One-stop for keeping track of updates to Office 365

You now have a one-stop location to learn about new features as they are introduced into the Office 365 service. The new ‘Office 365 Service Updates’ wiki on the Office 365 Community site lists new features with short descriptions and links to additional helpful content. Service information is also broken out so you can find the … Continue reading One-stop for keeping track of updates to Office 365 →

The Office 365 K-Plan Gets Even Better

The Kiosk worker offering in Office 365 (aka the K-plan) is designed for the user that doesn’t have messaging and collaboration today. It is a low cost way of giving you a common platform for communicating with employees such as 'deskless' workers, shift workers or retail store employees who use shared PCs The value proposition … Continue reading The Office 365 K-Plan Gets Even Better →

Understanding implications of turning directory synchronization back on

Many customers began their Office 365 journey populating the online AD (in their Office 365 tenant) using the directory synchronization tool (dirsync). For reasons of their own some customers decide to turn off (deactivate) dirsync after completing the initial sync. A few customers later on re-think and decide to turn dirsync back on (reactivate dirsync). It’s important … Continue reading Understanding implications of turning directory synchronization back on →

Search and Destroy PST files (updated Apr 2013)

Many Exchange customers wants to move away from PSTs and take advantage of the expanded storage and compliance capabilities in the latest version of Exchange. A new, free and downloadable tool called the "PST Capture tool" is (hopefully) entering (maybe private) beta soon. With this tool you as an administrator will be able to scan repositories such as your … Continue reading Search and Destroy PST files (updated Apr 2013) →

SharePoint Online Post-Transition Guide: BPOS to Office 365 (Must Read)

Existing Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS) customers are being transitioned by the our transition team to Microsoft Office 365. During this transition the Microsoft Transition team will move all existing BPOS SharePoint Online site collections to Office 365 per tenant. For information about how to prepare for this transition, see the "Microsoft Online … Continue reading SharePoint Online Post-Transition Guide: BPOS to Office 365 (Must Read) →

Would you risk losing important elements of documents shared in the cloud?

More and more people are looking at sharing or storing Word documents in the cloud, be it the Microsoft cloud or other vendors cloud, e.g. Google Documents. Of course it is important that an existing Word documents from a users desktop look identical when the user share it in the cloud. To test this out we … Continue reading Would you risk losing important elements of documents shared in the cloud? →

Privacy in the Public Cloud: The Office 365 Approach

Microsoft is the first and only major cloud productivity provider to have ISO 27001 certification, EU Model Clauses (a robust Data Processing Agreement) and HIPAA compliance. The new white paper "Privacy in the Public Cloud: The Office 365 Approach" examines Microsoft's broad approach to privacy governance and describes how these principles and processes have been … Continue reading Privacy in the Public Cloud: The Office 365 Approach →

Book online meetings from any PC – Lync Online Web Scheduler

Sometimes you might find yourself in a situation without your own PC and you need to book an online meeting asap. Microsoft Lync Online Web Scheduler is a web-based meeting scheduling and management tool for users who don’t have access to Microsoft Outlook, are on an operating system not based on Windows, or use Microsoft … Continue reading Book online meetings from any PC – Lync Online Web Scheduler →

Easy management of users in P1

Office 365 for professionals and small businesses (P1 plan) customers are currently limited to managing their users in the Office 365 Admin Interface. The Microsoft Online Services Directory Synchronization tool - only available to E plan users - is a tool to replicate users, contacts, distribution lists, and other objects into Office. But its not available … Continue reading Easy management of users in P1 →

Lync Mobile – its here and here is how to set it up

Microsoft Lync 2010 for Windows Phone (a.k.a. Lync Mobile) just released - get it here If you want to have a play with Lync Mobile then we haven’t quite setup the DNS records yet (or they are still propagating round the internet). So while we wait for the DNS records to propagate the internet here is a … Continue reading Lync Mobile – its here and here is how to set it up →