Office 365 – Change management guide from Microsoft

Benoit HAMET

Microsoft has published a change management guide for enterprises moving/implementing Office 365. This guide contains communication templates (emails, print…) as well as some document to assist the local support team, train the users or help to define enterprise policies to apply on Office 365. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40187

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SharePoint – Blog post filtering based on category stop working

Benoit HAMET

This issue applies to SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online 2013 as well. If you are running blogs on SharePoint 2013 platforms, you may face the following issue when trying to filter blog posts based on category by hitting the category link shown on the Quick Launch or the category associated to the post. Doing so returns ALL posts what ever the category you asked to display (as shown below).  …

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SharePoint 2013 – SharePoint 2013 SP1 includes settings to configure Office 365 integration

Benoit HAMET

As part of the SharePoint 2013 Service Pack 1, Microsoft has starting to provide some way to implement a sort of hybrid mode – as we can already have with Exchange – with Office 365. If you go to the SharePoint Central Administration soon after the installation of the SP1, you will see an important notification   As well as a new link/option shown in the Quick Launch menu on…

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Office 365 – Update your DirSync to take advantage of the new S/MIME feature

Benoit HAMET

As you already know, Microsoft updates frequently the DirSync tool used to synchronize your on premises directory with Office 365. Also, as Microsoft has announced the availability of the S/MIME feature on Exchange 2013 SP1 – and so also for Exchange Online on Office 365, you will have to update your DirSync currently installed. Download the new version here http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=278924 – version involved for this post is 1.0.6635.43 Then you…

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