BPOSitive : SharePoint Online

SharePoint Online — Evaluating Software-plus-Services Guide Released

Brett Hill — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:45:00 GMT

The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released a new guide, SharePoint Online — Evaluating Software-plus-Services. Download the guide here.

Open call for participants for Planning and Design Guide for SharePoint Online

Brett Hill — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:50:00 GMT

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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

SharePoint Designer 2007 is now FREE.

Brett Hill — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:55:00 GMT

SHAREPOINT DESIGNER 2007 IS NOW FREE!

SharePoint Designer 2007 is FREE

Brief Description

SHAREPOINT DESIGNER 2007 IS NOW FREE! Office SharePoint Designer 2007 provides the powerful tools you need to deliver compelling and attractive SharePoint sites and quickly build workflow-enabled applications and reporting tools on the SharePoint platform, all in an IT-managed environment. And YES, it works with SharePoint Online, presuming you don't try to load custom code into the SharePoint online site. You can also use SPD to build out worflows based on the the 3stage workflow. It's usually easier in SPD to manage as it gives you a nice UI to do conditional branching with.

Be sure to be signed in with the single sign on tool when you use SharePoint Designer for the best experience. Then launch one of SharePoint colllections and grab the URL. Use the URL to open the site in SharePoint designer and have at it!

-brett

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!

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

SharePoint Online (Standard) Developer's Guide Now Available

Brett Hill — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:47:00 GMT

Hi,

I'm happy to annouce this important document has been published and is available for download.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d007f35e-375c-4b11-bc40-bc9082bb224a&displaylang=en

It includes many details about exactly what you can and cannot do to extend and integrate SharePoint online with workflow, web services, etc.

Must reading for all Partners interested in SharePoint Online integration.

Thanks!

Brett

How Do I Videos on BPOS

Brett Hill — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:15:00 GMT

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 Online Services dashboard. This demo shows how to: -Download the Sign-In Application -Configure the Sign-In Application -Access MOS services from the Sign-In Application

winvideo-ITPro-UseSignInApplication.wmv

Exchange Online administration

Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 1:19:18 PM

In this video, Marc Hoppers explains how to use the Exchange Administration features provided in Microsoft Online Services. Topics include, adding and editing users, creating distribution lists, setting ups safe senders and blocked senders.

winvideo-ITPro- ExchangeAdministration.wmv

Sharepoint Online Setup

Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 1:18:40 PM

In this video, Marc Hoppers explains how to configure a SharePoint site collection using Microsoft Online Services. Topics include how to provision a new site collection, how to allocate space to the site collection, and how to add users to the site collection.

winvideo-ITPro-SharePointSetup.wmv

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.