Microsoft Online Services Team Blog : Exchange Online

Service Update: November 2009 Release Availability, Features Announced

paulenglis — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:08:00 GMT

The Microsoft Online Services Service Update for November 2009 is currently being deployed into production data centers and is scheduled to be available to all customers in early December. Updates to the deployment status will be posted to the comments section of this blog post.

Upgrades and Enhancements
The following features and capabilities are included in this Service Update:

Mailbox Access Permissions

PowerShell commandlets will be added to provide a range of mailbox permission setting, including granting Full Mailbox Access permissions plus Delegate Send As and Send on Behalf permissions. These mailbox permissions provide administrators a range of capabilities, such as setting up shared mailboxes, granting “send as” permissions for administrative assistants, and enabling full mailbox access for third party applications, such as archiving applications and fax servers.

Previously, granting these permissions required opening a ticket with Microsoft Online Services Technical Support.

Mailbox permission commandlets added in this Service Update are:

· Add-MSOnlineMailPermission

· Remove-MSOnlineMailPermission

The mailbox permission commandlets require an update to the Microsoft Online Services Transporter Tools (aka Microsoft Online Services Migration Tools), which will be made will be available for download at the Microsoft Download Center upon completion of the deployment of this Service Update into production data centers for all regions. Please watch this Team Blog for the availability of the updated Transporter Tools.

Bulk User Management

Adding and removing users is streamlined with the addition of another set of PowerShell commandlets. The bulk user management commandlets give administrators a new option for adding groups of users. Together with the bulk activation commandlets provided in the previous Service Update, administrators have a rich set of tools for automating user management.

Bulk user management commandlets added in this Service Update are:

· Add-MSOnlineUser

· Set-MSOnlineUser

· Remove-MSOnlineUser

· Get-MSOnlineUser

The bulk user management commandlets require an update to the Microsoft Online Services Transporter Tools, which will be made will be available for download at the Microsoft Download Center upon completion of the deployment of this Service Update into production data centers for all regions. Please watch this Team Blog for the availability of the updated Transporter Tools.

SharePoint Auditing

The SharePoint Auditing feature is being enabled for SharePoint Online. This feature gives administrators the ability to view data and report about activities occurring within a site collection, such as items added to a shared documents list, changes to permissions, and documents that have been viewed and read.

Partner Name on Microsoft Online Services Invoice

Customers that have a relationship with a Microsoft Online Services Partner and have designated that partner as their “partner of record” will now see the name of their partner on their subscription invoice. Partners are technical and business professionals who specialize in Microsoft products, and they are an important part of Microsoft’s delivery of your software services.

New countries for trials and commercial availability

As was announced earlier this week, customers in the following 14 countries can sign up for Microsoft Online Services trial accounts: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, Puerto Rico, Romania, Taiwan.

In addition, customers Singapore can purchase Microsoft Online Services subscriptions.

Send and Receive POP E-Mail with Exchange Online

JimGlynn — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:41:00 GMT

Exchange Online now supports POP e-mail, so you can send and receive Exchange Online e-mail using any POP e-mail client. For information about other recently announced features, see Service Update: October 2009 Release Availability, Features Announced.

NOTE: POP e-mail does not provide Free/Busy, presence, calendar, tasks, and other rich features normally associated with Exchange Online e-mail. Additionally, POP e-mail access cannot be enabled for Deskless Worker accounts.

Prerequisites

· If you are a Microsoft Online Services administrator, you can contact Microsoft Online Services Technical Support to request POP service, and provide them with the list of e-mail addresses to POP enable. You can specify a list of individual mailboxes or every mailbox in your organization. You can track the status of your service request on the Support tab of the Microsoft Online Services Administration Center.

· Any POP e-mail client.

· Microsoft Online Services user account with a Standard (not Deskless) Exchange Online license.

· Port 995 in through your company’s firewall.

Configuration

When Support notifies you that POP e-mail has been enabled, follow your POP e-mail client instructions to configure your e-mail client. You’ll need to provide the following information:

· Port number: 995

· Security protocol: SSL

· User account: For example, jim@example.com

· User account password

· POP Server: select from POP Servers by Location table below.

NOTE: If you want Exchange Online to keep a backup of your e-mail, select the configuration option that allows you to keep your e-mail messages on the server.

