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I'm a technical writer at Microsoft who writes about SharePoint, Exchange, and Lync, and how you can use them with Office 365.
Directory Synchronization for FOPE
I wanted to publicize a couple links regarding the Directory Synchronization Tool for Forefront...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 09/02/2011
Switching to FOPE from Another Messaging Protection Solution
You may be interested in Microsoft's messaging protection solution, Forefront Online Protection for...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 08/04/2011
How Forefront Online Protection for Exchange and Office 365 Work Together
On the Microsoft podcasts site you can find a recently released podcast, Forefront Online Protection...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 07/12/2011
Delegated Administration Experience with Forefront Online Protection for Exchange
You can delegate your FOPE administration to someone outside your company by using features...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 06/17/2011
FOPE in Office 365
The FOPE documentation contains a topic, FOPE in Office 365 Beta Feature Differences, that shows the...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 06/02/2011
Exchange Server Deployment Assistant
If you have wondered, "How can I configure my Exchange environment so that cloud mailboxes can...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 05/25/2011
Understanding Spam Processing in Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server
We recently refreshed the Understanding spam processing documentation for FPE 2010. Our goal in...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 05/05/2011
Forefront Training
Several TechNet webcasts were completed last month that show and explain features of Forefront...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 05/03/2011
Video that Shows how to Configure FOPE Connectors
In a previous post, Hosting a Subset of Your Mailboxes in the Cloud, with FOPE Protection, I talked...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 04/19/2011
FOPE 11.1 New Features
We recently released several new features in Forefront Online Protection for Exchange, our cloud...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 04/06/2011
Hosting a Subset of Your Mailboxes in the Cloud, with FOPE Protection
In my last post, I discussed a mail-flow scenario where you host some mailboxes on premises and some...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 03/29/2011
Cross-Premises Mail Flow - Moving Mailboxes to the Cloud
We've been working quite a bit on documentation that shows the various flavors of cloud hosting. It...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 03/11/2011
Forefront 101 - Various Forefront Products
A couple weeks ago I worked in the Microsoft booth at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco....
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 03/03/2011
Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange - Importing a List of Safe Senders
Yesterday I got a question about whether it's possible to import a whitelist, or safe senders list,...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 02/09/2011
Microsoft Office 365 Beta and Forefront Online Protection for Exchange
This documentation, Overview of Complex FOPE Mail Flow Scenarios, can be helpful if you use FOPE and...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 02/04/2011
Hotfix Rollup 1 for Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint
See the post concerning the hotfix (Description of Hotfix Rollup 1 for Forefront Protection for...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 01/25/2011
Twitter Account
I'm tweeting now as TonyTri_MSFT.
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 01/14/2011
Forefront Protection Server Management Console Videos
We made a few videos that can help you quickly set up and configure the FPSMC: FPSMC How-to:...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 01/07/2011
Forefront Protection Server Management Console (FPSMC) 2010
Last week my group released the Forefront Protection Server Management Console. The release was the...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 12/22/2010
The road to Microsoft Office 365
Mary-Jo Foley is writing a series of articles (see The road to Microsoft Office 365: The past, or...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 12/10/2010
How-To Videos for FOPE Partners
We recently released a couple videos, created by Micah LaNasa, that show Forefront Online Protection...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 11/15/2010
Security Enhancements from Hotmail
Thought this article, Microsoft beefs up Hotmail password security, was worth sharing: Hotmail users...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 11/10/2010
Hello Office 365
I've been reading up a little this morning on Microsoft's new online productivity suite for...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 11/04/2010
Getting to Know the Cloud
I recently listened to the following podcast and thought it could be helpful for our customers...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 11/01/2010
Security in the Cloud - Worse or Better than On Premises?
I always thought this question was simple, especially for a small organization, meaning that...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 10/07/2010
Online Exchange Forums
I was doing some research on using Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS) and Forefront...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 09/27/2010
Avoid Becoming a Victim of Spam
I wrote this for my friends and family and I thought I'd share it here: Last week my wife got an...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 09/16/2010
Spammers Make 57,000 Fake Web Sites a Week
Last week my wife got an email message from a website that looked like our bank's website. It asked...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 09/13/2010
Botnets and Spam
Recently I've been doing some documentation work for Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (in...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 08/31/2010
Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server - New Videos
Our video guy, Micah LaNasa, has been really busy lately creating and posting new videos for the...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 08/20/2010
Forefront Online Protection for Exchange - New Videos
Recently, a technical writer in my group created a few videos about Forefront Online Protection for...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 08/19/2010
More on Windows FCI
Yesterday I checked out these videos by Phil Pennington regarding the Windows File Classification...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 08/10/2010
Windows File Classification Infrastructure
This morning I've been doing some reading about Windows FCI. I've mentioned it on this blog before....
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 08/09/2010
Article o' the Week
Cloud Awakens Microsoft's Server and Tools Giant Has the cloud awakened a sleeping giant at...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 08/02/2010
Microsoft Releases Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Beta
The Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 beta has released. This new release is setting the stage for...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 07/26/2010
InfoWorld review: Microsoft ADFS 2.0 and Forefront Identity Manager 2010
Forefront Identity Manager 2010 is reviewed in this article. Forefront Identity Manager 2010...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 07/07/2010
Protecting XPS Documents with AD RMS
I recently completed a video on TechNet Edge that shows how you can use XPS to protect and restrict...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 06/30/2010
Not a Trickle, but a Fire Hose
Sometimes a little outside critique can be a good thing. This is an interesting blog post by Paul...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 06/24/2010
A Comparison: Google Apps and Microsoft's BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite)
The first post in this blog series looks promising. The Hit the ground running blog compares the two...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 06/21/2010
Transport Rules in Exchange
I think transport rules are a really neat feature in Exchange 2010. Microsoft is making inroads into...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 05/26/2010
Cloud Apps for Information Workers
eWeek has an interesting article, Microsoft Office 2010 Debuts, Challenges Google Apps, about...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 05/13/2010
Case Study: Using File Classification Infrastructure to Classify Data and Protect Information
Microsoft recently released a case study that describes how Microsoft IT used FCI and the Bulk...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 04/28/2010
Article: Security in the Cloud
A recent article in Fortune magazine caught my attention. It's about the cloud. It's about DLP....
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 04/06/2010
Gen Y Hackers
I thought this BBC piece was interesting about young Russian students who hack protected systems for...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 03/11/2010
AD RMS/IRM Help for New Users
I write for a developer/IT pro audience, but I regularly have people ask me about documentation for...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 02/26/2010
Required Critical Update for AD RMS Customers
Today Microsoft is releasing an update to AD RMS to completely remove the “application manifest...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 02/09/2010
Protecting a SharePoint Document Library with AD RMS
Many customers don't know that it's possible to use AD RMS to protect documents in a SharePoint...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 02/09/2010
Protecting Sensitive Data with AD RMS
I recently did a Q and A interview with Softpedia where we discussed AD RMS and its integration into...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 01/26/2010