Monday, October 29, 2012

Office 365 for Enterprise Service Description Updates

The Office 365 Services Descriptions have been updated in October 2012 - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13602
If you want to get further details of the changes since you last read them – please read this - http://community.office365.com/en-us/wikis/office_365_service_updates/974.aspx
Some ones you should be aware of are:
  • New Office Web Apps features in SharePoint are being released!
  • Dirsync Scoping and Filtering is now supported – this is great so you do have to sync up your entire directory.
  • There is new Interop to work with Third Party Identity Solutions (or STS servers)
  • New PDF Viewing through browser.
There are a few other things as well. I highly recommend adding an RSS feed to this wikipage.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Office 365 Dedicated Service Descriptions Updated - October 2012

The Office 365 Dedicated Service Descriptions have all been updated for October 2012 - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=18128
The What’s New document nets out all of the latest changes. Some highlights are:
  • Personal Archiving for email is now available in dedicated giving each end user 100 GB of storage on top of their primary mailbox.
  • WAN accelerator support.
  • Note – content migrations for SharePoint Online has changed.
  • There are some additional new Lync Online capabilities around reporting, archiving, devices and voice.

Monday, October 1, 2012

SharePoint 2013 Training Videos

Are you a SharePoint professional trying to get a jump start on SharePoint 2013? If so, here are two links to a ton of videos on SharePoint 2013 to jumpstart you. I have been getting my through the material and is really good. It covers architecture changes, new features, new development practices, new infrastructure / deployment, etc.