POP Servers by Location

Asia Pacific (APAC)

pop.mail.apac.microsoftonline.com

Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)

pop.mail.emea.microsoftonline.com

North America

pop.mail.microsoftonline.com

Service Update: October 2009 Release Availability, Features Announced

paulenglis — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:36:00 GMT

The Microsoft Online Services Service Update for October 2009 is currently being deployed into production data centers and is scheduled to be available to all customers before the end of October. Updates to the deployment status will be posted to the comments section of this blog post.

Upgrades and Enhancements
The following features and capabilities are included in this Service Update:

Bulk Activation of Users
PowerShell commandlets will be added to streamline the activation process, enabling administrators to easily automate the activation of a set of users. Most commonly, these commandlets will be used to activate a set of users that have been migrated from an Active Directory forest to Microsoft Online Services via the Directory Synchronization Tool. Previously, administrators were required to activate users one-by-one with the User Administration tools in the Microsoft Online Services Administration Center.

Commandlets added in this Service Update are:

· Enable-MSOnlineUser

· Get-MSOnlineSubscription

· Set-MSOnlineUserPassword

A new version of the Microsoft Online Services Transporter Tool supporting these commandlets will be available for download at the Microsoft Download Center upon completion of the deployment of the October Service Update into production data centers for all regions. Please watch this Team Blog for the availability of the updated Transporter Tool.

POP Mail Clients
Supported e-mail clients for Exchange Online are being expanded to include POP-based clients. Previously, Exchange Online supported only Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and 2007.

To enable POP e-mail client support for your organization, administrators should contact Microsoft Online Services Technical Support to open a Service Request.

Please note: Service Requests for POP enablement will be accepted upon completion of the deployment of the October Service Update into production data centers for all regions. Please watch this for deployment updates. Additionally, POP e-mail access cannot be enabled for Deskless Worker accounts.

Support for 30,000 Users

The Microsoft Online Services Administration Center will support as many as 30,000 users, improving management and administration for larger organizations. Previously, Microsoft Online Services supported up to 10,000 users.

Please note that SharePoint Online will retain previously established limits (e.g., 20 site collections per company, 50 gigabytes (GB) per site, and 1 terabyte (TB) per company).

Enhanced Support for Mac OS
The Service Update includes several enhancements that will provide a more efficient communication and collaboration experience for organizations with Mac users.

A new Sign-In Client for the Mac OS provides a single sign-in experience and auto-configuration of Office for Mac applications and the Safari browser for use with Microsoft Online Services.

Other Mac features in this Service Update include:

· Support for Entourage 2008 Exchange Web Services (EWS), including Global Address List (GAL), Calendar Free/Busy Lookup, and Out-of-Office notifications

· Global Address List support for Entourage 2004 and 2008 when using the Sign-In Client for Mac

· SharePoint Online support for Document Connection for Mac to improve the collaboration experience for users

· Improved Firefox and Safari support for My Company Portal

The Sign-In Client for Mac will be available for download at the Microsoft Download Center in early November. Please watch this Team Blog for the availability of the Sign-In Client for Mac.

Timeline
Deployment of the October Service Update into production data centers has started, with deployment to all regions anticipated to be complete before the end of October.

The deployment schedule is subject to change. Updates to the deployment schedule will be announced via the comments section of this blog post.

What State Are Your User Accounts In?

JimGlynn — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:25:00 GMT

The most common user account states are enabled and disabled, which are pretty straight forward. However, if your company is using the Microsoft Online Services Directory Synchronization tool, your user accounts can also be activated and deactivated. The combination of all of these states can be confusing, so let's look at what each state means.

The four states are:

· Enabled

· Disabled

· Deactivated

· Activated

Enabled and Disabled

If your company is using Active Directory, you'll be happy to know that enabled and disabled accounts work just like they do in Active Directory. You have the option to enable a user account when you create it. Users can log on with an enabled account and they are prevented from logging on if their account is disabled.

You may want to disable an account when someone goes on vacation, or if you want to temporarily lock an account for any reason. Disabled accounts continue to exist and use one or more licenses; they're just locked. Enabling the account unlocks it and returns it to service.

Deactivated

If you're not using the Directory Synchronization tool, you won't have deactivated user accounts. Deactivated accounts are visible in the Microsoft Online Services Administration Center. The good news is that they don't use any licenses, so they're free. Think of them as shadow accounts waiting for you to assign services to them.

