The long awaited Business Connectivity Services has entered our Office 365 E3 (and E4) tenants. Business Connectivity Services bridges the gap between SharePoint sites and other web services, databases, and external business applications. It enables...

As described in an earlier blog post SharePoint Online comes with a very useful template "Express Team Site", from which you can easily fire up Office documents by clicking the built in icons (see below). Default behavior is that the document opens in...

We often get the question: "For Office 365 organizations in a hybrid Exchange deployment (some users on-premises, some users in Exchange Online), what Free/Busy viewing and Calendar sharing options are available?" In the below table you'll see whats...

Today we released the first major service update to Office 365. Amongst other things this is our first update to SharePoint Online (SPO) since the launch of Office 365 and we thought it would be a good time to share information about the new features...

If you are licensed for Office Pro Plus (OPP) in your Office 365 license, you are allowed to install Office Professional Plus on up to five simultaneous machines. But what if you lose count and try to install/activate Office Professional Plus on a...

The Office Web App Service Description lists a max file size of 10 MB for Excel Web App. If you ever tried to upload an Excel workbook to SharePoint Online, even if the file size is smaller than 10 MB you might have encountered the error “Your...

When you sign up for an Office 365 account, you automatically become an Office 365 global administrator and a SharePoint Online Administrator. This global administrator is added to the team site that is automatically created for you during your Office...

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...

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...

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...

In case you missed TechEd 2012 North America last week - or had to prioritize sessions - here is a list of some of the recorded Office 365 sessions I'd recommend. Just click the link to see a streamed recording of the session and/or download the recording...

Often times I get asked how to provision a document library in SharePoint Online to expose the Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote icons in the document library ribbon to allow users to fire up one of those document types right from within the document...

A lot of Office 365 customers are asking how to purchase additional SharePoint Online storage. This is done through the Office 365 Administration portal if you are an administrator who has purchasing priveleges: Navigate to the Manage subscriptions...

Outlook Web App now integrates the Office Web Apps into the attachment previewing experience for Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations. When Office Web App attachment preview is enabled, users see an Open In Browser link...

Yesterday Microsoft opened up for a customer preview of the next major update to Office 365 – called Office 365 Preview . You can try it out here . After you've provided your basic information the service starts provisioning and you are presented...

Office 365 user accounts can be manually deleted by using the: Office 365 portal. Microsoft Online Services Module for Windows PowerShell (or a script) Microsoft Exchange Online Exchange Control Panel.(ECP) Furthermore user accounts...

If you use Exchange Online in Office 365 together with Outlook you are limited to 64 KB worth of inbox rules (or appx 45 rules). When you reach the 64 KB limit, you'll be warned that you can't create any more rules. If that happens, you'll have to...

Based upon areas that caused delays for customers in the past, a group of Microsoft Office 365 deployment experts har compiled a must read article " Top Ways to Prepare for an Office 365 Deployment ". The sound advice in the article hopefully will...

The next major update to Office 365 - currently in Preview and called "Office 365 Preview" - will bring you Office on Demand in the " Office 365 Enterprise Preview " edition. Office on Demand is a technology that delivers a single Office application...

If you are using an Audio Conference Provider (ACP) - and you experienced the following: after you dial in to a Microsoft Lync Online conference by using your ACP access number, you cannot hear other users who are connected to the Lync Online conference...

A compelling update for SharePoint Online just in. The service will now support in-browser viewing of PDF files. We've received a lot of feedback noting PDF viewing was limited while a number of customers expressed that they did not want PDF files...

As of october 1st I'm in a new role in Microsoft. I've joined the fantastic CRM team here in Denmark and I'm very excited about how Microsoft CRM and CRM Online can help any organisation out there manage customer (or any entity) relationships. Coming...

The October update to the Microsoft Office365 Deployment Guide ( MODG ) on TechNet has been released. The PDF version from Download Center has been retired and redirects readers to TechNet. The MODG has evolved as an online IT Pro deployment resource...

A search result needs to be quick and easy to find and read - and on the same time display as much relevant information as possible to the end user. These two ambitions often conflict with each other - the more information you add to a result, the more...

Office 365 partner? Looking to expand your business opportunities with new and existing customers in the public cloud? You should consider adding CRM Online to your portfolio. Office 365 and CRM Online go hand in hand, and you'll probably have several...