Microsoft Azure – Cost Estimation Tool

Microsoft has update his Azure Cost Estimation tool now available at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43376 After his installation, you will be able to scan your on premises environment (running either on a physical server or an hypervisor like Hyper V, SCVVM or ESx) and get an estimation cost for the same environment on Azure As sample, here is […]

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Azure RMS – Deploying Azure Rights Management service connector to use Azure RMS On Premises

As you may already know, one of the most complicated task for IT and security guys is to ensure sensitive corporate data are well protected. To help them in this task, Microsoft has introduced a technology called Right Management Services (RMS) since about a decade (first release has been provided with Windows Server 2003 as

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Office 365 / Exchange Online – New way to send attachment when using Outlook Web Access

As announced some time ago, Microsoft has one again introduced a new “simple” feature on Outlook Web Access hosted on Office 365. This new feature now allows you not to send an attachment but a link to your OneDrive for Business space where the attachment is stored. There is nothing to do your side –

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Office 365 / Exchange Online – One Time Password is now available for encrypted message

Back in February 2014, Microsoft has implemented a new security feature on Exchange Online called Message Encryption (see http://blogs.office.com/2013/11/21/introducing-office-365-message-encryption-send-encrypted-emails-to-anyone/). But this feature required to use a Microsoft account to decrypt the message. With the service upgrade; this now possible to bypass this requirement and use a One Time Password (OTP) to decrypt the received message.

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Windows 10 – Multiple desktops / Task Views

With Windows 10 Technical Preview, Microsoft has introduce a new feature called Task View which is in fact a way to use multiple different desktop running different applications – both Windows App or Desktop App.   This feature has been there for a long time on Linux or OSx, and has been there too long

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Windows 10 – Upgrade Surface Pro 3 from Windows 8.1

A quick post to say the upgrade process from Windows 8.1 on Surface Pro 3 (core i7 / 8 G RAM) went very smoothly and was very quick. After about 15 min, Windows has been upgraded to Windows 10 with no issue. Everything from the application (both Windows App or Desktop App), content (cached from

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Exchange Online / Office 365 – Exchange: Failed to enable the new cloud archive error for existing cloud mailboxes

Recently I ran into an issue which is well documented for mailboxes moved to Exchange Online, but not in this case. This issue occurred on existing online mailboxes with online archive which has been already moved to online for a long time. Nothing appears on the DirSync logs – neither an error or an update

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Office 365 – Multi Factor allows to remember the device (preview)

As you may already, Microsoft has included on Office 365 Enterprise plans the ability to implement and use a multi factor authentication process to secure access to Office 365, in addition of the classic logon/password. It seems this feature will now allows remembering the device for a period of days defined by the administrator; meaning

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Office 365 / Microsoft Azure – Azure Active Directory Connect tool installation and configuration

Following the availability of the Azure Active Directory Connect tools allowing multi forest synchronization, attributes selection and much more (and even more to come ), this post will details the installation and configuration steps. First download the tool from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=511690  IMPORTANT this synchronization tool is not available from the usual link shown on the Office

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Microsoft Azure – Azure Active Directory Synchronization tool is now live (Office 365 Multi AD Forest sync)

Microsoft has announced the availability of the Azure Active Directory Synchronization tool – do not mix with Office 365 Directory Synchronization which supports ONLY one AD Forest . This synchronization tool helps to synchronize your On Premises AD with Azure AD, covering multi AD forest sync, attributes selection… This is the first release of this

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