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

Nuno Árias Silva

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?

Nuno Árias Silva

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

Nuno Árias Silva

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

Nuno Árias Silva

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

Nuno Árias Silva

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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Office 365 news round-up

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ “Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change,” according to business-management expert Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence. At Microsoft, we understand that the only way to provide the excellence our customers expect is to constantly improve our products and services. Just within the past few weeks, we have made it simpler for admins to configure and monitor Office 365,…

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What’s New in Hybrid Exchange 2013 On Prem & Exchange Online Deployments

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Now that Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 is out, many organizations are beginning to seriously evaluate the latest iteration of Microsoft’s messaging platform. Many of these same organizations may have divisions, offices, or even vast swaths of their company using Exchange Online or Office 365 and Microsoft’s hosted Exchange platform. Helpfully, Service Pack 1 enables some key functionality in Exchange as it relates to hybrid on premises…

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What’s New in Hybrid Exchange 2013 On Prem & Exchange Online Deployments

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Now that Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 is out, many organizations are beginning to seriously evaluate the latest iteration of Microsoft’s messaging platform. Many of these same organizations may have divisions, offices, or even vast swaths of their company using Exchange Online or Office 365 and Microsoft’s hosted Exchange platform. Helpfully, Service Pack 1 enables some key functionality in Exchange as it relates to hybrid on premises…

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Improving visibility to service updates

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Those of you who have been following this blog have seen dozens of great improvements that we’ve shipped to Office 365 for business services over the last 18 months. In that time I’ve had the opportunity to discuss our roadmap and release processes with customers across the globe, and two major trends have become apparent to me. First, many of you are really excited about the new update…

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