| <snip> From Microsoft Blog Post The Lync Online Control Panel now lets you configure the following Lync Online settings for your entire organization: - Call and conference recording of meetings and phone calls
- Mobile phone notifications for Lync Mobile users on Lync 2010 for Windows Phone, Lync 2010 for iPhone, or Lync 2010 for iPad
- Presence privacy mode, which gives users greater control over who can see their online presence
In addition, and thanks in part to your suggestions and feedback, the Lync Online Control Panel has a new organization, and includes the ability to search, sort, and filter your list of Lync Online users. Finally, we’ve added an important fix to resolve a previous issue. Now, when you change an Office 365 user ID, the Lync sign-in address is also updated. This means you no longer need to contact Microsoft Support to change someone’s user ID. For details about the changes to the Lync Online Control Panel, see the online help for Enterprises or Professionals and Small Businesses. Additional Information - Filtering and search options in the Lync Online Control Panel give administrators a way to look at a subset of users by searching on their name or phone number and also to filter users based on the features available to them. See the online help for Enterprises or Professionals and Small Businesses.
Read more new Office 365 January 20102 features enabled for Enterprise Plans @> http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-enterprises/hh831842.aspx |
| Office 365 Exchange Online Subscription Plans Each user who accesses the Exchange Online service requires must be assigned to a subscription plan. Exchange Online offers three types of plans: Exchange Online Kiosk, Exchange Online (Plan 1), and Exchange Online (Plan 2). Table 4 summarizes differences between the types of subscriptions. Table 4: Overview of user subscriptions | Feature | Exchange Online
Kiosk $4/mo
(Kiosk plan also included Kiosk SharePoint Online) | Exchange Online
(Plan 1) $5/mo | Exchange Online
(Plan 2) $10/mo | | Mailbox size | 500 megabytes (MB) | 25 gigabytes (GB)* | Unlimited** | | Outlook Web App
(regular and light versions) | Yes | Yes | Yes | | POP | Yes | Yes | Yes | | IMAP | No | Yes | Yes | | Outlook Anywhere (MAPI) | No | Yes | Yes | | Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync® | No | Yes | Yes | | Exchange Web Services | No*** | Yes | Yes | | Inbox rules | No | Yes | Yes | | Delegate access | No (cannot access other users’ mailboxes, shared mailboxes, or resource mailboxes) | Yes | Yes | | Instant messaging interoperability in OWA | No | Yes (requires Lync Online or Microsoft Lync Server 2010) | Yes (requires Lync Online or Microsoft Lync Server 2010) | | SMS notifications | No | Yes | Yes | | Custom retention policies | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Multi-mailbox search | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Personal archive | No | Yes | Yes | | Voicemail | No | No | Yes | | Legal hold | No | No | Yes | *25 GB of storage apportioned across the user’s primary mailbox and personal archive **25 GB of storage in the user’s primary mailbox, plus unlimited storage in the user’s personal archive. Refer to the personal archive section of this document for further information regarding unlimited storage in the archive ***Direct access to Kiosk user mailboxes via Exchange Web Services is not permitted. However, line of business applications can use Exchange Web Services impersonation to access Kiosk user mailboxes All subscriptions include organization-wide capabilities such as journaling, transport rules, and premier anti-spam and antivirus filtering via Forefront Online Protection for Exchange. User subscriptions are not required for conference rooms and shared mailboxes. These special mailbox types do not have login credentials—instead, licensed users with the appropriate permissions manage them via delegation. Office 365 Suite Subscription Plans Exchange Online plans can be purchased on a standalone basis or as part of an Office 365 suite. Each Office 365 plan contains one of the Exchange Online plans. Tables 5 and 6 summarize the relationship between Exchange Online plans and Office 365 plans. To determine which plan is right for you, visit the Agile IT Office 365 home page. Table 5: Office 365 subscription plans for kiosk workers | Office 365 (Plan K1) | Office 365 (Plan K2) | | Exchange Online Kiosk | Exchange Online Kiosk | | SharePoint Online Kiosk | SharePoint Online Kiosk | |
