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Office 365 – New PowerShell module available

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Following the public release of Windows Azure Active Directory (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/04/10/windows-azure-windows-azure-active-directory-is-now-available-as-a-service/), Microsoft has also released a new Office 365 PowerShell modules. To update your client, uninstall your existing Office 365 PowerShell for Windows and then download and install the new module from: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=236298 for the Windows Azure Active Directory Module for PowerShell 32 bits http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=236297 […]

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Windows Azure – Windows Azure Active Directory is now available as a service

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Microsoft has now released the public version of Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD), a cloud based directory. WAAD is used with Office 365 to manage Office 365 users – cloud user or synchronized with your internal directory – as well as to provide a single point of identity management with all your applications.   You

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Exchange – Office 365 – Lot of synchronization logs

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Recently I had an issue with my Exchange Online mailbox: there was almost every second a log generated within the Sync Issue folder, which contains synchronization error messages. The log generated were saying “Your server administrator has limited the number of items you can open simultaneously. Try closing messages you have opened or removing attachments

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Office 365 – Some changes/limitations with public website

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With the new Office 365 running SharePoint Online 2013, Microsoft has made some changes: The first one, but not the more important, the default public URL has changed to http://<yourtenant>-public.sharepoint.com while with SharePoint Online 2010 it was http://<yourtenant>-web.sharepoint.com The second one is at the Site Settings level. You can only manage interface (look), search engine

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Exchange – Office 365 – Do not allow to add Office Apps

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With Exchange 2013, Microsoft has introduced a new feature called Office Apps. Office Apps is providing a new way to develop for Exchange 2013 (as well as for SharePoint 2013) in order to provide additional functionality to end-users through Outlook 2013 client or Outlook Web Access (such as a map to locate a location when

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Office 365 – You can not create a site collection which reuse URL

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To avoid data lost, Microsoft has introduced earlier in SharePoint Online the site collection recycle bin. This feature allows SharePoint Online administrators to restore deleted site collection. This site collection recycle bin has also another impact which is blocking you when creating a new site collection which reuse an URL previously associated to a deleted

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Office 365 – Directory Synchronization tool updated

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With the release of the new Office 365 version, the directory synchronization tool has been updated. Now, DirSync is only available in 64 bits version and can be installed on Windows Server 2012. You can go http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj151800.aspx for install and upgrade process.

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Office 365 – Use Right Management Services

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With the new Office 365, Microsoft has introduced a new functionality to secure document sharing: Right Management Services. This service is (should be) well know as this is available since Windows Server 2003 as additional component for internal deployment. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771234(v=ws.10).aspx for more details about RMS. So, going back to Office 365 and Windows Azure

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Office 365 – Use Excel to view Exchange Online reports

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UPDATE March 8th: to know more about Office 365 Reporting Web Service (and maybe build a solution) go there http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj984325.aspx Following my previous post presenting the new Office 365 administration portal UI, I will explain with this post how to use Excel for viewing (and analyzing) Office 365 reports. The Office 365 reports are covering

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Office 365 – Add email aliases with Exchange Online 2013

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With the new Office 365 there is some actions which have changed to manage user properties. As part of this, adding an email alias is now more simpler. Logon to the Office 365 administration portal with an administrator account Then go to the Users and Groups section from the left menu On the Active Users

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