2013

Office 356 – My feedbacks about the Office 365 upgrade

As you may know, Microsoft has announced in February the upgrade of his cloud service Office 365 to run the latest version of his products, Exchange, Lync and SharePoint. As I’m running Office 365 for some of my need since the first version of Office 365, running on 2010 products version, this post is a […]

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Windows 8.1 – Upgrade from Windows 8 Pro with Media Center

UPDATE 1 while I was writing this post, I started to enable Media Center with my previous key which has been validated before being able to continue. The wizard failed at the end with an unknown error and when I retried with the key the validation failed. WTF!!!!! UPDATE 2 after some reboots, Media Center is

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Windows – Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 available for download to MSDN Subscribers

Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM bits are available for download for MSDN Subscribers (as well as TechNet for those who still have an active subscription). MSDN subscribers will also have access to the Windows 8.1 Embedded bits. Enjoy

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Office 365 – Check on premise PC’s with Office 365 Best Practices Analyser

Following my previous post announcing the new Tools section on the Office 365 administration portal, I will propose to go in details for each current tools available from this section – at the time of writing, some tools are still in beta. Today, I’ll go through the Best Practices Analyser from a client side. This

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Office 365 – New tools section available on the administration portal

To simplify the work of Office 365 administrators, and also the support, Microsoft has introduced a new section in the Office 365 administration portal to centralize some tools to help the IT guys in their work. This section, called Tools, is available at the end of the left menu from the Office 365 administration portal

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Office 365 – Mailbox size is doubling

After increasing the storage capacity for SharePoint Online (for SkyDrive Pro) from 7 Go to 25 Go few days ago (see http://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2013/08/27/skydrive-pro-increases-storage-and-ease-of-sharing.aspx), Microsoft has announced that the mailbox size is also increasing from 25 Go to 50 Go – see http://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2013/08/29/exchange-online-mailbox-sizes-are-doubling.aspx Enjoy with more storage capacity

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Office 365 – PowerShell Modules for Lync Online now available

Following Exchange Online, SharePoint or Windows Azure services, it is now possible to manage Lync Online with PowerShell. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39366 There were some workarounds around Internet to manage Lync Online with PowerShell, but this time it is officially supported

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Office 365 – Enable SharePoint Online Upgrade for site collection

If you had/have an Office 365 tenant running on SharePoint Online 2010, you will be automatically upgraded to the latest version: SharePoint Online 2013. Before this upgrade is proceeded, you will be notified and you will be allowed to evaluate the upgrade by selecting pilot users – or also postpone the upgrade process. In case

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Office 365 – Governance toolkit by Acceleratio

While looking for governance tools and options for Office 365, I found this toolkit – currently in beta at the time of writing this post – by Acceleratio http://acceleratio.net/products/governance-toolkit-for-office-365 The idea is to provide a simpler way to manage and monitor activities on Office 365 services (Exchange, Lync or SharePoint) by Office 365 administrators. The

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