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Microsoft Products – Schedule delivery date for incoming products

As you may already know, there is a lot of incoming new product version for the next 12 to 24 months, including the waited Windows 8. Microsoft has published an initial schedule of delivery. Keep in mind this may still change will product groups are still working on many of these products. Windows 8 Anticipated […]

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Office 365 – New features coming for Kiosk users

Since BPOS, Microsoft offered specific services for users accessing cloud services with ONLY a browser; this service is called Kiosk mode. Microsoft has announced coming new features for Kiosk users in Office 365 in March. As part of these new features, there will be: Active Sync access: meaning Kiosk users will be able to sync

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Exchange 2010 – Service Pack 2 now available

Following my previous post announcing the Exchange 2010 SP2 is coming, it’s now available for download: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=232843 To know more about what is coming with this SP2 go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=228135 As part of this SP2, you will find: Hybrid Configuration Wizard Exchange 2010 SP2 introduces the Hybrid Configuration Wizard which provides you with a streamlined

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Office 365 – BlackBerry service for Office 365 Beta now available

After announcing that BlackBerry service for Office 365 was in beta, it seems the service is now live since few days (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2011/08/26/office-365-blackberry-business-cloud-services-for-o365-new-information-and-resources/) but still in beta. The program is currently accepting new participant. To take part of it, go to https://www.blackberry.com/beta/businesscloud

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Office 365 – Now available for production

After few months in beta, Office 365 is now available as Gold – ie ready for production. Office 365 is providing all collaborative Microsoft products in the latest version (Exchange 2010, Lync, SharePoint 2010) and will evolved with the time to provide additional services. Go to www.office365.com to start a 30 days evaluation period or

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Exchange / Office 365 – Exchange Server Deployment Assistant updated

Microsoft has updated the ESDA (Exchange Server Deployment Assistant) to include support for rich-coexistence scenario between On Premise Exchange Server 2010 and Office 365. This scenario was missing since the begin of the Office 365 beta (only coexistence with Exchange 2003 and 2007 was provided). Rich coexistence (“hybrid deployment”) offers organizations the ability to extend

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Office 365 / Exchange Online – Remote Connectivity tool checker will be updated

As you may already know, with Exchange 2010, Microsoft proposed an online tool to check the configuration of the remote connectivity configuration (Outlook Anywhere, Active Sync, Autodiscover…) – https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/ With the coming Office 365 and Exchange Online 2010, this tool will be updated to include specific function from Office 365, such as Single Sign On.

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