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Creating Rooms in Office 365 Exchange Online and Add To Rooms List

The title above is quite long, but exactly to the point – I found myself unsure how to add a resource room in Office 365 for Exchange online because it was set up by previous employees and hadn’t been done since then. Then I needed to add it to the Rooms List. I will walk you through my process of how I created a room and added it to a room list. This was also done in a hybrid environment (Exchange Online and Exchange 2013).

Create User Account

The first step is to create a regular AD user account. I created it in Active Directory User and Computers. You will not need to know the password, so set it to something crazy long and forget it. Be sure to set the password to never expires. And after all of this is said and done, we will disable the account for security.

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SharePoint: Error When adding Apps

Everything is fine, but we had a small problem getting your license. Please go back to the SharePoint Store to get this app again and you won't be charged for it.

I was working in SharePoint, and I kept getting the same error every time I tried to add an app on our on-premises SharePoint 2013. I thought it may have been something with our server, so I tried it on my SharePoint Online account too and got the same error:

Everything is fine, but we had a small problem getting your license. Please go back to the SharePoint Store to get this app again and you won’t be charged for it.

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Microsoft kills Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10

Despite so much of the internet still using Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10, Microsoft decides to pull the plug on the old outdated versions to help push people to use IE 11 and Microsoft Edge. They where ridden with many security holes, bugs, and not supported by many updated sites. However, there are some sites, such as government and company sites, that relied on the older versions to work – even if you enable compatibility view.

It has been a long time coming that Microsoft has wanted to pull the plug due to so many problems found with the older versions. But will the 17.3% [1] that is still running on those three version upgrade since they have been warned for so long about the security holes?

Interesting Fact: .65% [1] of the internet is still using Internet Explorer 6.0, despite its last update being released in April 2008 and it only running in Windows XP!

Resources:

  1. Net Market Share – http://www.netmarketshare.com/
  2. Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_6
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Microsoft announced Windows 10 versions to be released

Windows 10

As we are all eagerly waiting by our computers pressing the F5 key on Microsoft’s blog waiting for a new build of Windows 10, Microsoft has made some announcements regarding how Windows 10 will be released.  Windows 10 will have 7 versions – Home, Pro, Enterprise, Education, Mobile, Mobile Enterprise, and IoT Core.

Windows 10 Home – Designed for the user at home. Has most of the features that an end user would want such as Cortana, Microsoft’s new Edge browser, Windows Hello, and Continuum.

Windows 10 Pro – Windows update for business, ability to add to domain, and other small business needs.

Windows 10 Enterprise – Will have the most robust amount of features that are designed for large businesses such as Windows to Go, VLK, etc.

Windows 10 Education – Target for schools and universities via VLK. Microsoft also stated that students using Windows 10 Home and Pro will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 Education via their school.

Windows 10 Mobile – This is, as the name implies, for mobile phones and other small devices. It will ship with touch friendly Office, support Universal Apps, and Continuum.

Windows 10 IoT – This is for things like Raspberry PI’s, Arduino’s, robots, etc.

There are going to be many different versions that Microsoft will be releasing. But for us home users. there will only be a couple versions that we have to worry about.There are still many unknowns and questions that we are waiting on answers for such as costs!