Author name: Benoit HAMET

SharePoint – Topologies for SharePoint 2013

With the beta opened to everyone of the next SharePoint version, SharePoint 2013, Microsoft has published topologies design. This will help you in design SharePoint 2013 architecture. You can download it in PDF or VSD (Visio stencil) files.   http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30377 ​

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Office 365 – It is now possible to restore deleted users

If you manage your Office 365 user accounts through the Administration portal (i.e. without using Directory Synchronization), it is now possible for you to restore delete user account. A deleted account can be restored by yourself for the next 30 days after the deletion. To restore user account, go to the Administration Portal, then browse

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SharePoint – Issue with Web Analytics report with no data for last days

With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has improved the usage analysis and reports. However, you may have the following issue: after some months in production, especially if you have a high usage, data report are not generated for days (all value are set to 0). No events are logged, while timer jobs related to usage analysis are

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Exchange 2013 – App includes with Exchange

With the coming version of Exchange, Microsoft has introduced the use of ‘web app’, code name Agave. These applications are also available on SharePoint or on Office client (especially Outlook 2013). The idea is to provide to the users additional features to assist them in their day to day work, such as find direction to

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Windows – Availability date revealed for Windows 8

This is it. After confirming RTM date and timeframe fro General Availability, Microsoft has announced that Windows 8 will be available on October 26th, 2012. This Steven Sinofsky, PM on Windows, which announced it. http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2012/07/18/windows-8-will-be-available-on.aspx

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Office – SharePoint Workspace is now called SkyDrive Pro

With Office 2013, SharePoint Workspace doesn’t exist anymore. It’s now replaced by SkyDrive Pro. As part of the new features, SkyDrive is fully integrated to Windows Explorer: when you select a SharePoint library to keep available offline, the content is appearing on Windows Explorer in a Favorite place called SharePoint Libraries.

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Exchange 2013 – Use OWA offline

With the coming new Exchange version, called Exchange 2013, Microsoft has introduced a new feature on OWA (Outlook Web Access). This feature, called OWA Offline, allows you to keep access to your mailbox using OWA even if you are not connected to your Exchange mailbox; in the same way than Outlook cache mode. On this

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SharePoint 2013 – Configure WAC

UPDATED: July, 19th – troubleshooting steps SECOND UPDATE: July, 27th – new required feature   With the coming new SharePoint version, called SharePoint 2013, Microsoft has changed the WAC (Office Web Application) architecture. Now, WAC has to be deployed on dedicated server(s). The reason for this architecture change is WAC can now be used by other

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