Category: 5-News

Body: ​ Understanding how your users are using Office 365 is extremely important to you as an Office 365 admin. It allows you to efficiently monitor your service, identify issues, plan support and training and to report back on the investment to your management. Today, we’re excited to announce the new reporting portal, which provides you with valuable insights about how the Office 365 services are being used and delivers…

Body: ​Last May, we highlighted how Office 365 and Dynamics CRM work together to help boost productivity. Now, with capabilities spanning Office 365 Groups, the Office Graph and inherited Protection Center controls, the integration goes much deeper. This week, Microsoft Mechanics goes hands-on with the latest Dynamics CRM to highlight Office 365 integration for sellers, admins and developers. Eric Boocock from the Dynamics team joins me to demonstrate how CRM…

Body: ​ Three months ago, we launched Skype for Business Cloud PBX, Meeting Broadcast and PSTN services to provide a complete meetings and voice experience in Office 365. Already, thousands of Office 365 customers are using these services, and many more are trialing them. Today, we’re announcing our first major geographic expansion of these services; new support for hybrid deployments; new, modern meeting room solutions; and improvements to our unified…

Body: ​​​   ​ Mark Twain once said, “We are all alike, on the inside.” Twain was not only a renowned humorist and celebrated author, he was also a keen observer of the human condition. In making that observation, he was acknowledging that whereas people come in many different shapes and sizes and colors, and may have different talents and abilities, they share the same emotional landscape. And they all…

Body: ​   ​ Last week, Jenny Lay-Flurrie, chief accessibility officer for Microsoft, outlined our company-wide guiding principles and goals to improve accessibility across our products, services and websites. To support this company priority, the Office 365 team has increased its investments in accessibility to a historical high and is committed to delivering inclusive productivity experiences to empower the 1 billion+ people with disabilities on this planet to achieve more. Our goals are…

Body: We talk a lot about innovation at Microsoft, and innovation is clearly evident in many of the new improvements and capabilities that we build into Office 365. Yet not all innovation is the same. Some innovations represent giant leaps forward. Office Delve was like that when we introduced it about 18 months ago. Delve was game-changing technology that gave you a new way to discover relevant information and connections…