HI there. Recently I took a position with Advaiya as Lead BPOS PM where I'll be working on BPOS related projects and content. That means the end of the line for my posting here at Bpostive :) . You can pick up the thread at my new blogging location...

Sunny Days for Cloud Services I spent the weekend at a Microsoft internal event hearing from the makers of the next generation of cloud services to be available from Microsoft. It’s too soon to discuss details but wanted to share some of my excitement...

Now, when you add a new user in the administration center for BPOS, they will 25GB mailbox assigned by default (assuming you are assigning a mailbox to the user) Previously, this was 5GB per user. This 5x increase for FREE. Microsoft is always...

Hi, A new guide to deploying Microsoft Online has been published and is avaiable on the Partner Portal. The guide covers planning considerations and provides specific deployment guideance and use of the directory synchronization and migration tools...

Hey for some reason I was asked to be one of the hosts at a couple of online chats coming up. These are open to the public so if you have questions about Microsoft's cloud stratgey, BPOS, or just want to hang out, come on down. Thanks, Brett...

Hi, I'm always sending links to people about what training and content is avialable so thought it might be useful to put this all together in a single place. Send me updates you think should be there and I'll add them. Thanks! Brett Quick- Reference...

Hey, Our new community guy Jim Glynn has been busy and getting some good technical content posted. Since the services are being updated all the time, it's a good idea to get into a habit of refreshing what you know. Important changes are alwasy...

I love tools. Particulalry this kind of tool that can help you when you need it. Direct from our upper echelon support and migration teams comes the MOSDAL (Microsoft Online Services Diagnostics and Logging) Support Toolkit. Not only does it come with...

The guys as Messagops have released a script that can notify deskless workers when their BPOS password is about to expire. Since BPOS Deskless workers use OWA rathe rthan Outloook, this is a very hand capability. See the post at http://www.messageops...

Hi, Santa came to town for BPOS during the holidaze and I wanted to update you on a couple of times. New Quickstartonlineservices.com Portal launched! My teammate Damon Sununtnasuk worked tirelessly to get the redesigned portal launched over...

Hi, Some new training classes have been posted to the partner learning center for Microsoft Partners that are marketing BPOS. (In other words, if you are not a Microsoft Partner, the content is not accessible). We will be posting some more technical...

Announcing availability of the Business Productivity Online Suite Administration and Deployment on the Partner Learning Center https://training.partner.microsoft.com/learning/app/management/LMS_ActDetails.aspx?UserMode=0&ActivityId=569185 This...

Announcing availability of the Business Productivity Online Suite Migration and Onboarding Deep Dive class on the Partner Learning Center https://training.partner.microsoft.com/learning/app/management/LMS_ActDetails.aspx?UserMode=0&ActivityId=568520...

Hi, Jenna Leday is presenting a webcast on Migrating to BPOS on Dec 17th 2009, 11AM PST . Please click here to register. Jenna is PM on the BPOS team that manages the migration toolkit and powershell commands recently released (see previous blog...

MessageOps has posted an applicaiton for monitoring Exchange Online. This looks like a useful tool for identyfing latency issues. Keep an eye on these guys! http://www.messageops.com/ExmonDownload.html

There is a document on microsoft.com/downloads called Guidance for Microsoft Online Services Multinational Customers is not what it seems. You don't have to be a multinational to be interested in the details such as latency stats between you and the BPOS...

The Mac Sign-In application has been released and is now available for download from the Microsoft Download Center . The Sign-In Application provides a convenient way for users with computers using the Apple Macintosh operating system to access their...

Wanted to let you know that there will be a new webinar series starting up. You will definitly want to attend these to get the latest information on migrating to BPOS. See http://blogs.technet.com/msonline/archive/2009/11/13/announcing-the-migration...

On Sunday morning (11/08), we published 15 additional sites – serving 14 more countries, in 9 more languages. This brings our total to 40 localized sites (including our first RTL language: Hebrew ). In additional to publishing new sites, we also enabled...

Ran across this blog post on integrating BPOS with BPOS. Useful info. http://blogs.msdn.com/dynamicscrmonline/archive/2009/05/19/crm-online-and-bpos-business-productivity-online-suite.aspx Also, you might be interested to know that the SMTP gateway...

There are some settings in the sing on tool such as "save password" on the options tab that are stored in the registry. As such, they can set using group policy. There is a .ADM file to assist in this process located at http://blogs.technet.com/msonline...

In the just announced service release, you'll find a mention of the following powershell commands. Enable-MSOnlineUser Get-MSOnlineSubscription Set-MSOnlineUserPassword Q: What do these do? These can be used together or sepearlty to...

Upgrades and Enhancements The following features and capabilities are included in the October Service Update: Bulk Activation of Users PowerShell commandlets will be added to streamline the activation process, enabling administrators to easily automate...

One of the most interesting aspects of working with services as opposed to a bits on disk product group, is that we update capabilities all the time. That's really different than releasing service packs for features updates. One of the updates we released...

Discovered today that the directory synchronization tool copies permissions with distribution lists. DirSync syncs the following AD attributes that control who can and cannot send to a DL: · AuthOrig (Authorized Originators: Only these Users can...