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TechNet – Petition to get back TechNet or good alternative from Microsoft

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As you  may already know, if not this is it – and you can read the announcement here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/subscriptions/ms772428.aspx, Microsoft is retiring TechNet subscriptions. With this retirement, Microsoft is pushing to get products eval version or to move to the cloud (Azure or Office 365), or more expensive to get MSDN subscription. As many IT […]

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Office 365 – Power BI availability announced

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Microsoft has announced at the WorldWide Partners Conference the availability of Power BI for Office 365. With this announcement, Office 365 is now able to provide business intelligence services such as: Power Query to search and access data within Excel (formerly called Data Explorer) Power Map to map data on a map (formerly called Geoflow)

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Office 365 – Official SpeedTest replacement

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Following a previous post about the SpeedTest tool which has been deprecated (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/05/24/office-365-speedtest-replacement/), Microsoft has now published an official replacement called Office 365 Network Analysis tool. As for the previous version, Office 365 Network Analysis tool is using a Java applet. This tool can be reached using the following URL’s: North America: http://na.deployoffice365.com http://na1-fasttrack.cloudapp.net

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SharePoint 2013 – Integrates Yammer with SharePoint 2013 On Premises

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As you may already know Yammer – the enterprise social network – is starting to be integrated with SharePoint; this integration is already available to SharePoint Online (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/06/12/office-365-you-can-now-define-yammer-as-your-default-enterprise-social-network/). So what about customers with SharePoint 2013 On Premises? The answer is here http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39357

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SharePoint – SkyDrive Pro App now available for Windows 8 and iOS

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Microsoft has announced the availability of the SkyDrive Pro app for Windows 8 and iOS. The app has been published to the Windows Store (http://aka.ms/SDProWin8) as well as to the Apple Store (http://aka.ms/SDProiOS). After being announced at the last SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas last November, the long wait is over Enjoy

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Beta – New version of Windows, SQL and Azure

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As you may already know, if not this is it , Microsoft has made some major announcements last week about the future version of Windows Server (Windows Server 2012 R2), SQL server (SQL Server 2014), System Center (System Center 2012 R2) and Windows Azure. So, if you want to start evaluating these new coming version

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Various – Free Microsoft ebooks resources

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Since many years, Microsoft is delivering more and more free ebooks resources. An updated list has been published, covering Windows 8/2012, SharePoint or Office 365 as well as Visual Studio or Windows Azure Feel free to pick the one(s) you want  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2013/06/18/huge-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-for-you-including-office-office-365-sharepoint-sql-server-system-center-visual-studio-web-development-windows-windows-azure-and-windows-server.aspx

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Office 365 – Manage Multiple Factors Authentication

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Following my previous post related to the availability of the multiple factors authentication preview for Office 365, here is an additional one to detail the management. Once you have enabled multi factors authentication (follow this post http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/06/14/office-365-two-factors-authentication-is-now-available-as-preview/), you can manage additional settings such as viewing usage reports, download the SDK or configure blocked/bypassed user or

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