Year: 2011 9 posts
Enabling and disabling DirSync in BPOS and Office 365
If you have some experience with BPOS or the Office 365 Beta, you know there’s a tool called DirSync that allows you to synchronize your Active Directory with Microsoft’s Online Services. During a course last week, I was asked if you can use DirSync temporarily to sync users, contacts and groups and, after migration, turn…
Office 365 and Identity
Microsoft has provided more details about Office 365 and the different identity options in a service description document (link at the bottom of this post). There are two types of identities: Cloud Identity: credentials are separate from your corporate credentials Federated Identity: users can sign in with their corporate Active Directory credentials With BPOS, there…
Office 365 SharePoint Online Storage
Microsoft has recently published updated Office 365 Service Descriptions at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=6c6ecc6c-64f5-490a-bca3-8835c9a4a2ea. The SharePoint Online service description contains some interesting information, some of which I did not know yet. We typically receive a lot of questions about SharePoint online and storage. The list below summarizes the storage related features: The storage pool starts at 10GB with…
How to check that a RemoteFX session was created
When working with RemoteFX, it is not directly obvious in the UI that a RemoteFX session was established. The easiest way to check it is via the Event Viewer on the RDS host. Look for the following event: You will find the above in the Applications and Services logs.
RemoteFX with Remote Desktop Session Host
After reading the Can you connect to a Terminal Server via RemoteFX post on brianmadden.com, I decided to quickly try it out in Xylos’s lab environment. The installation, as expected, is very simple. On a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 system, install the Remote Desktop Services role and the Remote Desktop Session Host role service.…
Windows Intune available on March 23rd
Windows Intune, Microsoft’s cloud-based pc management service will be available for trial and purchase on March 23rd. It will become available in several countries, including Belgium. The service can be acquired for around 11$ per computer per month. This includes a Windows 7 Enterprise license. For 1$ extra, you can acquire MDOP as well which…
BPOS PowerShell Commands
While I am delivering BPOS courses for Microsoft partners, there’s always a lot of interest in using commands to control directory synchronization, the migration tools, provisioning users and so on. Microsoft actually provides several PowerShell cmdlets with the two main tools that come with BPOS: Directory synchronization cmdlets become available when you install the directory…
Enabling Forefront Administration and Quarantine in BPOS
Exchange Online, standalone or as part of BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite), always comes with antivirus and anti-spam protection delivered by Forefront Online Protection for Exchange or FOPE. Mails are always scanned for viruses and, depending on your settings, checked for spam. As a BPOS administrator you can control the anti-spam checking behavior by configuring…
Inviting external users to Office 365 SharePoint Sites
A question I often get while delivering the BPOS courses for partners in Belgium and Luxemburg is how to collaborate with external users on SharePoint sites. In BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite), you can only grant access to users that have an account in the customer’s BPOS subscription and those users consume a license. Although…