| Office Web Apps | Table 6: Office 365 subscription plans for information workers | Office 365 (Plan E1) | Office 365 (Plan E2) | Office 365 (Plan E3) | Office 365 (Plan E4) | | Exchange Online (Plan 1) | Exchange Online (Plan 1) | Exchange Online (Plan 2) | Exchange Online (Plan 2) | | SharePoint Online (Plan 1) | SharePoint Online (Plan 1) | SharePoint Online (Plan 2) | SharePoint Online (Plan 2) | | Lync Online (Plan 2) | Lync Online (Plan 2) | Lync Online (Plan 2) | Lync Online (Plan 2) | |
| Office Web Apps | Office Web Apps | Office Web Apps | |
| | Office Professional Plus | Office Professional Plus | |
| | | Lync Voice & PBX (Lync Plus CAL for Lync Server)* | * Lync Voice & PBX are only available with Lync Server 2010, deployed on-premises or hosted via a private cloud deployment. All Lync workloads (instant messaging, online meetings and Voice & PBX) must be deployed on Lync server in this case.It is not possible to split Lync workloads between Lync Server and Lync Online. Office 365 Exchange Online Mailbox Size Limits The amount of mailbox storage available to a user is determined by his or her user subscription license: · Each Exchange Online Kiosk user receives 500 MB of mailbox storage. The maximum mailbox size for a Kiosk user is 500 MB. · Each Exchange Online (Plan 1) user receives 25 GB of mailbox storage, which can be split between the user’s primary mailbox and the user’s personal archive. · Each Exchange Online (Plan 2) user receives 25 GB of storage in the user’s primary mailbox. The maximum size of the primary mailbox is 25 GB. The user also receives unlimited storage in the user’s personal archive (see the personal archive section of this document for details). Administrators can use Remote PowerShell to reduce maximum mailbox sizes for some or all of their users. This is achieved by adjusting the mailbox capacity alerts described in the following paragraphs. Special mailbox types, such as conference rooms and shared mailboxes, have different size limits. These limits are detailed in the relevant sections of this document. Office 365 Exchange Online Mailbox Capacity Alerts Exchange Online provides three notifications to users as their primary mailboxes approach maximum size limits: · Warning: Users receive email warnings when their mailboxes are approaching the maximum size limit. This warning is intended to encourage users to delete unwanted mail. · Prohibit Send: Users receive email prohibit-send notifications when they reach their mailbox size limits. Users cannot send new messages until they delete enough messages so that their mailboxes are below the size limit. · Prohibit Send/Receive: Exchange Online rejects any incoming mail when this limit is reached and then sends a non-delivery report (NDR) to senders. Sender can try resending the mail later. To receive messages, users must delete messages until the mailbox is below the size limit. These values can be modified using Remote PowerShell, as described in the help topic Set Mailbox Quotas in Office 365 using Windows PowerShell. Table 7 shows the default values. Table 7: Mailbox size limits and notifications | Mailbox type | Warning | Prohibit Send | Prohibit Send/Receive | | Exchange Online Kiosk | 450 MB | 475 MB | 500 MB | | Exchange Online (Plan 1) | 24.5 GB | 24.75 GB | 25 GB | | Exchange Online (Plan 2) | 24.5 GB | 24.75 GB | 25 GB | These limits and notifications are for the user’s primary mailbox. The personal archive has a separate, non-configurable quota. Read more (and constantly updated) Exchange Online Service Descriptions: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13602 |
