Author name: Benoit HAMET

SharePoint 2010 – Office Web Applications need additional configuration steps

As you already know, one of the new feature provided by SharePoint 2010 is the Office Web Applications (additional product to be installed) to allow users to display and edit Office document with a browser. However, if you configure manually – I mean without running the SharePoint wizard – the Office Web Applications you may

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Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 – Member of AD 2000 domain

If you (still) have Windows 2000 AD domain mode running and add Windows 7 clients or Windows Server 2008 R2 server, you may experience issue when resolving user name. Browsing the directory is successful and you can find the user/group you want to apply security but after the validation it changes to display the SID.

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SQL Server – Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

Our purpose in Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 is to point out both the new and the improved in the latest version of SQL Server. Because this version is Release 2 (R2) of SQL Server 2008, you might think the changes are relatively minor—more than a service pack, but not enough to justify an

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SharePoint 2010 – User profile service still in ‘starting’ mode – follow up

Following my previous post regarding the User Profile services (SharePoint 2010 – User profile synchronization still ‘starting’) – many other have also the issue, here is an update. After a lot of time of work to make it work, here is what I did: after the first initialization (which failed), I delete the SA instance

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BPOS – Exchange BPOS and iPhone

If you plan to use or already are using Microsoft Online Services for your messaging system, you have to know that iPhones don’t totally support complex password. Indeed, while working on a project to migrate to Exchange Online, we discover that password which contains ‘real’ exotic characters (such as €)are not supported by iPhone. We

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SharePoint and Office 2010 – Now available on TechNet and MSDN

This is it; Office and SharePoint 2010 are now available for download on TechNet and MSDN sites. For VLK (Premier customer), this will be available on May 1st. SharePoint Designer and SharePoint Foundation are still missing but should come quickly. The Information Worker virtual machine (for demo purpose) will be updated soon with the RTM

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Security – In the cloud too…

Microsoft has opened a new beta program for security… in the cloud; everything is going to the cloud. This new solution/product/offer is called Microsoft Intune. This is a new PC management and security solution in the cloud.   To test the beta version, sign in at http://www.microsoft.com/online/windows-intune.mspx More details about the solution at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsintune/ Video

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SQL Server – SQL Server 2008 R2 now in RTM

Microsoft has released the R2 edition of SQL Server 2008. You can download it from: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 – Management Tools Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Studio Express (SSMSE) is an integrated environment for accessing, configuring, managing, administering, and developing all components of SQL Server Express. Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 End

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