Office UI Fabric for SharePoint and O365

Microsoft Introduce the new official UI framework for SharePoint and Office 365 Development called "Office UI Fabric"

Collab365 Summit - May 10th-12th 2016 - Live from Microsoft HQ

Collab365 Summit - May 10th-12th 2016 - Live from Microsoft HQ

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In the Collab365 team on the 10th, 11th and 12th of May 2016 for an incredible amount of SharePoint, Azure and Office365 content. Delivered direct to your device, when you want it and for no cost at all. Catch premium keynotes across all 3 days. Sessions designed and delivered for IT Pro, IT Dev and Business delegates.

Introducing brand new Summit Experience for 2016

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Watch the LIVE SHOW streamed direct from Redmond or catch the recorded sessions from top speakers around the world. If you are a seasoned pro or just starting out on your career with SharePoint and Office 365 we have plenty to help you begin your skills journey 

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As well as live sessions, live chat and real time twitter feeds, we have been adding more spice to the mix in the form of 2 real-time, tech based, fun as heck quizzes. Compete against your peers, win prizes and unlock new learning opportunities!

Microsoft Product team speakers

Bill Baer and Raman Sharma	SharePoint
Jeremy Thake	Office 365 – Product Manager
Sonya Koptyev	Office 365 – Product Manager
Mark Kashman	Office 365 – Product Manager
Chris McNulty	Office 365 – Product Manager
Reuben Krippner	Office 365 - Director
Christophe Fiessinger	Enterprise Social Group

Microsoft Mechanics

Microsoft Mechanics

Microsoft's new initiatives to bring all the engineers those are continuously working for improving the Microsoft Products such as Azure,Office 365,Office Desktop version,Exchange Server 2016,SharePoint,OneDrive and Skype for business together and imparting the knowledge to IT workers through Video platform.
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Microsoft Mechanics

SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 certification preparation

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SharePoint 2013 : 70-331 Core Solution of Microsoft SharePoint 2013
SharePoint 2013 : 70-448 Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Core Solution.

Office 365 Exam 70-346 Managing Office and Identifies and Requirement

also have a look into my own exam preparation for each topic ,
http://intelliview.blogspot.in/2015/02/exam-70-488-implement-authentication.html




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DirSync tool - Quickview

This is my self notes on preparing for the Office 365 exam 70- 346 from various sources including MSDN, Office 365 community forum , online video tutorial.

DirSync tool lets the Active Directory domain admin to synchronize the users from on-premise to Cloud (Azure AD) for consuming the Microsoft Online Services such as Office 365,Intune,Desktop office installation [Complete],Exchange and Lync Online .

This tool can be installed on any server which is joined to Active Directory and can be part of AD forest.

Using this tool you can sync the contacts,groups and mail enabled objects from AD to Azure AD

The recently, this tool has been improved to sync [one way push ] the password hash [read it as not password ] from AD to Azure AD.When you sync the password , Office 365 disable the change password option for users in the admin site and user password can be reset only on on-premise AD.

[This feature will be highly recommended when your on-premise AD FS server or services not consistent player.]
If there is an outage in the Single Sign-On (AD FS 2.0 ) on your on premise, you cannot use the Office 365 services ]
This approach also considered as backup for AD FS infrastructure.

By default a tenant [One subscription] and Azure AD can hold up to 50,000 objects and it can be increased up to 300,000 objects when you verify your domain.

DirSync tool by default comes with SQL Server Express 2012 SP1 that can process up to 50,000 and if your AD has more than this limit, then this tool must be installed to use the SQL Server standard edition with one dedicated instance.

It will create a service account on your local computer which is joined to active directory,that account will have high privilege permission on AD and all the AD Forest read all domains and write back to Azure AD.

This tool can sync the user objects for every 3 hours by default,you can change this interval as per your own policies.

DocuSign e-Signing for Office 365

DocuSign will bring its eSignature electronic signature apps to Office 365, a move that’s probably as important for Microsoft as it is for users. The eSignature technology will appear in the Office 365 Office Store in early March, fleshing out an app store that’s still woefully short of useful plugins. 

As anyone who’s negotiated contract proceedings via fax already knows, the process of receiving a contract, signing it, scanning or faxing it, and then repeating the process multiple times virtually cries out for an electronic solution. Historically, the process of appending an e-signature was attached to Adobe PDF files, as they were trusted to remain unchanged. Then Microsoft added support for e-signatures in Office 2010. It’s been a trusted seal that’s “broken” if content is altered after a signature is applied.

DocuSign uses a similar approach, with a laundry list of security protections. Now, however, customers who already use Office 365 can add support for the e-signature technology from their consoles. Support for Outlook, Word, SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server 2013 has been included, DocuSign said. DocuSign also adopted Windows Azure Active Directory to provide single sign-on capabilities with Office 365 credentials.

DocuSign will show off (and most likely launch) the new apps at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, which runs from March 3 through March 6. More details can be found on its website, DocuSign said. 

Microsoft’s own Office Store has been relatively bereft of its own apps, either indicating that Microsoft itself has left no stone unturned, or that developers haven’t seen a need to join the Office app store party. Developers who’ve written for the platform have said they haven’t seen the returns they were hoping for, and the relatively low number of reviews attached to most apps seems to support that.

On the other hand, simply publishing an app like DocuSign’s eSignature to the Office Store can’t help but encourage more customers to visit. DocuSign’s customer base includes companies from American Airlines to Costco to Monsanto. In this case, DocuSign may have more to offer Microsoft than the other way round.