Office 365

Office 365 – Free ebook “Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime”

A free ebook on Office 365 is available to download. I have no doubt that more ebooks will come to cover all aspect of Office 365. This one is more small business oriented but could be valuable for everyone working with Office 365. Enjoy “This book shows you how you can use cloud computing—and specifically, […]

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Office 365 – Change password notification

With Office 365, like with BPOS, there is password policy you can’t change (except if you use authentication federation with your own AD). For information, you can find details about password policy here http://community.office365.com/en-us/w/sso/office-365-password-policy.aspx If your password expired and you are connected with Lync, you will have a popup asking you to enter your password.

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Office 365 – Federation with Live Messenger disabled (temporarily)

The Office 365 has announced that the federation with Live Messenger will be disabled temporarily in order to solve some issue. Indeed, users using a vanity domain with Office 365 were not able to access their Live account. So while the team is working to solve this issue, the IM federation with Live will be

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Office 365 – Security resources

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

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

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

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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