Office 365

November 5, 2019

NETWORKING

Cisco and Microsoft Advance Technology Partnership to Improve SD-WAN and Cloud Connectivity

When I meet CIOs in small and large enterprises, they almost always ask if Cisco can do more to help their employees get the best application experience in cloud apps and services, while maintaining high security. While the internet is rapidly becoming the preferred method of connectivity due to cos…

October 11, 2019

INSIDE CISCO IT

Connecting the docs—Webex Teams and Enterprise Content Management

Webex Teams is the hub for collaboration at Cisco. For every project or program, we set up a Webex space where we can meet, chat, and share content—from any device. Keeping connected helps us be productive when email is just not enough. On May 1, 2019, the user experience for collaborating on conten…

October 7, 2019

INSIDE CISCO IT

Waste not, WAN

Our existing circuits comfortably handle terabytes of new Office 365 traffic with Cisco SD-WAN technology Before migrating to Office 365 in early 2019 we needed to make sure we had enough WAN capacity. At the outset we’d be transferring 500 TB of email—the equivalent of 19 years of streaming HD vide…

July 10, 2019

INSIDE CISCO IT

Staying productive on the fly

Today I’m publishing this post from Heathrow Airport in London. That’s not unusual because I work away from the office probably 50% of the time, either at home, my local café, or hotels and airports. I’ll collaborate with people across different time zones and luckily for me, working at Cisco…

June 10, 2019

INSIDE CISCO IT

The Marriage of Webex Teams and Microsoft Office 365: Our Vision and Strategy

The documents my team produces aren’t solo efforts. When I build a presentation, for example, I’ll leave placeholders for colleagues to fill in, ask people to review, and maybe work with a designer. We have great collaboration tools at Cisco with Webex Teams, and with the new approach to bring Webex…

June 10, 2019

INSIDE CISCO IT

Webex Teams + Office 365 + Implementation Part 1: Rollout and Change Management

One of the most ambitious steps in our journey to the cloud is rolling out Office 365 to 118,000 employees. Read about our vision and strategy here. This blog explains the rollout and our change management strategy. Part 2 of this blog explains how we managed the implementation using SAFe.   R…

June 10, 2019

INSIDE CISCO IT

Implementing Office 365 at Cisco – Part 2: SAFe Bought Us Speed, Visibility, and Accountability

As we continue on our journey to the cloud, Cisco IT is rolling out Office 365 to 118,000 employees. You can read about our vision and strategy in this blog. Our implementation has two unusual angles that might give you ideas for your own move to Office 365. First, rather than using Office 365 as-i…

June 10, 2019

INSIDE CISCO IT

Office 365: How We Made It More Secure than On-Premises Email

An internal audit a couple of years ago pointed out that our email contains restricted information. That conclusion shone a spotlight on the security of our planned Office 365. Restricted information includes things like customer data, financial data, even SEC filings before they go public. If this…

May 29, 2019

SECURITY

Office 365 phishing

Let’s be honest: administering email is a pain. Routing issues, disk quotas, bouncebacks, the times when users can send but not receive emails, receive but not send, or they flat out cannot send or receive—the list goes on. It’s no wonder that email-hosting services like Office 365 have become so po…