Virteva is an independent Microsoft Office 365 managed IT services provider, headquartered in Minneapolis MN, offering solutions including Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync.

Microsoft Office 365 Overview

In today's competitive global market, businesses need technology that cost-effectively enables flexibility and adds value to their organization.

Office 365 is all of the familiar Microsoft Office collaboration and productivity tools delivered through the cloud. Everyone can work together easily with anywhere access to email, web conferencing, documents, and calendars. It includes business-class security and is backed by Microsoft. Whether you are a small business or multinational enterprise, Office 365 offers plans designed to fit your organization's unique needs. These hosted services include the following:

Microsoft Exchange Online

Microsoft Exchange Online gives you access to email, calendar, and contacts from virtually anywhere, at any time, on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices, while it helps to protect against viruses and spam.

• Work from almost anywhere and get automatically updated email, calendar, and contacts on the devices you use most, including PCs, Macintosh computers, iPhone, Android phones, Symbian phones, BlackBerry smartphones, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phones
• Get professional, easy-to-manage email. Exchange Online provides each user with a 25-gigabyte (GB) mailbox and lets them send email messages up to 25 megabytes (MB)
• Connect with Microsoft Outlook 2010 or Outlook 2007 and use all of the rich Outlook functionality you already know and use, whether you are connected to the Internet at home or in the office or you are working offline
• Easily schedule meetings by sharing calendars and viewing them side by side, so you can see your colleagues' availability and suggested meeting times from your calendar
• Access your email, calendar, and contacts from nearly any web browser while you keep the rich, familiar Outlook experience with Microsoft Outlook Web App
• Help protect your organization from spam and viruses with Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange, which includes multiple filters and virus-scanning engines

Microsoft SharePoint Online

Microsoft's familiar SharePoint Server technology delivered as an online service makes the power of the cloud work for your organization. SharePoint Online lets you create sites to share documents and information with colleagues, and customers.

• Manage and share important documents with colleaguesShare personal insights and status updates with colleagues
• Keep teams in sync and manage important projects
• Find important documents and people easily
• Stay up to date with company information and news
• Create Microsoft Office documents and save them directly to SharePoint Online
• Protect sensitive content with document-level permissions
• Access important documents offline by using SharePoint Workspace
• Enable real-time communication with colleagues from within SharePoint Online
• Control service provisioning, monitoring, and reporting to simplify management through a single console
• Project Professional 2010 synchronizes task status with SharePoint 2010 to enable effective project collaboration with teams

Microsoft Lync Online

Next-generation cloud communications services that connect people in new ways, from virtually anywhere. Lync Online transforms interactions with colleagues, customers, and partners from today's hit-or-miss communication to a more collaborative, engaging, and effective experience. It also helps IT administrators stay in control of end-user permissions and policies while reducing infrastructure costs.

• Connect with others through instant messaging (IM), video calls and online meetings.Move easily from instant messaging into ad-hoc online meetings that include audio, video, and screen sharing with just a few mouse clicks
• Conduct online presentations to customers and colleagues including audio, video, screen sharing, and a virtual whiteboard
• Invite external contacts to easily join online meetings through a native or web-based client
• View presence status and click to communicate from within Microsoft Outlook, Office SharePoint, and other Office applications
• Communicate with external organizations running Lync using IM, audio and video through Lync federation
• Connect with Windows Live Messenger contacts using IM, audio and video calls directly from Lync
• Reply to an email with an instant message or an audio call for quicker and more effective resolution of issues

Lync Online interoperates with dial-in audio conferencing providers to enable users to easily join Lync meetings from any phone. Learn more about the qualified dial-in audio conferencing services and purchase options on Office 365 Marketplace.

Microsoft Office Professional Plus

By using the power of the cloud, you can experience the Office suite as we designed it - fully integrated with all the other great services of Office 365.

• Master your inbox with Conversation View and schedule meetings more efficiently by viewing calendar availability for colleagues in other companies in addition to your own co-workers in Microsoft Outlook
• Use the Outlook Social Connector to better leverage the power of business and social networks
• Collaborate with control and confidence with real-time co-editing
• Share slideshows instantly, across town or around the world, with Microsoft PowerPoint Broadcast Slide Show
• Create presentations that are as brilliant to watch as they are easy to create with new video and photo editing tools in PowerPoint
• Transform enormous quantities of data into meaningful information with Excel
• Work from virtually any place and on any device with Office Web Apps

Microsoft Office Web Apps

View, share and edit your Microsoft Office documents on the web with Microsoft Office Web Apps. Using virtually any device connected to the internet, view your Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft OneNote documents online and make basic edits on the go. Share your documents with others, and make simultaneous edits to Excel and OneNote files in real time with great document fidelity and consistent formatting even when team members are working on a PC with a different version of Office installed, or on a Mac or slate device. And because Office Web Apps work with the Office applications you already know, your documents always look the way you want – from your PC to the web, and back again.

• View, edit and share content created in the Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote desktop applications online, from almost any device with an Internet connection
• Provide a common set of online viewing and editing tools to people who use different platforms and different versions of Microsoft Office, including those who do not have Microsoft Office on their computers
• Ensure a familiar experience by providing an environment that uses many of the same editing and formatting features users already know from Microsoft Office
• Need a feature you don't see in the Web Apps? Open documents in the applicable Office desktop application with one click from Office Web Apps to access rich editing features (requires Office Professional Plus 2007 Service Pack 2 or later, Office for Mac 2008 with Entourage 2008 Web Services Edition, or Office for Mac 2011 and Outlook for Mac 2011)
• Access and view Office documents from supported mobile browsers
• Simultaneously edit shared Excel spreadsheets and OneNote Shared Notebooks with co-authoring support in the Office Web Apps and see the areas colleagues are editing in real-time

Users can connect directly to the service over the Internet without RAS or VPN connections.