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Category Archives: BPOS
Connecting Office 365 and FOPE
Office 365 Beta gives you automatic access to Forefront Online Protection for Exchange to protect the mail flow into your Office 365 environment. We recently released a guidance document that includes some of the known issues and some of the scen… Continue reading
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Why not Gmail?
I was just surfing about our sites as you do and happened across this rather interesting little video that covers some of the reasons that Outlook is better for business than Gmail. As an ex Gmail user I wasn’t thinking about this stuff when it… Continue reading
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Video: How to remote wipe Windows Phone 7 from BPOS
When you connect your Windows Phone 7 device up to the cloud you get a whole bunch of abilities through the windowsphone.live.com portal including the ability to remotely change device passwords, to locate your phone and to remote wipe your phone. … Continue reading
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How healthy is your BPOS service
IT Professionals love knowing what’s going on with their stuff. Be it that blinking light that shows hard disk activity on your laptop* or knowing that your SQL Server is running perfectly you need to know what’s working and what’s not.&#… Continue reading
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Signature Synchronisation
A couple of days ago I was a partner event in Manchester and I was asked a BPOS question that totally stumped me at the time. “Will signatures that I set on OWA (Outlook Web Access) or in Outlook synchronise across all the computers I use, a… Continue reading
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Why Google is not a business platform
Danny Burlage of BPOS Rocks wrote this fantastic article on why Google is not fit for business – it’s something we know all to well, people who’ve gone Google tell us. Danny’s article is very good so I’m not going to paraphrase it much … Continue reading
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Resources for BPOS and Exchange Online
Continuing my BPOS odessy I’ve found some good resources for BPOS and Exchange Online that I thought it’d be worth pointing you to:
Online Services TechNet library – this library contains details of lots of differnet aspects of BPOS, … Continue reading
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Scenarios where BPOS is brilliant
As part of my dive into the world of Microsoft Online Services one of the things I’ve not been able to find in one place – please correct me if I’m wrong – is a list scenarios where BPOS can really help you out. Our various partners who h… Continue reading
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Multiple email addresses and BPOS Exchange Online
Over the past week I’ve been asking people on twitter to talk to me about their experiences with BPOS and I had an interesting conversational thread with @IAmKat about multiple email accounts and how to send and receive. So I did some digging. … Continue reading
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Business Productivity Online Standard Suite Deployment Guide
If you’re looking for help deploying BPOS and or Exchange Online then look no further, this very handy guide is what you need. It covers all the bases from configuring mailboxes, setting up email coexistence, migrating existing mail boxes s… Continue reading
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