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How to Restore Microsoft 365 Data from Azure Backup

Posted on February 8, 2025February 8, 2025 by Greg Altman

Backing up and restoring data is a critical function that needs to be understood well. In this post, I’ve outlined the basic scenarios to get you started.

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How to Backup Microsoft 365 Data to Azure Easily

Posted on January 20, 2025January 20, 2025 by Greg Altman

Everyone knows you need to back up your data, right? Most folks do a fair job of backing up their local or “on-prem” data, either to an offline storage device or the cloud. But what about all the data you have in Microsoft 365? All of the emails, OneDrive files, Teams files, and SharePoint sites?…

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Teaching my first hands-on lab

Posted on December 9, 2024 by Greg Altman

Recently, I taught my very first hands-on two-day virtual lab. It seemed a natural outgrowth of my speaking at TechMentor and Live360 conferences; the same company sponsored it. The topic was one I knew in some depth, and the pay was good, so why not? The problems started with the timing and how things change…

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The road from conference attendee to speaker

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Greg Altman

I have long been an advocate of technology conferences for IT professionals. A little background is needed. For the first half of my career, my manager didn’t allow me to go to conferences as they were, in his eyes, a waste of time and money. In fairness, his experience was at a large IBM-centric conference…

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On the hunt again!

Posted on November 15, 2024November 25, 2024 by Greg Altman

Less than three years ago, I wrote about Reflections & Ch-Ch- Changes, in which I left my long-time position at Swiff-Train to work at Strike. Now, I’m on the cusp of a new change. This one is more stressful than those because, for the first time since May 1992, I’m unemployed. There are all the…

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TP-Link ER7206 Review: The Ultimate Multi-WAN Gateway

Posted on October 11, 2024November 25, 2024 by Greg Altman

I recently began rebuilding a home computing lab, and as a part of it, I needed to isolate the lab network from our home network. For this, I needed a router that met some pretty narrow criteria. First, it had to support a VPN to allow me to access the lab environment from outside the…

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To MSP or not to MSP?

Posted on July 10, 2024November 25, 2024 by Greg Altman

IT departments are once again looking at outsourcing some or all of their work to Managed Service Providers or Managed Security Service Providers. Aside from the obvious concern for the people working in our organizations that this decision would impact, we also have a responsibility to the company to make the best decision. So what…

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Always ask why!

Posted on June 23, 2024November 25, 2024 by Greg Altman

Times are tough in IT these days. While technology flourishes, budgets are being cut. IT leadership is asked to deliver more, deliver it faster, while keeping everyone’s data safe and, oh yeah, keeping that old legacy software running, too. Yes, CxOs will say that’s what you are paid for, and they are right. Of course,…

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Coming off of a slump

Posted on February 10, 2024November 25, 2024 by Greg Altman

I’ve had this blog for several years, and it’s no secret that I have been “inconsistent,” to put it gently. At first, it was Imposter Syndrome—no one wanted to hear what I had to say. I got over that as much as most people do. Then, it was a schedule that crammed my weeks so full…

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Migrating to Exchange Online

Posted on April 18, 2023November 12, 2023 by Greg Altman

Migrating from an on-premises Exchange 2016 server to Exchange Online can seem overwhelming, but doing it in ‘chunks’ makes it easier to plan and execute. Having done this a few times, I’ll show you how to overcome the tricky parts and avoid some ‘gotchas.’ Key Steps Prepare your environment Before beginning any migration, ensuring that…

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