| Office 365 SharePoint Online Subscription Plans Each user who accesses the SharePoint Online service must be assigned to a subscription plan. SharePoint Online offers multiple types of plans. See Table 4 below. In addition to the K1-2 and E1-4 suite-level plans, SharePoint Online Plan 1 and SharePoint Online Plan 2 can be purchased on a standalone basis or as part of an Office 365 suite. A Kiosk subscription is not sold as a standalone offer, only as part of the Kiosk suite (Exchange Online Kiosk and SharePoint Online Kiosk suite). It is possible to mix subscription plans within a single tenancy. Customers can also purchase an additional add-on associated to SharePoint Online: · Additional storage. Cost is $2.50USD/GB/month. | Note | | For customers with more than 20,000 users objects in their Active Directory planning to purchase SharePoint Online as part of the Office 365 suite or as a standalone service, there is a temporary limitation that the SharePoint service can support. Please work with your local Microsoft representative to understand the implications of this temporary limitation. This does not imply that you cannot purchase the full Office 365 suite, but merely that SharePoint Online may not be provisioned at the same time until the scale limitations are lifted beyond 20,000 user objects. | Table 4 compares usage rights for the different types of subscription plans. Table 4. High-level usage rights comparison across user subscriptions plans | Feature | Partner Access Plan (external partners) | (Includes Exchange Online)SharePoint Online K1 ($4/mo) and K2 ($10/mo) | SharePoint Online E1 ($10/mo) and E2 ($16/mo) | SharePoint Online E3 ($24/mo) and E4 ($27/mo) | SharePoint Online Plan 1 ($5.25/mo) | SharePoint Online Plan 2 ($10.25/mo) | | Can access all team sites by default? | No1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | My Site | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Enterprise Features (Access, Business Connectivity Services (BCS), InfoPath Forms, Excel and Visio Services) | Yes2 | Yes3 | No | Yes2 | No | Yes2 | | Office Web Apps | View only | K1 - View only K2 - View and edit | E1 - View only E2 - View and edit | View and edit | View only | View only | | Adds storage to the company’s overall pooled quota? | No | No | Yes. 500MB per user subscription license | Yes. 500MB per user subscription license | Yes. 500MB per user subscription license | Yes. 500MB per user subscription license | | Can be an administrator of tenant, site or site collection? | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | 1 - External partners can only access the sites they have been invited to by delegated site collection owners. 2 - Can view and upload Visio diagrams, view and build external lists, build and visit Access-based webpages, build and view embedded Excel graphs and create/publish, fill in and submit InfoPath forms. 3 – Kiosk workers have read-only rights except they can edit web-based and InfoPath Forms only. | | For more detailed Microsoft licensing information, please visit the Product Use Rights (PUR) document page on the Microsoft Volume Licensing website. | Office 365 Suite Subscription Plans SharePoint Online plans can be purchased on a standalone basis or as part of an Office 365 suite. Each Office 365 suite subscription contains a SharePoint Online subscription. Tables 5 and 6 summarize the relationship between SharePoint Online plans and Office 365 plans. To determine which plan is right for you, visit the Office 365 home page. Table 5: Office 365 subscription plans for kiosk workers | Office 365 (Plan K1) | Office 365 (Plan K2) | | Exchange Online Kiosk | Exchange Online Kiosk | | SharePoint Online Kiosk | SharePoint Online Kiosk | |
| Office Web Apps (Edit) | Table 6: Office 365 subscription plans for information workers | Office 365 (Plan E1) | Office 365 (Plan E2) | Office 365 (Plan E3) | Office 365 (Plan E4) | | Exchange Online (Plan 1) | Exchange Online (Plan 1) | Exchange Online (Plan 2) | Exchange Online (Plan 2) | | SharePoint Online (Plan 1) | SharePoint Online (Plan 1) | SharePoint Online (Plan 2) | SharePoint Online (Plan 2) | | Lync Online (Plan 2) | Lync Online (Plan 2) | Lync Online (Plan 2) | Lync Online (Plan 2) | |
| Office Web Apps (Edit) | Office Web Apps (Edit) | Office Web Apps (Edit) | |
| | Office Professional Plus | Office Professional Plus | |
