Office 365

While looking for governance tools and options for Office 365, I found this toolkit – currently in beta at the time of writing this post – by Acceleratio http://acceleratio.net/products/governance-toolkit-for-office-365 The idea is to provide a simpler way to manage and monitor activities on Office 365 services (Exchange, Lync or SharePoint) by Office 365 administrators. The

Microsoft has just introduced a new administration feature called Message Center. This feature is available on both Wave 14 (running 2010 version) and Wave 15 (running 2013 version). The Message Center will be/is used to improve the communication between Office 365 administrators and Microsoft. On the Message Center you will receive notifications about coming/planned changes

This has been a long waited connector, which was only available through MCS and partners engagements. This FIM connector for Office 365 is intended to be used when DirSync (or the so called Windows Azure Active Directory Sync Tool) is not possible such in multi AD forests context or non Active Directory scenarios. You can

Microsoft is providing a tool to assist Office 365 administrators and support team to troubleshoot and solve directory synchronization issue. As reminder, you can find the list of attributes that are synchronized with Office 365 here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2256198 This tool, called IdFix DirSync, is available from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36832 EDIT this tool can be run ONLY on Windows 7

If your Office 365 tenant has been migrated, you may have noticed that there is 2 public web site: the new one and the old one. If you used the previous public web site, you may don’t want to re do the work on the new public one. Don’t worry, Microsoft is offering a free

Microsoft has announced at the WorldWide Partners Conference the availability of Power BI for Office 365. With this announcement, Office 365 is now able to provide business intelligence services such as: Power Query to search and access data within Excel (formerly called Data Explorer) Power Map to map data on a map (formerly called Geoflow)

Following a previous post about the SpeedTest tool which has been deprecated (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/05/24/office-365-speedtest-replacement/), Microsoft has now published an official replacement called Office 365 Network Analysis tool. As for the previous version, Office 365 Network Analysis tool is using a Java applet. This tool can be reached using the following URL’s: North America: http://na.deployoffice365.com http://na1-fasttrack.cloudapp.net