Author name: Benoit HAMET

Lync – Tool to manage multiple user account in Lync

As you already know, you can run only one Lync client instance at a time, as with Office Communicator. Even if the situation is not usual, you may have to use multiple Lync account and off course you can’t use them at the same time. A friend of mine has shared a tool which allow […]

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SharePoint – Productivity Hub updated

As you may already know, Microsoft has provided the Productivity Hub hosted by a SharePoint 2010 site collection. For those who don’t know what is Productivity Hub: this is a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 SP1 site collection that offers training materials for end-users. Until today, the Productivity Hub was not compatible with SharePoint 2010 SP1

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Office 365 – Directory Synchronization tool is now able to be installed on x64

Microsoft has recently updated the DirSync tool (directory synchronization) to allow installation on x64 platforms. To download the updated version, go to your Office 365 administration portal and go to the User Management section\Active Directory synchronization and click Setup (step 4)

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Office 365 – Lync client for Mac now available from download

Following the announcement of the Lync client for Mac availability, Office 365 customers are now able to download it for use with their Office 365 account. Connect to the download page (https://portal.microsoftonline.com/download/) and go to Step 2 download and install Lync client. To know more about setting up your Mac client, go to: For Enterprise

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Office 365 – Be part of the solution, join the Customer Advisory Board

As Office 365 is now live for about 6 months and already have been improved, Microsoft has created a Customer Advisory Board (as for some other software and services) to provide customer ability to exchange their feedbacks with the product group.   If you are interested, you can join the CAB by sending an email;

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SharePoint 2010 – Send the URL of the current item with a workflow using SharePoint Designer

I know the best practices to develop a workflow is to use Visual Studio and deploy it within a solution. But sometime, it’s better (and simpler) to use SharePoint Designer In this case, I wanted to send an specific formatted email to some users (the item creator and 2 administrators) when an item is created

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Office 365 – Small Business Essentials integration configuration (Step 1)

To follow my previous which announced the availability of the extension for Office 365 integration with Office 365, here is a small post regarding the installation and configuration. Prerequisites Go to the Connect website to get the update for Office 365 integration (http://connect.microsoft.com/sbs) Before to install this update, you must ensure your SBE is up

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Office 365 – Small Business Server Essentials now able to interact with Office 365 (beta)

Microsoft has released a beta version of the Office 365 Integration Module for Windows Small Business Essentials 2011. The Office 365 Integration Module for Windows SBS 2011 Essentials extends the features of the server Dashboard by providing seamless integration with Office 365 services. When you integrate Office 365 with the server, you can: Subscribe to

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SharePoint – A bug with Survey list if using External Data question type

While working on a project, an end user was asking me how to solve an error he had: he just created a survey with only one question but when he tried to open the survey he always had an error. We reproduced the issue: Create a new survey Then define a question and choose External

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SharePoint 2010 – Display the calendar webpart in a calendar view when creating a site definition

Recently, I came across an issue with custom site definition which had to display on the default page the calendar webpart as a calendar view (like the one displayed in the default Team Site). To create this custom site definition, I reused some code available in the default Team Site site definition ; especially the

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