Author name: Benoit HAMET

Windows – Rights Management sharing application

For those who already played used Right Management Services, you already know it is difficult either not possible to share document secured by RMS with someone outside of your company. Now, with Windows Azure Right Management it’s becoming easier to share protected document outside of the company. All you need is an Office 365 tenant […]

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Office 365 – RMS client for Windows Phone

As you may know – if not, there is no more excuse – Office 365 integrates the use of RMS – Right Management Services – to protect your document. To enable and configure RMS for use with Office 365 take a look at http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/03/07/office-365-use-right-management-services/ Today, while looking around the Windows Phone Store, I found an

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Windows Phone 8 – Windows Phone Desktop Application

As you may already know, Zune is no more used to manage mobile partnership/content synchronization between the Windows Phone and the desktop. Microsoft has provided another application – which could be the new ActiveSync/Mobile Device Center client you may have meet in the old days of Pocket PC/Windows Mobile. To get the Windows Phone Desktop

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Windows 8.1 / Windows Server 2012 R2 – Error when deploying Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 using WDS

While using my Windows Deployment Service running on Windows Server 2012 to deploy new Windows releases (Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2, I had errors when deploying Windows images using WDS, with or without answers file. Windows could not apply unattended settings during pass [offlineServicing] After validating the WIM image by installing both version

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Office 365 – Setup multi factor authentication

As per Microsoft announcement few months ago, here is how to configure multi factor authentication. This is a per user basis. I already wrote few posts about this feature (http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/06/14/office-365-two-factors-authentication-is-now-available-as-preview/ and http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/06/17/office-365-manage-multiple-factors-authentication/) but there was on a preview version; there has been some changes. NOTE 1 This does not work with federated users NOTE 2

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Exchange / Lync / SharePoint – 2013 servers virtual machines

Microsoft has published a complete set of virtual machines ready to use with Exchange 2013, Lync 2013 and SharePoint 2013. These VM’s can be used for demo and evaluation. You can use all or part of these VM’s depending of the scenario you want to evaluate, including unified messaging. The VM’s are set to be

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Office 356 – My feedbacks about the Office 365 upgrade

As you may know, Microsoft has announced in February the upgrade of his cloud service Office 365 to run the latest version of his products, Exchange, Lync and SharePoint. As I’m running Office 365 for some of my need since the first version of Office 365, running on 2010 products version, this post is a

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Windows 8.1 – Upgrade from Windows 8 Pro with Media Center

UPDATE 1 while I was writing this post, I started to enable Media Center with my previous key which has been validated before being able to continue. The wizard failed at the end with an unknown error and when I retried with the key the validation failed. WTF!!!!! UPDATE 2 after some reboots, Media Center is

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Windows – Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 available for download to MSDN Subscribers

Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM bits are available for download for MSDN Subscribers (as well as TechNet for those who still have an active subscription). MSDN subscribers will also have access to the Windows 8.1 Embedded bits. Enjoy

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Office 365 – Check on premise PC’s with Office 365 Best Practices Analyser

Following my previous post announcing the new Tools section on the Office 365 administration portal, I will propose to go in details for each current tools available from this section – at the time of writing, some tools are still in beta. Today, I’ll go through the Best Practices Analyser from a client side. This

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