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BPOS Portals released in new languages and locations.
On Sunday morning (11/08), we published 15 additional sites – serving 14 more countries, in 9 more languages. This brings our total to 40 localized sites (including our first RTL language: Hebrew ). In additional to publishing new sites, we also enabled Read More...
Q&A on the new Powershell commands for BPOS Migration
In the just announced service release, you'll find a mention of the following powershell commands. Enable-MSOnlineUser Get-MSOnlineSubscription Set-MSOnlineUserPassword Q: What do these do? These can be used together or sepearlty to help manage a migration Read More...
Serivce update: new features and capabilites
Upgrades and Enhancements The following features and capabilities are included in the October Service Update: Bulk Activation of Users PowerShell commandlets will be added to streamline the activation process, enabling administrators to easily automate Read More...
Could be a First for Microsoft! Intneral Technical Wiki now Pushed to Quickstartonlineservices.com.
Internally, the Technical Product Management team had a Wiki they were using to keep track of all kind of issues. FAQs that were being asked all the time about things like public folders, mail enabled lists, how to work with proxy servers, when is feature Read More...
SMTP enabled for BPOS worldwide
SMTP clients can connect to Microsoft Online SMTP servers and authenticate using a Microsoft Online Services user credentials to send mail. The connection requires Transport Layer Security (TLS). This allows you to use Exchange Online as an SMTP service Read More...
BPOS Discovery and Planning Checklist for Partners - Prelimary Version
I've been workng on this document for Partners to provide guidance on issues you should consider when evaluting a customer's business for a potential move to BPOS. It's pretty comprehensive, but not exhaustive. For those of you attending the WPC coming Read More...
Outlook 2003 support is enabled worldwide
The June update for services has been finished! This means that you can now use Outlook 2003 with BPOS. There are a couple of considerations relating the oflline address book and free/busy . See the BPOS team blog for details. Also, attachment size has Read More...
Monthly Service Update for June 2009 is currently in deployment
The Microsoft Online Services Monthly Service Update for June 2009 is currently in deployment and will be available to all customers by June 30. No scheduled downtime is planned for this release deployment. The release delivers two important capabilities: Read More...
The Microsoft Online Services Trial Guide has been published
The Microsoft Online Services Trial Guide has been published to the Microsoft Download Center . The Trial Guide was written to enhance the trial experience for customers that are considering the Business Productivity Suite. The guide contains step-by-step Read More...
Open call for participants for Planning and Design Guide for SharePoint Online
Solution Accelerators Promote the Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for SharePoint Online (Beta ) Are you or your customers considering an online solution for their organization’s collaboration services? The SharePoint Online—Evaluating Software-plus-Services Read More...
BPOS Migration Webcast and new Lotus Notes Migration options
Just a couple of days ago I did a webcast on BPOS Migration. You can find it here: Microsoft Online Services Infrastructure Planning and Migration WWE REGISTRATION URL: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032407793&Culture=en-US Read More...
Customer Portal Updates with new Options
Over the weekend, the Microsoft Online Customer Portal was updated with new options, a sleeker - better design, and a focus on the benefits of designating a Partner with the subscription. Added are options for the new Deskless Worker license which is Read More...
SharePoint Designer 2007 is now FREE.
SHAREPOINT DESIGNER 2007 IS NOW FREE! SharePoint Designer 2007 is FREE Brief Description SHAREPOINT DESIGNER 2007 IS NOW FREE ! Office SharePoint Designer 2007 provides the powerful tools you need to deliver compelling and attractive SharePoint sites Read More...
9.1 Services Released
You may have noticed that your sign on client was recently updated. That's because BPOS 9.1 was recently released which includes OCS as a new service the deskless worker sku , and international availability. While these three are the big news items, I Read More...
Updates to know about
This communcation was recently distributed to account holders: Dear Valued Customer, As we mentioned in our previous e-mail and recent blog post , the next upgrade of Microsoft Online Services is coming soon. During the upgrade, access to the online support Read More...
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