Three questions to ask when you work on Office documents in the web

Body: ​ Technology is the great enabler of creativity and productivity. So when you encounter technology that inhibits your ability to collaborate, you have to wonder what went wrong. To choose the right technology for collaborating on Office documents on the web, ask yourself these three questions: 1. Do you use browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari? You don’t want to be constrained by your internet browser. After all,…

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Support corner webcast—troubleshoot Mail Flow for hybrid cloud environment

Body: ​ In this video, learn about the components of hybrid Mail Flow, the connector differences between Exchange 2010 and 2013 hybrid Mail Flow, header differences between centralized and decentralized transport, and typical issues that adversely affect hybrid Mail Flow.   Presenter: Vincent Yim is a senior premier field engineer who specializes in Exchange deployments, Exchange Online migrations and Office365 identity. His primary activities includes consulting, training delivery and content…

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Office 365 helps customers with IRS 1075 compliance

Body: ​ As part of Microsoft’s commitment to compliance, we strive to ensure that our cloud services, like Office 365, meet or exceed the breadth of regulations and standards our customers require. This is especially important for government agencies, which are investing more and more in moving to cloud productivity services, and require security-enhanced and scalable cloud solutions that address a range of constantly-evolving regulatory, compliance and policy requirements. Today,…

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The Garage Series for Office 365: Crash course in PowerShell for managing Office 365

Body: ​ On this week’s show Jeremy Chapman is joined once again by scripting guy, Greg Stemp, to apply PowerShell to practical tasks within Office 365. Greg demonstrates how PowerShell can be used for automating bulk tasks, building advanced queries against data in the service, saving the results to a file for other processes to use and some things you just can’t do in the user interface. If you’ve been putting off…

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Performance and scale improvements to Project Online

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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Office Mix makes it easier

Body: ​ We’re thrilled to share new features in Office Mix that make it easier to create, share, and find online interactive lessons and presentations.  Haven’t tried it yet?  Then go to OfficeMix.com to check it out! Live mixing Office Mix is a great way to build an “on-demand” version of your presentation.  Many of you have told us that you love using Office Mix, but also wish you could…

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Outlook Web App for Office 365

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

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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