Office 365 to another 22 new markets to grow our global footprint to 64 geographies – with more to come!
Microsoft has reduced Office 365 for enterprise plans by up to 20%.
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If you ever look at all the migration that we do, we have to completed the biggest challenge; clients has been getting the system requirements ready for Office 365.
Click here to know more from my dedicated blog for O365 users.
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In my previous post…ADFS…Active Directory Federation Service i was talking about the ADFS architecture and promise for the deployment or migration to O365 from Microsoft.
Here i’m dedicating a page for Office 365 live migration …Click here to divert to the page
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This page has been moved to a dedicated page for Office 365 users..click here
Transforming IT with Microsoft Private Cloud….Concept is aimed only for cost saving and maintenance free environment.
For a growing number of businesses, the journey to cloud computing starts with a private cloud implementation. A Microsoft private cloud dramatically changes the way your business produces and consumes IT services by creating a layer of abstraction over your pooled IT resources. This allows your datacenter to offer true infrastructure service capability as well as optimally managed application services. Microsoft private cloud solutions are built on Windows Server and System Center technology. Windows Azure is Microsoft’s public cloud computing platform. It’s a place to run your applications out on the internet, at scale. With geographically distributed datacenters worldwide, applications can be built, hosted and managed around the world. With Windows Azure, you can extend and even move your datacenter services off-premises or beyond a hosted environment, paying only for the resources you use at any given time. The flexible cloud computing platform of Windows Azure lets you focus on solving business problems and addressing customer needs, not on the infrastructure. Right now Public cloud on 3 platform flavour…Windows Azure, Office 365 and Microsoft online Services
To know more about Office 365, click here
To registed Office 365 for trial, click here
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We are now experiencing the O365 environment to our domain…i should tell you that “beauty lies beneath the platform”…more to explore
Built to deliver the enterprise-grade security and reliability that businesses require, Microsoft Exchange Online provides hosted email, calendar and contacts on your PC, phone and web browser.
Here is the plan…and if you need more, go to O365 Home Site and for UAE users, go to O365 UAE plan
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A cool tool (AD Photo Edit) which you can use to update your profile picture and have the picture displayed on your Lync Online home page or SharePoint site. This beautiful tool uploads a picture into the thumbnailPhoto attribute in Active Directory user properties.
This information is then synchronized with the Cloud through the Microsoft Online Services Directory Synchronization tool. You can download the AD Photo Edit from here. Once the tool is installed AD Photo Edit automatically detects and connects to your Active Directory. If you want to upload the domain users photo, you need to have administrative credential. Users are selected by using their “username”. There are free edition, which upload photos individually and bulk edition which is a paid edition.
When you update the photo, your user properties will be filled with values as show in the picture below, (If you already attach a picture, this tool will display the existing picture and you can change it with the new one). if there are no picture attached to your profile, this field will show as <not set>.
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On Exchange server 2010, If you create a distribution group with scope as Universal and type as Distribution, in your domain active directory.
and then you enable the mail from creating the mailbox server, then do the testing of email flow from internal and external.,
if you ever had face an error, “Technical details of permanent failure: SERVER tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 5.1.1 User unknown (state 14).”
Please do the following.
From your active directory, select the property of the group email id, then under mail flow settings, select Message Delivery Restrictions, then select Properties…, new window will open.
uncheck the box which states “Require that all senders are authenticated” and click ok..then apply and ok again.
Give some time to replicate this to Edge server…
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With Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector 32-bit, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 or Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 to access and manage your Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages, contacts and calendars for free!
Outlook Hotmail Connector enables you to use your Live Hotmail accounts within Outlook:
If you use the Outlook Hotmail Connector with Outlook 2010 you gain these additional benefits:
To download this from Microsoft site, click here
On May 10, 2011, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: “MSFT”) and Skype Global S.à r.l today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire Skype, the leading Internet communications company, for $8.5 billion in cash from the investor group led by Silver Lake. The agreement has been approved by the boards of directors of both Microsoft and Skype.
Read the press release from Microsoft News Center.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Skype CEO Tony Bates announce Microsoft's acquisition of Skype. San Francisco, May 10, 2011
Article from The Telegraph about this deal.
Skype will support Microsoft devices like Xbox and Kinect, Windows Phone and a wide array of Windows devices, and Microsoft will connect Skype users with Lync, Outlook, Xbox Live and other communities. Microsoft will continue to invest in and support Skype clients on non-Microsoft platforms. The acquisition will increase the accessibility of real-time video and voice communications, bringing benefits to both consumers and enterprise users and generating significant new business and revenue opportunities. The combination will extend Skype’s world-class brand and the reach of its networked platform, while enhancing Microsoft’s existing portfolio of real-time communications products and services.
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