| | | Lync Voice & PBX (Lync Plus CAL for Lync Server)* | * Lync Voice & PBX are only available with Microsoft Lync Server 2010 deployed on-premises or hosted via a private cloud deployment. All Lync workloads (IM, online meetings, and Voice & PBX) must be deployed on Lync server in this case (it is not possible to split Lync workloads between Lync Server and Lync Online). Office 365 SharePoint Online Key Features and Specifications Table 7 provides a quick look at some of the key features and specifications of SharePoint Online. Table 7: SharePoint Online key features and specifications | Feature | Description | | | Storage (pooled) | 10 gigabytes (GB) base customer storage plus 500 megabytes (MB) per enterprise user | | Storage per Kiosk Worker | Zero (0). Licensed Kiosk Workers do not bring additional storage allocation. | | Storage per external user | Zero (0). Licensed external users do not bring additional storage allocation. | | Additional storage (per GB per month); no minimum purchase. | $2.50USD/GB/month | | Site collection storage quotas | Up to 100 gigabytes (GB) per site collection | | My Site storage allocation (does not count against tenant‘s overall storage pool) | 500 megabytes (MB) of personal storage per My Site (once provisioned)
*Note: the storage amount on individual’s My Site storage cannot be adjusted. | | Site collections (#) per tenant | Up to 300 (non-My Site site collections) | | Total storage per tenant | Up to 5 terabyte (TB) per tenant | | File upload limit | 250 megabytes (MB) per file | | External Users (PALs) | 50 PALs are included per tenant. Current “Feature Preview” allows for usage rights of up to 1000 external users without requiring additional PALs. Microsoft reserves the right to charge for additional PALs beyond 50 at the time the next major Office 365 update. | | Microsoft Office support | Microsoft Access 2010 Microsoft Excel® 2007 and 2010 Microsoft InfoPath® 2010 Outlook 2007 and 2010 Microsoft OneNote 2010 | PowerPoint 2007 and 2010 Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 Word 2007 and 2010 SharePoint Workspace 2010 Project Professional 2010 | | Browser support | Internet Explorer 7 Internet Explorer 8 Internet Explorer 9 | Firefox 3 and higher Safari 3.1.2 on Macintosh OS X 10.5 Chrome | | Mobile device support | Windows Phone 7.5 codenamed "Mango" or later Windows Mobile® 6.1 or later Nokia S60 3.0 or later Apple iPhone 3.0 or later Blackberry 4.2 or later Android 1.5 or later | | | | | | Office 365 SharePoint Online Storage SharePoint Online allocates an initial 10 GB of storage plus 500 MB for each user. This storage is pooled and available for allocation across multiple site collections. For example, an organization of 1,000 users by default would have a base of 510,000 MB (510 GB) of storage. In addition, users can purchase more SharePoint Online storage in GB increments charged monthly, currently $2.50USD/GB/month. Read more at the (constantly updated) SharePoint Online Service Descriptions: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13602 |
| The Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool (OCAT ) provides a quick and easy method to analyze your Microsoft Office Outlook profile for common configurations that may cause problems in Outlook. This can be very useful for busy Help Desk personnel when end-users call for help with Outlook or when you want to identify possible issues with Outlook proactively. The Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool provides a detailed report of your current Outlook profile. This report includes many parameters about your profile, and it highlights any known problems that are found in your profile. For any problems that are listed in the report, you are provided a link to a Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article that describes a possible fix for the problem. If you are a Help Desk professional, you can also export the report to a file. Then, the report can be viewed in the Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool on another client computer where the tool is installed. Download @> http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28806 
