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Here’s the final installment of #officethursday! This week, we will be talking about security in Office. So, wanna secure your documents? These tips are applicable to both Office 2010 and The New Office. Did you know that we often send/receive documents to our customers without ever thinking if the document that contains any personally identifiable information (PII.) This can cause damage to both the sender and receiver of the document. I’m sad to say that these kind of incidents has happened before, as can be seen in these real life examples: link and link How can we avoid this? ...

Office Thursday this week shares on tips on how you can Organize your e-mails.I will be sharing about 3 Things**: Categories, Searching Effectively, Mail to Task** CATEGORIES Why do it? Sort out e-mails that needs your immediate actions based on their categories. With Categories, I am able to sort out important e-mails that needs my immediate attention and I can easily filter out e-mails that I can read at a later time. Example: ...

DID YOU KNOW most people only use less than 20% of all the features in Office?Wonderful world of WORD 2013When was the last time that you use Word? Yesterday, a few minutes ago? then… let me rephrase that question, when was the last time that you use Word to actually create a beautiful and impactful document? Hidden Gem #1: Styles Use Styles to quickly achieve the proper formatting that you want for your message. You can change an entire paragraph from a Header type format to Quote type format in an instant! If the readily available styles are not enough for your need, you can activate the hidden styles by expanding the styles list by clicking on the expand button (marked green) then clicking on the Manage Styles button After activating this button, the Manage Styles option will appear. In this option you can activate the styles that you need Hidden Gem # 2: Drop Caps Drop caps gives you a professional looking document by creating a capitalized letter at the beginning of the document. To use it. Go to Insert > Go to the Text section > Click on Drop Cap Hidden Gem #3: Translator If you are writing a document that will be sent to people overseas, you can use the built-in Translator function in Word to translate your entire document to a different language. Go to the Review > Translate I’ve converted a phrase from English to Chinese (PRC) ??????????????? ? I then converted the same phrase to French and this is what I got: Si vous lisez ceci, en Chine, alors comment allez-vous ! Not only can it translate text for you but if you activate the 3rd feature in the Translate Option (Mini Translator,) you can even have Word 2013 say those words out loud to you. Hidden Gem #4: Protect Document Since Word 2013 can now open PDFs, saving it to a PDF file can no longer be your “go to” solution for protecting documents from being “Pirated.” Use the built-in security within Office, Protect Document. Go to File > Protect Document. The options Encrypt with Password, Restrict Editing & Restrict Access will work for you and your recipient even if they do not have our Rights Management Service (RMS.) This is a quick and easy way to ensure that you documents stay protected from unscrupulous hands. Quick tip: You can also add a Custom watermark in your document before protecting it, to add an additional layer of protection for your work. Hidden Gem #5: Screenshot and Screen Clipping Add screenshot and screen clippings directly to you document without using the Windows Snipping tool or MS Paint. This works on all the Office applications (even Outlook.) Go to Insert > Screenshot. The tool will present to you the open running applications in your screen and then you can paste it to where you want it to go.

Microsoft PFE TechNet Day :: Windows To Go – Mobility Redefined Date: 27th March 2013 Topic: Windows To Go – Mobility Redefined! Speaker: Amit Ghodke (Microsoft PFE) Session Synopsis: “With Windows 8 we are redefining workforce mobility by introducing a new feature called Windows To Go, that enables enterprises to provide users a managed corporate environment on a USB drive that they can operate from multiple managed or unmanaged PCs , it offer’s new possibilities in mobile productivity through hosting an entire corporate image on a USB device and booting from any Windows capable hardware Please join us to learn more and get in-depth information about the core enterprise scenarios of Windows To Go and core capabilities that makes it secure, easy to use and manageable.” Topics Covered:- • Flexible Work styles • Windows To Go Your Portable Work style • Cost Effective and Lightweight Solution • Secure: Protects Corporate Data • Secure: Prevents Data Leakage • Easy To Use: Enabling Boot from USB • Easy To Use: Full fidelity experience • Easy To Use: Redefine Mobility • Other differences • Windows To Go Certified Drives • Easy To Use: Resilient to unintended removal • Deployment :- Deployment Scenarios • Deployment : Centrally Managed and Deployed Manageable: Use your existing infrastructure • Evaluation: Self Provision with the Creator Tool • How Windows To Go Works in Summary • FAQ Please refer to the below links for further details on the topics. Windows To Go: Feature Overview http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831833.aspx Windows To Go: Frequently Asked Questions http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj592680.aspx Prepare Your Organization for Windows To Go http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj592678.aspx Deployment Considerations for Windows To Go http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj592685.aspx Security and Data Protection Considerations for Windows To Go http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj592679.aspx Best Practice Recommendations for Windows To Go http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj592681.aspx

