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Mac Sign-In application has been released
The Mac Sign-In application has been released and is now available for download from the Microsoft Download Center . The Sign-In Application provides a convenient way for users with computers using the Apple Macintosh operating system to access their Read More...
Migration Webinar Series
Wanted to let you know that there will be a new webinar series starting up. You will definitly want to attend these to get the latest information on migrating to BPOS. See http://blogs.technet.com/msonline/archive/2009/11/13/announcing-the-migration-webinar-series.aspx Read More...
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...
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...
.ADM template for Sign On tool
There are some settings in the sing on tool such as "save password" on the options tab that are stored in the registry. As such, they can set using group policy. There is a .ADM file to assist in this process located at http://blogs.technet.com/msonline/archive/2009/02/09/microsoft-online-sign-in-client-adm-group-policy-object.aspx 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: · 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...
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...
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...
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...
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