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Updated Service Descriptions for Office 365 for Enterprise – February 2012

Feb, 21, 2012 Rene Modery Office 365 Grid 1
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Microsoft has once again released an updated set of the Office 365 for Enterprise Service Descriptions. Just as in January, I did a comparison of the changes. All major updates are listed below. The only document that has received significant updates is the Service Description for Exchange Online, all other documents are still the same …

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Interesting Office 365 Links (18/01/2012)

Jan, 18, 2012 Rene Modery Office 365 Grid 0

Below are several links to interesting Office 365 specific content that I found in the past few weeks. In no particular order: Directly from Microsoft: Two ROI Case Studies “Read how small and medium sized companies are realizing financial returns from their investments in Office 365.” http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28715&WT.mc_id=rss_office_365 Compare Office 365 to Google Apps How does …

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Updated Office 365 for Enterprise Service Descriptions–What’s new for SharePoint Online?

Jan, 15, 2012 Rene Modery Office 365 Grid 0

Microsoft released updated Service Descriptions for Office 365 for Enterprise on 13 January 2012. Below, I will list the major updates to the Service Description for SharePoint Online. Also available are the updates to the Exchange Online and Exchange Online Archiving Service Descriptions. Changes were compared with Word 2010′s Compare feature:   Subscription Plans Note: …

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Updated Office 365 for Enterprise Service Descriptions–What’s new for Exchange Online?

Jan, 15, 2012 Rene Modery Office 365 Grid 0

Microsoft released updated Service Descriptions for Office 365 for Enterprise on 13 January 2012. Below, I will list the major updates to the Service Descriptions for Exchange Online and Exchange Online Archiving. Also available are the updates to the SharePoint Online Service Description. Changes were compared with Word 2010′s Compare feature: Microsoft Exchange Online for …

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Find out who of your Outlook contacts may use Lync Federation

Jan, 11, 2012 Rene Modery Office 365 Grid 0

Using Office 365, you also get Lync 2010, and additional you can activate Federation which means you can add external contacts (who are not part of the same domain) if they also use federated Lync. Today, Loryan Strant tweeted the following: Naturally, I got very curious and wanted to find out who of my Outlook …

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Office 365 TechCenter now available

Jan, 10, 2012 Rene Modery Office 365 Grid 0

For a few days now, the Office 365 TechCenter is now available. Lots of good information there, but the highlight for me are clearly the (currently) 10 available virtual labs that cover preparing the move (so ADFS, and preparing for hybrid environments), Exchange Online, and SharePoint Online:

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Opening Office documents received in Outlook Web App directly in the browser

Nov, 30, 2011 Rene Modery Office 365 Grid 0

It is now possible to view documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote) that one received through a Office 365 account (so viewing them in Outlook Web App) directly in a browser. For example, I received an email with an attached PowerPoint presentation:   If I now want to quickly have a look at the presentation without …

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Business Connectivity Services in Office 365 – Search, Actions, Profile Pages, and User Profile Properties

Nov, 17, 2011 Rene Modery Office 365 Grid 0

For the reminder of this article I assume that you already have an Enterprise Content Type configured, if not have a look at my previous posting. As a short reminder, with the recent Service Update to Office 365 (which some customers may still not have as it is on-going until end of November) you get …

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BCS in Office 365

Nov, 06, 2011 Rene Modery Office 365 Grid 0

As it was announced a few weeks ago by Microsoft, Office 365 will be able to connect to external LOB systems through BCS with the Service Update that is currently rolled out. I was eagerly awaiting to get my account updated and start testing it, also with the idea in my mind to write some …

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Service Update to Office 365 will be rolled out starting October 20

Oct, 14, 2011 Rene Modery Office 365 Grid 0

I received an email from Microsoft last night, informing me (as a Office 365 customer) that the recently announced service update to Office 365 will be rolled out starting October 20 and continuing throughout the end of November, Customers will barely notice the upgrade, Microsoft says that there will be two 30 minutes (max) periods …

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