2011

Office 365 – Be part of the solution, join the Customer Advisory Board

As Office 365 is now live for about 6 months and already have been improved, Microsoft has created a Customer Advisory Board (as for some other software and services) to provide customer ability to exchange their feedbacks with the product group.   If you are interested, you can join the CAB by sending an email; […]

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SharePoint 2010 – Send the URL of the current item with a workflow using SharePoint Designer

I know the best practices to develop a workflow is to use Visual Studio and deploy it within a solution. But sometime, it’s better (and simpler) to use SharePoint Designer In this case, I wanted to send an specific formatted email to some users (the item creator and 2 administrators) when an item is created

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Office 365 – Small Business Essentials integration configuration (Step 1)

To follow my previous which announced the availability of the extension for Office 365 integration with Office 365, here is a small post regarding the installation and configuration. Prerequisites Go to the Connect website to get the update for Office 365 integration (http://connect.microsoft.com/sbs) Before to install this update, you must ensure your SBE is up

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Office 365 – Small Business Server Essentials now able to interact with Office 365 (beta)

Microsoft has released a beta version of the Office 365 Integration Module for Windows Small Business Essentials 2011. The Office 365 Integration Module for Windows SBS 2011 Essentials extends the features of the server Dashboard by providing seamless integration with Office 365 services. When you integrate Office 365 with the server, you can: Subscribe to

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SharePoint – A bug with Survey list if using External Data question type

While working on a project, an end user was asking me how to solve an error he had: he just created a survey with only one question but when he tried to open the survey he always had an error. We reproduced the issue: Create a new survey Then define a question and choose External

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SharePoint 2010 – Display the calendar webpart in a calendar view when creating a site definition

Recently, I came across an issue with custom site definition which had to display on the default page the calendar webpart as a calendar view (like the one displayed in the default Team Site). To create this custom site definition, I reused some code available in the default Team Site site definition ; especially the

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Office 365 – Active Directory Federation update 1 provides better multiple UPN management

As you may already know, with Office 365 you can configure your cloud services to use your own Active Directory for user authentication. This allow single sign on and password policy management independently of Office 365. However, until now, there was a limitation which obliged you to use multiple ADFS implementation in case of you

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Office 365 – It’s now possible to disable Directory Synchronization

For those who are already working with Office 365 and have enabled Directory Synchronization, there is a good news Starting today, it is now possible to disable/delete synchronized user accounts or delete previous synchronized object no longer existent On Premises. Go to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2619062/en-us to know more about it

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Office 365 – New features are coming

According to a Microsoft email, Office 365 will introduce new features within the end of this month (October 22nd) As part of these new features: BCS – WCF Connectors (for Enterprise Plans only): enables external system connection through web services endpoints External Sharing with Windows Live ID Official Windows Phone 7 Mango support: enables SharePoint

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SQL Denali – Free ebook “Introducing Microsoft SQL Server Code Name “Denali””

As you may already know, Microsoft is working on the next version of SQL, codename SQL Denali – officially called SQL 2012. To start learning (and enjoying) SQL Denali, Microsoft is offering a free ebook (still in writing progress) http://go.microsoft.com/FWLink/?Linkid=229829 Microsoft SQL Server Denali delivers significant enhancements to well-known, critical capabilities like high availability and

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