December 2014

Office 365 – Azure AD Connect Preview installation

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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

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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

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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

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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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