Office 365 – Enable password writeback

Since few months, the directory synchronization tool for Office 365 allows password synchronization – see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/06/05/office-365-directory-synchronization-now-includes-password-sync/ While this feature is greatly appreciated – as it simplify SSO deployment and configuration for example, there was still a missing feature: the end user was not able to change his password from Office 365 services. So, with the […]

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Office 365 – Multi Active Directory Forest synchronization is coming

After almost 2 years on production, the long waited multi AD forest synchronization is coming for Office 365. For those who don’t already know, Office 365 can be synchronized with only ONE Active Directory Forest (multi domain within one forest is not a problem). This limitation was source of lot of nightmare for company with

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Office 365 – Manage RMS templates

As you may already know, Microsoft has provided Right Management Services capabilities on Office 365 – if you are not aware, check this post to see how to enable and configure RMS for use with Office 365 http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/03/07/office-365-use-right-management-services/ In this post, we will see how to manage RMS templates. An RMS template is a defined

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Windows Phone – Project your Windows Phone screen on your PC

With the coming Windows Phone 8.1 major update – already available for the developers but you can even get it by register yoursef for free and get the Preview Developer Windows Phone app, a major and missing feature is now available; Project the Windows Phone screen on your PC. You must have the Windows Phone

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Office 365 – Change management guide from Microsoft

Microsoft has published a change management guide for enterprises moving/implementing Office 365. This guide contains communication templates (emails, print…) as well as some document to assist the local support team, train the users or help to define enterprise policies to apply on Office 365. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40187

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SharePoint – Blog post filtering based on category stop working

This issue applies to SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online 2013 as well. If you are running blogs on SharePoint 2013 platforms, you may face the following issue when trying to filter blog posts based on category by hitting the category link shown on the Quick Launch or the category associated to the post. Doing so

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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 2013 – Be careful when you delete an email account with Outlook 2013 SP1

This is an IMPORTANT update included with the Office 2013 SP1. Indeed, when you delete an email account from Outlook 2013 SP1, the associated data files (PST or OST) are automatically deleted. Previously, the data files were still available on the user profile.  

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Office 365 – Update your DirSync to take advantage of the new S/MIME feature

As you already know, Microsoft updates frequently the DirSync tool used to synchronize your on premises directory with Office 365. Also, as Microsoft has announced the availability of the S/MIME feature on Exchange 2013 SP1 – and so also for Exchange Online on Office 365, you will have to update your DirSync currently installed. Download

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