TSLS – Luke Smith

BPOS Exchange things you think you can’t do but really can;

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

Many organisations are now moving from on-premises messaging and collaboration to a hosted solution (cloud computing).

Quest Software have released the following Microsoft BPOS Migration tools to expedite this process:

• Migrating from Lotus Notes and Novell GroupWise to Exchange Online
• Migrating from Lotus Notes, SharePoint, file shares, and Exchange public folders to SharePoint Online
• Migrating from Lotus Sametime to Office Communications Online (coming soon)
• Pre Migration test tools

The Microsoft BPOS solution already contains Migration tools for Microsoft Exchange, POP3 and Active Directory.

for more information on the quest software please see here: http://www.quest.com/bpos/

for a 30 day trial of Microsoft BPOS please click here

ICS Are running several BPOS Seminar over the coming months

The seminars will cover:

• Introduction to ICS Solutions and BPOS Advantage Program
• Microsoft’s vision for Online Services
• BPOS business case
• BPOS product overview
• BPOS Exchange drilldown and demo
• BPOS SharePoint drilldown and demo
• BPOS OCS drilldown and demo
• BPOS LiveMeeting drilldown and demo
• BPOS Launch offers and next steps

Speakers from Microsoft and ICS

For more information please see: http://www.microsoftbpos.net/seminars.aspx

To trial Microsoft BPOS for 30 days click here