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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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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 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 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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Office 365 – Sample PowerShell scripts to manage Office 365 and Lync

Microsoft has published some sample PowerShell scripts to help you managing Office 365 and Lync. These scripts will connect to your Office 365 tenant, display your users list, manage user settings or manage domains and more. As prerequisite, you must have installed Microsoft Online Sign In Assistant, PowerShell Module for Windows Azure Active Directory, Lync

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Lync – New Lync Connectivity Analyzer

Microsoft has released a new version of the Lync Connectivity Analyzer, a tool which helps to determine if the deployment and the configuration of Office 365 (Lync Online) and Lync On Premises match the prerequisites to support connectivity. Go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=277056 to download the tool. As part of the improvements: support for Windows 8.1 improved

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Office 365 – Moving online mailbox to on premise failed with error Resource ‎’CiAgeOfLastNotification‎(System)‎‎’ is unhealthy and shouldn‎’t be accessed

Recently, I went to an error when moving online mailboxes from Office 365 – Exchange Online – to on premises – Exchange 2013. Strangely, these mailboxes have been moved multiple times in both direction – on premises to online and online to on premises – without any issue. The migration batch starts and content is

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Office 365 – ADFS authentication error code 8004789A when logging with web browser

If you are using Office 365 and have implemented ADFS to manage the authentication to Office 365 services, this post is for you You may get the following error code – 8004789A – when logging on to Office 365 with web browser (Exchange Online OWA or SharePoint Online), while Outlook or any ActiveSync device is

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Office 365 – New SharePoint Online administration option for SkyDrive Pro

A new administration option is available for SharePoint Online administrators to manage SkyDrive Pro storage allocation Go to your SharePoint Online administration portal using the Admin menu from the Office 365 portal or use the direct URL https://<your tenant>-admin.sharepoint.com Then, on the left side, go to the new SkyDrive Pro section Then you will be

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