Author name: Benoit HAMET

Office 365 – Use Office 365 for email hosting only

As there are many question on ‘How can I use Office 365 for hosting email as I have another web hosting provider?’, here is a quick step by step. The first thing is to logon onto the Office 365 administration portal (https://portal.microsoftonline.com/) On the left part, go to Management\Domains Then click on the Add domain […]

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Office 365 – Plan to implement Office 365

With the release of Office 365 beta, Microsoft has provided a wizard to assist customer to implement Office 365 scenarios. The wizard will provide step by step for Office 365 implementation based on scenario defined by the administrator. Connect to the Office 365 administration portal (https://portal.microsoftonline.com/) and logon with administrative account Once the home page

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Office 365 – ForeFront Online Protection for Exchange access to the administration site from OWA

As part of the Microsoft Online Services, you have ForeFront Online Protection for Exchange to secure your Exchange Online mailboxes. As Online Services is going to move to 2010 products version, FOPE is going to be updated too. The new version (in beta as well as Office 365) is FOPE 1.1 released on March 2011.

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Office 365 – How to synchronize Office 365 when you have multiple AD Forest

As you may already know, it is not possible to synchronize more than one AD Forest with Microsoft Online Services (Office 365). So what can you do if you have more than one AD Forest to synchronize with Office 365? The answer is FIM, ForeFront Identity Manager 2010; but not only To implement synchronization between

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Office 365 – Not able to share a DNS domain name with services

Following the launch of Office 365 beta (which is in fact not a real beta as the service is almost ready for production), I started playing around with my access. I discovered an important limitation: Office 365 is not able to share DNS domain name between Office 365 services. Indeed, you can’t enable Exchange, Lync

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SharePoint – Office Web Apps, anonymous access and search results (final conclusion)

This post is the conclusion of the issue I discovered after installing SharePoint 2010 August 2010 Cumulative Updates (http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2011/01/04/sharepoint-august-cumulative-update-issue-with-anonymous-search/ and http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2010/12/4/sharepoint-august-cumulative-update-and-search-results-from-anonymous-web-site/). To remind you, after installing the August CU, all search results from Internet facing web site (anonymous access) where not completed; there were no Office documents shown. As I thought it was a regression

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BPOS-D Wave 14 – Service description

If you’re looking for BPOS-D (Dedicated) Wave 14 – meaning BPOS running on 2010 version of Exchange, SharePoint and Lync, go to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=cf7d4db8-4e7c-4077-87ea-b64c57e4c98c&displaylang=en To clarify a little bit why I’m speaking about BPOS-D for 2010 products version: Office 365 is the next version of BPOS-S (Shared), running on 2010 products version BPOS-D Wave 14 is

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Windows Phone – Cleaning the restore point

If you want to remove backups of your Windows Phone performed during ROM upgrades, close any instance of your Zune client and go to the C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Phone Update\<guid>. Delete the directory called RestorePoint. Restart your Zune client, no more information about ROM upgrades backups. Screenshot before deletion Screenshot after deletion

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