Office 365 news roundup

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Just as we’re focused on continuous innovation to expand and improve Office 365 capabilities, we’re also committed to making it easier for more people to benefit from our cloud productivity suite. Just this week, we made it easier for small to midsized businesses (SMBs) to move to Office 365 and give their employees the ability to access team files from anywhere, collaborate in real-time from any device and…

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3 ways to drive business decisions using the new Excel 2016 charts

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: With the release of Office 2016, we unveiled a set of highly anticipated new charts to give you more ways to explore data and tell rich stories across Excel, Word and PowerPoint. The Waterfall, Histogram, Box & Whisker, Pareto, Treemap and Sunburst are six examples of powerful new charts that help you quickly visualize common financial, statistical and hierarchical data. Below are just a few ways these new charts speed…

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Security in Office 365 White Paper

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​Moving productivity services to the cloud requires a serious consideration of security and privacy issues and technologies. Office 365 is designed to deliver the enterprise-grade security you require to move to the cloud with confidence. Our data centers are designed, built, and managed using a defense-in-depth strategy at both the physical and logical layers, and our services are engineered to be secure using the Security Development Lifecycle. Office 365…

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How to assess security, compliance and privacy capabilities in Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: In keeping with our commitment to provide customers the utmost transparency, we have released a detailed overview of how Office 365 controls map to the security, privacy, compliance and risk management controls defined in the Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Control Matrix (CSA CCM). The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is a nonprofit organization led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, associations, governments and corporate and individual members who are…

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Planner preview expanded to include more plans and additional First Release types

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ A few months ago, we began rolling out the preview of Office 365 Planner to Office 365 First Release customers with enterprise plans. Today, we are making the Planner preview available to customers with Education and Nonprofit plans, as well as to Government tenants in the multi-tenant environment. (Planner preview is not currently available to customers on Government Community Cloud). In addition, we are expanding the preview to tenants that…

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Yammer… Coming to an Office 365 tenant near you!

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​Great News to all costumers of Office 365. Yammer service availability in Office 365 Office 365 is a compelling suite of productivity software that already includes Yammer with its most popular subscriptions. By seamlessly integrating with Office 365, Yammer is readily available to Office 365 users. For example, they can access Yammer by using the Yammer tile in the Office 365 app launcher, or start a Yammer conversation from…

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Collaborate in Office—Office tools to collaborate in and out of the classroom

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Welcome to 2016! You may remember the release of Office 2016 and the new features it brought focused on collaboration. In the new year we will continue to plan, develop and release new features to help you collaborate—especially inside the classroom. Before these new features are released, let’s take some time to look at what’s already available to help you to collaborate in and out of the classroom! OneNote Class…

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