Office365 Canada
We work for Microsoft Canada and are responsible for the Office365 business in central Canada. We talk with our customers about Office365 every day and we use this blog to share our experiences. We hope you find it useful.
Office 365 Service Descriptions : Your questions answered
95% of feature/function questions we get are answered in the service descriptions here...
Date: 04/30/2012
Office365 vs Google : A day in the life
https://www.whymicrosoft.com/en-us/compare-demo/Pages/a-day-in-the-life-finance.aspx
Date: 04/17/2012
Tour Lync Online from a Users Persective
Great Lync Tour Video...
Date: 04/13/2012
Amazing Collection of Office365 Resources
Check this out!!! Mindmap and amazing list of Office365 links...
Date: 04/13/2012
FAQ :. How do I tune the performance of our migration to Exchange Online?
This is a common question for most customers, so have a read of our latest whitepaper on migration...
Date: 04/03/2012
Go large with Sharepoint Online : 25TB for 24 cents per GB
Have you been waiting for enterprise cloud services to evolve so that you can put large ammounts of...
Date: 03/29/2012
Suffering from PST HELL?
Check out the new archiving capabilies in Exchange Online and Office 365 to give your users...
Date: 03/13/2012
Worried about bandwidth?
Looking into the cloud and worried about bandwidth planning with all the traffic going outside your...
Date: 03/12/2012
FAQ : Where can I find Office365 case studies?
Right here...
Date: 03/12/2012
If you use a free or consumer grade service, are you the customer or the product?
For many free services (and this includes enterprise services that are thinly rebranded consumer...
Date: 03/09/2012
Do your ideas deserve better?
Great video https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LxcRAmlQ-6c
Date: 03/08/2012
So how are you different?
This question comes up a lot, and I categorise it in 3 points 1. The cloud on your terms : we can do...
Date: 03/01/2012
Are you missing something important?
For valentines day, remember that style matters...
Date: 02/13/2012
Want a 1GB inbox with mobility support? How does $2.35 per month sound?
We've just added new features to our kiosk offering that make it even more compelling : you get a...
Date: 02/13/2012
Using Blackberry? How would you like Office365 email for free
Following on the heels of a successful Open Beta program, RIM has announced that their BlackBerry...
Date: 02/02/2012
Tutorial :. Office 365 and BlackBerries
The release of RIM’s upcoming BES in the cloud, BlackBerry Cloud Services (BBCS), is just...
Date: 01/09/2012
L.A. won't put LAPD on Google's cloud-based email system
Read for yourself here...
Date: 12/15/2011
New Security and Privacy controls in Office365
The Offfice365 Trust Center provides information on our new Security and Privacy controls and...
Date: 12/15/2011
First Major Service Update for Office365 Released
Adds Lync for Mac, Windows Phone 7.5 support, Sharepoint BCS and more Check it out...
Date: 12/01/2011
Attend our Enterprise Virtual Productivity Summit Tomorrow
You can attend from anywhere and access a rich online experience where to learn about our Future of...
Date: 11/28/2011
Download Lync for Mac 2011 today!
Date: 11/16/2011
FAQ : Can I Connect Sharepoint Online with other applications?
Yes, and this is a scenario that we will be growing over the coming months. Steve Fox has a great...
Date: 11/14/2011
Can you do this : Edit documents anywhere without corrupting them?
Seems pretty fundamental, right? If you are going to provide document editing capability across...
Date: 11/14/2011
FAQ : Can I use Sharepoint Online for my Extranet?
Yes you can, and you do not need extra licences for the first 50 external users (as that is included...
Date: 11/11/2011
Tutorial :. Office 365 on your iPhone/iPad?
With the latest mango update for WP7, we showcased the seamless integration with Office 365. This...
Date: 11/11/2011
Customer Story : Faculty saves 40% with Office365
“Microsoft Online Services helped us reduce our total cost of ownership for email by 40...
Date: 11/10/2011
Want to get off of Google Apps?
If you are using Google Apps and would like to upgrade to Office365, you should register for our...
Date: 11/10/2011
Cloud law in Canada
There is a new site (not affiliated with Microsoft) that provides an open discussion of the cloud...
Date: 11/10/2011
FAQ :. What ActiveSync policies are supported by Office 365?
So you have heard that we support a wide spectrum of smartphone platforms including BlackBerries,...
Date: 11/09/2011
FAQ :. Does Office 365 have any training content for OWA and Outlook?
Yes absolutely! Among the ones in the public domain, below are my Top 3 Customer Recommended...
Date: 11/09/2011
FAQ : Whats inside the Datacenter containers?
The ITPACs that we're using at our generation 4 datacenters are something that I find amazing - this...
Date: 11/09/2011
Tutorial :. Lync for Mac 2011 and Office 365
Recently we released the new Lync client for the Macintosh platform and customers have asked if it...
Date: 11/09/2011
ITPro : Office365 Support Made Simple
Today we launch the Office365 DIY Troubleshooter : the Troubleshooter pinpoints key technical...
Date: 11/08/2011
FAQ : Does Office365 support Blackberry?
Yes through BIS for email and through RIMs upcoming Business Cloud Service for full BES...
Date: 11/08/2011
ITPro : Downloadable Office365 Video Demos
Do you want to evangelise Office365 in your organisation, or want to include some video in a...
Date: 11/08/2011
Customer Story : My favorite Sushi Bar saves 40% and hopes never to buy a server again
When I lived in the UK I used to go to YO! Sushi a lot, so I just loved this quote from their IT...
Date: 11/08/2011
Customer Story : 70% Savings generated via Office365
"With Office 365, we get a unified solution to handle e-mail, planning, collaboration, unified...
Date: 11/08/2011
FAQ : What is the Service Availability of Office365?
A common question I get is around what our service availability is and about how we handle any...
Date: 11/08/2011
Customer Story : Unified Communications in the Cloud
“With Lync Online, we can retire the WebEx service and our internal videoconferencing systems....
Date: 11/07/2011
Hybrid Cloud : On-Premise Lync with Exchange Online
One of the unique capabilities of Office365 is the ability to deliver a seamless hybrid cloud, so...
Date: 11/07/2011
Clouds and Condos
Check out John Weigelt's piece on clouds and condos as a metaphor - very helpful in understanding...
Date: 11/07/2011
FAQ : For email I'm running _________ and I want to migrate to Office365
Fill in the blank! We provide native migration and coexistence options for Exchange Server and IMAP...
Date: 11/07/2011
Can you do this? Use Office on your phone
I mean really use Office2010 - OneNote, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, with full document fidelity,...
Date: 11/07/2011
Office 365 Support Numbers : When you need to talk to someone right NOW!
Main Office 365 Support Number: (800) 865-9408 General Online Services Support (All Online Services...
Date: 11/04/2011
FAQ : Who is using Office365?
All of these companies have made the journey to the cloud with Microsoft. The List grows daily....
Date: 11/03/2011
ITPros : Add Office365 to your resume
Trying to determine what’s involved in migrating to Office 365? The Microsoft Virtual Academy...
Date: 11/03/2011
How will you be productive in 5-10 years?
Have a look at what we think it will look like : we've done a few of these, but this one is my...
Date: 11/03/2011
FAQ : Can you implement legal hold in Office365?
Yes. I had this question again yesterday so I thought I'd cover it off today. Litigation hold, also...
Date: 11/03/2011