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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...
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...
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...
Integrating CRM with Business Productivity Online Suite
A good blog post on how CRM and BPOS can work together using Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Communicator Online, and Office Live Meeting Online. http://blogs.msdn.com/dynamicscrmonline/archive/2009/05/19/crm-online-and-bpos-business-productivity-online-suite.asp Read More...
Migration Toolkit for Partners
Below, you'll find links to some previously unavailable materails that will be very useful for Partners as they make plans to migrate a customer to BPOS. Be sure to check out the Discovery Checklist, as we well as the lecture in Migration by the engineering 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...
How to upload a file (or set) larger than 50MB to SharePoint Online
I've been exploring the SharePoint Online feature set a bit lately, and went to upload some files to a file collection. Surprsingly, I received a "network connection dropped" message immediately after selecting to upload some files in the SharePoint UI. 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...
Updating PSTs after installing the Single Sign on Application
Edit When you install the single sign on tool, it will automatically create a new profile for you that is hooked up to the services. This is very cool, however, it can be surprising to see that your local inbox is no longer visible. You can fix that easily Read More...
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