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| The following matrix compares features across the delivery models for Lync Server 2010 (on-premises with or without federation), Lync Online with Office 365, and Office Communications Online ("OC Online"). | Feature | Lync Server 2010 | Lync Online | OC Online | | IM and Presence | | 1-to-1 and multiparty IM/presence | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Address book search | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Distribution list (DL) expansion (DLX) | Yes | Yes | Yes | | File transfers | Yes | Yes | Yes (inside firewall only) | | PC-to-PC audio/video (A/V) dial-out calling | Yes | Yes | Yes (inside firewall only) | | Click-to-communicate from Office applications | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Interactive contact card in Office 2010 | Yes | Yes | No | | Lync skill search in on-premises SharePoint Server | Yes | No | No | | Lync skill search in SharePoint Online | No | No | No | | Persistent Group Chat | Yes | No | No | | Privacy mode | Yes | No | No | | Lync External Connectivity (Federation and Public IM Connectivity) | | IM/Presence and A/V Federation with other organizations running Lync Server, Lync Online, or Office Communications Server | Yes | Yes | No | | IM/presence and A/V federation with Windows Live Messenger | Yes | Yes | No | | IBM Sametime federation | Yes | No | No | | IM/presence federation with Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) networks (including Jabber and Google Talk) | Yes | No | No | | IM/presence with AOL and Yahoo | Yes | No | No | | Meetings (A/V and Web Conferencing) | | Meeting attendee capacity | 250 | 250 | No | | Desktop sharing | Yes | Yes | No | | Application sharing | Yes | Yes | No | | White boarding and annotations | Yes | Yes | No | | PowerPoint upload for online presentations | Yes | Yes | No | | Upload for other Office file types | No | No | No | | Polling | Yes | Yes | No | | Multiparty PC-based A/V | Yes | Yes | No | | Unauthenticated experience in Lync Web App | Yes | Yes | No | | Unauthenticated attendee (rich client) | Yes | Yes | No | | Authenticated experience in Lync Web App | Yes | No | No | | Scheduled conferences (using the Online Meeting Add-in for Lync 2010 in Outlook) | Yes | Yes | No | | Outlook delegation for scheduling meetings | Yes | Yes | No | | Support for RoundTable conferencing device | Yes | Yes | No | | Lobby | Yes | Yes | No | | Interoperation with certified partners for dial-in audio conferencing | No | Yes | No | | Provisioning for dial-in audio conferencing service for Office 365 direct customers | No | Yes | No | | Phone dial-out from scheduled meetings via third-party dial-in conferencing service | No | Yes | No | | Client-side recording and playback | Yes | No | No | | Server-side recording and playback | No | No | No | | Generate a link to a scheduled meeting via web page | No | No | No | | Scheduling an online meeting in Outlook Web App | No | No | No | | Dial-in audio conferencing on Lync Server | Yes | No | No | | Multimedia content upload | No | No | No | | Screen shot capture (including annotation) | No | No | No | | Backstage/content preview for presenters | Yes | Yes | No | | Mute all attendees | Yes | Yes | No | | Mute individual attendees | Yes | Yes | No | | Unmute all attendees | Yes | Yes | No | | Unmute individual attendees | Yes | Yes | No | | In-meeting attendee permission controls | Yes | Yes | No | | Interoperability with on-premises video conferencing systems | Yes | No | No | | Voice and Telephony | | PSTN calling (incoming/outgoing calls) | Yes | No | No | | Call hold/retrieve | Yes | No | No | | PSTN dial-out for meetings | Yes | No | No | | Advanced call controls (including transfer, forward, and simultaneous ring) | Yes | No | No | | Access to Exchange Online voice mail | Yes | No | No | | Team calling | Yes | No | No | | Delegation for voice (for example, boss delegates to admin) | Yes | No | No | | Call park | Yes | No | No | | Outgoing Direct Inward Dialing (DID) manipulation | Yes | No | No | | Enhanced 9-1-1 (E9-1-1) | Yes | No | No | | Dial plans and policies | Yes | No | No | | IP desk phone support | Yes | No | No | | Survivable Branch Appliances for branch office resiliency | Yes | No | No | | Call