Office 365

Office 365 – Manage SharePoint App Settings for SharePoint Online

Before being able to deploy and use SharePoint Apps with SharePoint Online, you have to do some configuration. Login to the Office 365 administration portal with an account with administrator rights and go to the SharePoint Online Administration portal Then, once logged on the SharePoint Administration Portal, click on the Apps link available on the […]

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Office 365 – You can not change the country associated with your tenant

When you subscribe to Office 365, you have to define a country or region This is fully understandable as this permits to Microsoft to determine on which Office 365 datacentre you will be hosted. However, there is a side effect; if for any reason you have to change this settings from the Office 365 administration

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Office 365–New poster available to detail identity, authentication, authorization and security

Microsoft has just published a new poster detailing Office 365 identity and security management. This download is available in PDF and VSD (Visio) files http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=291303 or online as a zoomable version http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=293443 Enjoy

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Office 365 – New PowerShell module available

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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