For those who wants/had already deployed Windows Server 2012 R2 to host the Office 365 Directory Synchronization tool, you can do it. DirSync is fully functional on Windows Server 2012 R2 even if it’s not yet documented. Don’t forget ensure to use the latest version of DirSync available from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=278924
For those who already played used Right Management Services, you already know it is difficult either not possible to share document secured by RMS with someone outside of your company. Now, with Windows Azure Right Management it’s becoming easier to share protected document outside of the company. All you need is an Office 365 tenant
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As you may know – if not, there is no more excuse – Office 365 integrates the use of RMS – Right Management Services – to protect your document. To enable and configure RMS for use with Office 365 take a look at http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/03/07/office-365-use-right-management-services/ Today, while looking around the Windows Phone Store, I found an
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As per Microsoft announcement few months ago, here is how to configure multi factor authentication. This is a per user basis. I already wrote few posts about this feature (http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/06/14/office-365-two-factors-authentication-is-now-available-as-preview/ and http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/06/17/office-365-manage-multiple-factors-authentication/) but there was on a preview version; there has been some changes. NOTE 1 This does not work with federated users NOTE 2
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As you may know, Microsoft has announced in February the upgrade of his cloud service Office 365 to run the latest version of his products, Exchange, Lync and SharePoint. As I’m running Office 365 for some of my need since the first version of Office 365, running on 2010 products version, this post is a
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Following my previous post announcing the new Tools section on the Office 365 administration portal, I will propose to go in details for each current tools available from this section – at the time of writing, some tools are still in beta. Today, I’ll go through the Best Practices Analyser from a client side. This
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To simplify the work of Office 365 administrators, and also the support, Microsoft has introduced a new section in the Office 365 administration portal to centralize some tools to help the IT guys in their work. This section, called Tools, is available at the end of the left menu from the Office 365 administration portal
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After increasing the storage capacity for SharePoint Online (for SkyDrive Pro) from 7 Go to 25 Go few days ago (see http://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2013/08/27/skydrive-pro-increases-storage-and-ease-of-sharing.aspx), Microsoft has announced that the mailbox size is also increasing from 25 Go to 50 Go – see http://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2013/08/29/exchange-online-mailbox-sizes-are-doubling.aspx Enjoy with more storage capacity
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Following Exchange Online, SharePoint or Windows Azure services, it is now possible to manage Lync Online with PowerShell. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39366 There were some workarounds around Internet to manage Lync Online with PowerShell, but this time it is officially supported
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If you had/have an Office 365 tenant running on SharePoint Online 2010, you will be automatically upgraded to the latest version: SharePoint Online 2013. Before this upgrade is proceeded, you will be notified and you will be allowed to evaluate the upgrade by selecting pilot users – or also postpone the upgrade process. In case
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