Today we released an update to the Office Live Small Business service. While most of this release represents fixes and backend upgrades, we are releasing a very exciting upgrade to the Site Designer slideshow module. The redesigned module makes creating slideshows on your site easier and faster and also gives you the option of putting a Silverlight-based slideshow on your site. Now you can display...

Hi everyone. I wanted to give you advance notice that on September 12 and September 19, we will be upgrading the Microsoft Office Live Small Business servers that host your website. What does this mean to you? On just one of these days, your public website will be unavailable for up to three hours. During this brief downtime, visitors to your site will see a message alerting them of the outage, and...

As we said in a post last Friday , we've been working to resolve some performance issues with the Reports feature of Office Live Small Business. We are pleased to report that as of today, May 27, all six reports within this feature are now working. The Page View report may be low for some customers between April 12 and May 24, because some of the backup files are still being processed. Again, our...

We've recently seen a lot of community feedback and open questions about problems related to the Reports feature in Office Live Small Business. So we wanted to let you know that we've launched an update that has enabled data to be populated for five out of the six reports we provide. For some customers, all of your information in these reports will be current and up-to-date. However, other...

If you didn’t read my first post on the subject , the Office Live User Assistance team is continuing to produce videos that provide step-by-step instructions for common Office Live Small Business tasks. We recently rolled out these six new videos based on top customer questions: 1. Set up e-mail alerts . Set up e-mail notifications about changes to your Business Applications and Contact Manager...

Based on customer feedback, we’ve just created seven new demos that show you how to accomplish key tasks in Office Live Small Business and Office Live Workspace Beta. These demos reflect questions you’ve asked in Help articles feedback, comments, and via support. The demos are task-focused and only 1-3 minutes in length, so you can learn quickly and then get back to work. Take a look! Set...