Author name: Benoit HAMET

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

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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

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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

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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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Windows Phone – Force the detection of the update (NoDo)

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If you’re sucking of waiting for having the update notification for your Windows Phone 7, you may follow the steps provided here http://wmpoweruser.com/new-forced-nodo-hack-as-easy-as-pie/ It works fine for me (on Orange France network with an HD 7 not branded [ie not bought with the operator]) It may take sometime for the Zune client to detect the

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SharePoint/Visio – Create organizational chart based on a SharePoint list

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With the 2010 version, SharePoint and Visio can interoperate. In this post, I will show you how to use Visio to generate an organization chart based on SharePoint contact list. To do that, you need SharePoint 2010 (at least Foundation Server) and Visio 2010. Create the source contact list Connect to your SharePoint site and

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BPOS/Office 365 – Blackberry service now available for free

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Starting today, Blackberry services for BPOS users is now available for free. For the coming Office 365 offer, this service will be also free BUT with some change. Indeed, the Blackberry service, now called Blackberry Hosted, will directly hosted by RIM and now more managed though Office Online services. Mode detail about this announcement here

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BPOS / Office 365 – Communication ports needed for connectivity testing

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Microsoft has released (sometime ago) an online tool to check your Internet connection compatibility with Online Services (messaging and collaboration [Exchange, Lync…]). This tool is available at the following URL http://speedtest.emea.microsoftonline.com/ There is some specific communication ports to be open in order to allow complete test: classical one: HTTP port (80) additional ones: UDP 8090,

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UAG – VPN access configuration

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As you may already know ForeFront UAG is a solution to publish applications to external users. It may also be used as VPN access point. With UAG, you have 2 different ways to enable and configure VPN access: SSL Network Tunneling (SSTP) SSL Network Tunneling Mainly, both are working in the same way BUT there

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