Author name: Benoit HAMET

Office 365 – You can now defined your own help desk details

If you are running your own help desk (as many large organization do), you can now provide your own help desk details to your Office 365 users. To do so, just logon to the Office 365 Admin portal and hit your tenant/company name (top right of the admin portal, just below you name) Then hit […]

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Windows Phone 10 – No data connection

If you are running the Technical Preview of Windows Phone 10, you may face the following issue (even with the last build): you have a 4G connection BUT no data connection is possible, except with WiFi. After having reported this issue for the last 3 builds (yes, already 3 builds and always having the issue),

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Office 365 / SharePoint Online – Restrict file synchronization from domain joined only

As you may know, you can synchronize your content store in SharePoint or SharePoint Online to your local client to keep it available while offline (thanks to the OneDrive for Business client). With SharePoint Online, you can now restrict this feature to only domain joined client; this will help you to ensure sensitive data is

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Skype for Business – The Windows Phone Skype for Business app is now available

Microsoft has released the new Skype for Business app for Windows Phone. If you have already installed Lync 2013 Mobile client app for Windows Phone, this has been automatically (or should be) updated. If not, try to force to update your installed app or download it from the Store https://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/skype-for-business/d85d8a57-0f61-4ff3-a0f4-444e131d8491 As part of the improvements:

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Office 365 – New resources for Office 365 PowerShell

As you may know, many of the administration tasks for Office 365 services have to be done using PowerShell. Since June 30rd, Microsoft has released a new web site to assist you with Office 365 powershell commands. This site contains lot of resources and script samples to help you Go to http://powershell.office.com/

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Office 365 – Skype for Business Preview

Want to be the first to see, test and use what will be coming with Skype for Business and Skype for Business Online?? Go to https://www.skypepreview.com/ to sign up for Skype Meeting Broadcast, PSTN Conferencing (US only at this time) and Cloud PBX with PSTN Calling (US only at this time too). Skype Meeting Broadcast

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Office 365 – Azure Active Directory Connect Installation

Following my previous post about the upgrade process from DirSync to AAD Connect (which failed), I decided to go ahead and uninstall DirSync to do a fresh install of AAD Connect. So let start a fresh install by accepting the license agreement   Then you have the choice to do an Express configuration – which

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Office 365 – Upgrade from DirSync to Azure AD Connect

Following the announcement of the new AAD Connect (Azure Active Directory Connect), I decided to upgrade my DirSync instance (version 1.0.7020). So the first thing is off course to get the AAD Connect tool either from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615771 Then let start the upgrade…. Some details about my current DirSync configuration: Use OU’s filtering to define where

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