14 DAY TRIAL // Focused on its new Software plus Services strategy, Microsoft is careful to make more and more of its products available hosted online rather than on-premise. Microsoft Online Services are an illustrative example in this context, offering business customers easy access to Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft Office Communications Server, and Microsoft Office Live Meeting as services from the company's datacenters. And in order to help businesses get an idea of what Microsoft Online Services are, the software giant has put together a list of frequently asked questions along with the associated answers and made it available for download.
“Our Support and Documentation teams scoured the TechNet Forums for the attached set of frequently asked questions. We expect to add to this list over time based on your questions,” promised Arvind Suthar, director, Service Microsoft Online.
From the FAQ, customers will be able to find out that Microsoft Online Services is designed to integrate with the following operating systems: Windows Vista Business SP1, Windows Vista Enterprise SP1, Windows Vista Ultimate SP1, Windows XP Professional SP2, Windows XP Tablet SP2, and Macintosh OS X 10.5. At the same time, the service currently comes with support for · Windows Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox 2 or 3, and Safari 3.1.2 (on Macintosh OS X). Users will also need Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 and Java client 1.4.2.
But at the same time, there are additional issues for which Microsoft provides an answer in the FAQ. On top of the general questions, the Redmond company deals with inquiries related to Exchange Online and Sharepoint Online. “Why am I getting “Single Sign On failed since domain credentials are disabled in your machine” error when signing in to the Sign In application?” is one of the FAQ items and “your Credential Manager may be disabled by group policy. This would prevent your computer from storing domain credentials. Try editing the following registry entry to resolve this,” is the company's answer.