November 2012

SharePoint – Performance and capacity management for SharePoint 2013

Live from the SharePoint Conference 2012. SharePoint 2013 performance challenges: new capabilities richer experience global online service to run client and server have more work to do SharePoint 2013 responds to incoming request 50% faster, 4 x faster profile sync (10 x with Active Directory import), 40% more efficient use of bandwidth, 80% less I/O […]

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SharePoint – Office Web Apps 2013

This post is written live from the SharePoint Conference 2012; it can be considered as an addition of my previous post about Office Web Apps 2013 (http://t.co/dfeg6HFX). Office Web Apps allow to view and edit Office document with a web browser (no Office rich client needed neither used). Office Web Apps are delivered through 3

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Exchange / Security – New statement on issuing certificate will stop allowing using .local domain on certificate

This notification apply mainly to Exchange services as these are the main services deployed within companies with internal and external access, meaning different URL’s – one for internal which is not Internet aware and one for remote access. But off course, any services which allow this type of access is impacted (such as SharePoint for

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Windows – If a Windows 8 app failed to start, it can be repaired

Ok so, while Microsoft has released his new Windows version, you already have deployed it and start playing with, especially by installing Windows App from the Windows Store. Everything was fine, until you start launching your app and unfortunately the app doesn’t start You try again to start it and noticed a small black cross

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Office 365 / SharePoint – Overview of eDiscovery across the Office Platform

Today, at the SharePoint Conference 2012, we talk about eDiscovery within the Office system products. eDiscovery is how records managers and litigators discover content in electronic format. Typically, eDiscovery requires searching for documents, websites, and email messages spread across laptops, email servers, file servers, and other sources, and collecting and acting on content that meets

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Office 365 – New Office 365 products included

The new and incoming Office 365 version will includes the following products: Exchange Online 2013 SharePoint Online 2013 Lync Online 2013 ok, until then, it’s already available on Office 365 with the 2010 product version so, the news Project Online Visio Pro for Office 365 Office 365 Pro Plus, which is the Office 2013 client

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Office 365 – Yammer will be provided with SharePoint Online for free

Just announced at the today’s SharePoint Conference 2012 Keynote, Yammer will be included for free with SharePoint Online​   Yammer SKU’s and pricing Beginning March 1, 2013, Yammer will be available to Microsoft Enterprise Agreement customers.  Enterprise Agreement customers will be able to purchase Yammer Enterprise via Microsoft volume licensing. Microsoft has also created a

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SharePoint Conference – Few picts from the Keynote and some announcements

This year, I’m happy to be part of the SharePoint Conference at Las Vegas So, here are few picts from the keynote and some good news (in preview  )   First, a Windows apps is coming for SkyDrive PRO; you may already know th SkyDrive app for keeping your content for your personal SkyDrive account, 

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SharePoint 2013 – Error when synching SharePoint 2013 web site with SharePoint Workspace

Following my post explaining how to synchronize a SharePoint 2013 with SharePoint Workspace (http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2012/11/06/sharepoint-use-sharepoint-workspace-with-sharepoint-2013/), you may experiment issue during the synchronization with error “The field “AppAuthor” contains a lookup to list “AppPrincipals” that cannot be resolved. The target list may not be part of this site” This is (unfortunately) a known issue. To solve it,

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SharePoint–“Sign in as another” user” has disappear with SharePoint 2013

UPDATE May 2013; I just noticed that the KB article has been changed by Microsoft; they are now saying use the Run as another user option to start IE. So, I have updated my post to provide you the previous solution. If you are working with SharePoint 2007 or 2010, you already know that you have

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