Author name: Benoit HAMET

Office 365 – New features coming for Kiosk users

Since BPOS, Microsoft offered specific services for users accessing cloud services with ONLY a browser; this service is called Kiosk mode. Microsoft has announced coming new features for Kiosk users in Office 365 in March. As part of these new features, there will be: Active Sync access: meaning Kiosk users will be able to sync […]

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Office 365 – Service health status is now providing per-tenant status

Since BPOS, customers have access to a health service status portal to know more about the health of each service (Exchange, Communicator and SharePoint). With Office 365, this portal is also available. Starting today, the health service portal has been improved to provide per-tenant health information. This means the portal is now providing health details

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Lync / Office 365 – Lync Web Scheduler

For those who already are using Lync On Premises, they may already know the Lync Web Scheduler. As a reminder, or to explain what is if for those who don’t know, Microsoft Lync Online Web Scheduler is a web-based meeting scheduling and management tool for users who don’t have access to Microsoft Outlook, or are

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Windows Phone – Update available for HTC HD 7 to allow Internet Connection Sharing

An update for Windows Phone HTC HD 7 is available. This update is from HTC and enable Internet Connection Sharing. To install this update, just connect your Windows Phone with the Zune client. Once the update is installed, a new Settings is available called Internet Sharing. When you enable this option, you will be able

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Office 365 – BPOS transition center

As you may already know, current BPOS customers are currently in the process to be migrated to the new Microsoft Online Service called Office 365 To assist customers and partners in this migration/transition, Microsoft has published a BPOS Transition Center web site. You can go to http://www.microsoft.com/online/transition-center_before.aspx to learn more about the transition, the actions

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Windows Intune – Microsoft is looking for organization for the next version

The Microsoft Windows Intune product team is looking for organizations interested in influencing the future of cloud based IT management and security.  The Windows Intune team is looking for customers to join our Customer Advisory Council and Group who meet the following requirements: over 1K clients minimum (preferably over 5K) and have Exchange 2010 SP1

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Exchange 2010 – Service Pack 2 now available

Following my previous post announcing the Exchange 2010 SP2 is coming, it’s now available for download: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=232843 To know more about what is coming with this SP2 go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=228135 As part of this SP2, you will find: Hybrid Configuration Wizard Exchange 2010 SP2 introduces the Hybrid Configuration Wizard which provides you with a streamlined

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