Office Communications Online enabled in international trial for BPOS

This morning on twitter some tweets came by about the new functionality now available to all trial users of the international trial.

Enabling OCS Online is very easy and straight forward. Login to your admin console @ http://admin.emea.microsoftonline.com :

1. In the admin mainscreen :

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2. The specific Office Communications Online settings :

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Office Communications Online

Microsoft Office Communications Online is a unified communications service that helps people communicate easily with others in different locations or time zones. Office Communications Online is integrated with Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and programs in the 2007 Microsoft Office system to give workers many ways to communicate with each other via a simple and consistent user interface.

Office Communications Online requires Office Communicator 2007 R2 for the desktop. For information on how to try out or purchase Office Communicator 2007 R2, please visit Office Communicator for Office Communications Online.

3. Notify the end users :

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Currently federation, Communicator Mobile and Communicator WebAccess are not available but stay tuned …