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Office 365 / SharePoint Online – Important change with document library

Starting March 24th, SharePoint Online has been updated by enabling by default document versioning on Document library. This impact all new document library created since then, as well as new site. The document versioning enabled is the Create major version So be aware of this change has some impact in the storage consumed as well […]

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Office 365 – Compliance Center

Following my previous post to announce the new Office 365 Compliance Center (http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2015/03/13/office-365-new-compliance-center-is-coming/), here is a quick post on how to go with it. Access to the compliance center is allowed to global administrator and based on the RBAC (Role Based Access Control) permission models, the same than the one used by Exchange (either online

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Office 365 / Yammer – Change to the integration of Yammer with SharePoint

Microsoft is making some changes in the integration of Yammer with SharePoint; as part of these changes, the Yammer App for SharePoint (2013 and Online) and the Yammer webpart for SharePoint 2010 will be discontinued on March 15th, 2016.   At this date, these applications will stop working completely. The Yammer Embed will be the

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Office 365 – New compliance center is coming

As announced on the Message Center, over the next few weeks a new compliance service/feature will be deployed on Office 365. This new feature is in fact a compliance center which will become the single place to manage compliance across Office 365 services, from Exchange to SharePoint sites. At the time of writing this post,

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Office 365 / OneDrive for Business – Microsoft will remove the OneDrive for Business app from the store

As you may know, OneDrive for Business is the personal space of each user on Office 365. When Windows 8 has been released, Microsoft has also published an app to connect to OneDrive for Business. On March 27th, Microsoft will remove this app from the store, meaning already installed app will no longer be updated

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Office 365 / SharePoint Online – New option available on the contextual menu on OneDrive for Business

As you may already know, Microsoft is frequently introducing new features and services to his cloud services. As part of these new features/services, an update on the contextual menu in OneDrive for Business now allows user to copy/move items within his own space(at this time, this option is ONLY available on OneDrive for Business, not

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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 – 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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Office 365 / SharePoint Online – OneDrive for Business Calculator

I know OneDrive for Business is not completely working (many synchronization issues have been reported, lacked of troubleshooting way…) but when it work, it is really helpful (especially because of the storage space increased up to 1 To recently ). I’m myself not a big fan of O4B. So that said – and because Microsoft

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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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