At 8:40 +1000 9/8/11, Tom Worthington wrote:
>only application I could not get for that was accounting software. My
>accountant couldn't recommend any Linux accounting software, so I use
>the web based SAASU:
>http://blog.tomw.net.au/2009/08/web-based-accounting-package.html
In the same download, this came through:
DIY Office 365 migration faces certain outage
By Liam Tung on Aug 9, 2011 7:04 AM (2 hours ago)
Filed under Software
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/266215,diy-office-365-migration-faces-certain-outage.aspx
Wait for us, says Microsoft.
Microsoft has warned eager Office 365 customers and partners that
migrating data off Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS)
themselves could result in email account outages longer than 24 hours.
BPOS was a suite of hosted services including Microsoft Exchange,
SharePoint, Office Communications and Live Meeting, that had been
superseded by the newer hosted suite Office 365.
Microsoft said it had received "a number" of support calls from
concerned customers that had attempted to migrate from BPOS to Office
365 themselves only to find that inbound email was knocked out.
"Please be aware that if you attempt a manual migration, emails sent
to your domains will be returned to sender as undeliverable until
Support can delete your domain from BPOS and you can re-create in
Office 365," Microsoft's Online blogger Michael O'Neill explained on
Sunday.
To avoid the outage customers should avoid setting up Office 365
without first scheduling a transfer of domains with Microsoft
Support.
Microsoft announced Office 365 in June as the replacement for
Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) in June. Australian
customers were expected to be offered a transition at some stage in
the 12 months.
Anyone that was not already an expert in Exchange server migrations
should wait "just a couple of months" for Microsoft to transition its
US tenants, said O'Neill.
A potential bottleneck exists with Microsoft Support, which must
delete BPOS domains before firing a new one up under Office 365.
Customers also need to have had their production domain removed from
Microsoft's anti-spam product, Forefront Online Protection for
Exchange (FOPE), and this process would result in an extended outage.
"This email outage could last as long as 24 hours (possibly longer if
many customers are asking Support to delete their domains at the same
time as you)," said O'Neill.
Although there were workarounds to the FOPE delay, Microsoft did not
recommend them.
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