Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2013/Office365

Wed, 04 Sep 2013 09:33:48 +0000

The Managed Metadata feature in SharePoint 2010/2013/Office365 enables a new way to manage your documents and other company related informations.

Yet most file systems store their files in an hierarchical structure, with SharePoint and the Managed Metadata Service you can setup a document management system.

To get into this Managed Metadata Service thing, I’ve found a great video.

Handling user password change and expiration issues with Office365 and ADFS - Part 1

Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:41:37 +0000

Recently I’ve setup a Office365 Service with ADFS (Active Directory Federation Service) and a DirSync Server.

Sadly I forgot about a huge disadvantage in this architecture, due to using ADFS as an authentication provider, it’s not possible to change a users password. The communication form the local ActiveDirectory environment to the cloud based Office365 services is only one directional.

That’s why there are only 2 options yet to handle the user password change and expiration:

Disable the users password expiration or
Set up a enterprise connected platform to deal with the password change and expiration.

At this time option 1 is active in my environment and option 2 is my goal.

In this post series want to show you the solution I’ve developed.

Let’s start with password expiration. Because Office365 doesn’t handle password expiration, that’s why I have to use another channel to show the users on which date their passwords expire: Let’s do it with an bulk e-mail job.

Service on Janik von Rotz

Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2013/Office365

Handling user password change and expiration issues with Office365 and ADFS - Part 1