Body: Fresh updates are available now for the Office Mobile app for Android phones, making it easier to access, edit and share online Office files from your Android phone. New Sharing links to OneDrive files right from Office Mobile on your Android phone With this release, we are adding the ability to generate and share links to documents in your OneDrive and OneDrive for Business right within the app.…
Read MoreNext on Modern Workplace—How millennials are changing business
Body: Millennials will soon make up more than 50 percent of the workforce, and they demand agile productivity tools to support their flexible, collaborative work style. Does your business have what it takes to attract and empower top millennial talent? Register now to watch Modern Workplace live on December 2nd and hear directly from three leaders of the next generation about the impact that millennials are having on business…
Read MoreOffice 365 – Secure and sync with Information Rights Management on OneDrive for Business
Body: Millions of documents are stored today on OneDrive for Business that help people collaborate and get work done easily. But there are times when documents are sensitive and need an extra layer of protection. Office 365 provides Information Rights Management (IRM) capabilities, which helps you secure your information by encrypting it and applying an intelligent policy so that only specified internal and/or external people can “act” on your information.…
Read MoreFrom Office Mix to Office 365 Video
Body: Today, Microsoft announced Office 365 Video, a new service of Office 365 that makes it easy to share video inside your organization. Office 365 Video is built on SharePoint Online, powered by Azure Media Services, and leverages Yammer and Office Graph to deliver a dynamic, mobile-optimized experience within Office 365. From onboarding new employees, to distributing a CEO message to the entire company, it makes video a first-class citizen.…
Read MoreOffice 365 – Introducing Office 365 Video
Body: Over the years, SharePoint has been used not just for collaboration sites and document management, but also search, dashboards, company intranets, wikis, blogs and much more. We’ve categorized many of these under the same umbrella term, “Portals.” Now we have a tremendous opportunity to expand on the Portals portfolio and deliver new experiences that have taken weeks, if not months, to build, based on common patterns of valuable portal…
Read MoreTouching base on Sway Preview
Body: On October 1st, we introduced Office Sway to the world as a brand new app joining the Office portfolio to help people quickly and easily bring their ideas to life in a new way. We also kicked off Sway Preview, putting an intentionally early and “feature light” version of Sway into the hands of customers in order to shape the future of the product together. With Sway, we’re…
Read MoreOffice 365 – Microsoft Virtual Academy courses—Office 365 security
Body: Three courses around Office 365 security are now available through the Microsoft Virtual Academy. Exchange Online Protection (EOP) If you’re looking to protect your organization from spam and malware, check out this course on Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), a cloud-based email filtering service that even includes features to safeguard against messaging-policy violations. This course provides the details that IT professionals need to know about EOP, why EOP is…
Read MoreOffice 365 – From Inside the Cloud—How do we monitor and safeguard your data in the Office 365 service?
Body: In our last post, From Inside the Cloud: What does Microsoft do to prepare for emerging security threats to Office 365?, we looked at the Red team’s activities and what goes into our “Assume Breach” approach for preparing for emerging security threats to Office 365. The rigor and discipline required to testing ourselves continuously to keep your data safe within the service, is by nature an operation of…
Read MoreOffice 365 – Excel Power Map—November update for Office 365
Body: Last month we focused on quality improvements for Excel Power Map, shipping more fixes than in any previous monthly release. This month we’re continuing to make fixes but we’ve also added a nice convenience feature. You can now play a tour directly from any scene, instead of always having to start playing a tour from the beginning. This is super helpful when you’re editing a tour and want to…
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