Office 365 is having a tremendous momentum. As a Microsoft Partner with customers looking at Office 365 this is the guide for you. It includes links to important e-learning, documentation, kits and other material intended to help you get started with your Office 365 practice. You can access the guide here (SkyDrive). Update log: Version 3.10 … Continue reading Office 365 Partner Getting Started Guide
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Lync-to-Phone
The Cumulative Update for Lync Server 2010 – June 2012 will include Microsoft Office 365 Lync-to-phone (Lync Online Plan 3). Office 365 Lync-to-phone is a pure-cloud calling service for those who need to work from anywhere. With Lync-to-phone, users can make and receive phone calls to any number from their laptop or smart phone, via … Continue reading Lync-to-Phone
Mobile Device Management in Exchange Online
Mobile devices are an integral part of the business environment. Employees are using their devices for web browsing, personal email, corporate communications and much more. Office 365 supports the native ActiveSync features and policies of Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1, including: ActiveSync policies: Administrators can enforce security policies on mobile devices that connect to … Continue reading Mobile Device Management in Exchange Online
Get your Office Web Apps icons in SharePoint Online
Often times I get asked how to provision a document library in SharePoint Online to expose the Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote icons in the document library ribbon to allow users to fire up one of those document types right from within the document library. There is two approaches – one of which is code … Continue reading Get your Office Web Apps icons in SharePoint Online
Handpicked Recordings – Office 365 on TechEd 2012
In case you missed TechEd 2012 North America last week - or had to prioritize sessions - here is a list of some of the recorded Office 365 sessions I'd recommend. Just click the link to see a streamed recording of the session and/or download the recording and the slides (may not be available for all sessions) if you … Continue reading Handpicked Recordings – Office 365 on TechEd 2012
Understanding the “Your session has exceeded its limits and has been closed” error in Excel Web App
The Office Web App Service Description lists a max file size of 10 MB for Excel Web App. If you ever tried to upload an Excel workbook to SharePoint Online, even if the file size is smaller than 10 MB you might have encountered the error “Your session has exceeded its limits and has been closed“. … Continue reading Understanding the “Your session has exceeded its limits and has been closed” error in Excel Web App
Lync Online interoperability with Exchange Server
Lync Online supports presence interoperability with an on-premises deployment of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2010. The Lync Online service provides presence updates based on calendar information and Out of Office details that appear in Lync 2010 (see Lync Online Service Description for more). The presence information in Outlook is provided via the Lync … Continue reading Lync Online interoperability with Exchange Server
Now I understand claims based identity
"In companies with Federated Identity set up, users can sign into Office 365 services using their Active Directory credentials. The corporate Active Directory authenticates the users, and stores and controls the password policy. With federated Identity, credentials are authenticated by on premises Active Directory Federation Services server and a logon token is obtained by the … Continue reading Now I understand claims based identity
Comparing features of the Lync Client in a virtualized environment
if you want the full enterprise voice experience as well as the benefits of the public cloud, then the Office 365 E4 service plan might be the right plan for you. In plan E4 Microsoft will provide the online versions of SharePoint and Exchange for you, but you must run your Lync Server either on-premises … Continue reading Comparing features of the Lync Client in a virtualized environment
Troubleshooting content in Lync Online meetings
If you organize an online meeting and you find yourself not being able to upload content and receive an error message, then... Verify that the file size of the content that you want to upload is not too large. PowerPoint presentations, Microsoft Word documents, multimedia, or snapshot slides are all converted during presentation, which expands/contracts … Continue reading Troubleshooting content in Lync Online meetings
