Performance and scale improvements to Project Online

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ To provide a delightful user experience and better support the scale at which some of our largest customers operate, we have started to roll out performance enhancements to Project Online tenants worldwide. While some of these changes will be visually evident to the user, others could be more latent. Here are a few common things that will feel much snappier as a result of these investments: Project Center—In particular, navigating…

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Outlook Web App for Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​This article highlights content resources for the web-based version of Outlook, known as Outlook Web App (OWA), that is included with Office 365. Topics covered include supported browsers, tips for getting started, sharing your inbox, sharing your calendar and contacts, recovering deleted items, and more all in OWA.           Webcasts and Videos The following help and how-to content is available for this topic: Start using…

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Announcing the Lync Online client devices report

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ We are delighted to announce the release of new Lync Online client devices report, which tells you how many users in your organization have used one specific type of device to take part in peer-to-peer or conference in a specified month. The metrics in this report are available through PowerShell Cmdlet: Get-CsClientDeviceReport, RESTFul WebService API: CsClientDeviceMonthly as well as a graphical report in Office 365 admin center for client…

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Organize your Office 365 with the new app launcher

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ American founding father Benjamin Franklin famously said, “A place for everything and everything in its place.” In order to yield your greatest results, organization and access to each tool you need to accomplish your goals is paramount. Getting organized. Some people are naturally great at this, some people drag their feet and kick their heels. But there is no doubt that organization can yield results—at home, at work…

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Garage Series for Office 365: PowerShell basics and the space race

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ On this week’s show Jeremy Chapman is joined by scripting guy, Greg Stemp, to introduce PowerShell for managing Office 365. Jeremy and Greg explain when PowerShell makes sense compared to the user interface and describe the basics of how PowerShell works. Then Jeremy puts PowerShell to the test at NASA in Houston by attempting to add 150 users into Office 365 within the 8 minutes it took the…

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Evolving Exchange Online Protection (EOP) to protect against tomorrow’s threats

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Ten million spam messages blocked every minute. That’s the average number of spam messages that are blocked by Microsoft every minute. However, every day attackers around the world find new techniques to attack your email. The threats take different forms, such as an unidentified spam campaign, an unknown malware, or a completely new virus. The ever-expanding world of such attacks keeps changing and, to better protect your email…

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Simpler, better instant messaging options in Lync 2013

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ You asked, we listened.  Today, we released an update to the Lync 2013 Windows client, which gives users the option to eliminate the images of senders and receivers in IM conversations without disabling them in the contact list.  We also grouped all of the IM options in the Options dialog to make them easier to find and made a number of other improvements to our media stack to…

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Office 365 URLs and IP addresses – How to don’t have problems

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ If your organization restricts computers on your network from connecting to the Internet, you should allow outbound connections, also known as whitelisting, to ensure your computers can successfully use Office 365 Using URL whitelisting is the recommended approach due to the modern web architecture of Office 365. While IP whitelisting will work, there are a number of downsides to this approach, including: Web clients such as the Office 365 admin portal…

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