Ok – this is a cool send up video from Microsoft relating to Cloud Technology, but could easily also be of your average SMB IT reseller out there (not the SMB IT Professionals though). You know – the guy operating out of the boot of his car, offering the lowest cost for services that barely exist… yeah – those guys. Anyway – take a look and have a laugh … [Read more...]
Why was Office 365, Hotmail and SkyDrive down yesterday?
Yesterday, Microsoft suffered a global outage of not only Office 365, but also other services such as Hotmail and SkyDrive. This outage went on for around 3 hours during which users with their applications and data stored in the cloud could not access it at all. During the outage, Microsoft continued to relay information via their Office365 twitter account and … [Read more...]
The cloud is dead… Office 365 Down, Hotmail Down
Reports are coming in that Office 365 is down – it’s down at least 30 minutes now based on some reports from the USA and testing here in Australia mimics that. Interestingly Hotmail is also down. I’m so glad I’m running SBS 2011 STANDARD edition today Reports first came in to me via Harry Brelsford as he was planning to move some of his team into Office365. … [Read more...]
Office 365 – Free Book
This was released last week – one of the first free books on Office 365. This book covers everything from getting started with Office 365 through to administration, and how to handle the more advanced things in Office 365 such as real time communication, and collaboration with Office 2010 Web Apps. There is a complete table of contents here if you want to read more … [Read more...]
All the answers on Office 365
Last week I highlighted 3 videos from Microsoft on how Office 365 works with SBS 2011 Essentials here, here and here. This week we need to look a little deeper into Office 365 to see if it’s right for your business or your customers business. Like any new product released, there’s often a lot of hidden bits that you don’t find out until it’s too late. This site was … [Read more...]