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Expert on Microsoft infrastructure technologies (Online Services - BPOS / Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, OCS / Lync, Windows, AD, ForeFront, System Center...)
février 01
Office 365 – Office Live Small Business will be stopped in April 2012
by  Benoit HAMETNo presence information  on 01/02/2012 10:20

Microsoft has scheduled to shutdown Office Live Small Business (OLSB) offer in April 2012; more exactly April 2012, 30rd.

Current OLSB customers should have received a notification email to inform them to think about migrating to Office 365.

In order to make the migration smoother, OLSB customers can evaluate Office 365 during 6 months for FREE.

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janvier 30
Office/SharePoint – Office 15 has reached the Technical Preview step
by  Benoit HAMETNo presence information  on 30/01/2012 20:31
Category: Beta; Office; SharePoint

Today, the Office Product Group has reached an important milestone in the Office 15 development (which includes Office client but also SharePoint products).

The Technical Preview program (formerly called beta program) should start soon from now.

To know more go to http://blogs.office.com/b/office-exec/archive/2012/01/30/quot-office-15-quot-begins-technical-preview.aspx

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janvier 30
Exchange – PST discovery and import tool
by  Benoit HAMETNo presence information  on 30/01/2012 20:19
Category: Exchange

Microsoft has released a tool which allow PST file discovery and import onto Exchange 2010 and Exchange Online.

This is tool is composed by :

  • a central service which maintains a list of all PST file discovered
  • a client agent deployed onto workstation
  • a console to configure discovery and track import status

Go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=241370 for documentation and http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=28767 for download

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janvier 30
Office 365 – BlackBerry Business Cloud Service now available as RTW
by  Benoit HAMETNo presence information  on 30/01/2012 15:35

Today, RIM has announced the availability in RTW (Released to the Web) of the BlackBerry Business Cloud Service for Office 365 after about 3 months in beta.

To know more:

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janvier 30
Exchange – Folder policy not visible/manageable in Outlook
by  Benoit HAMETNo presence information  on 30/01/2012 15:29
Category: Exchange

If you apply policy on Exchange 2010 and policy are not visible neither manageable through Outlook 2010, this may be due to the Exchange cache mode.

To sole the issue, just close Outlook, go to the local settings of your profile (%userprofile%\Local settings\Microsoft\Outlook) and delete the OST file (Exchange cache file)

After restarting Outlook, policies will become available and manageable from Outlook.

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janvier 27
Office 365 – Feedbacks on Office 365 certification beta
by  Benoit HAMETNo presence information  on 27/01/2012 16:47

Today, I passed the 2 exams for Office 365 certification (currently in beta)

I would not disclose anything here about these tests but here are few things for you:

Now, I just have to wait few weeks before knowing if I passed or if I failed.

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janvier 24
Lync – Download Lync Client Attendee
by  Benoit HAMETNo presence information  on 24/01/2012 10:04

For those who are already using Lync (hosted On Premises or Online) but have host online meeting with people without the Lync client, you may notify them to download the Lync Client Attendee.

This will offer them the same user experience than with the Lync client but without the need to have a Lync user account (On Premises or Online).

Go to http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=15755 and enjoy

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janvier 18
Microsoft Products – Schedule delivery date for incoming products
by  Benoit HAMETNo presence information  on 18/01/2012 23:09

As you may already know, there is a lot of incoming new product version for the next 12 to 24 months, including the waited Windows 8.

Microsoft has published an initial schedule of delivery. Keep in mind this may still change will product groups are still working on many of these products.

Windows 8
Anticipated release: Between Q3 2012 and early 2013 (UPDATED 1/12)

Anticipated release date: Beta expected "late February"; possible release to manufacturing on x86 and ARM between Q3 2012 and early 2013


Windows Server 8
Anticipated release: Between Q3 2012 and early 2013 (UPDATED 1/17)

System Center 2012
Anticipated release: Early 2012(UPDATED 1/17)

Anticipated release date: Early 2012, possibly April, to coincide with the Microsoft Management Summit event


SQL Server 2012
Anticipated release: First half of 2012

Internet Explorer 10
Anticipated release: Between Q3 2012 and early 2013
"Office 15"
Anticipated release: Q4 2012

"Exchange 15"
Anticipated release: Q4 2012
Visual Studio 11
Anticipated release: Unknown

Kinect for Windows
Anticipated release: Feb. 1, 2012
Windows Phone "Tango" and "Apollo"
Anticipated release: Q2 and Q4 2012, respectively (UPDATED 1/16)

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janvier 18
Lync – Obtain configuration details from Lync client
by  Benoit HAMETNo presence information  on 18/01/2012 09:22

The following is working for both On Premises and Online Lync deployment.

From time to time, especially for troubleshooting purposes, this may be important to have access to Lync client configuration (such as Lync web application pool, internal/external URL’s…)

This configuration may be difficult to have, especially with Lync Online as you don’t have access to the Lync administration console.

So, like with Outlook 2007/2010 client, you can obtain some configuration settings used by the Lync client.

To do so:

  • Do a right click on the Lync icon shown in the systray WITH the CTRL key hold and choose Configuration Information

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  • This action will display a pop up will all Lync settings

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janvier 14
InfoPath – InfoPath 2010 form is updating SharePoint data source when moving between SharePoint sites
by  Benoit HAMETNo presence information  on 14/01/2012 09:07
Category: Office; SharePoint

If you already used InfoPath 2007 to create form using data source hosted on SharePoint (such as SharePoint lists or web services), you may already know that you are obliged to update manually these data sources in case of move between SharePoint sites.

With InfoPath 2010, these updates are still mandatory BUT the form publication wizard detects the change and is asking to automatically update the data sources. In fact, all absolute URL’s are converted to match the destination URL – if you were using SharePoint lists as data source, only the first part is updated as shown in the screenshots below.

To automatically update data sources used within your InfoPath form, you have to check the option Adjust data connections to the new location shown at the last publication step.

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Original data source URL

Updated data source URL

Enjoy with InfoPath now Smile

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