Deactivated user accounts are created by the Directory Synchronization tool when it synchronizes all user accounts, contacts, and mail-enabled groups from your company's on-premises Active Directory directory service to Microsoft Online Services. Synchronizing accounts to Microsoft Online Services is a fast, easy way to create user accounts. However, if you have a large company, you may not want to assign services to all of your users at the same time, so synchronized accounts are in a deactivated state until you activate them by assigning services to them.

Activated

Activated user accounts are accounts that have been assigned one or more services. Each activated account uses one or more licenses. If you create a user account in the Administration Center, the account is automatically activated when you create it and assign a service to it.

You can activate deactivated user accounts by selecting one or more accounts in the Administration Center and clicking Activate User Accounts. This lets the service know that this is now a "real" user account that will start using licenses. The rest of the activation process works just like creating a new user account.

Notes from the Cloud: Oct. 6

paulenglis — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:54:00 GMT

Notes from the Cloud is a new series for the Microsoft Online Services Team Blog bringing you a summary of news and blog posts related to Microsoft Online Services, cloud computing, and our competitors published by partners, blog writers, and news sources across our online community.

· From Redmond Channel Partner Online, Stephen Swoyer writes Making the Most of BPOS, a profile of PointBridge, a Chicago-based Microsoft Online Services Partner and the 2009 Microsoft Online Services Partner of the Year.

· With the SharePoint Conference set for Oct. 19-22 in Las Vegas, Jeff Teper, Corporate Vice President, SharePoint Server, looks at the history of SharePoint and provides an interesting retrospective on Microsoft’s collaboration standard bearer, including this hat tip to Microsoft Online Services:

Based on the SharePoint 2007 codebase, we released both a Dedicated (single tenant) version of SharePoint Online as well as a Standard (multi-tenant) version of SharePoint Online. This is all part of our Business Productivity Online Suite including SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Office Communications Online and Live Meeting. The response to both the dedicated and multi-tenant offering has been outstanding. Customers have told us they like getting access to the most comprehensive and flexible set of collaboration and communication tools with the reliability, security and manageability they need.

· The editors at Computerworld give their opinion on the Technical Preview of Microsoft Office Web Apps, important work that our colleagues on the Office team are doing to move these powerful productivity applications to the cloud.

· The University System of Ohio and Microsoft announced an Education Alliance Agreement that will bring cloud-based messaging and collaboration solutions, including Exchange Online, to Ohio’s higher education and K-12 communities. Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric D. Fingerhut is quoted in the announcement:

"The Education Alliance Agreement provides the University System of Ohio with major cost savings for messaging and collaboration products," said Chancellor Fingerhut. "This agreement advances Ohio's 10-year Strategic Plan for Higher Education by supporting a common technology infrastructure through collaboration and group purchasing, which makes the University System of Ohio more efficient."

· ZDNet’s Mary-Jo Foley does some oranges-to-oranges comparison by measuring the Microsoft Online Services Deskless Worker Suite against IBM's LotusLive iNotes. Mary-Jo notes that most analysts are comparing LotusLive iNotes to Google Apps:

IBM’s announcement of a new hosted entry-level communications offering has led to lots of punditry around how it compares to Google Apps. But I’m not sure that’s IBM’s main competition here.

· In his post SharePoint in the Cloud – A Real World Experience Using BPOS, Philip Plimmer, at New Zealand-based partner Intergen, writes about recommending SharePoint Online for an organization needing a collaboration solution that extends to partners and potential partners. Philip provides this explanation of BPOS and cloud computing:

The BPOS solution is one of a growing number of “cloud” services – that huge cloud of connected servers called the Internet. Your system is not running in your corporate data centre – it just lives out there in the cloud. In a way cloud computing is nothing different to what you already do if you have a personal email account such as Windows Live Hotmail or Google’s Gmail.

The big difference is instead of talking about personal email, we are now taking the corporate data centre to the cloud.

We want to hear more stories like Philip’s. Do you have a real world BPOS story to tell? Share it with us.

Do you want to use Outlook 2003 with Exchange Online?

