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 Office 365 compare to Google Apps in “a day in the life of a salesperson” Details
Updated Office 365 for Enterprise Service Descriptions–What’s new for SharePoint Online?
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: One very important change in this table (which lists the actual changes to the document) Details
Updated Office 365 for Enterprise Service Descriptions–What’s new for Exchange Online?
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 Enterprises Service Description Access to Exchange Online Transport Rules Microsoft Details
Find out who of your Outlook contacts may use Lync Federation
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 contacts might be a potential contact for my Lync. If you follow through various links, Details
Office 365 TechCenter now available
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: