10 Myths about moving to Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:   You’ve been trying to separate fact from fiction since you were a little kid. Does the tooth fairy actually exist? Are there monsters under the bed? Will a watermelon really grow in your stomach after swallowing a seed? Hard as it may be to admit, believing myths doesn’t stop when we reach adulthood. Often myths are so powerful and prevalent that we never think to question them. We…

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Get started on PowerShell for Office 365 with the new powershell.office.com!

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Welcome! Are you an Office 365 IT administrator who is new to PowerShell? Are you looking for an Office 365 admin tool to automate repetitive administrative tasks? Or perhaps you are looking to access additional capabilities that aren’t available in the Office 365 Admin Center? Then PowerShell for Office 365 is for you. http://powershell.office.com​  ​​ Starting today, PowerShell for Office 365, a new website designed to help Office 365 IT…

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Azure Active Directory Connect generally available

Nuno Árias Silva

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…

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Teachers, create your OneNote Class Notebook from Office 365 App Launcher or OneNote.com/classnotebook

Nuno Árias Silva

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…

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Office 365 – Improved communications and tools help you stay better informed during service incidents

Nuno Árias Silva

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…

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New Intune capabilities for Outlook on iOS and Android

Nuno Árias Silva

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…

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Introducing Compliance Search in Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

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…

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More control over data access with workload-specific admin roles

Nuno Árias Silva

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…

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