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#ITConnections - Battle for Bandwidth

The load on cloud-based applications is at an all-time high, with people working from home accessing the same resources, simultaneously. Daytime Internet usage skyrocketed 34.4% between the regular working hours of 9AM-5PM as a result of remote work. A large portion of that online traffic accounted for video conferencing and collaboration tools. Microsoft saw a 34% increase usage of Teams while Skype reported 59 million daily active users and 4.3 million on Zoom.

OIG's Office 365 audit checklist and how to prepare for it.

Over 80 percent of all federal agencies use Microsoft Office 365, Azure, and collaboration products such as SharePoint, Yammer, and Teams to serve their thousands of employees and contractors. Office 365 has many benefits including enhanced security, mobility, and reporting, but how can you be sure that you're staying compliant and protecting information for an Office of Inspector General (OIG) audit?

Monitor, manage, and secure Office 365 remotely

Businesses around the world have been forced to adopt remote working policies in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. In just two months, a vast number of employees around the world shifted to a work-from-home environment. Although some businesses already had many of their IT operations available on the cloud before the pandemic—with the help of cloud-hosted email and collaboration suites such as Office 365—no one expected such a sudden and widespread transition into teleworking.

Searching Microsoft's cloud productivity suite with Elastic Workplace Search

If your organization is like virtually every other in the world (including ours!), you use a mix of Microsoft products in your productivity stack, possibly including SharePoint, Office 365 and OneDrive. But you probably also rely on a variety of other applications, maybe even mingling in “competing” tools like G Suite or Dropbox, in addition to complementary tools like Zendesk or GitHub.

How to Integrate Microsoft Teams with Office 365 Monitoring

For those of us already using Microsoft Teams, the benefits couldn’t be clearer: Microsoft Teams provides everyone with one place to chat, meet, call, and collaborate, no matter where you are. IT professionals who support modern workplace tools like Office 365, and remote meeting platforms like Zoom and WebEx, can greatly benefit from connecting critical applications like Exoprise, directly into the Teams Channels they are already using.

How to Secure Office365 with Cloud SIEM

SaaS adoption is continuously on the rise and so is the number of companies migrating their email services to Microsoft Office365. It’s the most popular SaaS service and while over 90% of enterprises use it, only less than a quarter of them have already migrated to the cloud-based suite. Nonetheless, this number is growing steadily, as cloud adoption rates are increasing.

Teams Outage Due To Expired Certificate

Microsoft Teams had an outage yesterday, on February 3rd 2020, for a few hours, and apparently it was due to an expired TLS / SSL certificate. The Internet erupted in delight over this for some reason with lots of coverage everywhere. Slack and MS Teams usually do garner more attention when they experience unfortunate outages most likely due to their rivalry. Apparently, because this was an expired certificate it gave everyone a reason to write “Oops” and other similar quips.

Global Packaging Provider picks NiCE Active 365 Management Pack

NiCE IT Management Solutions is proud to serve global key-players in advanced Microsoft Office 365 performance and health monitoring. Read the latest customer reference on how the NiCE Active 365 Management Pack is enabling a global packaging solution provider to stay on top of Microsoft Office 365 monitoring operations.