Office365 Canada

We work for Microsoft Canada and are responsible for the Office365 business in central Canada. We talk with our customers about Office365 every day and we use this blog to share our experiences. We hope you find it useful.

Office 365 Service Descriptions : Your questions answered

95% of feature/function questions we get are answered in the service descriptions here...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 04/30/2012

Office365 vs Google : A day in the life

https://www.whymicrosoft.com/en-us/compare-demo/Pages/a-day-in-the-life-finance.aspx

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 04/17/2012

Tour Lync Online from a Users Persective

Great Lync Tour Video...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 04/13/2012

Amazing Collection of Office365 Resources

Check this out!!! Mindmap and amazing list of Office365 links...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 04/13/2012

FAQ :. How do I tune the performance of our migration to Exchange Online?

This is a common question for most customers, so have a read of our latest whitepaper on migration...

Author: Sam Fong - MSFT Date: 04/03/2012

Go large with Sharepoint Online : 25TB for 24 cents per GB

Have you been waiting for enterprise cloud services to evolve so that you can put large ammounts of...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 03/29/2012

Suffering from PST HELL?

Check out the new archiving capabilies in Exchange Online and Office 365 to give your users...

Author: Sam Fong - MSFT Date: 03/13/2012

Worried about bandwidth?

Looking into the cloud and worried about bandwidth planning with all the traffic going outside your...

Author: Sam Fong - MSFT Date: 03/12/2012

FAQ : Where can I find Office365 case studies?

Right here...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 03/12/2012

If you use a free or consumer grade service, are you the customer or the product?

For many free services (and this includes enterprise services that are thinly rebranded consumer...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 03/09/2012

Do your ideas deserve better?

Great video https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LxcRAmlQ-6c

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 03/08/2012

So how are you different?

This question comes up a lot, and I categorise it in 3 points 1. The cloud on your terms : we can do...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 03/01/2012

Are you missing something important?

For valentines day, remember that style matters...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 02/13/2012

Want a 1GB inbox with mobility support? How does $2.35 per month sound?

We've just added new features to our kiosk offering that make it even more compelling : you get a...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 02/13/2012

Using Blackberry? How would you like Office365 email for free

Following on the heels of a successful Open Beta program, RIM has announced that their BlackBerry...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 02/02/2012

Tutorial :. Office 365 and BlackBerries

The release of RIM’s upcoming BES in the cloud, BlackBerry Cloud Services (BBCS), is just...

Author: Sam Fong - MSFT Date: 01/09/2012

L.A. won't put LAPD on Google's cloud-based email system

Read for yourself here...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 12/15/2011

New Security and Privacy controls in Office365

The Offfice365 Trust Center provides information on our new Security and Privacy controls and...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 12/15/2011

First Major Service Update for Office365 Released

Adds Lync for Mac, Windows Phone 7.5 support, Sharepoint BCS and more Check it out...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 12/01/2011

Attend our Enterprise Virtual Productivity Summit Tomorrow

You can attend from anywhere and access a rich online experience where to learn about our Future of...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/28/2011

Download Lync for Mac 2011 today!

https://community.office365.com/en-us/b/office_365_technical_blog/archive/2011/11/16/mac-users-downlo...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/16/2011

FAQ : Can I Connect Sharepoint Online with other applications?

Yes, and this is a scenario that we will be growing over the coming months. Steve Fox has a great...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/14/2011

Can you do this : Edit documents anywhere without corrupting them?

Seems pretty fundamental, right? If you are going to provide document editing capability across...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/14/2011

FAQ : Can I use Sharepoint Online for my Extranet?

Yes you can, and you do not need extra licences for the first 50 external users (as that is included...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/11/2011

Tutorial :. Office 365 on your iPhone/iPad?

With the latest mango update for WP7, we showcased the seamless integration with Office 365. This...

Author: Sam Fong - MSFT Date: 11/11/2011

Customer Story : Faculty saves 40% with Office365

“Microsoft Online Services helped us reduce our total cost of ownership for email by 40...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/10/2011

Want to get off of Google Apps?

If you are using Google Apps and would like to upgrade to Office365, you should register for our...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/10/2011

Cloud law in Canada

There is a new site (not affiliated with Microsoft) that provides an open discussion of the cloud...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/10/2011

FAQ :. What ActiveSync policies are supported by Office 365?

So you have heard that we support a wide spectrum of smartphone platforms including BlackBerries,...

Author: Sam Fong - MSFT Date: 11/09/2011

FAQ :. Does Office 365 have any training content for OWA and Outlook?

Yes absolutely! Among the ones in the public domain, below are my Top 3 Customer Recommended...

Author: Sam Fong - MSFT Date: 11/09/2011

FAQ : Whats inside the Datacenter containers?

The ITPACs that we're using at our generation 4 datacenters are something that I find amazing - this...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/09/2011

Tutorial :. Lync for Mac 2011 and Office 365

Recently we released the new Lync client for the Macintosh platform and customers have asked if it...

Author: Sam Fong - MSFT Date: 11/09/2011

ITPro : Office365 Support Made Simple

Today we launch the Office365 DIY Troubleshooter : the Troubleshooter pinpoints key technical...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/08/2011

FAQ : Does Office365 support Blackberry?

Yes through BIS for email and through RIMs upcoming Business Cloud Service for full BES...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/08/2011

ITPro : Downloadable Office365 Video Demos

Do you want to evangelise Office365 in your organisation, or want to include some video in a...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/08/2011

Customer Story : My favorite Sushi Bar saves 40% and hopes never to buy a server again

When I lived in the UK I used to go to YO! Sushi a lot, so I just loved this quote from their IT...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/08/2011

Customer Story : 70% Savings generated via Office365

"With Office 365, we get a unified solution to handle e-mail, planning, collaboration, unified...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/08/2011

FAQ : What is the Service Availability of Office365?

A common question I get is around what our service availability is and about how we handle any...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/08/2011

Customer Story : Unified Communications in the Cloud

“With Lync Online, we can retire the WebEx service and our internal videoconferencing systems....

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/07/2011

Hybrid Cloud : On-Premise Lync with Exchange Online

One of the unique capabilities of Office365 is the ability to deliver a seamless hybrid cloud, so...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/07/2011

Clouds and Condos

Check out John Weigelt's piece on clouds and condos as a metaphor - very helpful in understanding...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/07/2011

FAQ : For email I'm running _________ and I want to migrate to Office365

Fill in the blank! We provide native migration and coexistence options for Exchange Server and IMAP...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/07/2011

Can you do this? Use Office on your phone

I mean really use Office2010 - OneNote, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, with full document fidelity,...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/07/2011

Office 365 Support Numbers : When you need to talk to someone right NOW!

Main Office 365 Support Number: (800) 865-9408 General Online Services Support (All Online Services...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/04/2011

FAQ : Who is using Office365?

All of these companies have made the journey to the cloud with Microsoft. The List grows daily....

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/03/2011

ITPros : Add Office365 to your resume

Trying to determine what’s involved in migrating to Office 365? The Microsoft Virtual Academy...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/03/2011

How will you be productive in 5-10 years?

Have a look at what we think it will look like : we've done a few of these, but this one is my...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/03/2011

Yes. I had this question again yesterday so I thought I'd cover it off today. Litigation hold, also...

Author: Anthony Murphy - MSFT Date: 11/03/2011

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