Evolving Office 365 plans for small and midsized businesses

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Two weeks ago, we announced the release of the Office 365 for business public roadmap in response to your feedback for more visibility into future Office 365 updates. Today we are continuing that effort by sharing how our Office 365 plans will be evolving over the next few months. Making Office 365 even better for small and midsized businesses On October 1, 2014, we will release three new…

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

Nuno Árias Silva

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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Yammer Enterprise now included in Office 365 Midsize Business and Education plans

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ One of our key themes at the SharePoint Conference in March was Work Like a Network. Yammer is at the heart of this new way of getting things done, and ever since the acquisition we’ve been focused on weaving social capabilities deeply into Office 365. In November we announced the addition of Yammer Enterprise to all Office 365 Enterprise plans. And today—to further support our vision—I’m pleased to…

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Office 365 news round-up

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ “Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.”  That was the news flash reported by Popular Mechanics in 1949. Twenty-eight years later, on the brink of the PC revolution, Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), a company that manufactured big mainframe computers for business, had another prediction: “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” Trying…

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Office 365 – What’s new: June 2014

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:   Improvements to Office 365 in June focused on updates for Lync, such as enhancements to Lync for Mac and Lync Room System, as well as on new OneNote tools, extensions, and partnerships. Another big update for Office 365 for business subscribers was the release of the Office 365 road map, which helps inform customers about upcoming updates before they become available. Leave us a comment to let us know…

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Office Mix Is a Game-Changer for Teachers

Nuno Árias Silva

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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The Garage Series for Office 365: Quick tour and review of Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ What is Office 365 and how has it evolved in the past year? This week Jeremy Chapman is joined by Office 365 General Manager, Julia White, to answer that question and give a lightning tour and review of the latest Office 365 innovations. If you haven’t been following Office 365 developments or think its primarily cloud-based email or browser-based Office, you’ll want to check out this show.  …

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How does Office 365 continuously meet your compliance needs?

Nuno Árias Silva

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

Nuno Árias Silva

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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