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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Office 365 – Simplified Service Settings page

As Microsoft Office 365 is continuously evolving, a new Service Settings page is going to be deployed and available At the time of writing, this new simplified page is only available for new tenant but it should come very soon to all existing tenants. This simplified page does not required submenu anymore and displays all

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Office 365 – Advanced configuration and troubleshooting tools

While working with my Exchange 2013 hybrid configuration, especially updating the hybrid configuration after certificate and domain updates, I ran the HCW on Exchange 2013 SP1 CU 6 and discover few new stuff (I already introduced it with my previous post about the automated OAuth configuration http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2014/08/28/office-365-exchange-online-exchange-2013-hybrid-mode-updated-to-automate-oauth-authentication-method-support/) As part of this, I took care on

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Office 365 – Delve is now available in preview

As you may already know – if not this will be the case, Microsoft has introduced a new setting to allow you to get future release of Office 365 features before these are widely deployed and available. This settings is called Updates\First Release and it can be activated from the Office 365 Admin portal (it

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Office 365 – Update your federation trust with Office 365 by September 23rd

In case of you missed it, Microsoft has published an announcement in the Message Center on the Office 365 Administration portal to request you to update you federation trust by September 23rd. If you don’t do it, your authentication may stop working after this date. This is because they have updated the certificate associated with

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Office 365 – New settings to set Office 365 landing page

As you may already know, Office 365 services are accessible either directly using their own URL’s (like https://outlook.office365.con or https://<you tenant>.sharepoint.com) but they are also accessible from the Office 365 portal which also allows end-users to install software, update their settings… However, when an end-user type https://portal.office.com , he is usually redirected by default to

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Azure Active Directory – Registered Devices are not synched between Active Directory and Azure Active Directory

Following my previous post about this feature in preview on Azure Active Directory allowing you to set up Join Workplace / Register Devices – see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2014/06/27/microsoft-azure-azure-active-directory-device-registration-in-preview/, I ran into an issue. Registered devices are not synched between AD and AAD; devices registered on AD do not show up on Azure portal and device registered on

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Office 365 / Exchange Online – Exchange 2013 Hybrid mode updated to automate OAuth authentication method support

Today, I have upgraded my Exchange 2013 deployment by installing the latest CU – CU 6 available for download here http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44022 Then I wanted to updated my hybrid configuration with Office 365, so I connect to my ECP and start the HCW to update the settings. At the end of the HCW, I discovered that

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Microsoft Azure – Now supporting reverse DNS

Big news today Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Azure, his PaaS solution, is now supporting Reverse DNS for all Azure services; and mostly, this is also backward compatible for all existing services. To know more about this announcement and how to use it see http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/07/21/announcing-reverse-dns-for-azure-cloud-services/

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