People who need to see or work with your SharePoint Online site content but who don’t have user accounts for your SharePoint Online environment are considered “external users.” External users might be vendors or customers, for example...

" In companies with Federated Identity set up, users can sign into Office 365 services using their Active Directory credentials. The corporate Active Directory authenticates the users, and stores and controls the password policy. With federated Identity...

if you want the full enterprise voice experience as well as the benefits of the public cloud, then the Office 365 E4 service plan might be the right plan for you. In plan E4 Microsoft will provide the online versions of SharePoint and Exchange for you...

If you organize an online meeting and you find yourself not being able to upload content and receive an error message, then... Verify that the file size of the content that you want to upload is not too large. PowerPoint presentations, Microsoft...

In my meetings with customers and partners I'm often asked which SharePoint Online features are found in which Office 365 Service Plans. Its possible to find a high-level comparison here (see screen shot below), but to provide a more granular view...

The Microsoft Office 365 Sign-In Assistant application will display a notification bubble in the Windows tray when the Office 365 password is about to expire. The default duration of the notification bubble is five seconds. If you need to modify the...

Password expiration notifications in rich clients in Office 365 If you've read the Microsoft Support article: "Access Denied" error, or the user is repeatedly prompted for credentials, when the user tries to access an Office 365 resource from a rich...

Some Office 365 customers have a requirement to filter the Internet traffic. This filtering can be done at the domain or IP address level. Microsoft strongly recommends that customer enable routing to the root domain names, such as *.Outlook.com, ...

Customers are asking if publishing AD FS endpoints using Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) is supported when using federated identities in Office 365. In order to answer that question we'll need to touch on AD FS endpoints. AD...

In companies with Federated Identity set up, users can sign into Office 365 services using their Active Directory credentials. The corporate Active Directory authenticates the users, and stores and controls the password policy. With federated Identity...

In Office 365 the first SharePoint site a user sees is called the Team Site, accessible from a link at the top of the Microsoft Office 365 portal site. The site is located at https:// YourDomain .SharePoint.com, where YourDomain is the domain name that...

By default, the following features are available to all your Lync Online users: Sending files to another contact during a Lync instant messaging session Audio and video conferencing Recording of calls and meetings These features are...

For reasons of their own, some users create Inbox rules to auto-forward their work mails to their private mail or other external domains. As an administrator thats not necessarily at desired scenario. To prevent internal users from auto-forwaring mails...

As an Office 365 global administrator you can help yourself by delegating some of the administrative tasks to other users. To assign administration permissions to a user Log in to your tenant Click the "Admin" tab and select "Users" under...

Customers can now download multi-language packs for their Office Subscription. These lanuguage packs make it easier for users to switch between their preferred languages for Office Subscription. They reduce network overhead as well as the install time...

Since the beginning of March customers are no longer capped at 5TB for SharePoint Online storage and they may consume up to 25TBs. Default SharePoint Online storage for customers is available based on the following equation : 10GB + (500MB * no of...

SharePoint Online users have a Recycle Bin where deleted content is stored. You can access the Recycle Bin to recover deleted documents and lists if you need to. This is sometimes called the first stage Recycle Bin. If you delete a file from your Recycle...

In the current version of Exchange Online, you create and configure shared mailboxes using the Windows PowerShell command line. You must create the shared mailbox, configure quotas, and then assign permissions so that users can open and send messages...

Updated March 27, 2012 One of the very popular features of Exchange Online in Office 365 is the ability to create Shared Mailboxes . In Exchange Online you are free to create as many Shared Mailboxes you like. A Shared Mailbox smaller than 5GB in size...

Many customers have asked us to support Outlook 2003 in order to help accelerate their migrations to Office 365. We have heard these requests loud and clear. In an effort to better facilitate the transition for our customers, we will now offer support...

SharePoint solutions are packaged as .wsp files that can contain features, site definitions, Web Parts, and assemblies. There are two kinds of solutions: farm and sandboxed . Farm solutions are deployed on front-end Web servers by a farm administrator...

Are you tired of relying on email to facilitate project collaboration? Wouldn’t it be great if there was a more efficient project collaboration solution out there? Office 365 can take your project collaboration practices to the next level. The...

As we rapidly add customers, the cost to run Office 365 becomes more efficient. This is the beauty of the cloud where we can deliver economies of scale through our worldwide data centers and economies of skill with our engineers, administrators, and support...

The Conversation Translator provides a real-time language translation service for Lync instant messaging (IM) conversations. With Conversation Translator , both the sender and receiver can converse in their native language, and Conversation Translator...

We are adding a significant to our Partner Value Proposition this month; starting late March, our MCS consultants are going to share with you their experience, guides and tools for you to build your technical skills and capacity around Office 365. ...