Microsoft is providing a new online troubleshooting tool for Office 365 services. This one has to be used for Lync Online sign-in issues. This online troubleshooting tool is based on experience learned by Office 365 support team over the last 9 months. The first step is to go to http://aka.ms/LyncSignIn and follow the troubleshooting wizard […]
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I know this is a very small thing but it will change a little bit our day to day mailbox management With the November 2013 updates for Office 2013, a new option is now available from ANY folders within a mailbox hosted on Exchange. Yes, this is only available for Exchange mailbox as the feature
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UPDATE – November 23rd – a new version has been released. The version is 1.0.6567.0018 UPDATE – November 12th – this version and reference associated has been removed. Many issues have been introduced, such as filtering not applied or corruption in display name (not everyone has been impacted anyway) Recently – in fact yesterday, November 4th,
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For those who wants/had already deployed Windows Server 2012 R2 to host the Office 365 Directory Synchronization tool, you can do it. DirSync is fully functional on Windows Server 2012 R2 even if it’s not yet documented. Don’t forget ensure to use the latest version of DirSync available from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=278924
For those who already played used Right Management Services, you already know it is difficult either not possible to share document secured by RMS with someone outside of your company. Now, with Windows Azure Right Management it’s becoming easier to share protected document outside of the company. All you need is an Office 365 tenant
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As you may know – if not, there is no more excuse – Office 365 integrates the use of RMS – Right Management Services – to protect your document. To enable and configure RMS for use with Office 365 take a look at http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/03/07/office-365-use-right-management-services/ Today, while looking around the Windows Phone Store, I found an
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As you may already know, Zune is no more used to manage mobile partnership/content synchronization between the Windows Phone and the desktop. Microsoft has provided another application – which could be the new ActiveSync/Mobile Device Center client you may have meet in the old days of Pocket PC/Windows Mobile. To get the Windows Phone Desktop
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While using my Windows Deployment Service running on Windows Server 2012 to deploy new Windows releases (Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2, I had errors when deploying Windows images using WDS, with or without answers file. Windows could not apply unattended settings during pass [offlineServicing] After validating the WIM image by installing both version
As per Microsoft announcement few months ago, here is how to configure multi factor authentication. This is a per user basis. I already wrote few posts about this feature (http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/06/14/office-365-two-factors-authentication-is-now-available-as-preview/ and http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/06/17/office-365-manage-multiple-factors-authentication/) but there was on a preview version; there has been some changes. NOTE 1 This does not work with federated users NOTE 2
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Microsoft has published a complete set of virtual machines ready to use with Exchange 2013, Lync 2013 and SharePoint 2013. These VM’s can be used for demo and evaluation. You can use all or part of these VM’s depending of the scenario you want to evaluate, including unified messaging. The VM’s are set to be
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