At Microsoft's annual World Partner Event last week the star of the show had to be BPOS and the cloud. Microsoft have announced a raft of new features that will be gracing BPOS soon. They are:
Exchange Online:
- Voice mail with Unified Messaging
- Integrated archiving
- Retention policies and legal hold
- Transport rules
- Multi-mailbox search
- Conversation View
- MailTips
- Enhanced Web-based administration
- Role-Based Access Control
- Remote PowerShell
- Free/busy between cloud and on-premises
- Cross-premises management
- Native migration tools
SharePoint Online:
- Portal site templates
- Extranet access
- Anonymous Access
- Multi-Lingual UI
- Office 2010 integration
- Tagging, Rating, Tag Cloud
- Activity Feed, Social Networking, Note Board
- Improved Wikis & Blogs
- Content publishing
- Navigation controls
- Cross site-collection search
- Phonetic search
- People search
- Visio Services
- Excel Services
- Sandboxed Solutions
- Improved workflows
- Improved SharePoint Designer 2010
- Access Services
- Better controls of FQDNs
Office Communications Online:
- P2P A/V across firewall
- File transfer across firewall
- Presence with pictures
- Federation
- IM with Windows Live
Platform Updates:
- Free/Busy co-existence
- Single Sign On
- Identity federation
- Redesigned admin interface
- More administration and access control
Some fantastic additions I think you will agree and brings the world of online services much closer to their on premise counterparts.