Tips on how to ace an Office 365 certification test

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Tips on how to ace an Office 365 certification test

Anyone hoping to gain Microsoft certification in Office 365 better know the ins and outs of provisioning, security, syncing, identities and troubleshooting for the cloud version of Microsoft's flagship productivity suite.And be sure to know the PowerShell commands that underlie the user interface for Office 365, says Neal McFee, a technical adviser at Harvard Business School who led an Office 365 exam-prep session at TechEd North America 2014.+ Also on Network World: Office 365 customer: Get the right help when moving email to the cloud |Productivity showdown: Google Apps or Office 365? +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Issue highlights

1. First look: Amazon's new Fire Phone

2. Facebook announces its open data-center switch

3. Google looks to the day when it can quit building its own servers

4. As iPhone thefts drop, Google and Microsoft plan kill switches on smartphones

5. NSA jitters are 'just a bummer' for cloud growth, HP says

6. CloudFlare acquires enterprise VPN provider CryptoSeal

7. Microsoft kills off plan to pay people to write good things about Internet Explorer

8. Why Netflix video quality has fluctuated this year

9. Cisco mum on future of ThreatGrid's partnership arrangements

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Facebook announces its open data-center switch

Facebook has taken networking into its own hands, building a switch to link servers inside its data centers, and wants to make the platform available to others.The sprawling social network provider needs maximum flexibility to keep up with user growth and roll out new services, said Jay Parikh, the company's vice president of infrastructure engineering. He announced the switch, code-named Wedge, at the Gigaom Structure conference in San Francisco. Facebook had said in May of last year that it was working on a switch with the Open Compute Project (OCP).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

Google looks to the day when it can quit building its own servers

Google is well-known for building its own server hardware to meet the unique needs of its massive compute network, but that won't always be the case, the head of its infrastructure team said Wednesday.As cloud deployments get bigger and more widespread, the industry will eventually catch up to Google's style of computing and the company will no longer need to build its own systems.That's according to Urs Hölzle, the executive in charge of Google's technical infrastructure, in an on-stage interview at the Gigaom Structure conference Wednesday.Google initially built its own servers just to save money, Hölzle said. It hasn't been short of money for a long time, but it still designs its own servers today.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

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As iPhone thefts drop, Google and Microsoft plan kill switches on smartphones

Responding to more than a year of pressure, Google and Microsoft will follow Apple in adding an anti-theft "kill switch" to their smartphone operating systems, U.S. law enforcement officials will announce later Thursday.The commitment will be disclosed alongside new data that shows a dramatic drop in theft of Apple iPhones and iPads after the September 2013 introduction of iOS 7, which included a kill-switch function that allows stolen devices to be remotely locked and deleted so they become useless.In New York, iPhone theft was down 19 percent in the first five months of this year, which is almost double the 10 percent drop in overall robberies seen in the city. Over the same period, thefts of Samsung devices—which did not include a kill switch until one was introduced on Verizon-only models in April—rose by over 40 percent.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

NSA jitters are 'just a bummer' for cloud growth, HP says

Revelations about U.S. National Security Agency snooping have made some buyers outside the U.S. think twice about public clouds, placing a drag on one of the world's biggest technology trends, the head of Hewlett-Packard's enterprise group said.Bill Veghte, executive vice president and general manager of the HP Enterprise Group, joined the chorus of tech executives lamenting a new wariness among customers just hours after Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels said his company had seen no impact.Since documents exposed by former NSA analyst Edward Snowden last year revealed purportedly widespread collection of data in numerous countries, enterprises outside the U.S. have become skittish about U.S. tech products, according to some IT executives. Cisco Systems' Chairman and CEO John Chambers, for one, has said those worries have affected his company's business in China and has asked President Barack Obama to intervene to stem effects on U.S. technology sales overseas.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

CloudFlare acquires enterprise VPN provider CryptoSeal

CloudFlare has acquired CryptoSeal, a provider of VPN (virtual-private-network) services for businesses, in a deal it says will extend its security services to Web users.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. CloudFlare began to shut down CryptoSeal's service last week after the acquisition was finalized, and the service will be fully retired by June 30, wrote Matthew Prince, CloudFlare's CEO.CryptoSeal's co-founder, Ryan Lackey, will join CloudFlare as a security product manager.CryptoSeal offered a VPN service for businesses called "Connect." VPNs are a crucial security tool for enterprises, encrypting data traffic between two servers. If the traffic is intercepted by an attacker, it is unreadable unless the attacker can also obtain the private encryption keys.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

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Microsoft kills off plan to pay people to write good things about Internet Explorer

It was only a couple days ago when Microsoft released its Internet Explorer Developer Channel, "a fully functioning browser designed to give Web developers and early adopters a sneak peek at the Web platform features we're working on." Any chance IE might have gotten some long-term social media love was dashed after a clueless "social strategist on behalf of Microsoft" invited the wrong person to write something positive about Internet Explorer.The "wrong" person was TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington who posted the unsolicited blog-for-pay letter on Uncrunched. The "strategist" was from the advocate marketing firm SocialChorus, which lists on Bing as a customer. In part, the message stated:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

Why Netflix video quality has fluctuated this year

John Oliver's recent net neutrality diatribe, which has attracted more than 3.8 million YouTube views, spotlights Netflix ISP Speed Index data showing Netflix streaming quality deteriorating and then improving after Netflix and Comcast began to directly connect. But what does the Netflix Index data really show?We analyzed Netflix service performance swings during the period under scrutiny using Netflix's own data, and found that a dozen ISPs experienced a common pattern of Speed Index deterioration and improvement. We set out to understand why, and here's what we found.The Netflix content delivery system has undergone four architectural configurations, each with a different critical server-to-player streaming path that affects Netflix ISP Speed Index results. In mid-2013, Netflix shifted its content delivery system from public Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) like Akamai to its own CDN called Open Connect. To connect the Netflix CDN to the Internet, Netflix uses a variety of "middle-mile" ISPs, including Cogent Communications and Level 3 Communications. As the amount of traffic Netflix served from its own CDN increased, some of its "middle-mile" Internet connectivity suppliers apparently lacked sufficient capacity to service the Netflix load, and video performance levels, as documented by the Netflix ISP Speed Index, dropped.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

Cisco mum on future of ThreatGrid's partnership arrangements

Having completed its acquisition of ThreatGRID this week, Cisco put forward plans for how the TreatGRID sandboxing technology will fit in the Cisco security portfolio. The company also acknowledged it's not entirely clear yet on what to do about the many technology-sharing relationships that ThreatGRID has had with other vendors, including Cisco competitor, Check Point. ThreatGRID is the maker of anti-malware sandboxing technology that Cisco says didn't have a lot of large customers directly but was expanding through many third-party vendor relationships. In one of them, ThreatGRID last month had joined an alliance with Check Point Software Technologies and six other security vendors to share threat-intelligence. In other publicized partnerships, Guidance Software last month said ThreatGRID would provide malware analysis and threat intelligence to Guidance EnCase customers. Cisco declined to discuss any of the partnership arrangements, but said these are now under review.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

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