This week in BPOS news is a recurring segment on the Microsoft Online Services Team Blog that covers news from all sectors of Cloud Computing and the Microsoft Online Services business suite known as the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). You can read all past This Week in BPOS News segments here.

For this week in BPOS news we look at a household brand making the move to BPOS, and we take a step-by-step look at setting up your very own Cloud.

1.      Coca-Cola Amatil turns Microsoft, won’t look back

15,000 Coca-Cola Amatil employees are BPOS users. CIO, Barry Simpson, understands the need for better collaboration and has invested heavily in Microsoft’s BPOS productivity tools. Barry touches on the cost saving advantages of moving to Microsoft BPOS. “'When companies run their own e-mail infrastructure, you tend to have large capital spikes and it’s very hard to keep current with the releases that the software companies are bringing out.'"

The ability for staff to work from any location, easy integration of mobile devices, constant updates and increased cloud capacity has enabled Coca-Cola to be on the leading edge of their field. Coca-Cola Amatil upgraded their Cloud solution from Lotus to BPOS and was able to see results:

• 300MB to 5GB of storage
• 69 servers relieved of hosting
• Mobile device integration

We are glad to have Coca-Cola Amatil in the Cloud with us! Are you in the Cloud with Microsoft? Tell us your story in the comments below.

2.      The Big Build – Parts 1 through 4

Are you a BPOS user that is looking to migrate to Office 365? Then our first BPOS story may be for you. Jorge R. Diaz, Senior Microsoft Engineer at Planet Technologies and Office 365 Grid member, writes four posts about his experience with deploying a client to Office 365. The four part blog post features fantastic images and step by step instructions on how to deploy Office 365. The four parts can be broken down:

Part 1 – Review the overall configuration of the migration
Part 2 – Configure the CAS/HUB array to allow Exchange delegation
Part 3 - Public folder Free/Busy configuration
Part 4 – Deploy the sign-in assistant

Do you have a migration story? Was this walkthrough useful to you? Leave your comments below.

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