If you are Office 365 administrator and have a Windows Phone 8, this is for you Microsoft has released a Windows Phone 8 app to follow up the Office 365 health state – this is a good starting point but would be nice to have more administration options, such as reset password, create user…. Hoping
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Microsoft is providing a new online troubleshooting tool for Office 365 services. This one has to be used for Lync Online sign-in issues. This online troubleshooting tool is based on experience learned by Office 365 support team over the last 9 months. The first step is to go to http://aka.ms/LyncSignIn and follow the troubleshooting wizard
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UPDATE – November 23rd – a new version has been released. The version is 1.0.6567.0018 UPDATE – November 12th – this version and reference associated has been removed. Many issues have been introduced, such as filtering not applied or corruption in display name (not everyone has been impacted anyway) Recently – in fact yesterday, November 4th,
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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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