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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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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 / 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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Office 365 / Office Mobile – SharePoint site content is not updated correctly on Office Mobile

UPDATE 21/08/2014 – I have been informed that this occurs also on Office Mobile on iPhone Recently, I discovered that the SharePoint Online site content displayed on Office Mobile – running on Windows Phone 8.1, it not correctly updated, still showing deleted items or wrong items numbers (as shown below). This occurs even if you

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Office 2013 – Be careful when you delete an email account with Outlook 2013 SP1

This is an IMPORTANT update included with the Office 2013 SP1. Indeed, when you delete an email account from Outlook 2013 SP1, the associated data files (PST or OST) are automatically deleted. Previously, the data files were still available on the user profile.  

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Yammer – Add Yammer on your Office 365 top navigation

Following the announcement and then the availability for Office 365 Enterprise plan of Yammer (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/12/02/yammer-upgrade-your-basic-yammer-to-enterprise-with-office-365-e-plan/ to activate Yammer on your Office 365 subscription), you may want to add Yammer on the top navigation bar To do so, it’s really simple. Just logon to your Office 365 administration portal and go to the SharePoint administration

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Office 2013 – New context option available on Outlook 2013

I know this is a very small thing but it will change a little bit our day to day mailbox management With the November 2013 updates for Office 2013, a new option is now available from ANY folders within a mailbox hosted on Exchange. Yes, this is only available for Exchange mailbox as the feature

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Windows – Rights Management sharing application

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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SharePoint – SkyDrive Pro is now available as standalone and for download

In case of you missed it, SkyDrive Pro is the “professional” SkyDrive client to keep offline your SharePoint content. It has been introduced with SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013 and so was only available through Office 2013 editions (Office 365 Pro Plus, Office 365 Small Business Premium or Office 2013 Pro Plus). Since yesterday (May

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Office / SharePoint – More languages available on the Office and SharePoint Store

As you may already know, with the new Office client and Office servers (Exchange, SharePoint) products (2013 wave products), Microsoft has introduced a new of developing third party and add-ins called Apps through an App Store – in this case Office Store or SharePoint Store. Currently, developers (and so customers) can only submit Apps in

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