

While adopting cloud services helps to increase IT capabilities and also provides predictable operational costs, it leads to a new challenge-how to manage on-premises resources and cloud services effectively.

More and more small and medium-sized businesses are beginning to adopt mainstream cloud services such as Office 365. I will start with the most fundamental piece of the Services Integration pillar, Windows Azure Active Directory integration, as well as the major day-to-day management tasks associated with it. In this blog post, I would like to give you an overview of Services Integration, which will be followed by an additional post that is specific to new features in Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials: SharePoint Online integration and Exchange ActiveSync integration. Hi, this is Yuheng, program manager on the Windows Server Essentials product team. First published on TechNet on Nov 04, 2013
