Yammer Per User Licensing and Domain Life-cycle Management

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ As Yammer gets further integrated in Office 365, administrators can manage key aspects of the Yammer service from Office 365, including identity, domain and license management.  Per User Licensing On January 15, we announced that you can manage Yammer licenses in Office 365, and that administrators will have the option to block users without licenses by the first quarter of 2016. In the first phase Yammer licenses can be…

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Office 365 Updates on Groups

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Office 365 Groups are shared workspaces where group members can collectively get things done. When you set up a group, it automatically creates a shared inbox, group calendar, a place to save and share files and group notes, plus planning tools. The Office 365 Groups experience also extends to other services like Power BI and Dynamics CRM, and can be accessed on the go using the Outlook Groups app.…

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Office 365 – Auditing, reporting and storage improvements for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Auditing, reporting and storage improvements for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business has a bunch of information about numerous updates our engineering team has been working on to enable greater visibility on more actions and activities within Office 365, key storage improvements and more: Auditing and reporting for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, for both user and admin activities like share, file and folder and sync actions. 10GB…

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8 features you didn’t know you needed for online meetings

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ When it comes to business communication, face-to-face meetings are always a popular pick. But with company branches scattered across the country—and often, the world—virtual meetings are becoming a frequent choice. Not only can online collaboration save time, but money as well. In fact, according to Verizon Conferencing, virtual meetings between five or more people are at least seven times less expensive than face-to-face meetings that require travel. That’s…

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Deferred Channel build now available for the Office 365 Client apps

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ The first Office 365 Deferred Channel build (previously known as Current Branch for Business) is now available for Microsoft Office 365 for Windows (including Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Business, Project Pro for Office 365 and Visio Pro for Office 365). The Deferred Channel allows organizations to choose an update schedule that reduces the frequency of feature changes for the Windows desktop apps, enabling IT admins and developers…

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Advanced Threat Protection in Office 365 – Stay secure

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Office 365 already provides robust email protection against spam, viruses and malware. But as hackers around the globe launch increasingly sophisticated attacks, many organizations are seeking tools that provide increased protection. Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) in Office 365 is your solution! ATP is an email filtering service that provides additional protection against advanced threats. ATP provides you with: Protection against unknown malware/viruses. Real-time, time-of-click protection against malicious URLs. Rich…

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Office 365 news roundup

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Just as we’re focused on continuous innovation to expand and improve Office 365 capabilities, we’re also committed to making it easier for more people to benefit from our cloud productivity suite. Just this week, we made it easier for small to midsized businesses (SMBs) to move to Office 365 and give their employees the ability to access team files from anywhere, collaborate in real-time from any device and…

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3 ways to drive business decisions using the new Excel 2016 charts

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: With the release of Office 2016, we unveiled a set of highly anticipated new charts to give you more ways to explore data and tell rich stories across Excel, Word and PowerPoint. The Waterfall, Histogram, Box & Whisker, Pareto, Treemap and Sunburst are six examples of powerful new charts that help you quickly visualize common financial, statistical and hierarchical data. Below are just a few ways these new charts speed…

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How to assess security, compliance and privacy capabilities in Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: In keeping with our commitment to provide customers the utmost transparency, we have released a detailed overview of how Office 365 controls map to the security, privacy, compliance and risk management controls defined in the Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Control Matrix (CSA CCM). The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is a nonprofit organization led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, associations, governments and corporate and individual members who are…

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