JimGlynn — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:12:00 GMT

In response to customer feedback, the Microsoft Online Services engineering team is developing the Outlook 2003 Connector. This is an Outlook add-in that will enable customers to use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 to access all the features of Exchange Online. This includes free/busy information when setting up meetings, and the ability to access your organization’s global address list (GAL) from Outlook when you're offline. The add-in is currently in private beta testing with selected MVPs, Partners, and customers, and we’re ready to broaden the audience.

Help us make sure the Outlook 2003 Connector is ready
If you have purchased Microsoft Online Services, or are currently participating in a trial, and you’d like to use Outlook 2003 to access Exchange Online, navigate to to http://connect.microsoft.com, and provide the invitation ID below to participate in this beta program. Contact bpospb@microsoft.com if you need assistance.

Invitation ID: 2003-8PYX-K72K

If you’re not using Microsoft Online Services, but you’d like to take a look, go to the Microsoft Online Customer Portal and sign up for a free trial.

The Microsoft Online Services Team

Directory Synchronization Failure on Large Distribution Groups

Stephanie Shenk — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:54:00 GMT

If your company is using the Microsoft Online Services Directory Synchronization tool and you have a very large Active Directory directory service or very large distribution groups, directory synchronization may fail with the “Maximum Request Length Exceeded” error message in the Event Viewer.

User accounts, contacts, and groups are Active Directory objects. The Microsoft Online Services Directory Synchronization tool synchronizes Active Directory objects in batches. The default number of objects to include in one batch is 20 and the size of each batch after compression must be 4 megabytes or fewer.

When synchronizing groups, the complete group list is sent whenever a member is added or removed. If your groups have many members, there may not be room in a particular batch for all 20 objects. If you receive the “Maximum Request Length Exceeded” error message, you should reduce the number of objects in a batch to optimize directory synchronization for your situation.

Workaround

The number of objects in a batch can be set by a registry key. To edit this registry key:

1. On the directory synchronization computer, run RegEdit.exe and navigate to HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MSOLCoexistence.

2. Add a new DWORD value named “ExportBatchSize.”

3. Set the value to less than 20 and test synchronization again.

4. Continue reducing the value until synchronization succeeds.

For information about editing the registry, see Windows registry information for advanced users.

Using SMTP Relay with Exchange Online

paulenglis — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:50:00 GMT

With the deployment of the August Service Update complete, SMTP clients can connect to Exchange Online SMTP servers and authenticate using Microsoft Online Services user credentials to send mail. The connection requires Transport Layer Security (TLS).

SMTP Relay capability allows organizations to use Exchange Online as an SMTP service for mail originating outside of the Exchange Online environment, for example SMTP-enabled applications such as fax servers.

To connect to the Microsoft Online Services SMTP server, open the SMTP client application and provide the following information:

· The fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the Microsoft Online Services SMTP server. The FQDN will be slightly different depending on which Microsoft Online Services Data Center your organization is connected to. The server FQDNs are:

o North America Data Center: Smtp.mail.microsoftonline.com

o Europe Data Center: Smtp.mail.emea.microsoftonline.com

o Asia Pacific Data Center: Smtp.mail.apac.microsoftonline.com

· The user name and password of a Microsoft Online Services user account with an Exchange Online license.

o On most client applications, this is under “My outgoing mail server (SMTP) requires authentication” – this should be configured “Yes”, and the corresponding Microsoft Online username and password supplied.

· The SMTP port to use: 587.

o On most client applications, this is under “Server Port Numbers for Outgoing Server (SMTP)” – this should be configured to use port 587

· Make sure that Transport Layer Security (TLS) is enabled in your SMTP client.

o On most client applications, this is under “My outgoing mail server (SMTP) requires an encrypted connection (SSL)” – this should be configured “Yes”

NOTE: The FROM address must use a SMTP domain of type “Authoritative” – this can be confirmed in Microsoft Online Administration Center, under the Users - Domains tab.

Important: Remember to update the user Microsoft Online Services Account password regularly, before the password expires, or your SMTP-enable application will be unable to connect and send email. Microsoft Online Services passwords expire every 90 days.

Service Update: August 2009 Release Availability, Features Announced

paulenglis — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:00:00 GMT

The Microsoft Online Services Service Update for August 2009 begins deployment into production data centers this week and is scheduled to be available to all customers by the end of August; updates to the release deployment status will be posted to the comment section of this blog post.

No scheduled downtime is planned for the Microsoft Online Administration Center or the availability of the services in the Business Productivity Online Suite.

