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• Park management company cuts software costs

  Australian Tourist Park Management (ATPM) is saving over $7,000 a year in software licencing costs following the rollout of Office 365 and Windows Intune in mid-2013.

• Avoid the gotchas of Office 365 migrations

  Migrating to Microsoft's Office 365 from an on-premises Office suite requires help, experts say, in order to navigate the vagaries of moving apps smoothly to the cloud, a task made more challenging if the transition is from alternatives such as GroupWise and Lotus SmartSuite.

• Tips on how to ace an Office 365 certification test

  Anyone hoping to gain Microsoft certification in Office 365 better know the ins and outs of provisioning, security, syncing, identities and troubleshooting for the cloud version of Microsoft's flagship productivity suite.

• Office 365 customer: Get the right help when moving email to the cloud

  Dallas County Community Colleges District was using Novell's GroupWise suite of applications for email but little else, and at $200,000 per year, that just didn't make sense, especially since it was also buying access to Microsoft Office 365 – including Outlook - along with its enterprise campus agreement.

• QUT migrates 140K accounts to Office 365

  The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has recently migrated around 140,000 student accounts from Microsoft’s Live@edu to Office 365.

• Profile IT: Barnardos Australia senior IT manager, Sue Cribb

  Sue Cribb has notched up 16 years in IT at child welfare organisation Barnardos Australia.

• Profile IT: St Mary’s College ICT manager, Paul John Stanners

  A lifestyle choice led Paul John Stanners to leave Western Australia and settle in Hobart, Tasmania.
  The St Mary’s College ICT manager spoke to Computerworld Australia about tablets, school funding and his electric mountain bike.

• Microsoft rolls out Office 365 family plan

  Microsoft is rolling out a family plan for its Office 365 service that supports up to five machines under a single subscription, which the company says is enough to cover a typical household.

• Webjet announces flight to Office 365 and Azure

  Microsoft will lift Webjet into the cloud with Office 365 and Azure, Microsoft announced today. Webjet said it made the move as it prepares to expand its business in Australia and New Zealand.

• Microsoft: 5 smart and 5 dumb moves the company made in 2011

  Love it or hate it, Microsoft is a company that brings out strong emotions in just about every IT professional. With 2011 about to end, it is time for our picks of some of smartest moves this powerful software company made this year - and some of the moves we'd say were not so bright.

• Fortescue, SBS CIOs prep Office 365 move

  The heads of IT at broadcaster SBS and mining giant Fortescue Metals Group have outlined their plans to adopt Microsoft’s new Office 365 Cloud service at the Sydney launch event today.

• Office 365 tips: Adding a registered domain name

  If you are a professional or small business currently beta testing Microsoft's cloud-based productivity and collaboration suite, Office 365, you will want to add your registered domain name to the service.

• Microsoft's Office 365 cloud beta now public

  Office 365, the cloud-based versions of Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and other products, became available in a public beta Monday with Microsoft promising general availability later this year. So far, 100,000 organizations have signed up to test Office 365, which will replace and expand upon Microsoft's current cloud-based productivity service, the Business Productivity Online Suite.

• Microsoft takes aim at Google Apps with Office 365

  Microsoft has fired the latest salvo in its battle with long-standing competitor Google with the launch of its cloud-based productivity platform, Office 365, due to hit Australian shores sometime next year.