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SharePoint – SPAdmin service failed to start when creating a SharePoint 2010 farm

Leave a Comment / SharePoint / Benoit HAMET / September 26, 2012 / SharePoint

Recently, I ran into a problem with SharePoint 2010 Enterprise (with Service Pack 1 and June 2012 Cumulative Update) when creating a new SharePoint farm. The configuration wizard failed at step 3 when creating the configuration database; while the configuration database and the content DB for the central administration site have been created. When analyzing […]

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Exchange – Enable Apps for all users

Leave a Comment / Exchange / Benoit HAMET / September 23, 2012 / Exchange

With Office 2013, Microsoft has introduced a new way to provide add-on for Office client as well as for Exchange Web Access or SharePoint; this way is called Apps. So, with Exchange 2013, you may want to enable some apps by default to all of your users, instead of teaching them how to enable these.

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Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 – You can not start multiple program instance if launched from Metro

Leave a Comment / Windows / Benoit HAMET / September 22, 2012 / Windows

Since Microsoft has introduced the new UI (previously called Metro) with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, you can not start multiple instance of a same program if you launch it using Metro. Try this: From session opened on Windows 8 (or Windows Server 2012), hit the Windows key to make Metro appears Type notepad

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ForeFront – Microsoft has announced some important changes in the ForeFront products line

Leave a Comment / ForeFront Products Suite (Endpoint, FIM, FOPE, TMG, UAG) / Benoit HAMET / September 13, 2012 / ForeFront Products Suite (Endpoint, FIM, FOPE, TMG, UAG)

Today, Microsoft has announced some important changes in the ForeFront products line, as part of their effort to the cloud journey: ForeFront Online Protection for Exchange has been renamed to Exchange Online Protection; this may be clearer the idea and going in the new direction (see below for relation ) A basic antimalware protection is

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Windows – E-book introducing Windows Server 2012

Leave a Comment / Windows / Benoit HAMET / September 6, 2012 / Windows

With the release of the next version of Windows Server, Windows Server 20012, Microsoft has published a free e-book to introduce this new version and his new features, cloud oriented. Enjoy http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2012/09/05/free-ebook-introducing-windows-server-2012-rtm-edition.aspx

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SharePoint – SharePoint 2013 IT Pro training

Leave a Comment / SharePoint / Benoit HAMET / September 6, 2012 / SharePoint

While the coming next version of SharePoint is currently in beta, Microsoft has published the new IT Pro content which covers everything a SharePoint administrator needs to know about this new version http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30361

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Exchange – Issues if system mailboxes are not correctly configured

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Exchange / Benoit HAMET / September 2, 2012 / Beta, Exchange

Since Exchange 2003, Microsoft has introduced some specific mailboxes to manage some system operations. With Exchange 2013, these mailboxes are becoming more important. For example, these mailboxes are used to operate mailbox moves or OAB generation. Off course, this may happened that system mailboxes become misconfigured (for any reasons). To solve this, Microsoft has published

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