Office 365 helps customers with IRS 1075 compliance

Body: ​ As part of Microsoft’s commitment to compliance, we strive to ensure that our cloud services, like Office 365, meet or exceed the breadth of regulations and standards our customers require. This is especially important for government agencies, which are investing more and more in moving to cloud productivity services, and require security-enhanced and scalable cloud solutions that address a range of constantly-evolving regulatory, compliance and policy requirements. Today,…

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The Garage Series for Office 365: Crash course in PowerShell for managing Office 365

Body: ​ On this week’s show Jeremy Chapman is joined once again by scripting guy, Greg Stemp, to apply PowerShell to practical tasks within Office 365. Greg demonstrates how PowerShell can be used for automating bulk tasks, building advanced queries against data in the service, saving the results to a file for other processes to use and some things you just can’t do in the user interface. If you’ve been putting off…

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Performance and scale improvements to Project Online

Body: ​ To provide a delightful user experience and better support the scale at which some of our largest customers operate, we have started to roll out performance enhancements to Project Online tenants worldwide. While some of these changes will be visually evident to the user, others could be more latent. Here are a few common things that will feel much snappier as a result of these investments: Project Center—In particular, navigating…

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Office Mix makes it easier

Body: ​ We’re thrilled to share new features in Office Mix that make it easier to create, share, and find online interactive lessons and presentations.  Haven’t tried it yet?  Then go to OfficeMix.com to check it out! Live mixing Office Mix is a great way to build an “on-demand” version of your presentation.  Many of you have told us that you love using Office Mix, but also wish you could…

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Outlook Web App for Office 365

Body: ​This article highlights content resources for the web-based version of Outlook, known as Outlook Web App (OWA), that is included with Office 365. Topics covered include supported browsers, tips for getting started, sharing your inbox, sharing your calendar and contacts, recovering deleted items, and more all in OWA.           Webcasts and Videos The following help and how-to content is available for this topic: Start using…

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Announcing the Lync Online client devices report

Body: ​ We are delighted to announce the release of new Lync Online client devices report, which tells you how many users in your organization have used one specific type of device to take part in peer-to-peer or conference in a specified month. The metrics in this report are available through PowerShell Cmdlet: Get-CsClientDeviceReport, RESTFul WebService API: CsClientDeviceMonthly as well as a graphical report in Office 365 admin center for client…

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Organize your Office 365 with the new app launcher

Body: ​ American founding father Benjamin Franklin famously said, “A place for everything and everything in its place.” In order to yield your greatest results, organization and access to each tool you need to accomplish your goals is paramount. Getting organized. Some people are naturally great at this, some people drag their feet and kick their heels. But there is no doubt that organization can yield results—at home, at work…

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Garage Series for Office 365: PowerShell basics and the space race

Body: ​ On this week’s show Jeremy Chapman is joined by scripting guy, Greg Stemp, to introduce PowerShell for managing Office 365. Jeremy and Greg explain when PowerShell makes sense compared to the user interface and describe the basics of how PowerShell works. Then Jeremy puts PowerShell to the test at NASA in Houston by attempting to add 150 users into Office 365 within the 8 minutes it took the…

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