Posts by: Rene Modery

Updated Service Descriptions for Office 365 for Enterprise – May 2012

May, 12, 2012 Rene Modery Office 365 Grid 0

Again, an updated set of the Office 365 for Enterprise Service Descriptions. Just as in January, February, early March, and late March, I did a comparison of the changes. All major updates are listed below. The document that has received significant updates is the Service Description for Exchange Online Archiving.   Exchange Online Archiving   Throughout the whole …

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Office 365 Links of the Week – 04 May 2012

May, 04, 2012 Rene Modery Office 365 Grid 0

Sign on Experience with Office 365 Overview of the sign on experience with Office 365 and the different Microsoft products Office 365 Virtual Labs for IT Pros Not really new content, but still extremely useful: a few virtual labs that help you to learn more about how to configure ADFS, Directory Synchronisation, Federation, Exchange Online, …

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A first glance at using Office 365 content on the iPad with Colligo Briefcase Lite

I recently started looking at the free Colligo Briefcase Lite to see if I can access my Office 365 content on my iPad, even when I’m offline. In this post, I’ll share some of my first experiences with the app. Note: This is the free, limited version. Colligo Briefcase Pro offers more functionality, see the …

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Office 365 Links of the Week – 27 April 2012

Some interesting articles and blog posts about Office 365: Storage Update for SharePoint Online Enterprise Plans Tenant storage quota limit increased to 25 TB (terabytes). Additional storage can be purchased for $0.20 per GB per month   http://www.xstran.com/solutions/ Fellow Office 365 MVP Loryan Strant’s company’s (one of them) website. Currently three great tools are available, …

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AIIM Certified Information Professional

End of March, I took and passed the AIIM Certified Information Professional exam. After having received some questions on twitter that require a longer response than 140 characters, I decided to write down my experiences. Why I decided to take the exam Simply said, I wanted to show that I have experience with managing information, …

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MVP for Office 365

Apr, 12, 2012 Rene Modery Office 365 Grid 2

Beginning of April, I received the following email from Microsoft, informing me that ‘ve been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Office 365: Sehr geehrte(r) Rene Modery, herzlichen Glückwunsch! Wir freuen uns, Ihnen den Microsoft® MVP Award 2012 verleihen zu können! Diese Auszeichnung wird an herausragende, führende Mitglieder der technischen Communities verliehen, die ihre …

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Updated Service Descriptions for Office 365 for Enterprise – March 2012 #2

Mar, 29, 2012 Rene Modery Office 365 Grid 1

Again, an updated set of the Office 365 for Enterprise Service Descriptions. Just as in January, February, and early March, I did a comparison of the changes. All major updates are listed below. The document that has received significant updates is (again) the Service Description for Exchange Online, and a smaller change was done to the SharePoint Online …

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PowerShell Script – Office 365 Site Template Updater v.0.0.1

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The Issue You create a site in your Office 365 environment. You create a template from it (.wsp file), which you then also want to use in your “regular” SharePoint 2010 environment. You add this site template to your site collection’s solution gallery. However, when you try to create a site based on that template, …

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Getting all licensed Office 365 users with PowerShell

Mar, 06, 2012 Rene Modery Office 365 Grid 0
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Let’s say you want to have a list of all licensed users in your Office 365 environment. You could look at the Office 365 Dashboard under Users and look at the list there, but quite often you may want to have that information in a spreadsheet for further processing. How to?, you ask? PowerShell to the …

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Updated RSS Feed Web Part for Office 365

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Back in August, I released a RSS Feed Web Part for Office 365, as the SharePoint RSS feed web part doesn’t work in SharePoint Online. Today I’m releasing a better updated version. Why? What has changed? Where can you get it and how do you install and use it? Read below Which known errors existed? …

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