Spiffy now brings to you weekly posts on Microsoft Office. If you haven’t, it’s time to learn something new about our favorite and most used productivity tool, Microsoft Office! This week’s article will be on how to have better online meeting experience using Lync. A Better Lync conferencing experience.Use Meeting OptionsHow many times have we encountered a meeting where we had to manually turn off an attendees video because it was accidentally triggered or someone clicked on the “take presenter” option and caused utter chaos? **In Lync you can control your meeting experience even before the meeting starts!**I’m pretty sure that everybody knows how to properly create a Lync meeting, If you don’t know how, please refer to my screenshot.Click on Home > New Items > Lync Me****eting In Lync, you have the ability to set the level of experience that you want through the Lync meeting options. Click on the Meeting Tab > Meeting Options This option allows you control permissions in your meeting. This is only applicable If you are hosting the meeting. By clicking on the first option “A new meeting space (I control permission)” you will be able to access the other options. As a best practice, please use these following settings: Important! If you will have a meeting with someone that is outside of your country, change your Phone setting to the locale of your recipient. In this way, they will be presented with the local number available their country that they can dial in the e-mail invitation. ...

Date: 27th March 2013 Topic: Is your AD Healthy today? Speaker: Chen Fui Lam (Microsoft PFE) Session Synopsis: Is your Active Directory healthy today? Active Directory forms the backbone of your IT infrastructure. A healthy and optimized Active Directory is cruical to the smooth and efficient operations of your enterprise. Topic discussed: 1. AD Health Monitoring 2. Command and Tools Below are the command lines used during the session; Repadmin /viewlist * Repadmin /showrepl Repadmin /showrepl * /csv Repadmin /replsummary Repadmin /experthelp =========================================================== Nltest /dsgetdc:contoso Nltest /dsgetsite Nltest /dclist:contoso Nltest /domain_trusts #### domain.msc to show the trusts =========================================================== Get-Command -Module ActiveDirectory (Get-Command -Module ActiveDirectory).count Get-ADForest Get-ADDomain Get-ADDomainController -filter * Get-ADDefaultDomainPasswordPolicy #### same time run net accounts on cmd Get-ADObject -Identity “cn=domain admins,cn=users,dc=contoso,dc=com” -server “dc2-2012-f.contoso.com” Get-ADReplicationConnection -filter * #### open dssite.msc, show the CO DN Get-ADReplicationFailure -Target “contoso.com” -Scope Forest #### scope can be set to domain as well Get-ADReplicationFailure dc2-2012-f Get-ADReplicationSite -Filter * | ft name,objectclass Get-ADDomainController -filter * | ft hostname,site Get-ADReplicationUpToDatenessVectorTable * | sort partner,server | ft partner,server,usnfilter Get-ADReplicationAttributeMetadata -object “cn=domain admins,cn=users,dc=contoso,dc=com” -server dc2-2012-f.contoso.com -showalllinkedvalues | format-list #### Repadmin /showobjmeta dc2-2012-f.contoso.com “cn=domain admins,cn=users,dc=contoso,dc=com” Get-BpaModel #### To list installed BPA on the machine Invoke-BpaModel Get-BpaResult ============================================================================ Sonar.exe ntfrsutl.exe FRSDiag DFSRDiag ============================================================================ Ping Nslookup DNSLint /ad 10.0.0.101 s/10.0.0.102 DNSCMD /info DNSCMD /ZoneInfo contoso.com DNSCMD /zoneprint contoso.com DNSCMD /statistics DCDiag /s:dc1-2008r2-c /test:dns /v Get-DnsServerSetting Get-DnsServer -ComputerName “dc1-2008r2-c” Get-DnsServer -ComputerName “dc2-2012-f” #### highlight the scavenging & zone info Get-DnsServerResourceRecord -ZoneName “contoso.com” -RRType “SRV” Get-DnsServerResourceRecord -ZoneName “contoso.com” -RRType “NS” Get-DnsServerResourceRecord -ZoneName “contoso.com” -RRType “A” Get-DnsServerResourceRecord -ZoneName “_msdcs.contoso.com” -RRType “CName” Test-DnsServer -IPAddress “10.0.0.101” -ZoneName “contoso.com” Get-BpaModel #### To list installed BPA on the machine Invoke-BpaModel Get-BpaResult ========================================================================= DCDiag /s:dc1-2008r2-c w32tm /monitor w32tm /stripchart /computer:dc2-2012-f w32tm /resync w32tm /unregister mbsacli /target dc1-2008r2-c ==========================================================================

