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Exchange / Office 365 – Hybrid configuration or Exchange 2013 CU 3 failed with error

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Recently, I tried to deployed the latest cumulative update release for Exchange 2013 as well as implement hybrid configuration with my Office 365 which was finally fully upgraded – I say fully upgraded because even after receiving the notification of my tenant has been upgraded to latest version there was still a component running on […]

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Yammer – Upgrade your Basic Yammer to Enterprise with Office 365 E plan

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Following the earlier announcement, Microsoft has started to upgrade existing Office 365 E plan to allow them to get Enterprise Yammer. You have to start the Yammer upgrade from your Office 365 Portal. Log on to your Office 365 administration portal with an administrator account; if your tenant is ready for the upgrade, you should

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Yammer – Synchronize your directory with Yammer

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If you have SharePoint 2013 installed as part of an Enterprise Agreement, you now have access to Yammer as part of this license. However, you might have already started using a public Yammer network before it was part of that license. If so, how do you make sure all of the users in your on-premises

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Office 365 – Manage quarantined message

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Update – November 29th add the spam notification With the update of Office 365, Exchange Online has been updated to Exchange 2013 (as you already know) but also ForeFront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) as well. In this post, here are some key points after the upgrade of FOPE – especially to manage quarantined mails.

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Office 365 – New app available for Windows Phone 8

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If you are Office 365 administrator and have a Windows Phone 8, this is for you Microsoft has released a Windows Phone 8 app to follow up the Office 365 health state – this is a good starting point but would be nice to have more administration options, such as reset password, create user…. Hoping

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Windows 2012 R2 / Windows 8.1 – Bring your own device with Workplace Join

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With Windows 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1, Microsoft starts to simplify the BYOD – Bring Your Own Device. Indeed, on Windows 8.1 (this is not available with Windows 8, so upgrade for free your Windows 8 device ), a new feature called Join Workspace allow end-users to connect and use corporate resources without being obliged

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Office 365 – New Lync Online sign-in troubleshooting tool

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Microsoft is providing a new online troubleshooting tool for Office 365 services. This one has to be used for Lync Online sign-in issues. This online troubleshooting tool is based on experience learned by Office 365 support team over the last 9 months. The first step is to go to http://aka.ms/LyncSignIn and follow the troubleshooting wizard

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Office 2013 – New context option available on Outlook 2013

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I know this is a very small thing but it will change a little bit our day to day mailbox management With the November 2013 updates for Office 2013, a new option is now available from ANY folders within a mailbox hosted on Exchange. Yes, this is only available for Exchange mailbox as the feature

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Office 365 – DirSync can now be installed on domain controller

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UPDATE – November 23rd – a new version has been released. The version is 1.0.6567.0018 UPDATE – November 12th – this version and reference associated has been removed. Many issues have been introduced, such as filtering not applied or corruption in display name (not everyone has been impacted anyway) Recently – in fact yesterday, November 4th,

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Office 365 – Directory Synchronization tool can be installed and configured on Windows Server 2012 R2

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For those who wants/had already deployed Windows Server 2012 R2 to host the Office 365 Directory Synchronization tool, you can do it. DirSync is fully functional on Windows Server 2012 R2 even if it’s not yet documented. Don’t forget ensure to use the latest version of DirSync available from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=278924

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