Setting up a free 30 day trial

Follow this 22 step process to start a trial of Business Productivity Online Suite : -

1. If you have a UK Windows Live ID skip to step 4
2. Go to live.co.uk and click “Windows Live” and then “Signup”
3. Choose a username and specify country: UK, and fill in the mandatory information
4. Visit https://mocp.microsoftonline.com
5. Set the country where you will use your services to United Kingdom, and click “Continue”
6. Sign in with your Windows Live ID
   

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Top 10 reasons to subscribe to Microsoft Online Services and the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite.

1. Online Services can help streamline communications to boost employee productivity.
   Microsoft® Online Services can help improve the productivity of your employees with the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite— a selection of hosted communication and collaboration services that have been dialed in for organizations like yours. The suite’s powerful tools help your employees communicate and collaborate with coworkers, customers, and partners around the world—simply, effectively, and affordably using advanced security measures and offering high reliability. The suite’s enhanced collaboration tools provide intuitive, easy ways for employees to share information, files, business processes, calendars, instant messaging (IM), voice, conferences, and more. The suite is built on proven software platforms to deliver best-in-class communication and collaboration via an easy-to-use Internet-based service that brings together different modes of communication into a consistent experience—with a single sign on.
2. Online Services can be deployed rapidly. 
   The Business Productivity Online Suite can be activated quickly and cost-effectively to give your employees the additional capabilities of the latest platform while protecting your current IT infrastructure investment. With no additional hardware or software to procure, configure, or manage, and virtually no up-front investment, the suite provides a simple and direct migration route to enhanced business communications.
   

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Multizone with Microsoft - local thought, global reach

Microsoft provides a level of expertise and experience that comes from a highly successful history of hosting enterprise services such as Office Live Meeting and Exchange Hosted Services. Microsoft Online Services reliably deliver 99.9 percent scheduled uptime and carries a financially backed service level agreement. Microsoft are committed to developing and delivering innovative solutions that enable organizations to get the tools they need to be successful now and in the future.

Multizone have a long history of involvement with Microsoft technology with experience of every Microsoft Exchange and Outlook release since they were first developed in the early nineties. We also have deep experience of Lotus Domino and Notes, and of Unix based email systems. Migration to Microsoft Online Services is a core competence for us and we are one of very few UK based partners qualified and trained to sell the service. Where required we partner with specialist migration experts to ensure smooth transition to Microsoft Online Services, but at all times Multizone take responsibility for your transition to Online. We have special skills in product management, product creation and a focus on technology startups

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Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite

Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite is a set of Microsoft hosted messaging and collaboration solutions consisting of Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint® Online, Microsoft Office Live Meeting and Microsoft Office Communications Online.
These Online Services are designed to give you business streamlined communication with high availability, comprehensive security and simplified IT management. Your business benefits from always using the most up-to-date technology that is deployed rapidly, maximising your valuable IT resources and reducing your need for infrastructure investments.

Microsoft Online Services

Exchange Online

• Standard 1GB mailbox (additional storage available for purchase)
• E-mail, shared calendar, shared tasks, and contacts
• Spam filtering and antivirus capabilities via Exchange Hosted Filtering
• Outlook client connectivity, Outlook Anywhere, and Outlook Web Access
• Latest ActiveSync devices support

SharePoint Online

• Portal, collaboration, content management, site search, and forms capabilities
• Single location to share documents, contacts, calendars, and tasks
• Offline access to documents on the service from Outlook
• Roll-up views of calendars and tasks across multiple lists and sites
• Blog site templates that support article posting, reader comments, and RSS feed generation

Office Live Meeting

• Web client support for remote attendee flexibility
• Interactive application/desktop sharing and whiteboard tools
• Active speaker video switching, multi-party video, and multi-party VoIP audio
• Rich media presentations, native video conferencing, high-fidelity recording, and Web cam capabilities
• Training and event management, with event and class registration and virtual breakout rooms

Office Communication Online

• Instant Messaging with text based chat, file transfer, 1:1, or 1:many communication
• Seamless presence awareness enabling users to check another users availability on the network
• Presence information shared across Microsoft Office applications, such as Outlook and SharePoint
• Support for multiple modes and devices—PC, Web browser, or mobile phones

Exchange Online and SharePoint Online are available in the United Kingdom now, and will be available in more geographies in early 2009.

Office Communication Online is currently available for the Business Productivity Online Dedicated solution; coming soon for Business Productivity Online Standard suite.