If your an Office 365 Partner you can now download the Office 365 Technical Briefing and Solution Alignment Workshop material from the link below. CDF by the way is Customer Decision Framework. https://www.quickstartonlineservices.com/Partners/LibraryDocuments...

This is also valid for Exchange Online (Office 365) http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/02/10/announcing-the-exchange-client-network-bandwidth-calculator-beta.aspx I am extremely pleased to announce that the all new Exchange Client Bandwidth...

  The BPOS to Office 365 Transition Guide for enterprises is now available for customers and partners.

I pick one of these up on Monday   http://www.fastcodesign.com/1668907/no-joke-with-lumia-nokia-crushes-the-iphone

  PST Capture helps you search your network to discover and then import .pst files across your environment - all from a straightforward admin-driven tool. PST Capture will help reduce risk while increasing productivity for your users by importing...

Let the transitions to 365 really start to begin..! http://press.rim.com/release.jsp?id=5359 Waterloo, ON - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced general availability of BlackBerry® Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office...

  The full blog is here : “The latest productivity tools are not reserved for workers with a desk or an office. Businesses need to connect their shift and retail workers to the rest of the enterprise. As such, we are adding new capabilities to our...

Updated Trust Center Based on customer feedback, we have simplified the language of the Trust Center to make it easier to find in-depth information about our privacy and security practices and understand our practices for handling and securing data on...

The Lync Online Web Scheduler has been released, therefore if you don’t have Outlook available you can still schedule meetings that will appear in OWA. https://sched.lync.com

Find the right Office 365 plan for you. FINDING AND POINTING TO THE ADVISOR TOOL 1) Visit Office365.com and click on the Plan advisor link. We also merchandise the tool as a ‘ Help me Choose’ link on the Trial signup page. 2) You can access the tool in...

Great news if your a rich client user: http://jorgerdiaz.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/office-365-%e2%80%93-sign-in-assistant-update/

  Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in the Office 365 Community , the tool serves as a comprehensive, self-help solution that gives customers the ability to solve questions or issues they may have with the Office 365 suite of services, whether...

Has been released: PDF version of the Deployment Guide, an updated web edition has been released. The web edition provides all of the same content of the document version.

  And yes…. this does work against Lync Online..! http://blogs.technet.com/b/uc/archive/2011/09/08/lync-for-mac-2011-released-to-manufacturing.aspx

  Free eBook: Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime By Rosemary Caperton We are very excited to announce that we are able to offer  Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime...

  Purpose · To develop an Office 365 Community in the UK where we can share experiences, drive deployment and for the community to feedback their experiences and concerns to Microsoft where we in turn can then respond back at the next event. · It...

With the recent announcement, I have been glued to these historic videos. I personally liked the guest appearance of Bill at MacWorld Take a look: http://mashable.com/2011/08/24/breaking-steve-jobs-resigns-from-apple/#D1R-jKKp3NA

  LONDON — 25 August 2011 — Microsoft UK PLC, Microsoft BV and Capgemini UK plc today announced they have been selected by Tata Steel in Europe for a project to migrate its two existing email systems to a new Europe-wide standard platform based on...

This half-day technical briefing, with sessions from Microsoft and Oxford Computer Group will provide vital information on transitioning to Office 365 and Cloud apps. Including presentations, round table discussion and solution demo's we'll provide an...

  Microsoft and Google are going head to head in a bid to win the next business platform; the cloud. But what is all the hype around Microsoft and Google’s Cloud Services Offerings about? Content and Code are hosting an exclusive event on the 17...

Over the past few months I have had many discussion about data security, Patriot Act and EU Safe Harbor with Office 365. I have just read this article which explains, quite simply, what can be done and what can’t without having to be a lawyer: http:/...

http://www.polycom.com/partners/strategic_global_alliances/polycom_microsoft_alliance.html New Breakthroughs in Enterprise UC Polycom and Microsoft announced on June 1 a new enterprise UC productivity tool code-named “Rally” that combines HD telepresence...

Can be downloaded from here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13602

The Microsoft Lync 2010 Conversation Translator translates instant messages in real time using the Bing Translator service. Neat. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/Features/2011/jun11/06-20ConversationTranslator.mspx

If you want to understand ASFSv2 a little more then this would be a good session to attend delivered by the Oxford Computer Group: Webinar - Federation with Microsoft AD FS 2.0 Thursday 7th of July 2011 11:00:00 AM A 30 minute webinar on Federated Identity...