Product Insights: Exchange Online in Office 365

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Bank stamp — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:04:23 GMT

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Pat F — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:04:06 GMT

With the online Exchange, I have a client this could be perfect. The features listed would be of GREAT benefit, including the SPAM and AV of the content. The few items which I need to understand further are retention of email, IM archiving and searching of said content. Currently they archive with a retention policy of 5 yearsAlso for IM would need to have the same retention policies applied. The IM communications include both internal and external (AOL, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo!, Jabber, and Google Talk). . They are in the financial industry and are required to do so for compliance. Also the compliance officer would need to be able to search ALL archived content when called to do so.

Can Exchange and the Lync products combine to solve this?

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Allen Filush — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:03:44 GMT

@Mike120: I cant really provide any real information on that point. You'll just have to grab a beta and find out. Unfortunately I can't make your internet any faster :)

@RJ: I think this is a Powershell feature? If so, Office 365 support Powershell with Exchange Online. You can read more here at our service descriptions: www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx

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RJ — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:03:19 GMT

We would like to join the Office 365 beta and are particularly focused on the Exchange server functionality but I need to get explicit confirmation that the "ApplicationImpersonation Role" will be fully functional as compared to our internal hosted Exchange 2010 SP1 implementation. Thanks.

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Mike120 — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:03:06 GMT

I'm very interested in moving to Office 265 but I'm concerned about how well it will work with the bandwidth/latency issues from being out in the sticks and having to rely on Hughesnet. I've looked through all the blogs, etc but have not seen that issue addressed.

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Allen Filush — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:02:39 GMT

To be honest Powershell is my weak spot of knowledge, so you'll have to forgive me. I believe so, if you can do it today with Exchange Server, you should be able to do it with Exchange Online.

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Erich S. — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:02:28 GMT

@Allen_MSFT: Thanks Allen. I am wondering if configuring blocked/allowed device IDs can be done programmatically though.

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Allen Filush — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:02:01 GMT

@Coach Dalsberg: OS: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), 10.5 (Leopard), 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

Browser: Safari 4.x

Lync Client is not yet available with Office 365

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Allen Filush — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:01:49 GMT

@Erich: this option is available withing the admin console for both offers, you don't need PowerShell at all.

@Siggy: I think there is a blog post yesterday that can help, see our BlackBerry and Office 365 post from March 16.

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Coach Dalsberg — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:01:30 GMT

What I am most curious about is how it work in a MAC environment. BPOS and Macs are a nightmare.