Author name: Benoit HAMET

Skype for Business – Install Steps

As Skype for Business bits are now available on MSDN, I started a deployment in my lab. There is no previous Lync deployed in this lab, so this will be a fresh install steps post. Skype for Business Setup First, load the setup using the <DVD drive>\setup\amd64\setup.exe file   I choose to check if there […]

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Yammer – Moving to Microsoft Datacenters

A new major milestone has been reached for Yammer Yammer services will be moved to Microsoft Datacenters on May 16, 2015 – during the move process window there will be service disruption Additionnaly if you restrict access to Office 365 services (and so including Yammer), the following IP range will be used by Yammer services after

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Office 365 / SharePoint Online – More space available for SharePoint sites

After announcing that there will be no need to be worried about storage quota (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2015/04/03/office-365-sharepoint-online-no-need-to-be-worry-of-site-storage-quotas/) and an almost unlimited storage space for OneDrive for Business, now Microsoft is announcing a huge increase for SharePoint Online sites. It used to be 10 Gb + 500 Mb per licensed user, now it will be 1 To

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SharePoint 2013 – Web Browser Mobile getting mobile view access error

I have been getting this issue for some time now and finally took time to take a look on it. Here is the case: I have upgraded my SharePoint platform from 2010 to 2013 by deploying a full new server and performing the data migration using the database detach/attach method as I don’t have any

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Office 365 / SharePoint Online – No need to be worry of site storage quotas

This has always been a pain for SharePoint Online administrators: setting up correct storage quotas when creating a new site (to get the longest time before being asked to extend) AND indeed extending the quotas when the site start reaching his limited storage. This is (or will be soon) no longer a pain as Microsoft

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Office 365 – Office 365 Admin mobile app updated

As announced some time ago the Office 365 Admin mobile application has been updated with a brand new interface and features which provide more administration stuff than the previous version which was more providing health services than anything else (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2015/03/15/office-365-office-365-admin-mobile-application-has-been-updated/) Even if almost everyone was happy to get this new version, there was still

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Office 365 – Mobile Devices Management is now available

It has been announced some time ago, Microsoft has now delivered a first release of the mobile devices management for Office 365. You can now define complete access rules for mobile devices to access your Office 365 resources. This feature is currently being roll out on Office 365 for all Office 365 commercial plans (Business,

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Windows 10 – Do not install the latest Surface firmware if you have Bitlocker enabled and running Windows 10 10041

UPDATE 30/03/2015 – After disabling BitLocker to solve the issue, you can re enable it Today, I have installed the latest updates available through Windows Update on my Surface Pro 3 running Windows 10 Technical Preview build 10041: KB 3050653 and System Firmware Update. My Surface has Bitlocker enabled. Unfortunately, after the usual system restart

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Office 365 / Exchange Online – Changes in the Clutter feature

Since last November and the introduction of the Clutter feature (see http://blogs.office.com/2014/11/11/de-clutter-inbox-office-365/ for more details), Microsoft has updated the Clutter feature to allow better management of this feature by administrators. Now, administrators can define retention policies, define rules to bypass Clutter or personalize the message received by end-users. See http://blogs.office.com/2015/03/03/making-clutter-office-365-even-better/ to know more

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