Finding it difficult to navigate the various service plans in Office 365 – deciding which one fits your needs?

Finding it difficult to navigate the various service plans in Office 365 - deciding which one fits your needs? Microsoft has released an Office 365 Advisor tool that will recommend a plan for you, based on your answers to simple questions, e.g. How many employees does your organization currently have? What level of IT support … Continue reading Finding it difficult to navigate the various service plans in Office 365 – deciding which one fits your needs? →

Learn How To Demo Office 365 using the Demo Provisioning Toolkit for Office 365

Maximize Your Cloud Opportunity! Show your customers what Office 365 can do for their business. Attend this technical overview and learn how to demo Office 365 and utilize the Demo Provisioning Toolkit (see below) to engage your customers and close Office 365 deals. This event is targeted to Microsoft Cloud Essentials Partners. Webcast Date: 12/13/2011Webcast … Continue reading Learn How To Demo Office 365 using the Demo Provisioning Toolkit for Office 365 →

Activating Office Pro Plus on multiple devices

If you are licensed for Office Pro Plus (OPP) in your Office 365 license, you are allowed to install Office Professional Plus on up to five simultaneous machines. But what if you lose count and try to install/activate Office Professional Plus on a sixth machine? In the installation/activation attempt you will receive a message showing the … Continue reading Activating Office Pro Plus on multiple devices →

New features and fixes now availiable in SharePoint Online

Today we released the first major service update to Office 365. Amongst other things this is our first update to SharePoint Online (SPO) since the launch of Office 365 and we thought it would be a good time to share information about the new features and fixes available as part of this service update. On a broad … Continue reading New features and fixes now availiable in SharePoint Online →

So you’d like SharePoint Online documents to open in Office Web Apps always

As described in an earlier blog post SharePoint Online comes with a very useful template "Express Team Site", from which you can easily fire up Office documents by clicking the built in icons (see below). Default behavior is that the document opens in the Office rich client if such is installed on the PC. If … Continue reading So you’d like SharePoint Online documents to open in Office Web Apps always →

BCS in Office 365 – read and write connections to External Data

The long awaited Business Connectivity Services has entered our Office 365 E3 (and E4) tenants. Business Connectivity Services bridges the gap between SharePoint sites and other web services, databases, and external business applications. It enables SharePoint to create read and write connections to external data in lists, and to display external information in Web Parts. Imagine … Continue reading BCS in Office 365 – read and write connections to External Data →

Easy documents in Office 365

Did you know – SharePoint Online in Office 365 comes with a site template called “Express Team Site”. It’s a very fast and snappy way to get at team site up and running. And best of all: the preconfigured document library “Documents” comes preconfigured with icons for easy launching of new documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint … Continue reading Easy documents in Office 365 →

Limiting access to Microsoft Office 365, depending on where the client resides

Many customers who have implemented our federated SSO feature have asked us to enable more control over external access based on the location of the client e.g. limit access to Microsoft Office 365 services, depending on where the client (trying to access the Office 365 services) resides. While this feature is officially on the roadmap for the first … Continue reading Limiting access to Microsoft Office 365, depending on where the client resides →

Never forget to reset your Office 365 password again

In Office 365 your password will expire every 90 days (unless your admin has changed the policy). If you are using Outlook Web App (or other online apps), you'll receive directions to change your password when it is about to expire or has expired. But if you are solely using the rich apps (e.g. Outlook … Continue reading Never forget to reset your Office 365 password again →