Author name: Benoit HAMET

ForeFront – Microsoft has announced some important changes in the ForeFront products line

Today, Microsoft has announced some important changes in the ForeFront products line, as part of their effort to the cloud journey: ForeFront Online Protection for Exchange has been renamed to Exchange Online Protection; this may be clearer the idea and going in the new direction (see below for relation ) A basic antimalware protection is […]

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Exchange – Issues if system mailboxes are not correctly configured

Since Exchange 2003, Microsoft has introduced some specific mailboxes to manage some system operations. With Exchange 2013, these mailboxes are becoming more important. For example, these mailboxes are used to operate mailbox moves or OAB generation. Off course, this may happened that system mailboxes become misconfigured (for any reasons). To solve this, Microsoft has published

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Windows – ForeFront UAG Endpoint components are not working on Windows 8

For those who have ForeFront unified Access Gateway (UAG) and Windows 8 RTM client, you will face an important issue with ForeFront Endpoint components. These components ARE NOT working on Windows 8 clients. I had confirmation this is currently not working neither supported from Microsoft Support. The problem is without these components, your computer can

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SharePoint – Office Web Apps will includes touch screen support functionality

Microsoft has announced that the next version of Office Web Apps will includes touch support. This new feature is due to the increase of touch device such as Tablet or Smartphone. All details available at http://blogs.office.com/b/officewebapps/archive/2012/08/20/bringing-touch-editing-to-office-web-apps-on-windows-8-and-ios-tablets.aspx

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ForeFront UAG – Service Pack 2 now available

With the vacation period, you may have missed it (like me ). Microsoft has published the Service Pack 2 for ForeFront Unified Access Gateway. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30459 As usual, this Service Pack is cumulative and contains updates from the SP1 as well the update 1. As part of improvements provide with this

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Windows – Issue when enabling .Net 3 in unattended installation mode on Windows 8

As Microsoft has recently released to MSDN/Premier/TechNet customer, I started to create unattended installation file to use with WDS. After multiple try with error when feature were enabling (error in offlineservicing), I finally discovered this was due to NetFX3 feature I tried to enabled. Already during the beta stages, there was lot of issue while

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Office 365 – It’s now possible to define password expiration delay and notification

Microsoft has recently deployed an update on Office 365 which allows Office 365 administrators to define password expiration delay and notification delay. 2 methods are available: PowerShell: with Set-MsolPasswordPolicy which requires 2 parameters – first one indicates the password period validity, the second one indicates the delay before users receive first password expiration notification. The

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