admissions control (CAC) | Yes | No | No | | Support for analog devices (for example, fax) | Yes | No | No | | Response groups | Yes | No | No | | Private line (secondary DID for executives) | Yes | No | No | | Interoperation with third-party private branch exchange (PBX) | Yes | No | No | | Presence interoperation with third-party PBX | No | No | No | | Remote call control (RCC) (also known as “click-to-call”) with on-premises PBX | Yes | No | No | | Malicious call trace | Yes | No | No | | Unassigned number | Yes | No | No | | Network Quality of Service (QoS) - Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) | Yes | No | No | | Media path optimization | Yes | No | No | | Phone number management | Yes | No | No | | Call detail recording (CDR) and billing reporting | Yes | No | No | | Integration with call center solutions (Aspect) | Yes | No | No | | Client Support | | Lync 2010 | Yes | Yes | No | | Lync Web App (for participating in scheduled meetings) | Yes | Yes | No | | Lync 2010 Phone Edition (IP phones for Lync) | Yes | No | No | | Lync 2010 Attendee client (for joining meetings) | Yes | Yes | No | | Lync 2010 Attendant client (receptionist rich client) | Yes | No | No | | Lync 2010 Mobile | No | No | No | | Office Communicator for Mac | Yes | No | No | | Office Communicator Web Access (2007 R2) | Yes | No | No | | Office Communicator 2007 R2 | Yes | No | Yes | | Office Communicator Mobile (for Windows Mobile 6.x phones) | Yes | No | No | | IM and media encryption | Yes | Yes | Yes | | IM filtering | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Anti-malware scanning for meeting content and file transfers | Yes (partner solutions) | No | No | | IM archiving (server-side only) | Yes | No | No | | Exchange and SharePoint interoperability | | Presence interoperation with Exchange and SharePoint on-premises | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Presence interoperation with Exchange and SharePoint Online | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Exchange Unified Messaging (UM) interoperation with Exchange Online | Yes | No | No | | Exchange UM interoperation with Exchange on-premises | Yes | No | No | | Hybrid Lync Online and On-premises Administration | | Server and cloud coexistence (split domain) on user basis (some users on-premises, some users online) | No | No | No | | Splitting workloads (for example, running IM/presence/voice on-premises, and conferencing in the cloud) | No | No | No | | Windows PowerShell support | Yes | No | No | | Web-based user interface (Lync Server Control Panel) | Yes | No | No | | Attendee/user reporting | No | No | No | | Reporting (using CDR and Quality of Experience (QoE))) | Yes | No | No | | Third-party API Support | | Client automation APIs (client-side only) | Yes | Yes | No | | Server side APIs | Yes | No | No | Read more @> http://community.office365.com/en-us/w/lync/480.aspx |
| Microsoft Exchange PST Capture allows you to search for PST files on computers in your organization and then import those files to mailboxes in your organization. PST Capture works with both on-premises Exchange servers and Exchange Online. This topic provides an overview of PST Capture. For details about how to install PST Capture, see Install PST Capture.  PST Capture Architecture
PST Capture is comprised of the following components: - PST Capture Central Service At the heart of PST Capture is the PST Capture Central Service. The Central Service maintains the list of all PST files found in your organization and manages the data as it’s moved to the Exchange servers or Exchange Online.
- PST Capture Agent Discovery of the PST files is performed by PST Capture agents that are installed on computers in your organization. The agents also send the PST files they find to the host computer when an import operation is started on the PST Capture Console.
- PST Capture Console The PST Capture Console is the interface you use to configure PST searches, specify the target mailboxes for PST files, and track the status of PST import operations and reports. You can also use the console to import PST files stored on network attached storage (NAS) devices, on which you can’t install PST agents.
