Posts Tagged ‘BPOS

Peter de Haas just posted a presentation over at SlideShare.net. This presentation is an effort to provide the ultimate list of information about all topics relevant to Microsoft Online Services. Below the presentation, thx to Peter de Haas.

Microsoft Online Services The Ultimate List
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Original link: here

Microsoft announced @ the 8th annual MS US Public Sector CIO Summit some important enhancements and certifications that raises the  security and privacy for BPOS. Below a summary of the changes announced:

BPOS meets a wide variety of industry standards and certifications, including International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001, Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) 70 Type [...]

From the Microsoft Online Services Team Blog.
Microsoft Online Services is now a BlackBerry® certified partner and BlackBerry Alliance Elite Member. For the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite, licenses and support are now a part of the Microsoft Online Services Hosted BlackBerry service, which customers buy directly from Microsoft. Previously, customers had to purchase and provide [...]

On Mary-Jo Foley’s blog  there is a blog item which states that Microsoft is working on a “BPOS Lite” productivity/collaboration suite that is aimed at small/mid-size businesses (SMBs).
This rumor is based on some Bing searches she did for ”BPOS Lite”. If you would like to find out more, you can read the article here

Jim Glynn demonstrates how to connect your Windows Mobile phone to Exchange Online.

You can configure the End-User Notification whenever a new version of the Microsoft Online Sign-In application is released. This is useful if you want to control whether you want your end-users to receive a notification or not.
For example: a End-User who has no rights to install anything on his computer doesn’t want to be bothered [...]

MessageOps has released a nice script which you can use to notify your BPOS users when their Online Passwords are about to expire.
Hereby a copy of the script. Original source here
#Microsoft Online Password Expiration Notification Script # #Written By:Chad Mosman, MessageOps, www.messageops.com [...]

If your want to manage the settings inside de Microsoft Online Sign-In Client (used with BPOS) through Group Policies, you can download a Active Directory Group Policy Object here.
As stated on the Microsoft Online Services Team Blog: This file is provided as-is and is not supported.  It has been tested and [...]

BPOS video Presentation

In: BPOS

21 Oct 2009

Something I found by following Peter de Haas via Twitter. A brief video presentation from IT Strategists about BPOS.

According to the BPOSitive blog, SMTP is now enabled for BPOS. If you have some clients who require to send email through your online exchange environment, you can do so now (all info below thanks to BPOSitive).
To connect to the Microsoft Online Services SMTP server, open your SMTP client application and [...]