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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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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Enforcing Office 365 identity in Yammer now available

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ A year ago, we announced that you could use your Office 365 credentials to sign in to Yammer. Today we’re excited to share with you a new feature that supports enforcing Office 365 identity in Yammer. By enforcing Office 365 identity in Yammer and configuring federated identity in Office 365, admins can achieve single sign-on (SSO) capabilities for all services in Office 365, which includes Yammer. This further…

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Introducing the Microsoft Graph

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​   As a company, we are focused on reimagining the way the world should work. In an age of information abundance, we understand that people are seeking integrated experiences that help them break out of knowledge silos, “work like a network” and connect information from multiple touchpoints in meaningful ways. Office extensibility has always been about ubiquitous connectivity, enabling new experiences on mobile devices, and empowering developers to create powerful and…

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Office 365 innovations in enterprise security and compliance

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: The role of IT has never been more critical, nor more challenging. IT is tasked with enabling workers to be productive on any device from any location while securing devices and data amidst a landscape of increasingly targeted and sophisticated threats to enterprise security. Over the last year, we’ve introduced several new security and compliance capabilities to Office 365, including Advanced Threat Protection, Customer Lockbox and Advanced eDiscovery, which…

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Office 365 news roundup

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Providing our customers with world-class productivity tools sometimes requires both innovation and acquisition, a combination of all the features and capabilities our best minds can develop and those we choose to add through the strategic purchase of technology that others have created. Microsoft recently announced two new business deals that demonstrate the value of using thoughtfully acquired technology to help build, improve or enhance superior products. The first…

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