Microsoft has created an Internet Service Well being Dashboard, which will give customers of its Microsoft-hosted solutions info around the status and standing history with the many different Small business Productivity Internet (BPOS) companies.The rollout with the new Dashboard comes about the heels of 3 outages experienced by numerous Microsoft On the internet Services users in North America. Microsoft has been notifying BPOS end users of the status of their companies via an RSS feed, but quite a few customers with whom I;ve communicated within the past few weeks don;t appear to know that such a feed exists.Microsoft officials introduced the availability of the new dashboard,
Office 2007 Professional, with 3 diverse URLs for several Microsoft datacenter places, by way of a blog post to the Microsoft Internet Companies Crew weblog on September 27.(click on on graphic previously mentioned to enlarge)The Dashboard delivers the standing of the current day and week for all BPOS companies — which currently means Exchange On the internet, SharePoint On the net,
Office 2010 Professional, Communications Over the internet and Live Meeting. There also is a historical status view, which displays the “greatest level of support degradation for the given day,” according to the blog post.Here;s a shot with the initial dashboard screen from Microsoft:(click about the dashboard screenshot to enlarge)Microsoft is delivering new BPOS-related features on a regular basis,
Office 2007 Keygen, and is promising a bigger “vNext” rollout within the first part of next year. Microsoft officials have said they;ll make test versions of vNext companies available to customers in calendar 2010. The vNext versions of these services will include some with the functionality that Microsoft introduced in the software versions of the respective point products that it shipped inside the past year-plus.Microsoft is expected to rebrand BPOS as “Union” at some point in the not-too-distant future. I;m wondering whether the Union family will be condensed to include Exchange Via the internet, SharePoint On the internet and Lync On line (the new name for Communications On-line) only,
Office Professional 2007, as much of the Live Meeting functionality seems to be moving into Lync. I asked Microsoft but was told the organization had nothing to share on that front at this time.Beyond Union/vNext,
Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft has plans to further unify its On line Providers suite by more tightly integrating its CRM Via the internet offering along with the rest of BPOS and making certain ERP elements available as hosted solutions, officials said recently.I also recently asked Microsoft Organization Options Corporate Vice President Michael Park whether Microsoft had decided to shelve the “BPOS Lite” product I wrote about earlier this year. Park said that BPOS Lite is still going forward, but said it was too early to talk further about specifics.