Admins—get ready for Office 2016, rollout begins September 22!

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ In March, we announced the Office 2016 IT Pro and Developer Preview. Since then, we’ve been listening to your feedback and continuing to build, refine and improve Office 2016 for Windows. This is a seminal release for Office and one you won’t want to wait to deploy to your users, and thanks to the many new IT management enhancements, you don’t need to wait! You may have heard…

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Introducing the Microsoft Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Running Exchange 2013 CU8 or higher? Download the new wizard! The Exchange hybrid team has been working hard over the past year getting the 3rd version of the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) ready. This new version is called the Microsoft Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard. This article tells you what’s new and shows you how to run the wizard. We also explain the various issues that have been…

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Introducing the Microsoft Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Running Exchange 2013 CU8 or higher? Download the new wizard! The Exchange hybrid team has been working hard over the past year getting the 3rd version of the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) ready. This new version is called the Microsoft Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard. This article tells you what’s new and shows you how to run the wizard. We also explain the various issues that have been…

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Office 365 Groups – How to

Nuno Árias Silva

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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Introducing the Office IT Pro Deployment Script project

Nuno Árias Silva

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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Optimizing Yammer for teams

Nuno Árias Silva

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

Nuno Árias Silva

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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Mobile Device Management for Office 365 with Azure Active Directory

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ MVP Award Program MVP Award Program ​​View Profile 4 Aug 2015 12:45 PM ​ Editor’s note: The following post was written by Office 365 MVP Nuno Silva as part of our Technical Tuesday series. Mobile Device Management for Office 365 (MDM for Office 365) integrated with Azure Active Directory is an enterprise-level identity and access management cloud solution. MDM for Office 365, built on top of the core…

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Announcing Sway General Availability, Windows 10 app and more!

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Today, we are excited to announce that our digital storytelling app, Sway, is moving from Preview to General Availability! Sway is also moving beyond First Release and rolling out to all eligible Office 365 for business and education customers worldwide.* This makes it possible for many additional businesses, schools and other organizations to start using Sway to create and share interactive reports, presentations, assignments, lessons, projects and more. And…

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