BPOSitive : Onboarding

Partner Guide: How to create trial accounts with customers

Brett Hill — Sat, 09 May 2009 01:24:00 GMT

This webcast (#1 in a series) details how a Partner creates a trail BPOS account for customers.

The Microsoft Online Services Trial Guide has been published

Brett Hill — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:01:00 GMT

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 instructions for several customer scenarios, including:

· Setting up a 30-day trial account in MOCP

· Basic account administration

· SharePoint Online administration

· Setting up the end user experience

· Converting a trial account to a paid subscription

Online Services Release Notes

Brett Hill — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:41:00 GMT

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=en

Customer Portal Updates with new Options

Brett Hill — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:12:00 GMT

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 designed for organizations where workers do not have a specific desktop to work with, but still need to be involved with company communications using Email and SharePoint. Deskless worker provides a significantly reduced price for services - perfect for special situation such as roaming medical workers in a medical facility or shop floor workers using a shared desktop.

In addition, OCS was added as a service allowing customers to add presence to SharePoint and Office applications and communicate instantly via IM. Presence really lights up your Office apps and makes document collaboration a lot easier since you can immediately chat with the owner or author of an email or document. Also, Office Communicator is free for a limited time with the service.

Last but probably most important, the portal is now available in multiple languages and your data will be located in one of our increasing number of data centers globally depending on the Ship To location indicated when you sign up for the service.

Check it out!

How to upload a file (or set) larger than 50MB to SharePoint Online

Brett Hill — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:25:00 GMT

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. I thought this was odd so I tried again, with few files, and it worked! So, I was suspiciouis of a one of the files that was the largest. Sending that file alone worked fine. Sending it with any other file failed. Send any other two files worked fine.

A phone call to my SharePoint Online comrades revealed that there is cap placed on the file size of a single or aggregate upload of 50 MB when using the SharePoint UI. However, after I switched to explorer view, I could upload all the files at the same time. This was all I wanted to acheive in the first place.

So for those of you looking to move file sets into a document repository in SharePoint Online, be sure to use the Explorer view to do your moves.

-brett

Reference for estimating email bandwidth

Brett Hill — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:11:00 GMT

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

-brett