For optimal operation, you should install the PST Capture Central Service and the PST Capture Console on a dedicated computer, known as the PST Capture host computer. Communication between the PST Capture Central Service and the PST Capture agents is achieved through a polling mechanism. Each minute, all PST Capture agents poll the Central Service for configuration updates and any pending tasks by default. If necessary, you can change this polling frequency (for details, see Configure PST Capture Settings). When a PST Capture agent contacts the Central Service, it receives any pending actions, such as a PST search or import operation. The PST Capture Agent then sends status updates from previous actions to the Central Service. PST Search and PST Import Operations When you configure and run a PST search from the PST Capture Console, a new PST search action is queued for the PST agents that are installed on the computers included in the search. These agents scan the local computers on which they are installed for PST files and then return the list of PST files that were located to the Central Service. For detailed steps about how to perform a PST search, see Search for PSTs Using PST Capture. When you configure and run an import operation, a new import action is queued for the PST agents that are installed on the computers where the PST files reside. These agents transmit the PST files to the Central Service. The Central Service then logs on to the destination mailboxes and imports the data. For detailed steps about how to import PSTs, see Import PSTs using PST Capture. <snip> Read the rest @> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh781036.aspx
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| Are you tired of relying on email to facilitate project collaboration? Wouldn’t it be great if there was a more efficient project collaboration solution out there? Office 365 can take your project collaboration practices to the next level. In this white paper, learn and see how you can easily facilitate better project collaboration with your colleagues utilizing existing tools that we you already use like Windows, Microsoft Office, your mobile devices and even non-Microsoft platforms. The intended audience for this whitepaper includes project teams that rely on email, Microsoft Office tools like Excel, Word, Project and who have yet to implement an enterprise project management platform such as Microsoft Project Server, but need the ability to collaborate with project resources via current Microsoft Office tools or through Office 365. Through this whitepaper, you will learn how to: - Utilize Office 365 to create a Project Management Information System (PMIS)
- Integrate Microsoft Project information with SharePoint
- Empower a project team to collaboratively share relevant information with MS Office
- Build a project management dashboard in SharePoint Online
- Utilize mobile devices to interact with project artifacts and communications
The intent of this whitepaper is to show how an organization can utilize Microsoft tools the average business user is already familiar with to create an excellent collaboration solution. This is not intended to be a project management ‘best practices’ guide. Rather, it is a look at typical project collaboration scenarios that can be enhanced by use of familiar Microsoft products to get quick wins for both management and project stakeholders. Far too often solutions are implemented without consideration for the effect it will have on the work patterns of the people who will use it. In order to keep the organization change impact to a minimum, the overriding theme for this whitepaper is ‘solve a particular problem scenario while keeping the technology part of the solution as simple as possible for the end user’. This download page contains: a Word white paper and an overview video. Please check out the Leveraging Office 365 for Project Collaboration Success site for additional information. Learn more about Microsoft Project and Office 365 Download the WhitePaper and Video here. |
| There are some required changes to get AutoDiscover for Lync Mobile to work with Office 365 in DNS. Create a CName entries for your Office 365 domain:
lyncdiscover CNAME webdir.online.lync.com
(i.e. lyncdiscover.yourdomain.com resolves to webdir.online.lync.com)
You can find out more about the network and DNS requirements of Lync for Office 365 here (this in addition sip and srv entries): http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-enterprises/hh416761.aspx Of course, if your an Agile IT customer, we take care of all of this for you. Find out more at http://AgileIT.co/AgileAscend Update – Users that have their Lync Address using x.OnMicrosoft.com may have issues logging in using Lync Auto Discover. You can circumvent the DNS requirements by turning off “Auto-detect services” and setting the external discovery address: https://meet.lync.com/Autodiscover/autodiscoverservice.svc/Root Note - You can leave the internal discover address blank. |
| These new services for Microsoft Lync Server 2010 support Lync 2010 functionality, such as instant messaging (IM), presence, management of contacts and groups, Call via Work, Single Number Reach, and Single-click Conference Join on mobile and slate devices. When you deploy the Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Mobility Service, users can use supported iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone, or Nokia mobile devices to perform such activities as sending and receiving instant messages, viewing contacts, and viewing presence. In addition, mobile devices support some Enterprise Voice features, such as click to join a conference, Call via Work, single number reach, voice mail, and missed calls. By using Call via Work, users can maintain their work identity during a call, which means that the call recipient does not see the caller's mobile number, and the caller avoids incurring outbound calling charges. With single number reach, a user receives calls on a mobile phone that were dialed to their work number.
When you use the Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Autodiscover Service along with the Mobility Service, mobile devices can automatically locate the URLs for Lync Server Web Services and the new Mobility Service regardless of network location. It supports client connections using either HTTP or HTTPS. Notes - Lync 2010 servers must have November 2011 cumulative updates installed.
