Office 365

Office 365 / SharePoint Online – The NEW button finally shows the custom content type

UPDATED 11/02/2015 It has been a long wait and lot of pain, but finally we got it!!! The NEW button on a document library now shows the custom content type you may have defined for this document library. UPDATE if you have enabled custom type (and so display these content type in lieu of the

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Office – Office 2016 Technical Preview now available

You can now enroll and start playing with the new release of Microsoft Office – called Office 2016. To do so, just reach the Connect directory page and enroll for the  Microsoft Office Consumer Technical Preview. https://connect.microsoft.com/directory/non-feedback  

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Azure – Azure Active Directory security question option for self service reset password

Since the introduction of Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Microsoft has introduced many features to simplify both IT management and end-user experience. And it continues with the self service password reset feature. Until then, there has been 3 options to allow to identify an end-user asking to reset his password through the self-service portal: Office Phone

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Office – InfoPath is dead

Microsoft has finally officially announced that InfoPath – the XML form solution – is now dead. InfoPath 2013 is the last edition of the product while the server side component – known as Form Server, separate solution with SharePoint 2007 and integrated with since 2010 – will be maintained in the next release of SharePoint

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Azure AD – Azure AD Connect Health

Azure AD Connect Health is a new feature available on Microsoft Azure for Azure Active Directory. This new functionality requires you have an Azure Active Directory Premium and allows you to monitor your identity platforms. This is currently in preview. This will help you to be proactive before potential issues impact your end-users, gather statistics

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Office 365 – ForeFront Identity Manager Synchronization Service is still installed after uninstalling Office 365 DirSync 1.0.7020

While I was evaluating (using another server and after stopping the current DirSync service) the next version of Azure Active Directory Connect tool in beta, I faced an issue when I switched back to the current DirSync instance: directory synchronization seems to work BUT deleted AD accounts were not deleted on Office 365. So, I

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Office 365 – Azure AD Connect Preview installation

Following my previous announcing the preview of the new version of Azure AD Connect which will replace the current DirSync tool for Office 365, here is a post detailing the installation of the preview. As said in my previous post, this version can be downloaded from the Connect web site (http://connect.microsoft.com/site1164/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=53949) For this installation, I

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Office 365 – Office 365 DirSync will be replaced with Azure AD Connect

Microsoft has announced that Azure AD Connect, the new tool to synchronize On Premises Active Directory directories will replace in a very near future the current DirSync tool for Office 365. As you may be aware, since few months we now have different synchronization tools for Office 365 and Azure Active Directory: Office 365 DirSync,

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ADFS 3 / Office 365 – Sign in with Lync mobile app on Android failed

While working on a project to deploy Office 365 with ADFS 3.0, I was running on an issue with the Lync mobile client on Android ONLY; other Lync client did not had the issue (on WIndows, WIndows Phone or iOS). The issue was the user was not able to sign in on the Lync 2013

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Azure / Office / Office 365 – Support for MFA for Office applications is coming

As you may already know – if not, this is it – Microsoft has introduced and provided Multi Form Factor (MFA) with Office 365, and Azure Active Directory, for some time now. This MFA solution is provided by PhoneFactor – which has been bought since then by Microsoft. If you don’t know anything about this

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