Office 365 Groups – How to

Body: ​ Create and navigate a group A group is a shared workspace for email, conversations, files, and events where group members can conveniently collaborate and quickly get stuff done. A group makes it dramatically easier to work together in natural and familiar ways. It does this by bringing together features and conveniences across the Office 365 services spectrum from Outlook (email, calendar, and conversation), OneDrive for Business, and People.…

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New school year brings new security features to Office 365 Education

Body: ​ ​ As schools prepare for the start of another school year and teachers get their classrooms ready to welcome students, we are introducing additional features to meet the needs of schools, teachers and students. Today we are announcing changes to Office 365 Education that will make it easier for schools to meet their security and compliance needs at a time when teaching and learning are becoming increasingly collaborative…

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What’s new: August 2015

Body: ​ ​August brought new Outlook partner add-ins, new wearable productivity apps, Sway for Windows 10, a new community GitHub project for Office IT Pro Deployment Scripts and a new Snack video showcase for developers. Plus, you can now preview the Skype for Business apps for iOS and Android and real-time coauthoring in OneDrive. There were lots of updates too, including: improvements in Excel 2016 for Mac that make working…

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Microsoft Azure Active Directory Connect – New Release

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

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

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

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

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

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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