BPOS Health Status dashboard

(Stephen Parker, Head of Cloud Strategy) Following the recent embarrassing down time for BPOS services Microsoft are now offering a Health Status Dashboard.  Morgan Cole the man who “leads the team at Microsoft whose mission is to make sure that BPOS customers have a great experience” explains about the dashboard and thinking behind it here. …

Using distribution lists to provide email forwarding in BPOS

Following my earlier post about BPOS and the lack of forwarding capability I carried out some further research and contacted the BPOS help team (who I have to say were very responsive once I worked out they were working to US timezone hours – the time zone issue will have to be addressed when the …

Microsoft BPOS – positive start, but some odd bits missing (no email forwarding rules)

I have been following BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite) for some time since presentations in Redmond back in 2007.  This is Microsoft’s move into the direct provisioning of hosted versions of Exchange, Sharepoint and Live Meeting (Office Communications also on the list but not generally available).  And after a North America only launch in 2008 …

Cloud Storage and Windows Home Server

I have recently started playing with Windows Home Server [WHS] (maybe share my experiences, which have been largely positive, another day) and regularly check out the We Got Served site run by Terry Walsh for WHS related news. He posted an article about trusting ISP’s to backup your data and it got me thinking about …