Office 365 / SharePoint Online Upgrade

New features coming to SharePoint Online beginning October 20, 2011, and continuing through the end of November:

• Business Connectivity Services (BCS) *Enterprise plans only: Enables connecting to external systems via web service based endpoints

• External Sharing: Windows LiveID support: Allows Office 365 tenant administrators to invite external users to a site collection. They sign in with a Windows Live ID-based user name and password.

• Windows Phone 7 "Mango" (official support and http:// connectivity): Windows Phone 7.5, codenamed “Mango,” now enables both small business and enterprise Office 365 customers to access SharePoint Online lists and document libraries from their Windows Phone.

• Recycle Bin: deleted site self-recovery: Self-service ability to recover sites from a site collection’s recycle bin

• Browser support: Internet Explorer 9: Adds official support for the Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) browser

• Browser support: Chrome: Adds official support for the Chrome browser