• Update to Office 365 Exchange Kiosk SKU

     

    The full blog is here:

    “The latest productivity tools are not reserved for workers with a desk or an office. Businesses need to connect their shift and retail workers to the rest of the enterprise. As such, we are adding new capabilities to our kiosk worker plans. These plans enable improved communication and collaboration for ‘deskless’ workers, shift workers or retail store employees who use shared PCs.

    These new capabilities include:

    • Adding Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) for mobile devices to the Exchange Online Kiosk plan and Office 365 Kiosk Plan. Virtually all smartphones support EAS including Windows Phone, iPhone, Android, and Nokia.  A full list of EAS supported phones is available here.
    • Doubling email storage from 500 MB to 1 GB in both the Exchange Online Kiosk plan and the Office 365 Kiosk plan. 
    • Offering Exchange Online Archiving (EOA), including legal hold and unlimited storage, as an add-on to any Exchange Online plan, including Kiosk and ”E” plans.

    The pricing for the Exchange Online Kiosk plan ($2 per user/per month) and Office 365 Kiosk plan ($4 per user/per month) will remain unchanged. EOA will now be offered as an add-on to any Exchange Online plan, including Kiosk and Exchange Plan.  Pricing for Exchange Online Archiving add-on is $3.50/user/month.  For example:

    • An Exchange Online Kiosk user can add Exchange Online Archiving to get legal hold functionality where the costs would be $2 + $3.50 for a total cost of $5.50/user/month

    We will provide updates about the general availability of these new capabilities as they become available. For more information on how the various Office 365 plans can be tailored to meet your online productivity needs, please visit here. Or learn more here about the additional services that can be added to an Office 365 plan.”

  • HD Telepresence and Lync Online

    http://www.polycom.com/partners/strategic_global_alliances/polycom_microsoft_alliance.html

    New Breakthroughs in Enterprise UC
    Polycom and Microsoft announced on June 1 a new enterprise UC productivity tool code-named “Rally” that combines HD telepresence with Microsoft’s Lync. This collaboration tool will enable a powerful yet simplified user experience and is an excellent addition to Polycom and Microsoft’s full line of integrated UC devices and infrastructure that meet the needs of businesses. This new product will be the first fully integrated telepresence solution with Microsoft’s cloud-based Office 365 solution

  • Free eBook: Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime

     

    Free eBook: Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime

    By Rosemary Caperton

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    We are very excited to announce that we are able to offer  Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime (ISBN 9780735656949), by Katherine Murray, as a free eBook.

    For details on this book, including the Table of Contents , see our previous blog post here.

    To download your free PDF eBook, click here. Updates to this eBook, as well as additional eBook formats, will become available in the future, so check this blog for updates.

  • Update to the Office 365 Enterprise Deployment Guide : Sep 2011

    Has been released:

    PDF version of the Deployment Guide, an updated web edition has been released. The web edition provides all of the same content of the document version.

  • Office 365 Technical Briefing

    This half-day technical briefing, with sessions from Microsoft and Oxford Computer Group will provide vital information on transitioning to Office 365 and Cloud apps. Including presentations, round table discussion and solution demo's we'll provide an overview of Office 365 and the critical issues to consider when moving to the Cloud. Topics will include; key security considerations, how to provision users and accounts, managing entitlements, simplifying access and how to provide Single Sign-On.

    http://www.oxfordcomputergroup.com/news/events/uk-office-365-technical-briefing-255.php?utm_source=Boomerang&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=See+the+full+agenda+and+register+here%85&utm_content=padoyle@microsoft.com&utm_campaign=Get+Ready+for+Cloud+with+our+Technical+Briefings

     

    • 09:00 - Coffee and Registration
    • 09:30 - Microsoft Office 365 Overview and demo
    • 10:15 - Transitioning from on-premise apps and BPOS to Office 365
    • 11:00 - Break
    • 11:15 - The role of Identity and Access Management in preparing for Cloud
    • 11:30 - Managing users with Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010
    • 12:00 - Claims, Federation, Authentication & Single Sign-On
    • 12:30 - Q&A with buffet lunch