Microsoft will be bringing some nice new capabilities to BPOS in the near future. According to the MS Online Services Team Blog these capabilities will be in preview later this year.
Office Web Apps Updates
- Word Web App
- Excel Web App
- PowerPoint Web App
- OneNote Web App
Exchange Online Updates
- Voice mail with Unified Messaging
- Integrated archiving
- Retention policies and legal hold
- Transport rules
- Multi-mailbox search
- Conversation View
- MailTips
- Enhanced Web-based administration
- Role-Based Access Control
- Remote PowerShell (yeah!!)
- Free/busy between cloud and on-premises
- Cross-premises management
- Native migration tools
SharePoint Online Updates
- Portal site templates
- Extranet access
- Anonymous Access
- Multi-Lingual UI
- Office 2010 integration
- Tagging, Rating, Tag Cloud
- Activity Feed, Social Networking, Note Board
- Improved Wikis & Blogs
- Content publishing
- Navigation controls
- Cross site-collection search
- Phonetic search
- People search
- Visio Services
- Excel Services
- Sandboxed Solutions
- Improved workflows
- Improved SharePoint Designer 2010
- Access Services
- Better controls of FQDNs
Office Communications Online Updates
- P2P A/V across firewall
- File transfer across firewall
- Presence with pictures
- Federation
- IM with Windows Live
Additional features will be available based on Communications Server “14” as part of ongoing service updates.
Platform Updates
- Free/Busy co-existence
- Single Sign On (again yeah!!)
- Identity federation
- Redesigned admin interface
- More administration and access control
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