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Windows 10 / Office 365 / SharePoint– SharePoint does not like Edge

As you know, Microsoft has released about a week ago his new client operating system, Windows 10, which includes a new web browser called Edge. You have to be aware that Edge and SharePoint do not like each others. Many of the features available on SharePoint (both On Premises and Online) are not available with […]

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Office 365 – Phantom mobile device

I have been playing with the Mobile Device Management feature for Office 365 for some time already – since it has been in technical preview. I registered many devices running on different OS (Windows, Windows Phone, Windows 10 Tech Preview, Android..) but recently I discovered a rogue/phantom device in the Office 365 Mobile Device Management

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Office 365 – You can now defined your own help desk details

If you are running your own help desk (as many large organization do), you can now provide your own help desk details to your Office 365 users. To do so, just logon to the Office 365 Admin portal and hit your tenant/company name (top right of the admin portal, just below you name) Then hit

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Office 365 / SharePoint Online – Restrict file synchronization from domain joined only

As you may know, you can synchronize your content store in SharePoint or SharePoint Online to your local client to keep it available while offline (thanks to the OneDrive for Business client). With SharePoint Online, you can now restrict this feature to only domain joined client; this will help you to ensure sensitive data is

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Skype for Business – The Windows Phone Skype for Business app is now available

Microsoft has released the new Skype for Business app for Windows Phone. If you have already installed Lync 2013 Mobile client app for Windows Phone, this has been automatically (or should be) updated. If not, try to force to update your installed app or download it from the Store https://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/skype-for-business/d85d8a57-0f61-4ff3-a0f4-444e131d8491 As part of the improvements:

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Office 365 – New resources for Office 365 PowerShell

As you may know, many of the administration tasks for Office 365 services have to be done using PowerShell. Since June 30rd, Microsoft has released a new web site to assist you with Office 365 powershell commands. This site contains lot of resources and script samples to help you Go to http://powershell.office.com/

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Office 365 – Skype for Business Preview

Want to be the first to see, test and use what will be coming with Skype for Business and Skype for Business Online?? Go to https://www.skypepreview.com/ to sign up for Skype Meeting Broadcast, PSTN Conferencing (US only at this time) and Cloud PBX with PSTN Calling (US only at this time too). Skype Meeting Broadcast

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Office 365 – Azure Active Directory Connect Installation

Following my previous post about the upgrade process from DirSync to AAD Connect (which failed), I decided to go ahead and uninstall DirSync to do a fresh install of AAD Connect. So let start a fresh install by accepting the license agreement   Then you have the choice to do an Express configuration – which

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Office 365 – Upgrade from DirSync to Azure AD Connect

Following the announcement of the new AAD Connect (Azure Active Directory Connect), I decided to upgrade my DirSync instance (version 1.0.7020). So the first thing is off course to get the AAD Connect tool either from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615771 Then let start the upgrade…. Some details about my current DirSync configuration: Use OU’s filtering to define where

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Office 365 / SharePoint Online – External Sharing can now be accepted only by the original email address which invited

An update is currently being deployed on SharePoint which will allows IT administrator to restrict external sharing to be validated only by the original email which sent the invitation. To enable this, you must connect to your SharePoint tenant using PowerShell and set the RequireAcceptingAccountMatchInvitedAccount to TRUE (by default this is set to FALSE) To

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