A year ago, Microsoft released an updated set of Visio Stencils with icons for Office 365 and related products. They updated the set slightly and also provided the option to download the “older 2012 version”: These stencils contain more than 300 icons to help you create visual representations of Microsoft Office or Microsoft Office 365 deployments including Skype for Business, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, Microsoft Lync Server 2013, and Microsoft Details
Updated free Visio stencils for Office 365, Exchange, Lync, and SharePoint
Microsoft has released a new version of the set of visio stencils with icons for Office 365 and the corresponding server products: This set of stencils contains more than 300 icons to help you create visual representations of Microsoft Office or Microsoft Office 365 deployments including Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, Microsoft Lync Server 2013, and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013. While the previous versions contained all stencils in a single file, Details
Simplified POP, IMAP, and SMTP settings for Office 365
Good news, everyone! While previously we had to use a fairly long URL name for IMAP, POP, and SMTP settings on clients, Microsoft has now provided a standardized set of URLS for Office 365. In most cases, the client (e.g. Outlook) provided auto discover of the URL, however In some cases it still had to be entered manually. Instead of having to look up the correct URL for a given Details
Updated Service Descriptions for Office 365 for Enterprise – May 2012
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 document, the term “personal arhive” has been replaced simply with “archive”, such as here: Details
Office 365 Links of the Week – 04 May 2012
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, and SharePoint Online Using Shared Mailboxes with Office 365 Article in Windows IT Pro, by Details
Updated Service Descriptions for Office 365 for Enterprise – March 2012 #2
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 SD. Exchange Online SharePoint Online
Updated Service Descriptions for Office 365 for Enterprise – February 2012
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 (except for a few minor wording changes) Exchange Online