As you already know, AAM (Alternate Access Mapping) allows you to define different URL to reach SharePoint sites. The importance of the AAM is frequently reminded – at least in the context of SharePoint publication for external access. While you still can access to SharePoint sites from these different URL’s while they are not registered […]
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For those who are using Firefox as web browser, you may already have experienced some issue with SharePoint functionalities. One of this issue may be with Office Web Apps. Now, be happy , Microsoft has released a plug in which make Office Web Apps working with Firefox (you need Firefox 3.5 or later) http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27106 You
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Few weeks earlier, I had the opportunity to receive some Jabra products for evaluation. Jabra is providing handset and products which integrate with Communication Server/Lync. I have to say I’m very impressed by the quality and the simplicity of use. Installation is very simple, for advanced products you have a management tool which allow you
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As you may already know you know promote some link or document as best bet for a search results (Search keyword and Fast Search Keyword. BUT, if your search center (SharePoint or Fast) is independent; meaning located in other web application (search search.hametbenoit.info), managed keyword will not be used for promoting your Best bet. Indeed,
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If you are using Audience to manage information displayed on your SharePoint, you may have trouble when you try to find or resolve the audience wanted, even if the audience is correctly set and compiled. The following error message may appears during audience validation “This entry cannot be validated. Exception “Object reference not set to
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Thanks to the Live Translator widget, you can now ask for a page translation. NOTE as this is an automatic translation, there may be some approximations
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This is the final answer of a ONE year old problem, appears after the August 2010 CU (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2010/11/30/sharepoint-search-results-not-complete-with-august-cu/, http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2011/01/04/sharepoint-august-cumulative-update-issue-with-anonymous-search/ and http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2011/04/08/sharepoint-office-web-apps-anonymous-access-and-search-results-final-conclusion/) The SharePoint Product Group has finally provided a fix for this problem with the June 2011 CU (to be deployed after the SP1). With this fix, Office document published on SharePoint sites with
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With Office 365, like with BPOS, there is password policy you can’t change (except if you use authentication federation with your own AD). For information, you can find details about password policy here http://community.office365.com/en-us/w/sso/office-365-password-policy.aspx If your password expired and you are connected with Lync, you will have a popup asking you to enter your password.
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Microsoft has announced the Release Candidate of the Windows Home Server Windows Phone 7 Connector. The purpose of this Add-in is to enable Remote Server Management tasks and relay Media Streams for WHS 2011 including: alert user management media (streaming, pictures…) For more details and testing, go to http://connect.microsoft.com/windowshomeserver
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The Office 365 has announced that the federation with Live Messenger will be disabled temporarily in order to solve some issue. Indeed, users using a vanity domain with Office 365 were not able to access their Live account. So while the team is working to solve this issue, the IM federation with Live will be
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