Microsoft has published on the Windows Store an application to connect and consume the Power BI service on Office 365. This app requires Windows 8 or Windows RT and Office 365 Power BI. Go to http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/microsoft-power-bi/b7e7c94d-2ea3-4fa6-a277-9d19a1f697ba
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Microsoft has just introduced a new administration feature called Message Center. This feature is available on both Wave 14 (running 2010 version) and Wave 15 (running 2013 version). The Message Center will be/is used to improve the communication between Office 365 administrators and Microsoft. On the Message Center you will receive notifications about coming/planned changes
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This has been a long waited connector, which was only available through MCS and partners engagements. This FIM connector for Office 365 is intended to be used when DirSync (or the so called Windows Azure Active Directory Sync Tool) is not possible such in multi AD forests context or non Active Directory scenarios. You can
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As you may already know Exchange is providing an autoconfiguration feature to automatically configure Outlook and ActiveSync devices. If you have already deployed and configured SharePoint 2013 – at least for evaluation, you may have seen a new settings on the User Profile service application – called My Site Host URL in Active Directory. This
Hello SharePoint developers and administrators if you are looking for the SharePoint 2013 Features list with their associated GUID, go to http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14423.sharepoint-2013-existing-features-guid.aspx
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Microsoft is providing a tool to assist Office 365 administrators and support team to troubleshoot and solve directory synchronization issue. As reminder, you can find the list of attributes that are synchronized with Office 365 here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2256198 This tool, called IdFix DirSync, is available from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36832 EDIT this tool can be run ONLY on Windows 7
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For those who are running the 2013 Office server wave (Exchange, Lync or SharePoint), you may have to deploy Office Web Apps 2013 to get full functionality (such as with Lync for online meeting and media sharing) Good news, Microsoft has published the technical library in compiled CHM file for offline use ( as it
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If your Office 365 tenant has been migrated, you may have noticed that there is 2 public web site: the new one and the old one. If you used the previous public web site, you may don’t want to re do the work on the new public one. Don’t worry, Microsoft is offering a free
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As you may already know, if not this is it – and you can read the announcement here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/subscriptions/ms772428.aspx, Microsoft is retiring TechNet subscriptions. With this retirement, Microsoft is pushing to get products eval version or to move to the cloud (Azure or Office 365), or more expensive to get MSDN subscription. As many IT
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Microsoft has announced at the WorldWide Partners Conference the availability of Power BI for Office 365. With this announcement, Office 365 is now able to provide business intelligence services such as: Power Query to search and access data within Excel (formerly called Data Explorer) Power Map to map data on a map (formerly called Geoflow)
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