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Office 365 – Spam Protection

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 [...]

SharePoint Workspace – Work anyplace, anytime!

While SharePoint has many ways for users to edit documents offline it has always been a tedious process. First users have to open SharePoint, find the document or documents they plan to work on, download the document to their desktop/laptop, make edits offline and re-upload them to the document library when they are back online. [...]

Office 365 System Requirements

In every migration we have completed so far the biggest challenge for our clients has been getting the system requirements ready for Office 365. The best advice I can offer is to understand what is required and begin updating workstations as quickly and as early in the process as possible. I’d also like to point [...]

Office 365 vs. Google Apps

As of June 26th Office 365 was officially released to the public. For the the official announcement as well as a demo of some really neat features here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/office/ Since it is available to the public I thought it would be a great time to discuss why O365 is a superior offering to Google Apps. [...]

Microsoft Office 365: A “Tales From The Trenches” Roundtable Webcast

Featuring Planet’s Office 365 specialists Jorge Diaz and Mike Crowley, and Microsoft’s Cloud Technologies Architect Dennis Guzy. The long awaited release of Microsoft Office 365 has arrived. Now what? As nice as it would be to flip a switch to perform your migration, we all know the process is a bit more involved. So, how [...]