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. ...

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 offers a number of flexible deployment options. Amongst other things it can be deployed on premises and hosted directly by Microsoft: On premises : To deploy Lync on premises, users need a license for each Lync Server...

If you are currently on Exchange Server, you most likely are using Public Folders in some sort or shape. Maybe you are considering Exhange Online in Office 365, and heard somewhere that Exchange Online does not support public folders? Well, thats true...

Lync Online is available in three stand-alone plans (Plan 1, Plan 2 and Plan 3) - as well as part of the Office 365 packaged plans (the P and E plans). See the below chart for more information on which Lync Online plan are included in which packaged plan...

Office 365 users wanted a better, more connected and governed experience when it came to working with PDF files within SharePoint Online document libraries. Thanks to your direct comments and active voices in the Community forums, PDF files will now...

As part of Office 365, SharePoint Online lets you create sites to share your documents and information, making it easy to work together with colleagues and customers. Team Sites give you and your team a place to work together on documents, critical tasks...

A shared mailbox is a great way to implement department mailboxes, shared calendars and lots of other things. On the web you'll find several detailed step-by-steps for setting up shared mailboxes: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_cloud/archive...

Thanks to the recent update of Lync Server 2010, Microsoft Lync Online users can now record meetings, conferencing sessions, and calls. To take advantage of this new feature, your Lync Online administrator must enable recording for your organization....

Maybe you are considering moving to Exchange Online in Office 365 and would like to know how much Internet bandwidth will be required to support your Exchange clients after the migration is completed? The new Exchange Client Bandwidth Calculator Beta...

The Microsoft BPOS–S to Office 365 Transition Guide for Enterprises is intended to help you understand the requirements and work streams for transitioning your organization from Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS–S...

To be allowed into Office 365 a user needs to be authenticated. Authentication means verifying that the user is who he/she claims to be. Once authenticated we can decide what actions the user is authorized to perform in Office 365. Identity management...

The SharePoint Developer Team has just released a work in progress - a large-scale static diagram of a subset of the classes in the SharePoint object model hierarchy available in sandbox solutions. At this time the diagram does not reflect the relationship...

Understanding storage allocations in SharePoint Online can be a bit confusing. If we look at the storage allocations for the E and P plans.... Topic E plan P1 plan Storage ( pooled ) 10 GB base...

Finding your way around the vast amount of information sources can be time consuming. The below list of documents is what I would call the essential documents if you want to start your Office 365 journey. Service Descriptions A complete description...

If you - like me - spend a great deal of your day doing calendar juggling, you might be interested in the Calendar Publishing feature in Office 365. There is a lot of time saved if your external contacts can check your calendar for available time slots...

Office 365 was recently awarded the best Cloud Application of 2011 by CRN, who "found it to be uber-flexible and compelling. It’s the real deal, and it blows away Google Apps " Many of our customers have gone through competitive evaluations and...

Certifications are a great way to verify and document your skills. To help you certify your Office 365 skills we're releasing two exams soon (expected in april 2012) Exam 70-323: Administering Office 365 intended for IT professionals who administer...

Perhaps you are looking at the Cloud (Office 365) for a convenient place for email archiving. With the introduction of Office 365, Exchange Hosted Archiving (EHA) was replaced by Exchange Online Archive ( EOA ). EOA is a solution for associating a...

You now have a one-stop location to learn about new features as they are introduced into the Office 365 service. The new ‘ Office 365 Service Updates ’ wiki on the Office 365 Community site lists new features with short descriptions and links...

The Kiosk worker offering in Office 365 (aka the K-plan ) is designed for the user that doesn’t have messaging and collaboration today. It is a low cost way of giving you a common platform for communicating with employees such as 'deskless' workers...

Many customers began their Office 365 journey populating the online AD (in their Office 365 tenant) using the directory synchronization tool (dirsync). For reasons of their own some customers decide to turn off (deactivate) dirsync after completing the...

Many Exchange customers wants to move away from PSTs and take advantage of the expanded storage and compliance capabilities in the latest version of Exchange. A new, free and downloadable tool called the "PST Capture tool" is (hopefully) entering ...

Existing Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS) customers are being transitioned by the our transition team to Microsoft Office 365. During this transition the Microsoft Transition team will move all existing BPOS SharePoint Online...