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Office 365 – Feedbacks on Office 365 certification beta

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Today, I passed the 2 exams for Office 365 certification (currently in beta) Exam 70-321: Deploying Office 365 http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?id=70-321&locale=en-us Exam 70-323: Administering Office 365 http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?id=70-323&locale=en-us I would not disclose anything here about these tests but here are few things for you: Both exams are ‘Enterprise’ oriented; meaning P plan are not really covered. I think […]

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Lync – Download Lync Client Attendee

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For those who are already using Lync (hosted On Premises or Online) but have host online meeting with people without the Lync client, you may notify them to download the Lync Client Attendee. This will offer them the same user experience than with the Lync client but without the need to have a Lync user

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Lync – Obtain configuration details from Lync client

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The following is working for both On Premises and Online Lync deployment. From time to time, especially for troubleshooting purposes, this may be important to have access to Lync client configuration (such as Lync web application pool, internal/external URL’s…) This configuration may be difficult to have, especially with Lync Online as you don’t have access

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Office 365 – New features coming for Kiosk users

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Since BPOS, Microsoft offered specific services for users accessing cloud services with ONLY a browser; this service is called Kiosk mode. Microsoft has announced coming new features for Kiosk users in Office 365 in March. As part of these new features, there will be: Active Sync access: meaning Kiosk users will be able to sync

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Office 365 – Service health status is now providing per-tenant status

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Since BPOS, customers have access to a health service status portal to know more about the health of each service (Exchange, Communicator and SharePoint). With Office 365, this portal is also available. Starting today, the health service portal has been improved to provide per-tenant health information. This means the portal is now providing health details

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Lync / Office 365 – Lync Web Scheduler

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For those who already are using Lync On Premises, they may already know the Lync Web Scheduler. As a reminder, or to explain what is if for those who don’t know, Microsoft Lync Online Web Scheduler is a web-based meeting scheduling and management tool for users who don’t have access to Microsoft Outlook, or are

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Office 365 – Directory Synchronization tool is now able to be installed on x64

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Microsoft has recently updated the DirSync tool (directory synchronization) to allow installation on x64 platforms. To download the updated version, go to your Office 365 administration portal and go to the User Management section\Active Directory synchronization and click Setup (step 4)

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Office 365 – Lync client for Mac now available from download

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Following the announcement of the Lync client for Mac availability, Office 365 customers are now able to download it for use with their Office 365 account. Connect to the download page (https://portal.microsoftonline.com/download/) and go to Step 2 download and install Lync client. To know more about setting up your Mac client, go to: For Enterprise

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