Moving users between domains in BPOS

You can attach several domains to your BPOS account. For example, if you’re running a corporation called Contoso, you might want contoso.com and contoso.net. Your user accounts would then be created under one of these domains, e.g. joe@contoso.com. But what if you need to move users between domains? The unfortunate fact is that you can’t […]

September 18, 2010 · Jouni Heikniemi · No Comments
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Too early to talk about Office 2010 “missing the online boat”

In his VentureBeat column, the SlideRocket CEO Chuck Dietrich is ready to bury Office 2010 as a dinosaur incapable of extending to the online world. Given his perspective as the chief of perhaps the most credible PowerPoint competitor, it’s no surprise he attacks PowerPoint. But does he have a point? Dietrich's message is that the […]

November 20, 2009 · Jouni Heikniemi · 5 Comments
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Backing up cloud data (and the cost of mistakes)

Backups are useful for two major purposes: full recovery of everything lost in a hardware failure and partial recovery of something lost due to an user – or developer – error. Cloud providers have strong incentive to do everything to eliminate the first kind of problem, but I fear the second case more. From what […]

June 5, 2009 · Jouni Heikniemi · 3 Comments
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