Today RIM officially announced the release of the Blackberry Business Cloud Services for Office 365. The official release can be found here. With this announcement I thought it would be appropriate to post a walk though of the service and how it works compared to the on-premises solution. This guest-blog was written by a good [...]
Please join me on Thursday November 3rd at 1PM EST for an Office 365 Grid sponsored ‘Lync and Learn’ session I’ll be running. Below is the agenda for the Lync and Learn session: Proper planning is the key to success Understanding critical key components Setting Expectations Impacts of AD FS Changes to UPN’s New Features [...]
OK so I have to admit I am a little late with my post, but I have been buried in Exchange migrations all week so cut me some slack J. It is official as of a few days ago that the Blackberry beta has been opened up to the public: http://press.rim.com/release.jsp?id=5261 While I am not [...]
As everyone knows Office 365 protects its users from spam and viruses by the Forefront Online Protection for Exchange suite or FOPE. FOPE is also offered as a standalone option for customers looking to host their scanning in the Cloud. For those of you not familiar with FOPE and its features I’d like to review [...]
In a recent discussion I had with a colleague I uncovered some information about how passwords are handled in a non-SSO environment that I was unaware of. As everyone already knows Office 365 can work with SSO or can continue to function as BPOS did with a separate password and password policy than your Active [...]
