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BPOS Portals released in new languages and locations.

Brett Hill — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:36:00 GMT

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 “Buy” functionality on the existing sites for India and Singapore, corresponding to the commercial availability for customers in those countries

Country (Language)	URL
Brazil (Portuguese Brazilian)	http://www.microsoft.com/online/pt-br
Chile (Spanish)	http://www.microsoft.com/online/es-cl
Colombia (Spanish)	http://www.microsoft.com/online/es-co
Czech Republic (Czech)	http://www.microsoft.com/online/cs-cz
Greece (Greek)	http://www.microsoft.com/online/el-gr
Hong Kong (Chinese Traditional)	http://www.microsoft.com/online/zh-hk
Hong Kong (English)	http://www.microsoft.com/online/en-hk
Hungary (Hungarian)	http://www.microsoft.com/online/hu-hu
Israel (Hebrew)	http://www.microsoft.com/online/he-il
Malaysia (English)	http://www.microsoft.com/online/en-my
Mexico (Spanish)	http://www.microsoft.com/online/es-mx
Poland (Polish)	http://www.microsoft.com/online/pl-pl
Puerto Rico (English)	http://www.microsoft.com/online/es-pr
Romania (Romanian)	http://www.microsoft.com/online/ro-ro
Taiwan (Chinese Traditional)	http://www.microsoft.com/online/zh-tw

Customers globally who visit the microsoft.com/online home page are being “geo-detected,” where possible, by their browser language setting and IP address – then are redirected automatically to the appropriate corresponding subsidiary site. At all times on all of our Web pages, customers have the opportunity to change the locale they wish to view.

This is the list of localized sites that were published previously:

Previously Published Country (Language)	URL
Australia	http://www.microsoft.com/online/en-au
Austria	http://www.microsoft.com/online/de-at
Belgium (French)	http://www.microsoft.com/online/fr-be
Belgium (Dutch)	http://www.microsoft.com/online/nl-be
Canada (English)	http://www.microsoft.com/online/en-ca
Canada (French)	http://www.microsoft.com/online/fr-ca
Denmark	http://www.microsoft.com/online/da-dk
Finland	http://www.microsoft.com/online/fi-fi
France	http://www.microsoft.com/online/fr-fr
Germany	http://www.microsoft.com/online/de-de
India	http://www.microsoft.com/online/en-in
Ireland	http://www.microsoft.com/online/en-ie
Italy	http://www.microsoft.com/online/it-it
Japan	http://www.microsoft.com/online/ja-jp
Netherlands	http://www.microsoft.com/online/nl-nl
New Zealand	http://www.microsoft.com/online/en-nz
Norway	http://www.microsoft.com/online/nb-no
Portugal	http://www.microsoft.com/online/pt-pt
Singapore	http://www.microsoft.com/online/en-sg
Spain	http://www.microsoft.com/online/es-es
Sweden	http://www.microsoft.com/online/sv-se
Switzerland (German)	http://www.microsoft.com/online/de-ch
Switzerland (French)	http://www.microsoft.com/online/fr-ch
UK	http://www.microsoft.com/online/en-gb
US	http://www.microsoft.com/online

Partner Guide: Webcast #2: How to create a new Admin and Sign on with the SSO tool

Brett Hill — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:44:00 GMT

This webcast, #2 in a series, shows you how a Partner can create a new Services Administrator and sign on with that account using the Single Sign On Tool

9.1 Services Released

Brett Hill — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:29:00 GMT

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 wanted to bring your attention to a few other updates that aren't getting the spotlight, but deserve your attention nonetheless.

SharePoint Online now returns search results from ZIP and PDF files
SharePoint Online site collections can be created in multiple langauges. More to come !
SharePoint Online now has a privacy link requirement
The Sign on client can now be installed on Vista Home systems
The Sign on client now exposes a Logging option that can be useful when troubleshooting
The Sign on client also supports a few group policy setting
Mailbox size default is now 5GB

As we move forward, new features and capabilites will be added to the services on a regular basis. These will occur pretty frequently, but not on a specific schedule. We will be adding capabilites such as availability in new languages as they become available. Bigger features such as Wave14 integration into the services or new services coming online will of course be big splash items that you'll hear about well in advance.

Enjoy!

Virtual Airlift BPOS Webcasts Posted !

Brett Hill — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:09:00 GMT

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 features for Exchange, the administration console and other parts of the service are all detailed by the PMs at Microsoft in charge of those features.

You want to know about how secure our data centers are? Check out Mike Ziocks highly rated presentation https://www.discoveronlineservices.com/Documents/Data_Center_Security_And_Reliability_110k.wmv

Interested in SharePoint Online capabilites? See it for yourself https://www.discoveronlineservices.com/Documents/SharePoint_Online_110k.wmv

How about Exchange Online and the new Conference Room features? See Ed Wu in his psychedlic shirt at https://www.discoveronlineservices.com/Documents/Exchange_Online_110k.wmv

Migration and Co-existence details and demo: https://www.discoveronlineservices.com/Documents/Migration_And_Coexistence_110k.wmv

Of course, there's using the Administration Center including how to add a custom domain to BPOS: https://www.discoveronlineservices.com/Documents/Microsoft_Online_Admin_Center_110k.wmv

David Wang presents a demo and details about the single sign on tool. Important details are included about how to deploy and configure. https://www.discoveronlineservices.com/Documents/Accessing_Microsoft_Online_Services_110k.wmv

Check out all the Virtual Airlift content on the Technical Tab!

Also, note there's new Business content too on the Business tab.