August 2014

Azure Active Directory – Registered Devices are not synched between Active Directory and Azure Active Directory

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Following my previous post about this feature in preview on Azure Active Directory allowing you to set up Join Workplace / Register Devices – see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2014/06/27/microsoft-azure-azure-active-directory-device-registration-in-preview/, I ran into an issue. Registered devices are not synched between AD and AAD; devices registered on AD do not show up on Azure portal and device registered on […]

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Office 365 / Exchange Online – Exchange 2013 Hybrid mode updated to automate OAuth authentication method support

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Today, I have upgraded my Exchange 2013 deployment by installing the latest CU – CU 6 available for download here http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44022 Then I wanted to updated my hybrid configuration with Office 365, so I connect to my ECP and start the HCW to update the settings. At the end of the HCW, I discovered that

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Microsoft Azure – Now supporting reverse DNS

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Big news today Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Azure, his PaaS solution, is now supporting Reverse DNS for all Azure services; and mostly, this is also backward compatible for all existing services. To know more about this announcement and how to use it see http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/07/21/announcing-reverse-dns-for-azure-cloud-services/

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Office 365 / Office Mobile – SharePoint site content is not updated correctly on Office Mobile

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UPDATE 21/08/2014 – I have been informed that this occurs also on Office Mobile on iPhone Recently, I discovered that the SharePoint Online site content displayed on Office Mobile – running on Windows Phone 8.1, it not correctly updated, still showing deleted items or wrong items numbers (as shown below). This occurs even if you

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Azure – Use Windows Azure Multi Factor Authentication to secure your on premises application and with your ADFS

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As you may already know, Office 365 has introduced the use of multi factor authentication (MFA) few time ago. This feature is based on Microsoft Azure Active Directory Multi Factor service and allow you to setup additional authentication methods to secure the access to your Office 365 tenant. This works also perfectly fine if you

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Office 365 – You can now define the cloud user password

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As you may already know, since the first release of Office 365, when you create a cloud user account, the system automatically generates a temporary password. Now, you can also choose to set the user password when you create a new cloud user account. To do so, just click on the Type password link shown

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Microsoft Azure / SharePoint Online – Error when installing PowerShell module: PowerShell 3.0 is required

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Recently, I ran into an interesting error trying to install SharePoint Online PowerShell Module or Microsoft Azure PowerShell modules. The setup program said “PowerShell 3.0 is required”, while off course this has been already enabled on my Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 R2 installation as all other online services PowerShell modules have been installed,

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Exchange – Mobile Device Stuck in Quarantine

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Recently, I just found an old device put in quarantine on my Exchange environment (ECP\Mobile\Mobile Device Access). Initially this was normal because I applied mobile device policy to put in quarantine all new mobile device – using ActivSync protocol to connect to the Exchange mailbox. In this case, I don’t know why it was not

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