8 ways to successfully lead your mobile workforce

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ For many of us, the rise of the remote workforce comes as no surprise. For years now, office workers have been abandoning their desks in favor of settings that are farther afield and allow them to work in a more comfortable, and often more productive, environment. And it’s a trend that only promises to keep growing. In fact, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC), the U.S. mobile…

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What’s new: December 2015

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​   ​Improvements to Office 365 kept flowing through the holiday season, bringing even more value to Office 365. The new Skype for Business for Android is here! The Power Pivot data model in Excel 2016 got smart rename support and Access 2016 Runtime became available. For business, the popular First Release program added more services, the Office 365 Compliance Center became the Office 365 Protection Center, Office 365…

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Office 365 news roundup

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ A lot of interesting news emerged from the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) earlier this week. At the top of the list were announcements by several automakers about how they are partnering with Microsoft to enhance their connected car strategies, bringing productivity as well as entertainment to the dashboard of your car. ​ In writing about the new partnerships on The Official Microsoft Blog, Peggy Johnson, executive vice…

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Office 365 news roundup

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Office 365 is better than ever—and our customers are reaping the benefits. We recently launched three new Office 365 plans for small and medium-sized businesses as well as Office 365 E5, the new premium plan that gives our enterprise customers access to a wide range of new features and capabilities. Among the recent improvements are a number of new Office 365 communications services such as PSTN Conferencing and Cloud…

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Office 365 ProPlus training available and includes Office 2013 and Office 2016 content

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Take advantage of training exclusively available to Office 365 ProPlus users with an active license, to help enhance productivity with Office applications. The online training site is now available and includes Office 2013 and Office 2016. [How does this affect me?]The Office 365 online training site provides access to a library of online courses designed for your users, including: Microsoft Access, Excel, Word, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, SharePoint,…

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Office 365 – What’s new – November 2015

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​Office apps for the iPad Pro are here, plus a new set of data connectivity features for Excel and Power Query and new intelligent tools and a new add-in for PowerPoint. For business users, Microsoft Graph—the easiest way to call Microsoft APIs—is now generally available, as is enforcing Office 365 identity in Yammer. Compliance updates include Exchange Online Archiving now meeting the SEC Rule 17a-4 requirements and the availability…

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Managing your security and compliance needs with the new Office 365 Protection Center

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​With the recent launch of new security features in Office 365, such as Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Mobile Device Management (MDM), we are expanding the mission of the Office 365 Compliance Center and, in turn, are renaming it the Office 365 Protection Center. We’ve also redesigned the Office 365 Protection Center with a new user experience that is more intuitive, informative, scalable and insightful.…

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Smarter address book and flight confirmations coming to Outlook on the web

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ You send and receive a lot of emails, and it’s natural to make mistakes along the way—you forget how to spell someone’s name, leave someone out of a group email or forget to add a flight to your calendar. We’re bringing new people and calendar features to Outlook on the web to help you avoid these common mistakes and get things done faster. These changes are coming to…

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Reduce eDiscovery costs and challenges with Office 365 Advanced eDiscovery

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ We are excited about the availability of Office 365 Advanced eDiscovery—further strengthening the rich set of eDiscovery capabilities already present in Office 365—to help you quickly investigate and meet legal obligations. Office 365 Advanced eDiscovery integrates Equivio machine learning, predictive coding and text analytics capabilities to reduce the costs and challenges that come along with sorting through large quantities of data for eDiscovery purposes. In today’s high volume data…

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