As part of Office 365, SharePoint Online lets you create sites to share your documents and information, making it easy to work together with colleagues and customers. Team Sites give you and your team a place to work together on documents, critical tasks, and events – you can keep your teams in sync and manage…
A couple of tips for setting up Shared Mailboxes (updated)
A shared mailbox is a great way to implement department mailboxes, shared calendars and lots of other things. On the web you’ll find several detailed step-by-steps for setting up shared mailboxes: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_cloud/archive/2011/11/18/set-up-shared-mailboxes-in-office-365.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/ptsblog/archive/2011/12/07/set-up-a-shared-mailbox-in-office-365.aspx http://help.outlook.com/en-us/beta/ee441202.aspx?sl=1 Update March 26th 2012 – new GUI based tool for creating Shared Mailbox – link Before you go through those steps you should…
Record your Lync Online meetings
Thanks to the recent update of Lync Server 2010, Microsoft Lync Online users can now record meetings, conferencing sessions, and calls. To take advantage of this new feature, your Lync Online administrator must enable recording for your organization. The cumulative update for Microsoft Lync Server 2010 – January 2012 includes changes to the administration of Microsoft…
Calculating bandwidth required for Exchange clients
Maybe you are considering moving to Exchange Online in Office 365 and would like to know how much Internet bandwidth will be required to support your Exchange clients after the migration is completed? The new Exchange Client Bandwidth Calculator Beta is now available for download. The Calculator predicts the client network bandwidth requirements for a specific set…
Transitioning? You need to read this document!
The Microsoft BPOS–S to Office 365 Transition Guide for Enterprises is intended to help you understand the requirements and work streams for transitioning your organization from Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS–S) to Microsoft Office 365 for enterprises, using the automated Microsoft transition process. This transition of your production tenant moves user data and…
Identify Yourself – One or Two Passwords?
To be allowed into Office 365 a user needs to be authenticated. Authentication means verifying that the user is who he/she claims to be. Once authenticated we can decide what actions the user is authorized to perform in Office 365. Identity management deals with identifying individuals in a system and controlling access to the resources…
Navigate the Sandbox
The SharePoint Developer Team has just released a work in progress – a large-scale static diagram of a subset of the classes in the SharePoint object model hierarchy available in sandbox solutions. At this time the diagram does not reflect the relationship between the classes, but it does provide a useful general reference for how…
Understanding Storage Allocations in SharePoint Online
Understanding storage allocations in SharePoint Online can be a bit confusing. If we look at the storage allocations for the E and P plans…. Topic E plan P1 plan Storage (pooled) 10 GB base customer storage plus 500 MB per enterprise user 10 GB base customer storage plus 500 MB per user Storage per Kiosk Worker…
The essential Office 365 documents
Finding your way around the vast amount of information sources can be time consuming. The below list of documents is what I would call the essential documents if you want to start your Office 365 journey. Service DescriptionsA complete description of each service, whats in and whats not. In these documents you’ll will find the…
Save time planning meetings – share your calendar externally
If you – like me – spend a great deal of your day doing calendar juggling, you might be interested in the Calendar Publishing feature in Office 365. There is a lot of time saved if your external contacts can check your calendar for available time slots before they go on and send you a meeting…