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 […]
A major change announcement for Office 365 services. Office On Demand – a feature which allows to install Office on a client for the time of need – is being retired by November 2014 http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/172/t/259931.aspx
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UPDATE 21/08/2014 – I have been informed that this occurs also on Office Mobile on iPhone Recently, I discovered that the SharePoint Online site content displayed on Office Mobile – running on Windows Phone 8.1, it not correctly updated, still showing deleted items or wrong items numbers (as shown below). This occurs even if you
As you may already know, Office 365 has introduced the use of multi factor authentication (MFA) few time ago. This feature is based on Microsoft Azure Active Directory Multi Factor service and allow you to setup additional authentication methods to secure the access to your Office 365 tenant. This works also perfectly fine if you
As you may already know, since the first release of Office 365, when you create a cloud user account, the system automatically generates a temporary password. Now, you can also choose to set the user password when you create a new cloud user account. To do so, just click on the Type password link shown
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Recently, I ran into an interesting error trying to install SharePoint Online PowerShell Module or Microsoft Azure PowerShell modules. The setup program said “PowerShell 3.0 is required”, while off course this has been already enabled on my Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 R2 installation as all other online services PowerShell modules have been installed,
While working on a project, I had to setup a SharePoint site on Office 365 with a Site mailbox enabled for this site. So far, so good, this is a well known, simple and working procedure. Nothing tricky there BUT, here it comes the issue; this site is being shared and used by external users
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Recently, I discover a behavior change for the New button in the quick action bar for SharePoint Online library. Indeed, instead of having the new document option (with the list of available templates for this document library); I got the upload a file dialog box. After investigating, I discovered this change appears when you enable
With Exchange 2013, and so Exchange Online too, a new feature has been introduced with OWA (Outlook Web Access) called Offline Access – if you don’t how to use it, take a look at my post here http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2012/07/17/exchange-2013-use-owa-offline/ That said, this feature has been improved as now you can select WHICH folders to synchronize when
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As you may already know, one of the new major feature of Exchange and SharePoint 2013 (which is also available on Office 365 with Exchange Online and SharePoint Online) is the Site Mailbox. As reminder – in case of you don’t know anything about it, a site mailbox is a central email and document sharing
