Monthly Archives: August 2011

A new Office 365 beta program just started. #Office365

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The Password Reset Beta is now open for nominations.

Microsoft’s engineering team has been working on a solution to enable self-reset of your password. And they are now seeking a number of small, medium, and large organizations from all geographies (i.e., US and International).

To nominate yourself for the beta, please send a message to Office 365 Self Service Password Reset Beta Signup. Please include:

  • Name of the organization
  • Number of seats/users
  • Location (Americas/EMEA/APAC)
  • Language for both service and cell phone
  • Administrative/beta contact name and e-mail address
  • Number of Office 365 Administrators in the organization
  • Office 365 Administrators use single sign on (federated identities) (Yes/No)

Source http://community.office365.com/en-us/b/office_365_technical_blog/archive/2011/08/26/password-reset-beta.aspx

Office Communications Online has a two hour maintenance window on Saturday

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This post is a reminder that Microsoft Online Services has maintenance scheduled for this weekend.

Office Communications Online has a two hour maintenance window on Saturday, 8/27, between 1AM GMT and 3AM GMT. During this time, the service may be unavailable for a 10 minute period.

We will deliver minor patch updates to the Americas Region BPOS Exchange Online service on Friday, 8/26, between 4AM and 10AM GMT, and Saturday, 8/27, between 4AM GMT and 10AM GMT. We expect minimal customer impact during this time.

Between 3PM GMT Saturday, 8/27, and 3PM GMT Sunday, 8/28 , the billing portion of Microsoft Online Services will undergo planned maintenance.

While we’re updating the system, the following services won’t be available:

  • Purchasing new subscriptions or addition of additional licenses
  • Conversion of trial to paid subscriptions/offers
  • Viewing of monthly charges or final invoices
  • Viewing or modification of credit card or invoice information.

The following services will NOT be affected by this maintenance:

  • All product services (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Office Communications Online)
  • Managing existing BPOS subscriptions

Thanks for your patience while we make important service improvements.

Lync Mobile news from TechEd NZ – #Lync #WP7 #iOS #Android

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Sam Sabri reports on the Go Windows Go blog with a video of Lync mobile, they didn’t show any news, but the talks are worth to hear for some new details on functions and whats coming in future releases.

More info and a short video

http://www.gowindowsgo.com/2011/08/24/lync-coming-to-wp7/

 

Looking forward to Q4 btw

Some Lync live webcasts are coming -#Lync

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Anew Webcast Series are coming  in the September / October timeframe and its being presented by Byron Spurlock.

9/16/2011 10:00:00 AM – Deep Dive: Lync Server 2010 Edge Servers
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032492168&Culture=en-US

9/23/2011 10:00:00 AM – Microsoft Lync 2010 High Availability and Resiliency
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032492171&Culture=en-US

10/7/2011 10:00:00 AM – Microsoft Lync 2010 Voice Deployment
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032492173&Culture=en-US

10/14/2011 10:00:00 AM – Deep Dive: Lync Server 2010 Conferencing
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032492176&Culture=en-US

 

From Harold Wong http://blogs.technet.com/b/haroldwong/archive/2011/08/22/upcoming-lync-server-2010-webcasts-by-byron-spurlock.aspx

Support for the Microsoft unified communications clients in Application Virtualization environments

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The support statement on application virtualization for the older clients (Microsoft Office Communicator 2005, Microsoft Office Communicator 2007, Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2, and Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007) just got updated.

Read more: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951152/en-us?sd=rss&spid=924