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MICROSOFT ONLINE SERVICES

Some call it cloud computing and others call it hosted services...either way this is service based technology that your company needs to understand and take advantage of!

Below is a quick overview of the services and links to access them.

Email is one of the most critical services a company uses. A smaller company often chooses not to have a physical email server on site due to complexity or management issues. So they use an ISP to host it for them. That is often great, but has limitations on how Outlook works (calendar and contact sharing, etc.)

Microsoft Services:

	Hosted Exchange
	Hosted SharePoint
	Business Productivity Suite
	Hosted Live Meetings
	Hosted Communication Server

Enter Exchange Online from Microsoft. This is a simple service that includes SPAM filtering, mail account and Outlook Web Access - which looks almost exactly like the software you run on your PC but you only need a web page to get to it.

Another hosted service is called SharePoint Online and it is fantastic for sharing of large documents between a team of people that are outside of your physical office (think users that have laptops, or business partners that you collaborate with.) SharePoint is a web based place to share work. It use to require that you download software and run it on your hardware which is sometimes difficult to set up. Not anymore. It can be purchased for a very small monthly fee

There are several other services - give ACE a call to walk through the details or take a look at them in further detail at the Microsoft purchasing site. If you have more general product questions Microsoft has a new site with more pre-sales detail...click here. Once you have reviewed the products and have more questions or need a details quote, ACE is here to help.

Links to logon:

	User access to email and other services
	Company access to administer user accounts
	Buy and manage services during initial setup
	Free Microsoft Workspace trial - similar to SharePoint

Additional Links:

Microsoft Online - Details Tech HOW-TO docs: click here.

Microsoft web site for small businesses
(This site can give more details on the individual and online products.)

Microsoft LIVE

	SkyDrive Login: click here ** Note: you will need a Windows Live Login to access this area online... it is free to create.
	Workspace login: click here **Note: Workspace accounts are being migrated to SkyDrive accounts that give FREE access to create WORK, EXCEL and other document types online without installing any version of MS Office locally!

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