Unified Communications and Office 365 Talks

This blog series is maintained by a team of technical consultants working on Microsoft's powerful Unified Communications solutions.

Thank you for choosing Office 365

Thanks to our customers, Microsoft Office has become the de facto standard for productivity with more than 1 billion users around the world.  We’re honoured that after more than two decades and multiple free alternatives, people and businesses prefer Office to do the things most important to them.              … Read more

Microsoft Global Partner Services Team

  Are you a Microsoft Partner? Do you need – Presales & competitive assistance, feature overview advice, and proof-of-concept guidance, deployment guidance to help design solutions?   Microsoft has a very successful partner ecosystem branded as Microsoft Partner Network (MPN). Microsoft Partners serve as a vital touch point to end customers across the globe and… Read more

Office 365 Service Description Excel Web Part for feature comparison

The Office 365 Team came out with the “Office 365 Service Description Excel Web Part” which is a one stop location for a quick and easy feature comparison across different Office 365 service offerings. Depending on the selection of the filters, you can do a feature comparison across different services(Across Office 365/on premise and even… Read more

Exchange Hosted Encryption – Quick Reference for Exchange Administrators

ATTENTION: OBSOLETE CONTENT. (FOR EDUCATION ONLY) EXCHANGE HOSTED ENCRYPTION HAS BEEN PHASED OUT. THE NEW SERVICE THAT HAS TAKEN ITS PLACE IS CALLED "OFFICE 365 MESSAGE ENCRYPTION". PLEASE NOTE THAT BY THE END OF 30 SEPTEMBER 2014, 100% OF OUR EHE CUSTOMERS WILL BE ON THE NEW OFFICE 365 MESSAGE ENCRYPTION. FOR THE NEW SETUP PROCESS,… Read more

New Remote Connectivity Analyzer Tests for Mail Flow

Last week the Office 365 Product Team has released a new update to the Remote Connectivity Analyzer tool that will help you test your mail flow configuration in Office 365. These tests are intended for customers who use the Exchange Online Protection service to perform spam and malware filtering before sending email messages to your… Read more

Now Available: PowerShell Modules for Lync Online

Finally the PowerShell Modules for Lync Online goes public. After Exchange Online and Windows Azure Services, you can now manage Lync Online using PowerShell. Please download the module and go through the documentation from the below link. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39366. Cheers! Bibhuti Rath  … Read more

Events for Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Exchange Hosted Encryption (EHE)

We announce the below Events for the Microsoft  Partner Community to be held during the month of August.   1 : Many Workshop  Title  : Office 365 : Exchange Online Protection (EOP)  and Exchange Hosted Encryption (EHE)  Delivery Date : 8/13/2013  Delivery Time : 9:00 AM Pacific Standard Time Description : This session is for partners to gain understanding,  new features and concepts  Exchange… Read more

Switch between Office 365 Plans

The Office 365 Team released an update which now makes “Switching between Office 365 Plans” possible. There was a very strong Ask from the community which the Product Team heard and incorporated.  The article on the Office 365 team blog : Office 365 customers can more easily switch plans talks about how you can use the “Switch”… Read more

Chalk Talk : Office 365 – Identity management (ADFS)

Thanks to all for the tremendous feedback on the “Microsoft Office 365 Momentum Workshop: Office 365 Directory Synchronization, Federation, and Single Sign-on” held on 16th July. We are glad to announce a Chalk Talk for Office 365 – Identity Management (ADFS) to be held on 25th July, 9AM (Pacific Standard Time). Bring your questions to… Read more

Configuring Exchange 2013 Unified Messaging with a PBX

In this blog post, my teammate Abhay Kamath, gives us a walk through of “Configuring your Exchange 2013 Unified Messaging with a PBX” in a test lab environment. The 6 steps covered in detail are listed as below : 1. Ensuring host machine connectivity to Virtual Machines. 2. Installing the PBX Server. 3. Configuring PBX settings…. Read more