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BPOS for ELAP … the other communication services

Posted on December 20, 2010 by John

The Office Communicator is probable the most confusing part of the trial due to the architecture which allows for the incompatibility of the on-premise and online services. Also, depending the the previous steps that have been taken in the trial, the OS on the computer and the version of the .Net Framework currently installed, you will have to rely on intuition and your previous experiences to determine what steps you need to take to get Communicator function. Once installed and configured correctly, Communicator functions as expected. Continue reading →

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BPOS for ELAP … Exchange Online

Posted on December 18, 2010 by John

In the previous post in the BPOS series, I gave an overview of the service offering and covered the steps that I took to set up a 30 day free trial of the entire BPOS Suite: Exchange, Communicator, LiveMeeting and SharePoint. This post … Continue reading →

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BPOS for ELAP … the trial begins

Posted on December 17, 2010 by John

Microsoft offers a 30 day trial of their Business Productivity Online Service (BPOS) directly or they will put you in touch with a local partner organization. I visited the Microsoft Online Services site at http://www.microsoft.com/online/ to get product information and searched for a … Continue reading →

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eLearning – Configuring and Troubleshooting Internet Information Services 7.0 in Windows Server 2008

Posted on December 15, 2010 by John

I recently completed a Microsoft eLearning course collection on Internet Information Server v7.0 in Windows Server 2008. There are twelve courses in the collection including the following topics: Installation, Administration, Security, SMTP, and FTP.

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BPOS for ELAP

Posted on December 10, 2010 by John

A single license (5 minimum) for Exchange Online is $5.00 per month (1 year committment) with a 25GB mailbox and all the other stuff that you get in Exchange including connecting to your Outlook client and the Outlook Web Access application. For a 5 person operation, the yearly cost is $300 for the entire organization.
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eLearning – Fundamentals of a Windows 2008 Network Infrastructure

Posted on December 5, 2010 by John

I just completed my first  Microsoft online, eLearning collection – 6420: Fundamentals of a Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure and Application Platform. There were ten 2-hour courses included in the collections. Since this was an overview of infrastructure particularly networking, much emphasis was placed … Continue reading →

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Windows 7 RC Test Drive

Posted on November 7, 2010 by John

This is a bit dated but I thought I would include it in one of the firs posts on this site. Microsoft has been working on a successor OS for Windows XP for a long time – longer than anyone expected. … Continue reading →

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