What is Microsoft BPOS?

Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite is a set of Microsoft hosted messaging and collaboration solutions including Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, and Microsoft Office Communications Online.

These online services are designed to give your business streamlined communication with high availability, comprehensive security, and simplified IT management.

Scale with Web-based Services

When your company subscribes to one or more of the services, it connects to the rich interactivity of on-premises client and server applications with the flexibility and scalability of Web-based services.

Because Microsoft hosts the services, it reduces your company's need to maintain IT services on site.

Software + Services

Many organizations today are moving to this "software-plus-services" model, because it decreases the need to manage hardware and software.

Features of the Business Productivity Online Suite

• Full Version - Is a set of Microsoft hosted communication solutions SharePoint 2007 Online, Microsoft Exchange 2007, Live Meeting Standard, and Office Communications and pay less for Microsoft Online Services than with standalone costs.
  
  
  • Business Productivity Online Standard Suite ( BPOS ) ($10 per user, per month)
    
        
    

• Economy Version - Is a set of low cost reduced feature Microsoft hosted communication solutions of SharePoint and Microsoft Exchange.
  
  
  • Business Productivity Suite Deskless Worker ($3 per user, per month)
    
        
    
    
    

• E-mail and calendar functions - Exchange Online delivers e-mail services including spam filtering, anti-virus protection, and synchronization of mobile devices. Through Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access, you can use the advanced e-mail, calendar, contact, and task management features of Exchange Online. Office Outlook Web Access enables users to access their e-mail messages from almost any browser-whether the user is in the office or on the road.
  
  
• E-mail coexistence and migration tools - The Business Productivity Online Suite includes e-mail coexistence and migration tools. If you have Active Directory directory services and Microsoft Exchange Server, the Microsoft Online Services Directory Synchronization tool synchronizes your user accounts, contacts, and groups from your local environment to Microsoft Online Services. This tool also makes your Microsoft Exchange Global Address List (GAL) available in Exchange Online. Use the Microsoft Online Services Migration Tools to forward copies of your Exchange Server mail to your Exchange Online mailboxes. You can also use the Migration Tools to copy content from your Exchange Server, POP3, or IMAP4 e-mail server mailboxes to your Exchange Online mailboxes.
  
  
  • Exchange Server 2007 Online Standard ($5 per user, per month)
    
    
    
    
  • Exchange Online Deskless Worker Standard
    (Low cost limited feature hosted enterprise messaging solution based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007)
    
    
    
    

• Document collaboration and workspaces - SharePoint Online allows you to share and work together on documents, maintain version control for shared documents, create intranet sites to manage projects and project workflows, post calendar information, and set up wikis and blogs.
  
  
  • SharePoint 2007 Online Standard ($5.25 per user, per month)
    
    
    
    
  • SharePoint Online Deskless Worker Standardandard
    (Low cost reduced feature hosted enterprise collaboration solution based on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007)
    
    
    
    

• Web conferencing - Office Live Meeting allows you to hold online meetings with colleagues, customers, and partners in real time. Office Live Meeting participants can convene online to share documents, ask questions, work on a virtual "whiteboard," and talk to each other during the meeting.
  
  
• Microsoft Online Services Administration Center - The Administration Center gives you an online management portal to manage your services and users. From the Administration Center, service administrators can import multiple user accounts, use e-mail migration tools, create distribution lists, create SharePoint site collections, and submit service requests to Microsoft Online Services Technical Support.
  
  
• Microsoft Online Services Sign In application - The Sign In application is a tool that automatically sets up services and allows users to access all of their services with no need to sign in each time they use them. The Sign In application is available from both the Administration Center and My Company Portal.
  
  
  • Office Live Meeting Standard ($4.50 per user, per month)
    
    
    
    
    

• Robust instant messaging - Office Communications Online Enable users to find and rapidly connect with the right person from the applications they use most. Office Communications Online provides streamlined access to rich presence and instant messaging capabilities that are centrally managed by IT and work seamlessly with a range of Microsoft Office system programs.
  
  
  • Office Communications Server 2007 Online Standard ($2 per user, per month)
    
    
    

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