Microsoft Azure Active Directory Connect – New Release

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Integrating your on-premises directories with Azure AD makes your users more productive by providing a common identity for accessing both cloud and on-premises resources. With this integration users and organizations can take advantage of the following: Organizations can provide users with a common hybrid identity across on-premises or cloud-based services leveraging Windows Server Active Directory and then connecting to Azure Active Directory. Administrators can provide conditional access based…

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Office 365 news roundup

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ ​ “There is nothing so stable as change.” —Bob Dylan One thing is certain: the advent of the Office 365 service has brought an unprecedented amount of innovation and change to our productivity and collaboration products. We’re constantly improving it, too—responding to customer demand and feedback and maintaining a tireless pursuit to reinvent productivity and provide the best set of services to help people work together. Over the…

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Introducing the Office IT Pro Deployment Script project

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ PowerShell has quickly become an indispensable skill for Office 365 administrators, and if you’re like me, you are starting to gather a toolbox of useful scripts. If you are new to PowerShell for Office 365, make sure you check out our PowerShell for Office 365 site with common scenarios and sample scripts available to download. But perhaps you are looking for some more advanced scenarios, or you’re thinking…

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Office 365 – What’s new: July 2015

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​Office 2016 for Mac arrived this month, along with Office Mobile apps for Windows 10, a new universal iOS OneNote app, and more. For business, new compliance capabilities and IT management controls were added, along with enhancements to Yammer and Power Query. On the mobile front, Azure Rights Management is now available for Office for iPad and iPhone, there’s a new app designed for in-and-out email, and the Skype…

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Optimizing Yammer for teams

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: When we first set out to create Yammer, we started with the simple idea that information is more valuable when it’s shared. As an enterprise social network, Yammer revolutionized information sharing in the workplace by giving millions of people a platform to make their voices heard and discover what others across the company are working on. Recently we announced Yammer’s on a mission to bring the benefits of open…

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Managing Office 365 updates

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Over the past year, we released over 450 updates to Office 365, as noted by Julia White in this recent Office Mechanics show. As customers move from on-premises software to the cloud, they need new tools and processes to manage and administer change. We are committed to not only deliver the best productivity experience to end users but also provide an optimum experience to admins and developers who run…

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Mobile Device Management for Office 365 with Azure Active Directory

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ MVP Award Program MVP Award Program ​​View Profile 4 Aug 2015 12:45 PM ​ Editor’s note: The following post was written by Office 365 MVP Nuno Silva as part of our Technical Tuesday series. Mobile Device Management for Office 365 (MDM for Office 365) integrated with Azure Active Directory is an enterprise-level identity and access management cloud solution. MDM for Office 365, built on top of the core…

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Office 365 -News roundup

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:    ​Windows 10 is here! The best Windows yet, delivered as a service and kept automatically up-to-date with new innovations and security updates, launched last week as a free upgrade. As part of the launch, we also released the all new Office Mobile Apps for Windows 10. Customers in 190 countries can now download and install the apps from the new Windows Store and immediately start being more productive on…

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Announcing Sway General Availability, Windows 10 app and more!

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Today, we are excited to announce that our digital storytelling app, Sway, is moving from Preview to General Availability! Sway is also moving beyond First Release and rolling out to all eligible Office 365 for business and education customers worldwide.* This makes it possible for many additional businesses, schools and other organizations to start using Sway to create and share interactive reports, presentations, assignments, lessons, projects and more. And…

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