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CRM Online and BPOS integration
Ran across this blog post on integrating BPOS with BPOS. Useful info. http://blogs.msdn.com/dynamicscrmonline/archive/2009/05/19/crm-online-and-bpos-business-productivity-online-suite.aspx Also, you might be interested to know that the SMTP gateway in 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...
Outlook 2003 Free/Busy Connector for BPOS
One of the most interesting aspects of working with services as opposed to a bits on disk product group, is that we update capabilities all the time. That's really different than releasing service packs for features updates. One of the updates we released Read More...
Creating restricted distribution lists in BPOS with Dirsynch
Discovered today that the directory synchronization tool copies permissions with distribution lists. DirSync syncs the following AD attributes that control who can and cannot send to a DL: ยท AuthOrig (Authorized Originators: Only these Users can send 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...
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...
Partner Migration Series: Interview with Steven Pivnik, Co-CEO Binary Tree
Binary Tree has been in the business of developing products and services for cross platform migration since 1993, and they are a migration partner for Microsoft Online Services . As a market leader in Notes migration, it's no surprise they are one of Read More...
Partner Migration Series: inteview with Steven Pivnik, Co-CEO of Binary Tree
Binary Tree has been in the business of developing products and services for cross platform migration since 1993, and they are a migration partner for Microsoft Online Services . As a market leader in Notes migration, it's no surprise they are one of Read More...
TLS on Local Exchange server with BPOS
Hi, Wanted to post a message from Ryan Phillips, BPOS Tech guy extrordinare and all around nice guy working on BPOS at Microsoft. This is a nice tech summary that you should file under migration and co-existence details. -brett ---------------------------- Read More...
Online Services Release Notes
With the recent update of the services, there was also a "release notes"document that I just found out about. It has some useful tips and information, worth looking at for those of you deploying the services. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=f297f10c-de9b-4c3e-8aa4-60d7f1baef55&displayLang=e 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...
How Do I Videos on BPOS
Technet is posting a few "how do I" videos on BPOS. Using the Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Application Wednesday, November 05, 2008, 6:35:51 PM This video shows how to install & configure the Single Sign-In application available from the Microsoft Read More...
Reference for estimating email bandwidth
Partners are asking "how can I estimate how email on Exchange Online will impact bandwidth". Good question. Good answers: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc540453.aspx Also see: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/Technet/en-us/MSOnline/bpos/index.html?page=html%2F3dea7174-a521-4442-a7c5-5d540e09b20d.htm Read More...
Virtual Airlift BPOS Webcasts Posted !
You want details? How about lectures from the people making the services on the latest version of BPOS hitting the web this weekend! I'm super excited to annoucne tha availability of the Virtual Airlift webcasts on the Technical tab of this site. New Read More...
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