Office 365, From Inside the Cloud: Is your Data Safe at Rest?

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​When your data is resting in the Microsoft data centers or within Office 365 services can you trust that it is safe at rest?Lead Office 365 engineer Vivek Sharma offers a simple walk through of the possible attack vectors and their mitigations at the physical, logical and user layers of Microsoft’s defense in depth approach. 3-4 minutes in length. Learn more too at www.trust.office365.com     Category: Office 365;…

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The art of designing Office for iPad

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:     Han-Yi Shaw is group program manager and design manager for Office for iPad. Hello once again from the Office for iPad team. We’ve hit a great milestone with over 27 million downloads of Office for iPad and we would like to say thank you to everyone who has tried out the apps and provided feedback to help us continually improve Office for you. Today we want to…

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Join the Office 365 Technical Network

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Great news! Microsoft recently launched a new Yammer external network called the Office 365 Technical Network, where you can discover and share your knowledge and firsthand experience of Office 365 with technical professionals worldwide. Join more than 10,000 Office 365 IT Pros and technical experts from Microsoft for discussions about Office 365, Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, Project, and Visio. And today this network is better than ever with the addition of…

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Simplifying the Office 365 admin experience

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​As an Office 365 IT admin, you are front and center in managing your Office 365 environment. With cloud-based services such as Office 365, your environment is always up to date. Not only do you always have the latest fixes, you also always have access to the latest innovations, such as Office Groups and Office Graph, and the latest productivity tools, including Office for iPad. With all the new…

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Exchange Online Protection Content Updates

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Below are the EOP TechNet content updates that the UA team has made in the last month.   Delegated administration FAQ – We added this Q&A topic to help Microsoft partners and resellers who want to perform delegated Office 365 administration tasks, including the ability to manage EOP for other tenants. We also added a sample PowerShell script for applying EOP settings to multiple tenants. End User Spam…

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Get more done with Tell Me

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ At the beginning of this year, we launched a brand-new feature in Word Online, Tell Me. Tell Me is now also available in Excel Online and PowerPoint Online. We figured that this update to Office Online might be a good time to tell you more about what motivated us to build this feature and how you can use it to be even more productive.   Tell Me is…

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Choosing a sign-in model for Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: We get a lot of questions about which of the three identity models to choose with Office 365. Which of these models you choose will impact where you manage your user accounts for Office 365 and how those user sign-in passwords are verified. In this post I’ll describe each of the models, explain how to move between them, and provide guidance on how to choose the right one for…

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The Garage Series for Office 365: Updates to Office 365 ProPlus for admins and first look at upcoming shared computer support

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ This week Jeremy is joined again by Curtis Sawin to demonstrate the latest admin features in Office 365 ProPlus and Click-to-Run. If you’ve wanted to install the entire Office suite without InfoPath or Access apps, its now possible and they’ll walk you through the new admin processes to do so. They also go under the hood to show how the Click-to-Run software update process works and even give…

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Introducing new forecasting capabilities in Power View for Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ At the PASS Business Analytics conference Microsoft has announced the availability of new forecasting capabilities for Power View in Office 365. In Power View, you can now apply predictive forecasting, and hindcasting, when visualizing and exploring your data. Forecasting in Power View utilizes built-in predictive forecasting models using exponential smoothing to automatically detect seasonality in the data to provide forecast results from a series of data. Explore forecast…

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