This week 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 . The Public Folders page is a new feature for Exchange Online introduced with Office 365 Preview...

In case you missed it - the latest Product Use Rights (january 2013) now includes a note under Additional Terms #3, page 82 "3. Each user may also use one of the five activations on a network server with the Remote Desktop Services (RDS) role enabled...

If you are looking for a comparison between the P1 plan and the E plans in Office 365 you might find this table of notes helpful. Please note that the table is without responsibility. It is compiled by myself and might not be accurate at the time you...

Many are asking if they can make use of centralized auto signatures in Exchange Online in Office 365. The answer is yes - and its done using Disclaimers . To automatically apply disclaimers to e-mail messages, you use Transport Rules . You create Transport...

I often get asked if its possible to map a SharePoint Online Document Library in Windows Explorer e.g. for easy opening of files a.s.o directly from Windows Explorer. It is certainly possible: Create a Document Library - in this example called ...

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...

The SharePoint Store is new to SharePoint Online - it will be available in the coming version of Office 365, currently referred to as Office 365 Preview . In the SharePoint Store you can find apps from SharePoint developers across the globe. You can filter...

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...

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...

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...

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...

If you are considering moving you data and documents to Office 365, you might wonder how you can perform the reverse operation - move data from Microsoft Online Services to file shares or to a local computer (called off-boarding). In this version of Microsoft...

In Office 365 your password will expire every 90 days (unless your admin has changed the policy). If you are using Outlook Web App (or other online apps), you'll receive directions to change your password when it is about to expire or has expired. But...

If you accidently delete a mail - and on top of that accidently empty the Deleted Items folder - you can still get to that ‘deleted-deleted’ mail using the Recover Deleted Items command. A deleted mail will be kept in your Deleted Items...

The new Office 365 Service Descriptions can be easily accessed in your favorite browser; just type office365sd.com in the address box, and you'll get a full list of service descriptions . Each service description will give you tables comparing...

Mobile devices are an integral part of the business environment. Employees are using their devices for web browsing, personal email, corporate communications and much more. Office 365 supports the native ActiveSync features and policies of Exchange...

Many SharePoint Online customers would like to be able to see Exchange Online data on their SharePoint Online pages (e.g their inbox or their calendar). First thought would be to use the built-in Outlook Web App Web Parts. However – if you...

If you require more document management features than the file system offers, take a look at some of the built-in and easy to use features of document libraries in SharePoint Online. In this article I'll show you how to import a folder structure from...

Office 365 is having a tremendous momentum. As a Microsoft Partner with customers looking at Office 365 this is the guide for you. It includes links to important e-learning, documentation, kits and other material intended to help you get started with...

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 List component for SharePoint makes your Microsoft Dynamics CRM documents that are stored on SharePoint available to you in a format that has the look and feel of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. This component also enables...

With the December 2012 Service update (aka "Polaris"), we introduced the ability for customers to provision and manage multiple CRM instances within a single subscription. This opens up new enterprise customer scenarios such as separate instances for...

You can now launch Outlook Web App (OWA) in the browser and start working even if there is no network connectivity. The work you do while disconnected is automatically synchronized the next time connectivity is restored. This allows you to be productive...

The Cumulative Update for Lync Server 2010 – June 2012 will include Microsoft Office 365 Lync-to-phone ( Lync Online Plan 3 ). Office 365 Lync-to-phone is a pure-cloud calling service for those who need to work from anywhere. With Lync-to-phone...

Say you require your SharePoint Online users to enter information about the intended audience for the document they are about to upload to a document library. If you leave it up to the user to come up with a term for audience of the document, you might...

To discourage users from sending unsolicited bulk messages, Exchange Online has restrictions that prevent users and applications from sending large volumes of email. Customers who send a lot of e-mails will need to understand the limits to how many messages...