In light of the Microsoft WPC and the big push for Cloud computing, I thought it would be intresting in find out peoples reactions to Hosting SharePoint 2010 in the cloud rather than On-Premise (and also to see how many people read my blog)
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Company wide footers (Disclaimers)
How, Open a service request in the Admin Centre supplying them with the footer you require
Transfer more than 1GB worth
One of the reason you will see this documented is because when BPOS Exchange was originally launched the Mailbox size was limited to 1GB, by default an email account can now be 25GB (you can add to this as well), however you should make sure your mailboxes are less than 1GB for performance reason (sending to BPOS and caching to client) and in some circumstances large mailboxes could become corrupt while transferring
Transfer speed limited to 2GB per hour
I have found that the transfer speed is only limited by your Internet connection, that’s not to say in the future it won’t be.
Synchronise your local domain user passwords
There are now several third-party tools, which allow you to sync your user passwords into BPOS, the following is list of the few I know;
http://www.messageops.com/passwordsync.html
https://sites.google.com/a/cloudtoolkit.com/apps/tools/auth-magic-for-microsoft-online
NB: MS does not support these
Disabled Password expiry
How, Open a service request in the Admin Centre asking for this to be disabled
SMTP Relay
When BPOS Exchange was originally released SMTP relay was not enabled as of August 2010 the was enabled
Fax and SMS
There is now a third-party tool by fenestrae, which allows you to integrate Fax, and SMS send
http://www.fenestrae.com/fax-bpos
NB: MS does not support this
BPOS Pricing Updated http://www.tsls.co.uk/index.php/2009/04/27/microsoft-bpos-pricing/
Are you a hosting Company? Intrested in providing a SharePoint 2010 Platform to new and exsisting clients then I would strongly suggest reading the documentation avalible on Microsoft.com
This white paper provides the hosting community with an overview of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and the underlying Microsoft SharePoint Foundation components, and provides detailed architectural guidance to support the multi-tenancy requirements of hosters. Although this document can be used by anyone to gain an understanding of many key features in SharePoint 2010 Products, it focuses on how these new features affect and support the hosting community.
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=ddc&ReleaseId=4297
Sharepoint Alertz BBC News