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Time/Date: Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 @ 10am PT (60 minutes) Description: SharePoint Online has a revamped experience for sharing documents, folders and sites. Users can now share with people outside the company using Guest Links (anonymous) and External Access (authenticated) invitations. And there are...

For Partners only, we have a series of 3 training videos that have just been released to the Partner Learning Center . Office 365: PowerShell Series Part 1 - Introduction to PowerShell Automation is the key to efficiency. Microsoft Windows PowerShell ® provides a more powerful method of accessing the...

In the previous Office 365 Mailbox Migration Strategies session, Gabor discussed the options for migrating mailboxes to Office 365, considerations for choosing a particular migration strategy, and provided an overview of basic and advanced migration methods. Now, he dives into how to perform the migration...

Interested in learning more about your options for deploying Lync in a Hybrid configuration with Office 365? Join Partner Solution Consultant Saleesh Neduvayalil as he discusses how Microsoft envisions the Lync Hybrid offering in the marketplace, and the various functionality introduced with the offering...

In the past, it could be difficult to demonstrate the Office Server products (SharePoint, Lync, or Exchange) to prospective clients.  You had to setup up your own server, load some demo data, add some sample users, decide what to demo, and carry around a beefy laptop with enough RAM and hard drive...

Although we share quite a bit of deep technical training resources here on the Partner Technical Services blog, many of our partners need to train their customers on the basics of using Office 365 or individual applications in the Office 2013 suite.  To that end, the following resources are publicly...

In this 300 level session, you will learn the various options for managing identities, authorization, and authentication with Office 365 and Windows Azure Active Directory. We’ll review the considerations involved in understanding a customer environment and the implications for choosing what authentication...

Ignite Webcast – Office 365 Midsize Business Download the Calendar Invite here Microsoft would like to extend to you an official invitation to the Exchange, Office & Office 365 Ignite Webcast for May 2 nd . Ignite Webcast – Office 365 Midsize Business What : We are excited to announce our latest...

The Ignite team has published a number of guided labs, that include recorded instruction on technical topics with guided labs that walk through configuring given scenarios.  Exploring the Office 365 Administration Center In this guide, you will become familiar with the Office 365 Administration...

In the first of a 3 part series… Gabor Szatmari (Partner Solution Consultant with our team in Hungary) discusses the options for migrating mailboxes to Office 365, considerations for choosing a particular migration strategy, and provides an overview of basic and advanced migration methods. ...

In a new video from the Partner Technical Services team, Consultant Jon Horner shares tips and tricks for automating the management of Office 365 using Windows PowerShell. Jon discusses how to connect Windows PowerShell to Office 365, tours the Office 365 cmdlets, and demonstrates how to manage domains...

(cross-posting from http://blogs.technet.com/b/lystavlen/archive/2012/07/12/office-365-partner-getting-started-guide.aspx ) If you are a Microsoft Partner, the following guide from Jesper Osgaard is an excellent introduction to establishing a practice around Office 365. Office 365 is having a tremendous...

If you already use a federated domain environment with Office 365, you cannot add a custom domain name at the domain menu in SharePoint Online directly. In this case, you can use the new-MSolFedratedDomain cmdlet in the Microsoft Online Services Module for Windows PowerShell . (Post courtesy Soon Im...

If you are an IT Pro that will be deploying Office 365, or a Microsoft Partner studying for the 70-323 Administering Office 365 exam,  make sure to head over to http://aka.ms/O365-CertJump to watch Ajinkya Pinto and Fulvio Salanitro (Partner Technical Consultants) share the information you need...

As Steve Ballmer regularly reminds us, we are “all in” with the cloud here at Microsoft.  On the Partner Services team, we regularly assist our Partners with migrating their customers to the cloud, whether it is e-mail to Office 365 , managing clients with Windows Intune , or moving applications...

(Post courtesy Himankini Shah ) A shared mailbox is a mailbox that multiple users can open to read and send e-mail messages. Shared mailboxes allow a group of users to view and send e-mail from a common mailbox. They also allow users to share a common calendar, so they can schedule and view vacation...

(post courtesy Bryan Petersen ) I’ve had the opportunity to advise a number of partners on their Office 365 deployments throughout the Office 365 Beta Program and now with the publicly available Office 365. There have been numerous questions around the deployment process, such as comparing an...

(post courtesy Bryan Petersen ) Office 365 is the next iteration of Business Productivity and Online Suite (BPOS). Office 365 will connect the Office desktop suite to the cloud-based versions of our next-generation communication and collaboration services. These are Exchange Online 2010, SharePoint...