The following features are included in this Service Update:

New Language Options for Microsoft Online Administration Center (MOAC)

The Microsoft Online Administration Center is adding eight new language options: Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish.

SMTP Relay Support

Exchange Online is enabled to support for SMTP relay, allowing SMTP-enabled applications to send e-mail via Exchange Online.

Exchange Online Journaling

Exchange Online journaling is enabled, allowing email to be journaled to third-party archiving solutions, including Exchange Hosted Archive. Journaling can be enabled by contacting Microsoft Online Services support and opening a Service Request.

While Exchange Online journaling allows email to be journaled to third-party archiving solutions, Microsoft Online Services does not support or certify these third-party solutions. It is the customer’s responsibility to configure their archiving solution to work with Exchange Online journaling.

Workaround: E-Mail from Synchronized Distribution Groups Flagged as Spam

Stephanie Shenk — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:40:00 GMT

If all of the following conditions exist in your company, e-mail sent from Microsoft Exchange Online to your company’s distribution groups may be filtered as spam and not delivered.

· You have established e-mail coexistence between your on-premises Microsoft Exchange Server environment and Exchange Online.

· You are synchronizing your on-premises Active Directory with Microsoft Online Services.

· This synchronization includes distribution groups that were created in your on-premises e-mail environment.

· Members of these synchronized distribution groups have been migrated to Exchange Online, but still have mailboxes in your on-premises e-mail system.

Why does this happen? Distribution groups have an Active Directory property called ReportToOriginatorEnabled. This property can have a value of True or False. If set to True, the e-mail system receiving the mail will be able to read where the mail is coming from; if False, the receiving e-mail system will not be able to tell where the mail is coming from.

If a distribution group in your on-premises e-mail system has this property set to False, this value will be synchronized with the distribution group in Exchange Online, which in turn means that e-mail sent to members of this distribution group from users with Exchange Online mailboxes will have empty Return Path headers. These empty headers may trigger your spam filtering server or service to filter these e-mails as spam and prevent delivery of these messages to users with mailboxes in your on-premises e-mail system.

Workaround

To ensure delivery of e-mail, set the value of the ReportToOriginatorEnabled property to True for all distribution groups in your on-premises e-mail system. You can do this with LDP.EXE, ADSI Edit, or a script that can modify the ReportToOriginatorEnabled property. After you make this change, this property will be updated in Exchange Online at the next synchronization.

Note: This condition does not affect distribution groups that were created in the Microsoft Online Services Administration Center because these distribution groups are created with the ReportToOriginatorEnabled property set to True.

How to Request Journaling for Microsoft Online Services

Stephanie Shenk — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:03:00 GMT

Journaling is a feature of Microsoft Exchange Server that enables Exchange to record all the communications in an organization, including e-mail communications. Overview of Journaling is a good reference about what journaling is and why you would want to record your communications this way. For example, when your organization is in the financial services, insurance, or healthcare industries, journaling might be the best way to comply with legal and regulatory requirements.

Microsoft Online Services offers journaling as a special request, and you must open a support ticket to request it. Please contact Technical Support to open a service request.

Note: Journaling for the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite applies to Premium Journaling only.

Microsoft Online Services supports journaling but it is up to you to see whether journaling works with your on-premises archiving or hosted archiving solution.

Monthly Service Update: June 2009 Release Availability Announced

paulenglis — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:49:00 GMT

The Microsoft Online Services Monthly Service Update for June 2009 is currently in deployment and will be available to all customers by June 30. No scheduled downtime is planned for this release deployment.

The release delivers two important capabilities:

· Exchange Online attachments are now supported up to 30MB. Previously, Exchange Online attachments were limited to 20MB.

· Support for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 client for Exchange Online is now provided. Support for Outlook 2003 was previously announced in the Team Blog.

Release notes for the June 2009 Release can be found here.

Video Interview: Building Custom Applications Using Microsoft Online Services

paulenglis — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:29:00 GMT

In this video interview from TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles, Harold Wong, Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist, interviews Dattatreya Kulkarni and Sanjay Kumar Madhva from Sonata Software.

Sonata Software is a Microsoft Online Services partner. Datta and Sanjay helped build WorXpace an application built on top of the Business Productivity Online Suite using Exchange and SharePoint Web Services to leverage Exchange Online and SharePoint Online, cloud-based communication and collaboration services. Datta and Sanjay presented a breakout session at TechEd about building applications on top of Microsoft Online Services.

