Office 365 news roundup

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​Everybody enjoys getting together with friends. Recently, we’ve had the pleasure of spending time with thousands of our friends—developers, IT professionals and business decision makers—at two of the most important conferences of the year. At both gatherings, we had a lot of great news to share. At Build last week in San Francisco, we announced a new wave of capabilities for the Office platform, such as the new Office…

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Powershell for Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Coming Soon!​ ​ Are you an Office 365 IT administrator who is new to PowerShell? Are you looking for an Office 365 admin tool to automate repetitive administration tasks? Or perhaps you are looking to access additional capabilities that aren’t available in the Office 365 Admin Center? Through this site http://powershell.office.com/​, you will be able to browse through a selection of scenarios and script samples, and access additional resources…

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Making email archive migration easier with the Office 365 Import Service

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Large migration projects are never simple and it has always been challenging to move email archive data to the cloud. Two years ago we released the PST Capture Tool, which makes this process easier by locating PST files scattered across your organization, collecting them into one place, and then uploading the contents directly into Exchange Online mailboxes. But no matter how you cut it, moving dozens or hundreds of…

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What’s new in Office 365 administration from Microsoft Ignite

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: At Microsoft Ignite, we announced some exciting new Office 365 admin features. We focused on two key themes important to you—the Office 365 IT administrator—visibility and control. Enhancing these attributes, gives you greater capability to monitor how your organization is running and enable the necessary controls to keep your data safe. Greater transparency with new Office 365 reporting dashboards To truly understand how your organization is running, you need…

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Manage change and stay informed in Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Heraclitus said, “No one steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he or she is not the same person.” We understand the transition you are making from traditional change management you drove in an on-premises software world to the faster pace of change you are experiencing with cloud services like Office 365. We understand that in a cloud services world, IT gives up…

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Announcing first network partners to offer ExpressRoute for Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​In March we announced Azure ExpressRoute connectivity to Office 365, which enables Office 365 customers to use Azure ExpressRoute to establish a private, managed connection to Office 365 for highly predictable performance and the reliability that comes with dedicated connectivity. A key part of delivering ExpressRoute for Office 365 are the network partners that provide connectivity between Office 365 services and your on-premises network. Network Service Providers manage and…

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Skype for Business gains momentum

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Last month, we announced that the new Skype for Business client for Windows desktop and the online service in Office 365 have begun rolling out. Continuing the momentum, today at the Microsoft Ignite conference, we talked about modern meetings, which require that participants in any location can see, hear and collaborate within the meeting as easily as if everyone is sitting in the same room. We announced today that…

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Sway is coming to Office 365 for business and education and adding more languages

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: In October 2014, we introduced Office Sway to the world as a brand new app joining the Office family. It’s been inspiring to see the variety of ways people have used Sway in their educational, professional, and personal lives. People all over the world tell us how excited they are to quickly create and share their ideas with a variety of multimedia using Sway’s polished, interactive, web-based canvas. Sway…

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Office 2016 Public Preview now available

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Over the last 12 months, we’ve transformed Office from a suite of desktop applications to a complete, cross-platform, cross-device solution for getting work done. We’ve expanded the Office footprint to iPad and Android tablets. We’ve upgraded Office experiences on the Mac, the iPhone and on the web. We’ve even added new apps to the Office family with Sway and Office Lens. All designed to keep your work moving, everywhere.…

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