Enhanced email protection with DKIM and DMARC in Office 365

Body: Spoofing is a common challenge that enterprises face in today’s world, which can lead to increased spam and more intensified phishing campaigns. In order to reduce spoofing and provide a safer client experience, Office 365 now supports inbound validation of DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) over IPv4, and Domain-based Messaging and Reporting Compliance (DMARC). Both of these technologies check for trusted authenticated senders and help identify untrusted ones that that…

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Office 365 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager

Body:   System Center Management Pack for Office 365 If you use Office 365 and SCOM you use this latest Management Pack to monitor Office 365. The Office 365 Management Pack for Operations Manager is designed for the following versions of System Center Operations Manager: • System Center Operations Manager 2012 • System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1 • System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 ​ Office 365 Management Pack…

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Trust in Office 365

Body: ​More than 1.2 billion people trust Microsoft Office to deliver productivity that will not compromise privacy, compliance, or data security. Organizations that adopt Office 365 (including 75 percent of Fortune 500 companies) can feel that confidence while they enable their employees to work from anywhere, anytime and on any device. This white paper illustrates that while Google Apps for Work offers limited security capabilities, Microsoft lets you move to…

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OneNote for teachers—training, lesson plans and new languages for Class Notebook Creator

Body: ​ As developers of OneNote and the OneNote Class Notebook Creator, we realize that creating exciting products is only the first step towards to making a difference in education. The next steps are to actively train educators on how they can use OneNote in ways that are immediately relevant to their daily school lives and give them the content that serves as a basis for further curriculum generation. The…

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Office 365 – Introducing Send Email in Access 2013 web apps

Body: One of the top feature requests we’ve heard from customers using Access 2013 web apps hosted inside Office 365 is the need to be able to send emails from their apps. We listened and today we’re proud to announce that a new feature called “Send Email” is available to all of our customers using Office 365 with Access Services. Now you can send emails from your Access 2013 web…

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What’s new: December 2014

Body: ​ Before the holiday the Office 365 team was busy in December delivering service updates and new apps across devices. Excel and the Business Intelligence scenarios and features also received numerous updates to enhance stability, do more with maps, embedding Power Views in websites and more. Lync added support for video calling with Skype users, updates for Android, Windows Phone, and Lync Room System. Yammer Enterprise was added to…

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New accessibility enhancements for Office Online

Body: ​ When we first built Office Online, we worked hard to make the suite accessible to blind and low vision users by using a new web accessibility standard called WAI-ARIA. While this web standard has allowed Office Online to be usable with a screen reader, we’ve made some further improvements over the past year to provide an even better experience. We are excited to talk about these improvements and…

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Office 365 news round-up

Body: ​ “Think Globally, Act Locally” became the mantra of the fledgling environmental movement after the first nationwide Earth Day celebration in 1970. The motto was a driving force that represented the impact individuals working in their local communities can have on a global scale. Many people view the software they use in much the same way. Software has the ability to enhance the productivity of individuals by enabling them to communicate, collaborate…

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Sway for iPhone is available more broadly

Body: ​ Sway is reimagining what it means to be productive in a mobile-first and cloud-first world. It’s an intelligent app that helps you easily pull together, format and share your content in a way that’s expressive and interactive. We’re making progress during Sway Preview by learning and adapting to feedback from customers and improving the product together. We’ve also been hard at work testing how to best optimize Sway’s…

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