Date: 27th March 2013 Topic: Hyper-V Replica - Disaster Recovery Speaker: Chen Fui Lam (Microsoft PFE) Session Synopsis: One of the most promising new features in Microsoft Hyper-V 3.0 is the ability to create virtual machine replicas, which can create new opportunities for Disaster Recovery. The Hyper-V Replica feature makes copies of individual virtual machines (VMs) on alternate Hyper-V servers, either on-premises or off-site. In the event of a catastrophic loss of a host server, VM replicas can be used to ensure business continuity. In this session, we will discuss the technical details surrounding Hyper-V Replica deployment and management. Topic discussed: 1. How to leverage Hyper-V Replica as Disaster Recovery 2. Difference types of failover - Test Failover, Planned Failover and Unplanned Failover For more information on above ...

Date: 27th March 2013 Topic: SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn! Speaker: Harminder Singh Sethi (Microsoft PFE) Session Synopsis: SQL Server AlwaysOn is the new comprehensive high availability and disaster recovery solution in SQL Server 2012. Using AlwaysOn, you can increase application availability and get a better return on your hardware investments through a simplified high availability (HA) deployment and management experience. SQL Server AlwaysOn provides availability at either the application database or instance level. Topics discussed: 1) HA & DR solutions available in SQL Server 2008 R2 & before ...

(From My SharePoint 2013 Ignite Notebook) Part 1 Think of SharePoint 2013 as a platform, which will help you understand this new paradigm shift. Lots of developers do programming using C#, Python, Ruby, Java, PHP, NodeJS. The SharePoint 2013 App model is based on web standards: HTML 5, CSS, JS, OAuth 2.0 and OData. Today SharePoint enables most of the SharePoint API functions to be accessible remotely, with the remote interface being much easier to maintain and more secure. This concept also opens doors for SharePoint Developers create Facebook kind of applications for SharePoint and Office. Today’s Application Development Challenges Till SharePoint 2010, solution deployment could only be done in either Sandbox or Farm Solutions, ...

Welcome to TechNet Spotlight ! This series features the audio version of Microsoft TechNet for Directory Services. This series focus on Product Evaluation, Planning and Architecture, Solutions and Design , Deployment, Operations and Real World scenarios for Best Practices. We start our series on Active Directory Domain Service Product Evaluation. Below are the videos which explain about the new Features and Functionalities got introduced for AD DS for Windows Server 2008. Introducing Active Directory Domain Services for Windows Server 2008 AD DS Auditing AD DS Fine Grained Password Policies AD DS Read Only Domain Controllers AD DS Restartable Active Directory Domain Services AD DS Database Mounting Tool **AD DS ...