Author name: Benoit HAMET

Microsoft Azure – Now supporting reverse DNS

Big news today Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Azure, his PaaS solution, is now supporting Reverse DNS for all Azure services; and mostly, this is also backward compatible for all existing services. To know more about this announcement and how to use it see http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/07/21/announcing-reverse-dns-for-azure-cloud-services/

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Office 365 / Office Mobile – SharePoint site content is not updated correctly on Office Mobile

UPDATE 21/08/2014 – I have been informed that this occurs also on Office Mobile on iPhone Recently, I discovered that the SharePoint Online site content displayed on Office Mobile – running on Windows Phone 8.1, it not correctly updated, still showing deleted items or wrong items numbers (as shown below). This occurs even if you

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Azure – Use Windows Azure Multi Factor Authentication to secure your on premises application and with your ADFS

As you may already know, Office 365 has introduced the use of multi factor authentication (MFA) few time ago. This feature is based on Microsoft Azure Active Directory Multi Factor service and allow you to setup additional authentication methods to secure the access to your Office 365 tenant. This works also perfectly fine if you

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Office 365 – You can now define the cloud user password

As you may already know, since the first release of Office 365, when you create a cloud user account, the system automatically generates a temporary password. Now, you can also choose to set the user password when you create a new cloud user account. To do so, just click on the Type password link shown

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Microsoft Azure / SharePoint Online – Error when installing PowerShell module: PowerShell 3.0 is required

Recently, I ran into an interesting error trying to install SharePoint Online PowerShell Module or Microsoft Azure PowerShell modules. The setup program said “PowerShell 3.0 is required”, while off course this has been already enabled on my Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 R2 installation as all other online services PowerShell modules have been installed,

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Exchange – Mobile Device Stuck in Quarantine

Recently, I just found an old device put in quarantine on my Exchange environment (ECP\Mobile\Mobile Device Access). Initially this was normal because I applied mobile device policy to put in quarantine all new mobile device – using ActivSync protocol to connect to the Exchange mailbox. In this case, I don’t know why it was not

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Lync 2013 – Push notification not working

While working on a recent Lync 2013 project, we faced an issue with the push notification which was not working as expected – some got the notifications, some not. After reviewing all the configuration on Lync servers (front ends and edge) and found nothing, I found that the settings for Lync Online federated provider was

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Windows 8 – The latest updates from OneDrive (formerly called Skydrive) does not keep available offline sub content automatically

On Windows 8.1 client, the latest OneDrive updates has changed the heritance of the "’make available offline”. Indeed, previously, all content I stored below my OneDrive Documents folder was automatically set as available offline because I set the parent folder (Documents) to do so. Unfortunately since the last OneDrive update, thie heritance has been broken

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Office 365 – External users can not access the site mailbox

While working on a project, I had to setup a SharePoint site on Office 365 with a Site mailbox enabled for this site. So far, so good, this is a well known, simple and working procedure. Nothing tricky there BUT, here it comes the issue; this site is being shared and used by external users

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