- Must install the IIS Role Service Dynamic Content Compression on the Front End server. For 2008R2, sue this command:
Import-Module ServerManager Add-WindowsFeature Web-Server, Web-Dyn-Compression
- You need to create one of the following external DNS records and add a additional SAN name to your external reverse proxy certificate:
| Record type | Host name | Resolves to | | CNAME | lyncdiscover.<sipdomain> | External Web Services FQDN for your Director pool, if you have one, or for your Front End pool if you do not have a Director | | A (host) | lyncdiscover.<sipdomain> | External or public IP address of the reverse proxy | - If you have internal WiFi clients, you may also need to change your front end server SAN entries in the certificate. Internal DNS Records
| Record type | Host name | Resolves to | | CNAME | lyncdiscoverinternal.<sipdomain> | Internal Web Services FQDN for your Director pool, if you have one, or for your Front End pool if you do not have a Director | | A (host) | lyncdiscoverinternal.<sipdomain> | Internal Web Services IP address (virtual IP (VIP) address if you use a load balancer) of your Director pool, if you have one, or of your Front End pool if you do not have a Director | - Set Lync on Front End server:
Internal: Set-CsWebServer –Identity agiledemo.agileit.com –McxSipPrimaryListeningPort 5086
External: Set-CsWebServer –Identity agiledemo.agileit.com – McxSipExternalListeningPort 5087 - Install Mobility Service and Autodiscover Service
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Copy McxStandalone.msi to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Lync Server\Deployment\cache\4.0.7577.0\setup. -
Start the Lync Server Management Shell: Click Start, click All Programs, click Microsoft Lync Server 2010, and then click Lync Server Management Shell.cd \pr -
Run C:\Program Files\Microsoft Lync Server 2010\Deployment\Bootstrapper.exe.
- Ensure you have hosting provider for LyncOnline, or add it manually:
New-CsHostingProvider –Identity "LyncOnline" –Enabled $True –ProxyFqdn "sipfed.online.lync.com" –VerificationLevel UseSourceVerification
- Set up hosting provider federation between your organization and the Push Notification Service at Lync Online. At the command line, type:
New-CsAllowedDomain –Identity "push.lync.com" - Enable push notifications. At the command line, type:
Set-CsPushNotificationConfiguration –EnableApplePushNotificationService $True –EnableMicrosoftPushNotificationService $True - Enable federation. At the command line, type:
Set-CSAccessEdgeConfiguration -AllowFederatedUsers $True
Note – Planning Mobility in Lync Install Guide incorrectly specifies Set-AccessEdgeConfiguration - Open port 80 or 443 on your reverse proxy firewall (ISA or TMG) for the lyncdiscover.<sipdomain>
Download Planning Mobility in Lync Install Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28355
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| The Exchange Team is pleased to announce that in the second half of calendar year 2011 we will be releasing Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 (SP2) to our customers. With SP2, the following new features and capabilities will be included: - Outlook Web App (OWA) Mini A browse-only version of OWA designed for low bandwidth and resolution devices. Based on the existing Exchange 2010 SP1 OWA infrastructure, this feature provides a simple text based interface to navigate the user’s mailbox and access to the global address list from a plurality of mobile devices.
- Cross-Site Silent Redirection for Outlook Web App With Service Pack 2, you will have the ability to enable silent redirection when CAS must redirect an OWA request to CAS infrastructure located in another Active Directory site. Silent redirection can also provide a single sign-on experience when Forms-Based Authentication is used.
- Hybrid Configuration Wizard Organizations can choose to deploy a hybrid scenario where some mailboxes are on-premises and some are in Exchange Online with Microsoft Office 365. Hybrid deployments may be needed for migrations taking place over weeks, months or indefinite timeframes. This wizard helps simplify the configuration of Exchange sharing features, like: calendar and free/busy sharing, secure mailflow, mailbox moves, as well as online archive.
- Address Book Policies Allows organizations to segment their address books into smaller scoped subsets of users providing a more refined user experience than the previous manual configuration approach. We also blogged about this new feature recently in GAL Segmentation, Exchange Server 2010 and Address Book Policies.
- Customer Requested Fixes All fixes contained within update rollups released prior to Service Pack 2 will also be contained within SP2. Details of our regular Exchange 2010 release rhythm can be found in Exchange 2010 Servicing.
View a video of the changes here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/05/17/announcing-exchange-2010-service-pack-2.aspx Details on TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh529924.aspx Download Exchange SP2 here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=9664 |
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