Author name: Benoit HAMET

Windows – Extended lifetime support for Windows Vista and Windows 7

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Microsoft has silently extended the support lifetime for Windows Vista and Windows 7. Indeed, according to the ‘original’ Microsoft’s support lifecycle, Windows Vista support should end in April 2012. The support lifecycle is now: April 2017 for Windows Vista – http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?c2=11732 January 2020 for Windows 7 – http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?c2=14019

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Office 365 – Lync Online updates: recording, presence privacy and mobile notification

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An update on Lync servers used by Office 365 is now providing record functionality. Lync Online users can have their meetings and call recorded. To manage recording, go to the Lync control panel through the Microsoft Online administration portal. Then edit user properties and enable/disable the Record calls and conference option (default is enabled) To

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TechDays 2012 – Presentation and scheduled webast availability date

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For those who were not able to go to the Microsoft TechDays 2012 this year, my presentation “L’entreprise Numérique – l’environnement de travail se transforme” is available here. All sessions have been recorded and webcasts are scheduled to be available on March 18.

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Office 365 – Office Live Small Business will be stopped in April 2012

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Microsoft has scheduled to shutdown Office Live Small Business (OLSB) offer in April 2012; more exactly April 2012, 30rd. Current OLSB customers should have received a notification email to inform them to think about migrating to Office 365. In order to make the migration smoother, OLSB customers can evaluate Office 365 during 6 months for

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Office/SharePoint – Office 15 has reached the Technical Preview step

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Today, the Office Product Group has reached an important milestone in the Office 15 development (which includes Office client but also SharePoint products). The Technical Preview program (formerly called beta program) should start soon from now. To know more go to http://blogs.office.com/b/office-exec/archive/2012/01/30/quot-office-15-quot-begins-technical-preview.aspx

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Exchange – PST discovery and import tool

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Microsoft has released a tool which allow PST file discovery and import onto Exchange 2010 and Exchange Online. This is tool is composed by : a central service which maintains a list of all PST file discovered a client agent deployed onto workstation a console to configure discovery and track import status Go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=241370

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Office 365 – BlackBerry Business Cloud Service now available as RTW

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Today, RIM has announced the availability in RTW (Released to the Web) of the BlackBerry Business Cloud Service for Office 365 after about 3 months in beta. To know more: Press release http://press.rim.com/release.jsp?id=5359 Overview http://us.blackberry.com/business/software/cloudservices/ Documentation http://docs.blackberry.com/en/admin/subcategories/?userType=2&category=BlackBerry+Business+Cloud+Services

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Exchange – Folder policy not visible/manageable in Outlook

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If you apply policy on Exchange 2010 and policy are not visible neither manageable through Outlook 2010, this may be due to the Exchange cache mode. To sole the issue, just close Outlook, go to the local settings of your profile (%userprofile%\Local settings\Microsoft\Outlook) and delete the OST file (Exchange cache file) After restarting Outlook, policies

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Office 365 – Feedbacks on Office 365 certification beta

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Today, I passed the 2 exams for Office 365 certification (currently in beta) Exam 70-321: Deploying Office 365 http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?id=70-321&locale=en-us Exam 70-323: Administering Office 365 http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?id=70-323&locale=en-us I would not disclose anything here about these tests but here are few things for you: Both exams are ‘Enterprise’ oriented; meaning P plan are not really covered. I think

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