2014

Office 365 – Azure AD Connect Preview installation

Following my previous announcing the preview of the new version of Azure AD Connect which will replace the current DirSync tool for Office 365, here is a post detailing the installation of the preview. As said in my previous post, this version can be downloaded from the Connect web site (http://connect.microsoft.com/site1164/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=53949) For this installation, I […]

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Azure – Azure backup now supports Windows client

After the server side, Microsoft has published an update for Windows 7 and 8 clients to allows these clients to take advantage of the Azure service called Azure Backup. Go there to download and install the package and starts backing up your clients on Azure http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3015072

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Office 365 – Office 365 DirSync will be replaced with Azure AD Connect

Microsoft has announced that Azure AD Connect, the new tool to synchronize On Premises Active Directory directories will replace in a very near future the current DirSync tool for Office 365. As you may be aware, since few months we now have different synchronization tools for Office 365 and Azure Active Directory: Office 365 DirSync,

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ADFS 3 / Office 365 – Sign in with Lync mobile app on Android failed

While working on a project to deploy Office 365 with ADFS 3.0, I was running on an issue with the Lync mobile client on Android ONLY; other Lync client did not had the issue (on WIndows, WIndows Phone or iOS). The issue was the user was not able to sign in on the Lync 2013

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Azure / Office / Office 365 – Support for MFA for Office applications is coming

As you may already know – if not, this is it – Microsoft has introduced and provided Multi Form Factor (MFA) with Office 365, and Azure Active Directory, for some time now. This MFA solution is provided by PhoneFactor – which has been bought since then by Microsoft. If you don’t know anything about this

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Windows Phone – Updated version of OneDrive (personal)

Today, the OneDrive app for Windows Phone – the personal version – has been updated to the version Ok, I usually don’t post about such mobile apps updates – as they can be frequent, but this is one is interesting as it introduced an interesting new feature. Indeed, you can now add your OneDrive for

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Windows 10 – Failed to check for new preview build. Please try again. 0x800700EA SOLVED

If you are running the preview version of Windows 10, you may be aware that an updated version is available and should be installed through the Update and Recovery section from the PC Settings in the Charm bar. Ok, but if you have enabled Media Center this operation will failed with the error code 0x800700EA.

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Office 365 / SharePoint Online – OneDrive for Business Calculator

I know OneDrive for Business is not completely working (many synchronization issues have been reported, lacked of troubleshooting way…) but when it work, it is really helpful (especially because of the storage space increased up to 1 To recently ). I’m myself not a big fan of O4B. So that said – and because Microsoft

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Microsoft Azure – Cost Estimation Tool

Microsoft has update his Azure Cost Estimation tool now available at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43376 After his installation, you will be able to scan your on premises environment (running either on a physical server or an hypervisor like Hyper V, SCVVM or ESx) and get an estimation cost for the same environment on Azure As sample, here is

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Azure RMS – Deploying Azure Rights Management service connector to use Azure RMS On Premises

As you may already know, one of the most complicated task for IT and security guys is to ensure sensitive corporate data are well protected. To help them in this task, Microsoft has introduced a technology called Right Management Services (RMS) since about a decade (first release has been provided with Windows Server 2003 as

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