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The bugs that most people wouldn't know about unless they worked in such a diverse set of end user scenarios day to day. Being knee deep in Office 365 domains for many of our customers on a weekly basis, I am seeing the issues being raised on the front lines in a very raw manner. Not for a minute, however, do I believe Microsoft doesn't have room for improvement. That notion got turned on its head earlier this year, and my feelings about the latest Office 365 for Business ecosystem are pretty positive overall.
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My biggest gripe was that Microsoft was working too hard to cram desktop-first software into a cloud experience that felt half baked in the end. Before the 2013 edition of the suite, I found 365 to be a cluttered "me too" offering that did nothing to differentiate against Google Apps.
Microsoft has indeed come a long way with the service as a whole. Just peruse some of the brutal honesty I wrote about Office 365 in the head to head piece I did against Google Apps back in mid 2012, and you may be shocked about my current viewpoint on the product. And don't get me wrong, I think the platform is leagues better now than it was just a year ago.
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In the next and final part of this series we’ll look at SharePoint Online, what’s different compared to SharePoint on premise as well as a concluding look at Office 365 compared to Google Docs and cloud services in general.When it comes to Office 365, some people think I'm too soft on Microsoft because I'm always writing about the good things I see in the service. Management of Lync Online is a simple affair, mostly because compared to Exchange and SharePoint, Lync doesn’t have the same feature parity with its on premise brother. There’s no archiving of IM in Lync Online, this is available in Lync on premise and could be a deal breaker for some businesses that require it for compliance regulations. The limitation when Lync online doesn’t offer audio/video capabilities due to local laws in some countries is based on each users location, not the tenant location.įor those businesses that would like outbound calling to phones from Lync third party services are available that integrate with Lync Online. You can control access to audio, video and IM file sharing on a per user basis. Administration and phone integration of Lync Online ^Īdministration is done through the Lync Online Control Panel. The other alternative is to create an internal SRV record. There are two ways to fix this one is to create a public global DNS Cname record that points to the 0365 Lync service, this will work for both internal and external clients. Further if your firewall blocks access to public SRV DNS records the Lync client will fail to connect. Your corporate firewall needs to have outbound port 443 (for the STUN/TCP and PSOM/TLS protocols), 3478 (STUN/UDP) and 50000-59999 (RTP/UDP) open, as well as allow outbound connectivity to the *., *. and *. domains. If you need to use phone dial in audio support for public webcasts several third party services are available that support Lync Online. Meeting invitations include the link to the Lync 2010 attendee client for Windows, other platforms can use the web based interface, there’s a Mac client coming “very soon after launch”. Web conferencing ^Īnother popular feature is web conferencing or one to many presentations, these can be scheduled or ad hoc and the maximum amount of attendees is 250.
Setting up IM federation in Office 365 is easy but we’re waiting for integration with more IM networks. There’s also an option to enable IM federation with the Live Messenger network as well as Lync and Office Communications Server 2007 /2007 R2 implementations on premise. Lync Online lets you IM outside the organisation, the administrator can either enable federation with all other O365 tenants with the option to blacklist certain companies or only enable federation with selected companies.
LWA offers IM and desktop sharing but there’s no audio and video support. There’s also a Lync Web App (LWA) that is supported in IE, Firefox and Safari which requires Silverlight.
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The Lync client is a separate installation to Office Pro Plus and you need to run the Desktop Setup tool after its installation to configure settings. Unlike Live Messenger and Facebook this presence information is gathered from your Outlook calendar as well as when you manually set it.
Just like most other IM clients you simply search the directory to add buddies and their presence is displayed.
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Today there’s no Lync client for your smartphone but an app for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7 is coming before the end of the year. Lync client applications & IM federation ^
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