Author name: Benoit HAMET

SharePoint 2013 – Form can not be loaded as InfoPath Form feature is not activated

Recently, I discovered an issue with InfoPath Form Server on SharePoint 2013. The site collection was migrated from SharePoint 2010 using the detach/attach DB method as this was pretty OOB. No issue were detected, everything was running fine until… I get to an InfoPath form. When loading the form, I get the error Activation could […]

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SharePoint 2013 – Additional step to allow SharePoint Apps to work

As you may already know, one of the new thing with the Wave 15 of Microsoft products (Office 2013, Exchange 2013 or SharePoint 2013) is the new way to provide add-in which is now called Apps. With SharePoint 2013, the documentation is not complete… If you follow step by step the official Microsoft documentation (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp161236.aspx),

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Office 365 – You can not change the country associated with your tenant

When you subscribe to Office 365, you have to define a country or region This is fully understandable as this permits to Microsoft to determine on which Office 365 datacentre you will be hosted. However, there is a side effect; if for any reason you have to change this settings from the Office 365 administration

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SharePoint 2013 – Anonymous comment with SharePoint blog issue

Recently, I was informed that there is an error when submitting comment on anonymous blog: you can an access denied error message. Off course, the blog has been configured to allow anonymous access AND permissions to the Comments list have been set to allow anonymous users to create an item in the list This happened

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Office 365–New poster available to detail identity, authentication, authorization and security

Microsoft has just published a new poster detailing Office 365 identity and security management. This download is available in PDF and VSD (Visio) files http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=291303 or online as a zoomable version http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=293443 Enjoy

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Office 365 – New PowerShell module available

Following the public release of Windows Azure Active Directory (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/04/10/windows-azure-windows-azure-active-directory-is-now-available-as-a-service/), Microsoft has also released a new Office 365 PowerShell modules. To update your client, uninstall your existing Office 365 PowerShell for Windows and then download and install the new module from: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=236298 for the Windows Azure Active Directory Module for PowerShell 32 bits http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=236297

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Windows Azure – Windows Azure Active Directory is now available as a service

Microsoft has now released the public version of Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD), a cloud based directory. WAAD is used with Office 365 to manage Office 365 users – cloud user or synchronized with your internal directory – as well as to provide a single point of identity management with all your applications.   You

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SharePoint – Allow Office Mobile access to SharePoint sites published with ForeFront TMG

Even if Microsoft has announced to stop ForeFront TMG (Threat Management Gateway), this post is about to allow Office Mobile (from Windows Phone 7.x or Windows Phone 8) access to internal SharePoint sites published through ForeFront TMG. NOTE the recommendation (and due to the announcement) it’s recommended to use ForeFront UAG (Unified Access Gateway) to

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SharePoint 2013 – PDF preview and PDF opened using Web Browser

UPDATED April 16th, after the April CU, it seems opening PDF in web browser is working whatever a PDF reader is installed or not With SharePoint 2013 and Office Web Applications 2013, Microsoft is now supporting PDF with Office Web Applications. However, there is few things to do in order to be able to preview

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