Recently I discovered a pretty nice new feature in Windows Phone 8.1 Developer preview – meaning this should be available to everyone when the GA for this update will be reached in about few weeks or months. So, here is the situation: I’m running Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 Dev Preview, both using my […]
With Exchange 2013, and so Exchange Online too, a new feature has been introduced with OWA (Outlook Web Access) called Offline Access – if you don’t how to use it, take a look at my post here http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2012/07/17/exchange-2013-use-owa-offline/ That said, this feature has been improved as now you can select WHICH folders to synchronize when
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As you may already know, one of the new major feature of Exchange and SharePoint 2013 (which is also available on Office 365 with Exchange Online and SharePoint Online) is the Site Mailbox. As reminder – in case of you don’t know anything about it, a site mailbox is a central email and document sharing
With the latest version of the Windows Azure Directory Synchronization tool (DirSync) – version 1.0.6862.0000, available from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=278924, there has been a change in the way to manually start a directory synchronization with your Office 365 tenant. Previously, you had to launch the DirSyncConfigShell.psc1 and then run Start-OnlineCoexistenceSync. Now, you have to open a PowerShell
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Microsoft has recently published 5 new white papers about Azure RMS. Bring-Your-Own-Key-with-Azure-RMS.DOCX: This document provides information about the Bring-Your-Own-Key (BYOK) capability and its various related options. By following the steps outlined in this document you should be able to successfully prepare your environment to leverage this BYOK capability, enable it and manage your key over
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While Microsoft is currently deploying across all Office 365 customers the update to integrate Yammer and SharePoint Online – see http://blogs.office.com/2014/06/03/yammer-brings-conversations-to-your-onedrive-and-sharepoint-online-files/, an additional feature is also appearing. This feature is a little bit complicated to get/see as it is ONLY shown as a small icon showing a cell phone when a document is displayed on
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For those who want/have already set a restriction from your internal network to Microsoft cloud services based on IP addresses, you must be aware that IP addresses used by these services (Office 365 and Microsoft Azure) are changing on June 6th. As this is always difficult to follow these changes – the recommendation if you
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With the release of the Office 365 May updates, a new setting has appear on SharePoint Online administration center. This settings – called Top Navigation Bar User Experience – is available through the SharePoint Online administration center at the top of the Settings left section. This settings allows you to display/hide links to OneDrive for
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With the Office 365 May update, one improvement is related to the Directory Synchronization tool which now include a feature to avoid mass deletion. This feature can be important to limit the impact of administration mistakes, such as deleting the OU hosting all the user accounts. To take advantage of this new feature, you must
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Microsoft has announced at the TechEd US that Office 365 Enterprise plan have new storage security by encrypting all files stored on SharePoint Online – including OneDrive for Business. This come in addition of the earlier encrypted email feature. In addition, Windows Intune – the cloud-based device management solution – will be more integrated with
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