Author name: Benoit HAMET

Office 365 / SharePoint Online – The NEW button finally shows the custom content type

UPDATED 11/02/2015 It has been a long wait and lot of pain, but finally we got it!!! The NEW button on a document library now shows the custom content type you may have defined for this document library. UPDATE if you have enabled custom type (and so display these content type in lieu of the […]

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Office – Office 2016 Technical Preview now available

You can now enroll and start playing with the new release of Microsoft Office – called Office 2016. To do so, just reach the Connect directory page and enroll for the  Microsoft Office Consumer Technical Preview. https://connect.microsoft.com/directory/non-feedback  

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Azure – Azure Active Directory security question option for self service reset password

Since the introduction of Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Microsoft has introduced many features to simplify both IT management and end-user experience. And it continues with the self service password reset feature. Until then, there has been 3 options to allow to identify an end-user asking to reset his password through the self-service portal: Office Phone

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Office – InfoPath is dead

Microsoft has finally officially announced that InfoPath – the XML form solution – is now dead. InfoPath 2013 is the last edition of the product while the server side component – known as Form Server, separate solution with SharePoint 2007 and integrated with since 2010 – will be maintained in the next release of SharePoint

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Azure – Per-Application Multi Factor Authentication (MFA)

As you may already know, Microsoft has proposed to secure access to your cloud (as well as you on-premises) application using MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) based on Azure MFA (formerly Phone Factor) – see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2014/08/18/azure-use-windows-azure-multi-factor-authentication-to-secure-your-on-premises-application-and-with-your-adfs/ (on-premises MFA) and http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/10/11/office-365-setup-multi-factor-authentication/ or http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/06/17/office-365-manage-multiple-factors-authentication/ for Office 365 and cloud apps for more details. But, until then, as soon

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Windows 10 – Windows Store stuck in loading

After updating my Windows 10 Technical Preview to the latest build published earlier (build 9926), all App Store (the current one and the new one in beta) were not working to get any new application and where stuck in loading as shown in the screenshot below   The solution was to run the following commands

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Azure AD – Azure AD Connect Health

Azure AD Connect Health is a new feature available on Microsoft Azure for Azure Active Directory. This new functionality requires you have an Azure Active Directory Premium and allows you to monitor your identity platforms. This is currently in preview. This will help you to be proactive before potential issues impact your end-users, gather statistics

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Office 365 – ForeFront Identity Manager Synchronization Service is still installed after uninstalling Office 365 DirSync 1.0.7020

While I was evaluating (using another server and after stopping the current DirSync service) the next version of Azure Active Directory Connect tool in beta, I faced an issue when I switched back to the current DirSync instance: directory synchronization seems to work BUT deleted AD accounts were not deleted on Office 365. So, I

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Windows 10 – January Technical Preview First Review

As Microsoft has just released the January Technical Preview for Windows 10, here is a first review just after the installation. The installation went smoothly without any issue. The issue on the previous build with application which start automatically when Windows starts did not start (like Lync, antivirux, Skype…) has been solved. Tablet Mode My

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Office 365 – Azure AD Connect Preview installation

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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