Office 365 – Certification exams are now live

Microsoft has officially launch the certification path for Office 365. 2 exams are available: 70-321 – Deploying Office 365 – http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?ID=70-321&Locale=en-us This covers the following items Planning and Implementing Office 365 Accounts and Services Planning for and Configuring SharePoint Online Planning for Exchange Online Implementing Exchange Online Planning Online Services and Infrastructure 70-323 – Administering […]

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SharePoint – No search results if one way trust relationship is in use

On my last project, we had to deploy SharePoint within a specific AD forest while users and groups were located within another AD forests. We have implemented a One Way Trust between the SharePoint AD Forest and the users/groups forests; everything was going fine except for the search results. Indeed, all search performed were returning

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SCVMM 2012 – Allow access to virtual machines through portal

For those who were already using System Center Virtual Machine Manager, you already know that you can provide access to VM’s (and self service VM creation) through a portal. The only things are to install and configure access to the Self Service portal and assign ownership to VM’s. With SCVMM 2012, this has a little

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System Center – System Center 2012 products suite are now available

The new edition of the System Center suite – monitoring, deployment and configuration, management… – is now available (at least for TechNet and MSDN subscribers). System Center 2012 is composed by: System Center Virtual Machine Manager: to manage Hyper V and VMWare virtual machines, On Premises and Online (Hyper V Azure) System Center Operation Manager:

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Office 365 – GUI tool to create shared mailbox

To manage Exchange Online, you have various options available: PowerShell – you have to install first Microsoft Online PowerShell Exchange Management Shell Exchange Control Panel However, even if the most complete tool is PowerShell, this tool is not very easy to use for everyone. Moreover, many operations can be done only through the PowerShell. So

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Windows 8 – New way to open session

Since the beginning, opening a Windows session was done with a login – username and password. But with Windows 8, especially on Tablet PC, this way of working has changed. I said especially with Windows 8 Tablet PC because entering the password is not an easy thing (especially complex password, used in an enterprise context).

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Office 15 / Windows 8 – Office 15 free for Windows 8 on ARM??

This has been publicly disclosed by Steven Sinofsky – so there is no NDA disclosure (this sentence has been added for my Microsft’s friends ). The next version of Office – currently codenamed Office 15 – will be included on Windows On ARM (WOA). This looks like a seductive operation in order to make Windows

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Office 365 / SharePoint – Migrate your On Premises SharePoint content to SharePoint 2010 Online – Part 1 – Migration tool installation

Once you have decided to go to Office 365 and use SharePoint Online, you may want to migrate your content currently hosted on On Premises SharePoint environment. This migration can’t usually be done without third party tool, except if you want to move everything manually . This post will cover the SharePoint content migration to

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Lync – Lync client for iPad/iPhone has been published on the AppStore

The Lync client for iPhone and iPad has been published to the AppStore http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-lync-2010-for-iphone/id484293461 This client requires the use of Lync server or Lync Online (Office 365).

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