Body: Azure Active Directory Connect is a simple, fast, and lightweight tool for connecting Active Directory and Azure Active Directory in a few clicks. It helps you to synchronize only the data you really need from single- or multi-forest environments, and it enables Single Sign-On (SSO) to Microsoft Office 365 and thousands of other SaaS applications via password sync or federation with Active Directory Federation Services. Organizations already using Azure…
Read MoreTeachers, create your OneNote Class Notebook from Office 365 App Launcher or OneNote.com/classnotebook
Body: Last month, we announced the summer rollout of a number of top requested features for OneNote Class Notebooks, OneNote Staff Notebooks and OneNote across platforms to Office 365 customers. One of our promises was that we are making OneNote Class Notebooks more discoverable for teachers to save them time. That’s why we recently put the OneNote Class Notebook app in the My Apps page for every teacher with Office 365 Education…
Read MoreOffice 365 – Improved communications and tools help you stay better informed during service incidents
Body: As an Office 365 admin, you play an important role in delivering the best possible productivity for your users and organization. We share in this mission and remain committed to providing you a reliable service and transparency into our operations. Office 365 is designed with service continuity at the very center and we stand by this commitment through our financially backed guarantee of at least 99.9 percent uptime. Reducing…
Read MoreOffice 365 News Roundup
Body: When we review recent Office 365 updates and improvements—something we do every couple of weeks as we pull together this news roundup—it’s usually easy to spot a general theme that ties those announcements together. Whether the theme is productivity, collaboration, teamwork or some other aspect of how Office 365 enhances the way people work, it’s rarely hard to find. Looking across the large number of diverse announcements during the…
Read MoreHow to be productive with Office 365
Body: Here is my presentation at #SPBiz50 http://buff.ly/1ImAkAz with @NunoAriasSilva at #SPBiz15 Presentation https://dd.docs.com/DZGcZJQYTcHlHUAAZUyImQQ%7eM41b4fd7f-fc2b-d7d2-2a5f-2dc5b9ba0989 Category: How to do; Office 365; Article; Ideas; Events; Opinions Published: 6/18/2015 21:38 ]]>
Read MoreNew Intune capabilities for Outlook on iOS and Android
Body: Last month at Ignite we showcased new mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM) capabilities in Outlook for iOS and Android. Today, we are happy to announce that customers using Outlook for iOS and Android can now use built-in MDM for Office 365 or Microsoft Intune to secure email data on mobile devices within their organization. Combined with our recent update to enable OAuth and add support…
Read MoreIntroducing Compliance Search in Office 365
Body: We’re excited to announce a faster and more lightweight way of searching within your organization’s data in Office 365. Compliance Search is a new capability in the Office 365 Compliance Center, designed for times when the full-fledged search case management of eDiscovery search isn’t required. Compliance Search is ideal for quick searches across content in Office 365, such as searching for specific credit card numbers in SharePoint as part…
Read MoreMore control over data access with workload-specific admin roles
Body: Your people and your data are your organization’s greatest assets. With Office 365, we continuously strive to provide you with more control over how your data is managed and accessed. At Ignite in May, we announced the ability to assign workload-specific service administrator roles to your organizations IT administrators for Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Skype for Business Online. We’re pleased to announce that this capability is rolling out…
Read MoreRights Management Service departmental templates comes to Office 2013
Body: Rights Management Service (RMS) is one of the encryption mechanisms that helps you protect your Intellectual property in Office 365. One of the new RMS capabilities we announced earlier with was departmental templates, a feature that allows organizations to define different policies that will be deployed to different departments (or roles) for their use in documents and emails. We are excited to share that this capability is now natively…
Read More