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Brettblog.com - A BPOS community in the making

The last 3 years, my life has been Business Productivity Online Suite up close and personal. I worked at Microsoft on the BPOS team as the program manger in charge of technical readiness for Microsoft Partners. In that time I produced labs, whitepapers, training classes, lecutures, kits, and webcasts based on the current platform of BPOS. (See the Quick Reference tab for links to some of this content). I also created the reasonably popular BPOSitive blog on technet.

Now, I've moved on from Microsoft and am building out content related to BPOS for end users, small business, and partners. My goal is create a non-Microsoft hosted BPOS centric portal for the BPOS community where we can exchange information, resources, tips, and details about the biggest change in business in a long, long time - cloud services. Feel free to ask questions, post topics, and make suggestions.

Enjoy! - brett at brettblog.com
 

 

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Sending Email to SharePoint Online: MessageOps SharePoint Bridge

Emailing to SharePoint Online with MessageOps SharePoint Bridge

MessageOps just released a new utility (in beta) that allows you to send email to a SharePoint Online list. This capability is not built in to the product but can be achieved with  the combined use of Exchange Web Services and SharePoint Web Services running on premises. This product is a significant change from their previous SharePoint Bridge product as it required Outlook to run. This version stands alone and so allows you to setup a mailbox that is continuously monitored and when email arrives, posts the mail to SharePoint Online.

MessageOps is doing a great deal for the BPOS community. They don't have to create these tools. Most partners don't. But they are willing to fill these rather large gaps in functionality left by Microsoft - to their credit. This of course brings up the entire discussion of why Microsoft leaves these big holes for partners to fill. After all, password reset functions without administrator intervention is not exactly and edge case scenerio. There are plenty of other places to improve, but I for one am really glad that MessageOps continues to innovate and provide really useful solutions for BPOS.

-brett

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More Fun with SPO: Using Excel and Access with SharePoint Online

 

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Using SharePoint Online Slide Library

A demo of a very cool feature supported in OfficePro Plus and Enterprise

 

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Selling cloud through a channel - the way to go?

Kamesh Pemmaraju at Sandhill.com thinks so. In his recent post Winning Channel Strategies for the Cloud, Part I he concludes "Cloud companies have gained successes on the back of the cost savings, rapid innovation, and easy to use value propositions compared to their on-premise predecessors. But for them to really create a massive exodus of companies towards the cloud, they have to engage with the Channel" -  A nice piece on the future wave of movement to the cloud. 

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A Glimpse of the future - Crowdsourcing

This REALLY got my attention. As a group process faciliator, I've known for a long time that at any given meeting there is a lot more intellegence at that table than is typically harvested. Here's a look at some major new tech involving collective intellegence and transparancy:

http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/exploring-technological-innova.html

"For the first time, we can bridge the gap between online and the real world," testified Crane. A challenge "thought impossible by the intelligence community using traditional techniques" was solved in 8 hours and 52 minutes, said Crane. "We leveraged the problem-solving capabilities of the participants," said Crane, and "built the infrastructure that allowed others to solve the problem for us." As Brian Ahier pointed out on his blog on healthcare IT, Crane praised Tim O'Reilly's "government as a platform" concept and Gov 2.0 principles in his Senate testimony:

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SharePoint Online- Get productive in 5 mins!

Get productive with SharePoint Online in 5 minutes!

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BPOS Commander!

Recently, a company called BPOS Experts announced a product called BPOS Commander.  The product has made quite a splash and it is the most feature rich BPOS management tool I’ve seen to date.   For example, one of the features built into the tool is the ability to estimate how long it will take to migrate mail.  The estimate is based on live conditions from the mail source to the mail target.   Also, administration features like creating users and changing user passwords, and migration of Exchange Public Folders, SharePoint content, and file share content to SharePoint Online are all built in.

Recently, I had the opportunity to chat with John Liccione, President of BPOS Experts and I took the opportunity to ask him about BPOS Commander.

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