coming on strong and fast and there is a lot for IT administrators to learn! 

Did you know that on-premises Active Directory (AD) still plays the main role in being the authoritative source for authentication and authorization requests to Office 365? That means that if your on-premises AD is not secure, Azure AD and Office 365 will be open to a host of potential breaches, threats and disasters.

In this webcast, we will explore exactly what a hybrid directory environment looks like and what it takes to make it secure, manageable and available. We will talk through detailed explanations and checklists for improving your security posture and keeping on-premises AD from becoming the Achilles' heel of your hybrid directory environment.

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ExchangeServerPro Podcast: Public Folders with Nathan O’Bryan

My guest for this episode is Nathan O’Bryan.

Nathan is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Master, and a Microsoft MVP, living in Portland, Oregon. He specialises in Exchange, Office 365, AD, Azure, and Skype for Business, and currently works as a consultant for SPS.

This episode of the Exchange Server Pro Podcast is brought to you by Office 365 for Exchange Professionals, the most comprehensive and up to date guide to Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud services. Find out more at Office365forExchangePros.com.

In this episode Nathan and I discuss migrating and managing Public Folders in Exchange Server 2013 and 2016.

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