Office 365 – Sharepoint Hybrid – New interactive training for hybrid computing now available

Body: ​ Hybrid computing is the intersection between traditional on-premises and cloud computing models. Deploying a hybrid scenario is useful when you need to realize ROI on existing on-premises investments, when you require a bridge between on-premises and cloud to support migration, or if you’re not ready to move to the cloud all at once. We are committed to continued innovation and guidance for those of you who are deploying…

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Office 365 Multi-Factor Authentication

Body: ​ Microsoft has recently introduced Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for Office 365. This feature is now part of Office 365 Midsize Business, Enterprise plans, Academic plans, nonprofit plans and standalone Office 365 plans (including Exchange Online and SharePoint Online) at no additional cost. MFA has actually been available for Office 365 administrative roles since June 2013, but it is now available to any Office 365 end user. There are also…

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Document collaboration made easy

Body: ​ When people send files as attachments, they’re often looking to collaborate with others and get feedback. Up until now, this has been a cumbersome process. For example, when you email a document to your colleague, she must first download the document to make her edits. Once she’s finished editing the document, she then needs to reattach the file to a new email before sending it back to you.…

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Call Quality Methodology scorecard for Lync Server

Body: ​ The Lync team wants your users to be delighted about the quality of every Lync call they make. We built the new Call Quality Methodology (CQM) scorecard to help you reach this goal. The CQM scorecard was released in the June update of the Lync Network Guide. The Call Quality Methodology is described in Appendix C of the guide. The scorecard is an Excel spreadsheet that loads all…

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Office Mix Is a Game-Changer for Teachers

Body: ​ Last month, Microsoft announced the customer preview of Office Mix, a tool designed to make it easier for teachers to incorporate online content into their lesson plans. Since then, we’ve been gathering feedback about what educators find most useful about the tool and how to make it even better, and we’re sharing what we’ve learned at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference in Atlanta this…

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Office 365 for IT professionals: Part 1

Body: We recently released an Office 365 Fundamentals online course through the Microsoft Virtual Academy. This course helps IT professionals understand some of the basics of Office 365. For more advanced learning, check out the Managing Office 365 Identities and Services course. These courses have the added benefit of helping you prepare for the MCSA: Office 365 certification. In this new blog post series, we want to share some additional…

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Office 365 Mail Protection Reports

Body: ​ This tips explores the Mail Protection Reports for Office 365 Out of the box, Office 365 offers more than 30 excellent reports for its various services, covering all the important aspects, from mailbox to traffic statistics, from Lync to SharePoint. These reports can be found under reports in the Admin Dashboard. As a side note, please be aware that Exchange Online reports are only visible if you have…

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How does Office 365 continuously meet your compliance needs?

Body: ​ In the last two posts in our From Inside the Cloud series, we went behind the scenes to share with you different ways we protect your data. My colleagues and lead engineers Perry Clarke and Vivek Sharma focused on how we protect your data at rest and who has access to your data within Office 365. They explained the various mitigations that we have in place through our…

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Office 365: Decommission of onlinehelp.microsoft.com

Body: ​ Be aware that the entire onlinehelp.microsoft.com URL will be decommissioned by the end of June. The URL will be redirecting to http://support.office.live.com. The URL is being decommissioned as the content there was Wave 14 (previous Office 365 version) content and was not maintained as evergreen content. The same is true for any Exchange Online only articles in http://help.outlook.com. Most of the articles in http://help.outlook.com are Exchange online articles,…

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