SharePoint Online Extra Storage price drop

Since the beginning of March customers are no longer capped at 5TB for SharePoint Online storage and they may consume up to 25TBs. Default SharePoint Online storage for customers is available based on the following equation : 10GB + (500MB * no of users) and customers can buy extra storage up to 25TB – see … Continue reading SharePoint Online Extra Storage price drop

What happens if I empty the Recycle Bin?

SharePoint Online users have a Recycle Bin where deleted content is stored. You can access the Recycle Bin to recover deleted documents and lists if you need to. This is sometimes called the first stage Recycle Bin. If you delete a file from your Recycle Bin the file is taken to a second stage Recycle Bin … Continue reading What happens if I empty the Recycle Bin?

Create Shared Mailboxes Without PowerShell

In the current version of Exchange Online, you create and configure shared mailboxes using the Windows PowerShell command line. You must create the shared mailbox, configure quotas, and then assign permissions so that users can open and send messages from the shared mailbox. To make this task a lot easier, we created a GUI-based tool … Continue reading Create Shared Mailboxes Without PowerShell

Office 365 will now support POP and IMAP Connections to Outlook 2003

Many customers have asked us to support Outlook 2003 in order to help accelerate their migrations to Office 365.  We have heard these requests loud and clear.  In an effort to better facilitate the transition for our customers, we will now offer support for Office 365 customers connecting to Outlook 2003 via POP or IMAP.  … Continue reading Office 365 will now support POP and IMAP Connections to Outlook 2003

Life made easier for SharePoint Online developers

SharePoint solutions are packaged as .wsp files that can contain features, site definitions, Web Parts, and assemblies. There are two kinds of solutions: farm and sandboxed. Farm solutions are deployed on front-end Web servers by a farm administrator, have full access to the server object model, and are not subject to any usage limits. In … Continue reading Life made easier for SharePoint Online developers

Office 365 for Project Collaboration Success

Are you tired of relying on email to facilitate project collaboration? Wouldn’t it be great if there was a more efficient project collaboration solution out there? Office 365 can take your project collaboration practices to the next level. The folks from the Microsoft Project Team compiled a bunch of videos to help you utilize Office … Continue reading Office 365 for Project Collaboration Success

Free tool for your Lync client – the Conversation Translator

The Conversation Translator provides a real-time language translation service for Lync instant messaging (IM) conversations. With Conversation Translator, both the sender and receiver can converse in their native language, and Conversation Translator handles the translation. Powered by the Microsoft Translator Web Service, Conversation Translator currently supports translation between 35 languages. So lets say I would … Continue reading Free tool for your Lync client – the Conversation Translator

Office 365 Partner get your 4 times 4 hours of great training!

We are adding a significant to our Partner Value Proposition this month; starting late March, our MCS consultants are going to share with you their experience, guides and tools for you to build  your technical skills and capacity around Office 365. SPECIAL OFFER – Practice Accelerator for Office 365 is available at NO COST to … Continue reading Office 365 Partner get your 4 times 4 hours of great training!