Matter Center for Office 365 is now available in GitHub

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Office Extensibility exists for a single, simple purpose: make Office more useful by unleashing the creativity of developers to craft purpose-driven, relevant experiences for their users. We’re excited about pushing forward our vision of new and better ways for users to be productive. Combining that with the creativity and vision of third-party developers from around the world and companies of all sizes, the possibilities are endless. We recently had…

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Get ready for Office 365 Planner preview!

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: We recently announced Office 365 Planner—a new experience in Office 365 that offers a simple, visual way to organize teamwork. Planner makes it easy for your team to create plans, organize and assign work, share files, chat about what everyone is working on and get updates on progress. We’re happy to announce that today we’ve started rolling out Planner preview to Office 365 First Release customers. Office 365 administrators in…

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Office 365 Groups now supports eDiscovery, litigation hold, dynamic membership and more!

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Office 365 Groups is a service for Office 365 commercial and education customers that enables teams to come together and get work done by establishing a single team identity (managed in Azure Active Directory) and a single set of permissions across Office 365 apps including Outlook, OneDrive for Business, OneNote, Skype for Business, Power BI and Dynamics CRM. Office 365 Groups will soon extend to include Office Planner,…

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Office 365 – More services join First Release

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Frequent updates are a core benefit of Office 365, helping you provide the latest releases of your favorite apps and services to your organization. With First Release, you can opt in to receive updates earlier than the Standard Release. In May, we enhanced First Release based on your feedback, adding First Release Select People. This enables you to select a subset of your users to receive updates early…

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A deeper view into Skype for Business Cloud PBX

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Most companies manage their telephone communications using a PBX (private branch exchange) system, which is essentially hardware that acts as a private telephone switchboard. Now, with Skype for Business Cloud PBX, you can eliminate separate PBX systems for users and move the functions of the PBX into the cloud, assign and manage phone numbers using Skype controls within your Office 365 admin console, and easily enable dial-in telephone…

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Office 365 brings significant new value to business customers worldwide

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​​ Today, we are excited to announce the availability of several new Office 365 communications services designed to modernize voice, video, and meeting experiences, while saving companies substantial costs in their communication infrastructure. Organizations can now replace their legacy meeting and phone systems with innovative services built on the familiar Skype for Business experience, all naturally integrated within Office 365—the world’s most-used collaboration and productivity platform. We are also…

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Announcing Office 365 customer security considerations preview

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​Office 365 provides customers with a continuous stream of innovative features that provide significant productivity improvements while keeping information highly secure. We are working on resources and tools to help you leverage Office 365 information security features and controls, so you can manage security in your Office 365 tenant. The Office 365 Service Trust Portal (STP), launched earlier this year, is an example of a feature that provides deep…

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Outlook Groups now supports 11 new languages and more!

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Earlier this year, we introduced a new mobile app called Outlook Groups that lets you engage with your team on your mobile device. Available for Windows Phone, iOS and Android, the Outlook Groups app enables you to have conversations, view and edit files stored in SharePoint, access a shared OneNote notebook, @mention colleagues and groups and even discover other relevant groups. Download the Outlook Groups app and learn…

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Share slides with your social network

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Social Share, a Microsoft Garage project It’s a snap to share presentations with your social network using Social Share—a Microsoft Garage project. Share snapshots of slides or even the entire presentation as a photo album or video. Share from PowerPoint to Facebook and Twitter Social Share is a free Plug-in to PowerPoint to make it easier to share your content and slides to your social network.    Post…

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