Office Mix Is a Game-Changer for Teachers

Body: ​ Last month, Microsoft announced the customer preview of Office Mix, a tool designed to make it easier for teachers to incorporate online content into their lesson plans. Since then, we’ve been gathering feedback about what educators find most useful about the tool and how to make it even better, and we’re sharing what we’ve learned at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference in Atlanta this…

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Visualizing the World Cup history with Excel and Power BI

Body: ​From Marc Reguera, finance director, Microsoft Besides my family and friends, I have two additional passions in life: soccer and data visualization. Like most kids growing up in Europe, my dream was to become a soccer professional. I wanted this so badly that I actually followed my dream, and I played 3rd division for the Paris Saint Germain’s youth team in France. My father was smart in making sure…

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Office 365 for IT professionals: Part 1

Body: We recently released an Office 365 Fundamentals online course through the Microsoft Virtual Academy. This course helps IT professionals understand some of the basics of Office 365. For more advanced learning, check out the Managing Office 365 Identities and Services course. These courses have the added benefit of helping you prepare for the MCSA: Office 365 certification. In this new blog post series, we want to share some additional…

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Office 365 Mail Protection Reports

Body: ​ This tips explores the Mail Protection Reports for Office 365 Out of the box, Office 365 offers more than 30 excellent reports for its various services, covering all the important aspects, from mailbox to traffic statistics, from Lync to SharePoint. These reports can be found under reports in the Admin Dashboard. As a side note, please be aware that Exchange Online reports are only visible if you have…

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The Garage Series for Office 365: Quick tour and review of Office 365

Body: ​ What is Office 365 and how has it evolved in the past year? This week Jeremy Chapman is joined by Office 365 General Manager, Julia White, to answer that question and give a lightning tour and review of the latest Office 365 innovations. If you haven’t been following Office 365 developments or think its primarily cloud-based email or browser-based Office, you’ll want to check out this show.  …

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How does Office 365 continuously meet your compliance needs?

Body: ​ In the last two posts in our From Inside the Cloud series, we went behind the scenes to share with you different ways we protect your data. My colleagues and lead engineers Perry Clarke and Vivek Sharma focused on how we protect your data at rest and who has access to your data within Office 365. They explained the various mitigations that we have in place through our…

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Office 365: Decommission of onlinehelp.microsoft.com

Body: ​ Be aware that the entire onlinehelp.microsoft.com URL will be decommissioned by the end of June. The URL will be redirecting to http://support.office.live.com. The URL is being decommissioned as the content there was Wave 14 (previous Office 365 version) content and was not maintained as evergreen content. The same is true for any Exchange Online only articles in http://help.outlook.com. Most of the articles in http://help.outlook.com are Exchange online articles,…

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1 TB of OneDrive storage coming to an Office 365 near you

Body: ​Since we introduced Office 365 for consumers nearly a year and a half ago, customers have told us that one of their favorite benefits of the subscription service is the additional OneDrive storage–for accessing and sharing files on their favorite devices and getting things done from home, school, work and everywhere in between. These are precisely the reasons we included additional OneDrive storage with every Office 365 consumer subscription–and…

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Be an Office 365 Early Adopter – If You Dare

Body:              Office 365 is like a runaway train with new features and updates rolling out constantly. Updates are applied automatically to the service on the backend, providing immediate enhancements for those using Office 365 both online and offline. If you’re an Office 365 customer, particularly if you use Office 2013, you’ve experienced the update process and know that it’s a much safer process than getting updates…

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