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The Business Applications and Contact Manager areas of Microsoft Office Live Small Business give you the option of transferring your information across the Internet using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. SSL uses encryption to provide an extra layer of security for the private information you send in e-mail, Web browsing, and other data transfers. This helps to ensure that the information can’t be intercepted or tampered with.
SSL is not automatically turned on when you start using Business Applications and Contact Manager. Enabling SSL may cause your Office Live Small Business features to run slowly, and not all accounts may need the extra protection of SSL. Every Office Live Small Business account is already protected by a Windows Live ID. SSL provides an extra layer of protection.
If your Office Live Small Business account contains sensitive or confidential information, you may want to consider using SSL to help further protect that information.
Important When you turn SSL on or off, the change does not take effect until you start a new browser session. Also, any remote sessions being run by other users on your site will continue to use the previous SSL setting until those sessions are disconnected and opened in a new browser.
When you turn SSL on or off in Business Applications, it is also turned on or off in Contact Manager.
