From Office Mix to Office 365 Video

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Today, Microsoft announced Office 365 Video, a new service of Office 365 that makes it easy to share video inside your organization. Office 365 Video is built on SharePoint Online, powered by Azure Media Services, and leverages Yammer and Office Graph to deliver a dynamic, mobile-optimized experience within Office 365. From onboarding new employees, to distributing a CEO message to the entire company, it makes video a first-class citizen.…

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Office 365 – Introducing Office 365 Video

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Over the years, SharePoint has been used not just for collaboration sites and document management, but also search, dashboards, company intranets, wikis, blogs and much more. We’ve categorized many of these under the same umbrella term, “Portals.” Now we have a tremendous opportunity to expand on the Portals portfolio and deliver new experiences that have taken weeks, if not months, to build, based on common patterns of valuable portal…

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Touching base on Sway Preview

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ On October 1st, we introduced Office Sway to the world as a brand new app joining the Office portfolio to help people quickly and easily bring their ideas to life in a new way. We also kicked off Sway Preview, putting an intentionally early and “feature light” version of Sway into the hands of customers in order to shape the future of the product together. With Sway, we’re…

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Office 365 – Microsoft Virtual Academy courses—Office 365 security

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Three courses around Office 365 security are now available through the Microsoft Virtual Academy. Exchange Online Protection (EOP) If you’re looking to protect your organization from spam and malware, check out this course on Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), a cloud-based email filtering service that even includes features to safeguard against messaging-policy violations. This course provides the details that IT professionals need to know about EOP, why EOP is…

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Office 365 – From Inside the Cloud—How do we monitor and safeguard your data in the Office 365 service?

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​   In our last post, From Inside the Cloud: What does Microsoft do to prepare for emerging security threats to Office 365?, we looked at the Red team’s activities and what goes into our “Assume Breach” approach for preparing for emerging security threats to Office 365. The rigor and discipline required to testing ourselves continuously to keep your data safe within the service, is by nature an operation of…

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Office 365 – Excel Power Map—November update for Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Last month we focused on quality improvements for Excel Power Map, shipping more fixes than in any previous monthly release. This month we’re continuing to make fixes but we’ve also added a nice convenience feature. You can now play a tour directly from any scene, instead of always having to start playing a tour from the beginning. This is super helpful when you’re editing a tour and want to…

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Office 365 – Continuous Innovation Makes Office 365 the Clear Choice for Productivity

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: The technology industry runs on innovation: new products, new features, and new ideas. Innovation is the arena in which technology companies compete to offer products and services that are better, faster, and more secure. Our commitment to innovation and delighting customers has been a hallmark of Microsoft Office since we introduced the very first version of the productivity suite. Since then, our non-stop innovation has enabled us to far…

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Office 365 – Use your Office 365 credentials to sign in to Yammer

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Today marks an important milestone with the release of Office 365 sign-in for Yammer, a feature allowing users to access Yammer with their Office 365 credentials and to work across Office 365 applications with ease. How it works As users sign in to Yammer, they will be redirected to your organization’s Office 365 log in page. After entering their email address and password, they’ll notice the Office 365…

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Office 365 – Office 2013 updated authentication enabling Multi-Factor Authentication and SAML identity providers

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Later this month we will release an update to the Office 2013 Windows client applications that enables new authentication flows, including support for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). These new authentication flows are enabled by the Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL). The update for ADAL based authentication will be disabled by default for all users of Office 2013 Windows clients, and the previous sign in authentication stack based on the…

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