Start using Office 365 small business premium

Microsoft has done pretty good deal in here.

What you need to know before smooth go live

1. You are needed to be able to change your MX records to verify domain name
2. You are needed to be able to change your DNS nameservers to complete setup

After 2 step you control your domain DNS settings from microsoft. Not from your domain provider cpanel or other. (this is main difference for example go live with google which only requires MX changes).

If you aren't able to change DNS records you can read following instructions:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-suite-help/add-your-domain-to-office-365-without-redirecting-your-name-server-records-HA102818653.aspx

Remember that if you truly want to manage your services you need one Microsoft Windows-machine as Windows Powershell need MS OS.

How to disable password expiration:
http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/38418-office-365-disable-password-expiration

Disable password expiration on office 365

Here are few steps to complete if you want to disable password expiration on office 365

1. Install needed software
Install Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant for IT Professionals BETA
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=39267 
and Windows Azure AD Module for Windows PowerShell http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj151815.aspx

2. Logon to your services
Once you do that open the proper powershell ( Windows Azure AD Module for Windows PowerShell) and run command:
$cred=Get-Credential
Logon with you Office 365 credentials

3. Run commands to change settings
Run these three commands to turn off password expiration for all of your accounts.
connect-MSOLService -credential $cred
Get-MSOLUser | Set-MsolUser -PasswordNeverExpires $true
Exit 

Original quide:
http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/38418-office-365-disable-password-expiration

P.S I got error message many times about  with Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant for IT Professionals. Then I installed Beta version and everything worked.

Welcome!

Companies are more focused on their core business and as a result they are outsourcing a lot of the supporting services, such as information technology services, to outside providers. When outsourcing IT, one of the possibilities is to use Cloud Computing services. In this blog I try to introduce the concept of Cloud Computing, review outsourcing of IT and other interesting topics of IT.

Cloud Computing is about combining different technologies and procedures together and offering them as services to companies and private persons. Cloud Computing services expands dynamically and are used trough Internet. A company can build and combine different services from different providers in a way that suits the company best. Cloud Computing services come in a variety of options: software, pure computing such as database servers data warehouses and even full software development platforms can be provided as a service. Good targets for outsourcing from the business point of view are isolated processes, individual applications and information storage assuming that the core business architecture can support the outsourcing. Good base for collecting knowledge about cloud computing is to start with article from Berkeley (http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-28.pdf) 

This blog offers a compact overview of Cloud Computing for companies, presenting the themes to be considered when moving over to using Cloud Computing. The keys to a successful cloud outsourcing are properly planned information security, a well-planned exit strategy and a flexible Service Level Agreement with proper metrics.