Office 365 Video – What’s new

Body: Office 365 Video provides you a single tool for uploading, sharing and playing back videos anywhere on your company intranet—whether you use SharePoint Online and/or SharePoint Server on-premises. “It was difficult to find information in our original intranet. The Office 365 Video and Office Delve tools make it easy for our employees to reach into the firm and bring all our intellectual resources to bear on finding creative ways…

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New update options for Office 365 ProPlus using System Center Configuration Manager

Body: ​ IT admins can now manage Office 365 client updates—including those for Office 365 ProPlus, Visio Pro for Office 365 and Project Pro for Office 365—directly via the System Center Configuration Manager’s built-in software updates workflow engine. One of the top feature requests we hear from IT admins is to use System Center Configuration Manager to update Office. To accomplish this, we streamlined the ongoing update management for Office…

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How to work from home and look good doing it

Body: ​ In the last decade, the mobile workforce has increased by more than 100 percent—not that surprising when we consider the abundant improvement in technology over that same time period. Telecommuting offers wonderful benefits to companies and workers alike, with an improved work-life balance topping the charts. Not only that, but a 2015 Gallup poll shows that telecommuters are more likely to be more engaged in their jobs, and…

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Unite your team with Groups at Office Training Center

Body: New content at Office Training Center. You can learn at this site many content regarding Office 365 features. New Scenario training are now available on the Office Training Center to help you get started: Unite your team with Groups Get caught up with your team Communicate with your team Collaborate with your team Schedule with your team Get a new team member up to speed We have a lot more…

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Updates to Office experiences on Windows tablets and iPad Pro

Body: It’s been just over a year since we last went hands-on with Office app experiences running on Windows 10 tablets. This week Ben Walters returns to give a tour of recent updates to Office experiences spanning Sway, Excel, PowerPoint and Word Mobile apps for Windows 10 tablets and what’s new with Office on the iPad Pro.   We demonstrate time savers and touch optimizations in Excel, slide design and…

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Azure AD Connect 1.1

Body: ​With the release of Azure AD Connect 1.1 there are many changes like Faster sync times, automatic upgrades and more! The enhancements to Azure AD Connect that we’ve released at 18/2/2016 are:  Reduction in the sync interval to keep your Azure AD in sync with AD on-premises more quickly Support for automatic upgrades Ability to switch between sign-in methods through the wizard to enable faster pilots Support for Domain and OU…

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Yammer Per User Licensing and Domain Life-cycle Management

Body: ​ As Yammer gets further integrated in Office 365, administrators can manage key aspects of the Yammer service from Office 365, including identity, domain and license management.  Per User Licensing On January 15, we announced that you can manage Yammer licenses in Office 365, and that administrators will have the option to block users without licenses by the first quarter of 2016. In the first phase Yammer licenses can be…

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Office 365 – Auditing, reporting and storage improvements for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business

Body: ​ Auditing, reporting and storage improvements for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business has a bunch of information about numerous updates our engineering team has been working on to enable greater visibility on more actions and activities within Office 365, key storage improvements and more: Auditing and reporting for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, for both user and admin activities like share, file and folder and sync actions. 10GB…

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8 features you didn’t know you needed for online meetings

Body: ​ When it comes to business communication, face-to-face meetings are always a popular pick. But with company branches scattered across the country—and often, the world—virtual meetings are becoming a frequent choice. Not only can online collaboration save time, but money as well. In fact, according to Verizon Conferencing, virtual meetings between five or more people are at least seven times less expensive than face-to-face meetings that require travel. That’s…

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