Just announced on The Exchange Team Blog, “Today, we are happy to announce that PST Capture is now available as a free download.”
PST Capture helps you search your network to discover and then import .pst files across your environment - all from a straightforward admin-driven tool. PST Capture will help reduce risk while increasing productivity for your users by importing .pst files into Exchange Online or Exchange Server 2010 - directly into users' primary mailboxes or archives.
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could use your BlackBerry to access Office 365? Well, now you can! Yesterday RIM officially announced that BlackBerry Business Cloud Services was available for Office 365 customers.
Key features:
Wireless synchronization with Microsoft Exchange Online email, calendar and organizer data from a BlackBerry smartphone
BlackBerry® Balance™ technology, which presents a unified view of work and personal content on a BlackBerry smartphone while keeping the content separate and secure
An intuitive web-based console for IT administrators to provision, manage and secure BlackBerry smartphones from anywhere
Online access to employee self-service smartphone security functions, allowing users to easily reset a device password or remotely lock or wipe a device in the event of loss or theft
Abstract: Are you planning on rolling out Microsoft Office 365 to your organization? You're familiar with the back-end cloud benefits, but how does Office 365 affect your users? In this fast-paced 60-minute presentation, we discuss strategy to make sure that your business captures the productivity gains that are possible with Office 365. Topics include planning pre-rollout training, generating excitement among your users, easing the tension of deployment day, and providing ongoing resources. Presenter: David Grimsman, Lead Trainer, BrainStorm.
Abstract: Are you wondering what Microsoft SharePoint Online is and how it impacts your organization? Are you curious about what role it can play in your employees' productivity experience? Join us for a fast-paced 60-minute session that is designed to highlight the most exciting features of SharePoint Online. An instructor showcases a tip or a feature every few minutes, which provides you with a broad and real-world understanding of what the platform can do for your users. Topics include collaborating with team sites, simplifying document access through Microsoft Office Web Apps, coauthoring content by using Microsoft Office and SharePoint Online, automating business processes, and improving communication with Microsoft Lync Online integration. Presenter: David Grimsman, Lead Trainer, BrainStorm.
Abstract: Are you wondering what Microsoft Exchange Online is and how it impacts your organization? Are you curious about what role it can play in your employees' productivity experience? Join us for a fast-paced 60-minute session that is designed to highlight the most exciting features of Exchange Online. An instructor showcases a tip or a feature every few minutes, which provides you with a broad and real-world understanding of what the platform can do for your users. Topics include organizing your inbox in Microsoft Outlook 2010, connecting with your contacts, accessing your email anywhere on any device, and keeping track of your day in Outlook 2010. Presenter: David Grimsman, Lead Trainer, BrainStorm.
Abstract: Are you wondering what Microsoft Lync Online is and how it impacts your organization? Are you curious about what role it can play in your employees' productivity experience? Join us for a fast-paced 60-minute session that is designed to highlight the most exciting features of Lync Online. An instructor showcases a tip or a feature every few minutes, which provides you with a broad and real-world understanding of what the platform can do for your users. Topics include viewing Lync Online presence in your applications, managing conversations, sharing your desktop with others, and hosting an online meeting. Presenter: David Grimsman, Lead Trainer, BrainStorm.
Adopting Microsoft Office 365 Deep-Dive: End User Training Webcast Series
Following just a week after Tech Ed, this three-day Jump Start class is specially tailored for IT Professionals looking for real-world proof of how cloud-based Office 365 enables you to solve more problems from more places. Register for all three!
We just added a new ‘Service Update’ website to the Office 365 Wiki where you can see all the updates added to the service in chronological order. This is useful to learn what new features and capabilities are being added to Office 365 service and when they were added.
What are some of the new capabilities added to Office 365 in the last two months (Dec 2011/Jan 2012)?
Updated Service health dashboard – more details on each Office 365 service along with drill down capabilities for more details and status:
Lync Online web scheduler
For users who don’t have Outlook or Outlook for Mac (e.g. students), you can now schedule Lync conferences via the web:
Exchange 2010 Sp2 Hybrid Wizard support
If you are deploying in a hybrid configuration with Exchange 2003+ on prem and Exchange Online, this Exchange 2010 Sp2 Hybrid wizard automates about 50 manual steps required to configure a hybrid scenario (calendar sharing, connectors, migration, etc):
Lync Mobile clients support
Added Windows Phone 7, iPad, iPhone, Android and Nokia Lync Online mobile client support
Migration enhancements – can bump up to 50 migration threads, batch and scheduled migration support
Group naming policies
You can add group suffix and prefixes for everyone who creates groups to adhere to:
E-discovery enhancements – faster discovery searches, new pop out window, etc.
GUI Exchange retention policy and retention tags management
This was formerly only available via PowerShell. You can now use the web admin portal to manage these:
Sender photos in OWA – photos in AD can be surfaced in OWA
Visit the Office 365 Service Update site directly here.
For schools, colleges and universities looking for a powerful tool for their students to help them better collaborate on group projects, SkyDrive and Office Web Apps is the ideal solution.
Those looking for a web based solution often think about Google Docs. While tools such as this may work well for simple tasks, they may not have the features you need to create professional documents. You can also have formatting issues when you move between these apps and Office.
You could also use a “file cloud” like Dropbox, but these tools aren’t really designed for collaboration, and they don’t let you work simultaneously with others on a document.
Faced with these choices, many people decide to work independently and email files back and forth. This makes it hard to know if you’re working on the latest version of a document, and sometimes you can run into attachment limits. It also can take a lot of time to piece together different Word documents or PowerPoint presentations from multiple email messages.
With SkyDrive, you have a better option. Students can store all their files in one place, so everyone can access the latest version. They can also use free Office Web Apps for basic editing from any browser.
More specifically, SkyDrive and Office Web Apps allow you to more easily manage the following:
SkyDrive and the Word Web App let students work together on the same document from different computers
Let everyone in the group work on the same presentation file – even at the same time – from any PC, Mac, or just a web browser with the PowerPoint Web App
Easily share the presentation and let everyone see it the way it was intended to look by uploading the file to SkyDrive and viewing it with the PowerPoint Web App
Access and collaborate on files in almost any web browser even if Office isn't installed on that computer
Spend more time actually working on a spreadsheet or model and less time reformatting or organizing it
With OneNote, keep notes synced across all of your computers and even your Windows Phone or iPhone
Easily open and print your documents from the library or computer lab at school
SkyDrive and Office Web Apps make sharing easy. Learn more about how your students can start embracing these powerful tools, also offered as part of Live@edu, today.
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could use your BlackBerry to access Office 365? Well, 