In this interview, Datta and Sanjay talk about using cloud-based services for custom application development and deployment.

The video is cross-posted to Harold Wong's TechNet Blog. You can also find the video on TechNet Edge.

Partner Migration Series: BitTitan

paulenglis — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:14:00 GMT

This post is part of a series profiling Microsoft Online Services migration partners. The series is from Brett Hill, Technical Evangelist with the Microsoft Online Services Partner Readiness team. This profile is cross-posted to Brett's blog BPOSitive.

Many migration scenarios revolve around moving data from an on-premises server, such as Exchange Server or Lotus Notes, to Exchange Online. BitTitan, the makers of MigrationWiz have another vision: migrating data from one hosted e-mail environment to another. In this installment of the Partner Migration Series, I speak with Geeman Yip of BitTitan about their product and how it works.

Q: MigrationWiz is focused on what kind of migration scenario?

A: MigrationWiz migrates any IMAP, POP or Exchange e-mail account that is accessible via the Internet. So that includes Hotmail, Gmail, America Online, and Windows Live, in addition to any hosted Exchange provider.

Q: So basically, you log into your Website, create an account, indicate the number of mailboxes to migrate, point to all the right locations and then I’m done?

A: Correct. The beauty of our service is that there are no tools to install. You use a web browser to access mailboxes on the Internet, and the migration occurs through our highly-secure data center.

To listen to Brett’s entire interview with Geeman Yip, click here.

Enabling Incoming Mail for Specific Domain Registrars

Stephanie Shenk — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:35:00 GMT

With Exchange Online, in order to allow your domain to receive e-mail, you need to modify the Mail Exchange (MX) record of your domain. This needs to be done at your domain registrar’s Web site, but navigating the various registrar Web sites can be confusing. Therefore, we've tracked down instructions specific to some of the more popular domain registrars.

The general process for enabling incoming mail for your domain is as follows. For a detailed procedure, see Enable Incoming E-Mail for a Domain.

1. In the Microsoft Online Services Administration Center, find your domain.

2. Click your domain to open the Domain Properties dialog box. On the Inbound Messaging tab, click Enable.

3. In the Enable Inbound Messaging Wizard, click Enable again.

4. At this point, the new MX record will be shown by the wizard. Using it, you need to change your MX record at your domain registrar. Specific instructions for several registrars can be found here:

· DomainDiscount24.com

· DomainDiscover.com

· dotster.com

· DynDNS.com

· gandi.net

· GoDaddy.com

· hover.com

· moniker.com

· mydomain.com

· no-ip.com

· yahoo.com

5. Return to the wizard and click Finish.

There are several details and considerations when enabling incoming mail for your domain. See Enable Incoming E-Mail for a Domain for these details.

Asia Pacific (APAC)	pop.mail.apac.microsoftonline.com
Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)	pop.mail.emea.microsoftonline.com
North America	pop.mail.microsoftonline.com

Microsoft Online Services Team Blog : Exchange Online

Service Update: November 2009 Release Availability, Features Announced

Send and Receive POP E-Mail with Exchange Online

Prerequisites

Configuration

POP Servers by Location Asia Pacific (APAC) pop.mail.apac.microsoftonline.com Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) pop.mail.emea.microsoftonline.com North America pop.mail.microsoftonline.com

POP Servers by Location

Service Update: October 2009 Release Availability, Features Announced

What State Are Your User Accounts In?

Notes from the Cloud: Oct. 6

Do you want to use Outlook 2003 with Exchange Online?

Directory Synchronization Failure on Large Distribution Groups

Workaround

Using SMTP Relay with Exchange Online

Service Update: August 2009 Release Availability, Features Announced

Workaround: E-Mail from Synchronized Distribution Groups Flagged as Spam

Workaround

How to Request Journaling for Microsoft Online Services

Monthly Service Update: June 2009 Release Availability Announced

Video Interview: Building Custom Applications Using Microsoft Online Services

Partner Migration Series: BitTitan

Enabling Incoming Mail for Specific Domain Registrars

POP Servers by Location

Asia Pacific (APAC)

pop.mail.apac.microsoftonline.com

Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)

pop.mail.emea.microsoftonline.com

North America

pop.mail.microsoftonline.com