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 […]
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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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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
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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: Press release http://press.rim.com/release.jsp?id=5359 Overview http://us.blackberry.com/business/software/cloudservices/ Documentation http://docs.blackberry.com/en/admin/subcategories/?userType=2&category=BlackBerry+Business+Cloud+Services
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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
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Today, I passed the 2 exams for Office 365 certification (currently in beta) Exam 70-321: Deploying Office 365 http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?id=70-321&locale=en-us Exam 70-323: Administering Office 365 http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?id=70-323&locale=en-us I would not disclose anything here about these tests but here are few things for you: Both exams are ‘Enterprise’ oriented; meaning P plan are not really covered. I think
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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
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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
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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
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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
