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Office 365 – Security resources

Leave a Comment / Office 365, Security / Benoit HAMET / July 7, 2011 / Office 365, Office 365 Grid, Security

Here are few links about security on Office 365. This covers best practices, compliance… Standard Response to Request for Information – Security and Privacy – http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26647 Security in Office 365 White Paper – http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26552 Cloud Computing Security Considerations – http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=1013 Security, Privacy and Compliance Information for Microsoft Online Services – http://www.microsoft.com/online/legal/v2/?docid=21&langid=en-us

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Office 365 – Office 365 Deployment Guide for Enterprises

Leave a Comment / Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / July 5, 2011 / Office 365, Office 365 Grid

The Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Guide for Enterprises will help you understand the requirements and workflows for onboarding your organization to Microsoft Office 365 for enterprises. http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26509

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Office 365 -Introduction for Office 365 administrators

Leave a Comment / Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / July 5, 2011 / Office 365, Office 365 Grid

This article provides an overview of where and how to start managing the services and features in Office 365, including user accounts and licenses, domain settings, and migration of existing email. http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/office365-enterprises/gg524291.aspx

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BPOS/Office 365 – MOSDAL (Microsoft Online Services Diagnostics and Logging) Support Toolkit

Leave a Comment / Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / July 2, 2011 / Office 365, Office 365 Grid

MOSDAL Support Toolkit collects system configuration, network configuration, service-based applications’ configuration and logging data along with performing network diagnostics. MOSDAL Support Toolkit can be used by anyone having issues with the Microsoft Online services. A KB article about the tool can be found over here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960625 You can download it here http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=626 MOSDAL can be

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Office 365 – Now available for production

Leave a Comment / Exchange, Lync / Skype for Business, Office 365, SharePoint / Benoit HAMET / June 29, 2011 / Exchange, Lync / Skype for Business, Office 365, Office 365 Grid, SharePoint

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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Office 365 / SharePoint – My Site management disappears from the SharePoint administration page

Leave a Comment / Office 365, SharePoint / Benoit HAMET / June 23, 2011 / Office 365, Office 365 Grid, SharePoint

Since few days, My Site site collection management options have disappear from the SharePoint administration page. According to Microsoft Office 365 support, this decision has been made due to the high number of customer deleting their My Site and because My Site is related to many user SharePoint features.

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Office 365 / Lync – Take part of a usage survey

Leave a Comment / Lync / Skype for Business, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / June 18, 2011 / Lync / Skype for Business, Office 365, Office 365 Grid

Are you a Lync Online administrator? If you are, we’d like your help to improve our Office 365 Lync Online administrative experience. If you are a Lync Online administrator for your company, and you’re interested in participating in a 1.5 hour research session, please complete this nomination survey, which will include your contact information. If

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Exchange / Office 365 – Exchange Server Deployment Assistant updated

Leave a Comment / Exchange, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / June 11, 2011 / Exchange, Office 365, Office 365 Grid

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–General availability on June 28

Leave a Comment / Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / June 4, 2011 / Office 365, Office 365 Grid

Microsoft has announced the General Availability of Office 365, the next BPOS version, on June 28

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

Leave a Comment / Exchange, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / June 4, 2011 / Exchange, Office 365, Office 365 Grid

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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