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SharePoint 2013 – SharePoint 2013 SP1 includes settings to configure Office 365 integration

As part of the SharePoint 2013 Service Pack 1, Microsoft has starting to provide some way to implement a sort of hybrid mode – as we can already have with Exchange – with Office 365. If you go to the SharePoint Central Administration soon after the installation of the SP1, you will see an important […]

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Office 365 – New SharePoint Online administration option for SkyDrive Pro

A new administration option is available for SharePoint Online administrators to manage SkyDrive Pro storage allocation Go to your SharePoint Online administration portal using the Admin menu from the Office 365 portal or use the direct URL https://<your tenant>-admin.sharepoint.com Then, on the left side, go to the new SkyDrive Pro section Then you will be

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Yammer – Add Yammer on your Office 365 top navigation

Following the announcement and then the availability for Office 365 Enterprise plan of Yammer (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/12/02/yammer-upgrade-your-basic-yammer-to-enterprise-with-office-365-e-plan/ to activate Yammer on your Office 365 subscription), you may want to add Yammer on the top navigation bar To do so, it’s really simple. Just logon to your Office 365 administration portal and go to the SharePoint administration

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Exchange / Lync / SharePoint – 2013 servers virtual machines

Microsoft has published a complete set of virtual machines ready to use with Exchange 2013, Lync 2013 and SharePoint 2013. These VM’s can be used for demo and evaluation. You can use all or part of these VM’s depending of the scenario you want to evaluate, including unified messaging. The VM’s are set to be

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Office 365 – Enable SharePoint Online Upgrade for site collection

If you had/have an Office 365 tenant running on SharePoint Online 2010, you will be automatically upgraded to the latest version: SharePoint Online 2013. Before this upgrade is proceeded, you will be notified and you will be allowed to evaluate the upgrade by selecting pilot users – or also postpone the upgrade process. In case

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Exchange 2013 / SharePoint 2013 – Use Exchange Autodiscover to automatically configure My Site URL

As you may already know Exchange is providing an autoconfiguration feature to automatically configure Outlook and ActiveSync devices. If you have already deployed and configured SharePoint 2013 – at least for evaluation, you may have seen a new settings on the User Profile service application – called My Site Host URL in Active Directory. This

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SharePoint 2013 – Office Web Apps 2013 Technical Library available in compiled CHM file

For those who are running the 2013 Office server wave (Exchange, Lync or SharePoint), you may have to deploy Office Web Apps 2013 to get full functionality (such as with Lync for online meeting and media sharing) Good news, Microsoft has published the technical library in compiled CHM file for offline use ( as it

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SharePoint 2013 – Integrates Yammer with SharePoint 2013 On Premises

As you may already know Yammer – the enterprise social network – is starting to be integrated with SharePoint; this integration is already available to SharePoint Online (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/06/12/office-365-you-can-now-define-yammer-as-your-default-enterprise-social-network/). So what about customers with SharePoint 2013 On Premises? The answer is here http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39357

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SharePoint – SkyDrive Pro App now available for Windows 8 and iOS

Microsoft has announced the availability of the SkyDrive Pro app for Windows 8 and iOS. The app has been published to the Windows Store (http://aka.ms/SDProWin8) as well as to the Apple Store (http://aka.ms/SDProiOS). After being announced at the last SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas last November, the long wait is over Enjoy

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