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Windows 10 – Do not install the latest Surface firmware if you have Bitlocker enabled and running Windows 10 10041

UPDATE 30/03/2015 – After disabling BitLocker to solve the issue, you can re enable it Today, I have installed the latest updates available through Windows Update on my Surface Pro 3 running Windows 10 Technical Preview build 10041: KB 3050653 and System Firmware Update. My Surface has Bitlocker enabled. Unfortunately, after the usual system restart […]

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Office 365 / Azure – Installation of the AAD Connect March Preview build

Following the announcement of the availability of a new AAD Connect preview build (March 2015 build), here is the some details regarding the installation and configuration steps for this build. I may not have covered everything here yet but will do new post if needed. As quick reminder, if you already had the previous build

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Office 365 / Azure – A new build of the Azure Active Directory Connect tool has been delivered

As you may already know since some time, Azure Active Directory Connect (AAD Connect) will be the only tool to synchronize On Premises Active Directory with Azure Active Directory (so replacing DirSync for Office 365) as well as providing more features. So, a new preview build has been delivered for testing today. There is no

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Office 365 – Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) support for Office client is now in Public Preview

After being announced some months ago and an internal/private beta program, support for Multi Factor Authentication for Office client is now available in public preview. MFA support for Office client means if you are using the MFA feature available through Office 365 to secure access to your Office 365 tenant (or the Azure MFA to

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Windows 10 – Availability scheduled for this summer

Today, in China during the Windows Hardware Engineering Community Conference, Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will be available this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages. See the announcement in the Windows blog http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/03/17/windows-10-launching-this-summer-in-190-countries-and-111-languages/

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Office – Office 2016 is now a public beta

After announcing a limited technical preview (limited as per invitation), and following a more private beta program before, Microsoft has announced today that Office 2016 is now in public beta, meaning everyone can access the beta build and start testing it Satya Nadella has announced it during his keynote at the Convergence Conference at Atlanta

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Windows Phone – Windows Phone Recovery Tool

Following the announcement of the Windows Phone 10 Technical Preview for a subset of devices (see my previous post http://t.co/ClVYPLlvXu, Microsoft has also published a recovery tool to let you roll back to Windows Phone 8.1 if you are not happy or experience blocking issue with this preview. You can download the tool from http://download-fds.webapps.microsoft.com/supportFiles/phones/files/recovery/WindowsPhoneRecoveryToolInstaller.exe

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Windows Phone – Windows Phone 10 Preview is now available… but not for all

For those who want to start playing with the next version of Windows Phone; Windows Phone 10, a preview is now available. To get your phone updated with this preview, you need to have the Phone Preview app – which by the way has been updated to be called Windows Insider. By the way, for

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Office – Office 2016 Technical Preview now available

You can now enroll and start playing with the new release of Microsoft Office – called Office 2016. To do so, just reach the Connect directory page and enroll for the  Microsoft Office Consumer Technical Preview. https://connect.microsoft.com/directory/non-feedback  

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Windows 10 – Windows Store stuck in loading

After updating my Windows 10 Technical Preview to the latest build published earlier (build 9926), all App Store (the current one and the new one in beta) were not working to get any new application and where stuck in loading as shown in the screenshot below   The solution was to run the following commands

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